fall 2013
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The New Old Voice
Jenni B. Baker
For the Directions The Future of Music Jen Currin
You Should Grow a Moustache William Doreski
The Unmanageable, A Cure Colin James
Engineering Processing Craig Kurtz
Brother Ellen MacDonald-Kramer
What Seems Solid Karen Neuberg
City Life: Citizen City Life: Summer Parties Laura Ritland
My son watching me smoke Sarah Roebuck
Testing Testing Is This Thing On
Russel Swensen
Pitcher Scales Russell Thornton
For the Directions
Almost as beautiful as a blonde woman with a dark moustache.
An uncomfortable act, perfect today.
Broken lights on the bus & a girl's violence—
all the people she wants to punch in the face.
I called my spiritual family close.
Today we would turn to theater.
The nephew in swimming goggles & grandmother
with lips of glass.
We're just playing a role, but it's very sincere.
We pucker up & listen.
No idea where we are, but the two-year-old's impeccable syntax
calms us.
"My name is Beauty. Rose. Empty," he says.