June 2012
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
The 2012 Collagist Chapbook Contest
FICTION
After We Were Nothing
Alan Stewart Carl
Is It You, Kelly Weiner?
Liz Wyckoff
To Whom It May Concern
Alice Bolin
Five from I'M NOT SAYING, I'M JUST SAYING
Matthew Salesses
EXCERPTS
Zombie
J.R. Angelella
Into This World
Sybil Baker
The Mere Weight of Words
Carissa Halston
The Festival of Earthly Delights
Matt Dojny
POETRY
Bestiarium Exterminii
Emilia Phillips
Honey Badger Monologue
Sally Wen Mao
Before the Flood
Rob MacDonald
And When Ms. Pac-Man Eats All the Cherries, and When the Dentist Asks Me to Spit into the Bowl
Allyson Boggess
NON-FICTION
The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection
Gregory Howard
BOOK REVIEWS
Grief Suite by Bobbi Lurie
reviewed by Lisa Flowers
Death Wishing by Laura Ellen Scott
reviewed by Marshall Yarbrough
The City She Was by Carmen Giménez Smith
reviewed by Jacey Blue Renner
My Father's House by Ben Tanzer
reviewed by Anna March
In Great Company by Michael J. Seidlinger
reviewed by Brian Ted Jones