the new issue is out!!
ACM 44+45 is a double- sized extravanganza featuring poetry and fiction from
2004 CLA winners Yerra Sugarman, Julie Wade and Marla Becking.
contents:
poetry
-Jeffrey Renard Allen “Bombe ‘Serre’/ Slowdance”,
“Prophet in Lace”, “Twice Gone”
-Robert Archambeau “Poem for a War Poet, Poem for a War”, “Black
Dog’s Bedside Manner”
-Benjamin Balthaser "Dedication #2: HUAC"
-Margo Berdeshevsky "Holy as a Bird"
-Kristy Bowen "In Spain"
-Jason Bredle "Crazy Death Machine"
-Briggite Byrd "Cinema Verite"
-Darin Ciccotelli "Peter Bogdanovich"
-Carol Ann Davis "I Wanted It So"
-Molly Dorozenski “Outside Sources”, “Consciously or Otherwise”
-Mathew Guenette "A Brief History of the Home Gym"
-Chris Hund "Fern Glossary in the Porcelain Pot"
-Brigit Pegeen Kelly "Lion"
-Ben Lerner "Alidade"
-Rachel Levine “My Shoshanna”, “Learning to Speak
-Becka Mara McKay "Seventeen Lessons about Utopia"
-Laura Van Prooyen "Sympathy for the Virgin"
-Rebecca Reynolds "Day and Night Distinguished"
-Dana Roeser "In Praise of Annuals"
-Emily Rosko “Ventriloquized Bodies”, “Measures”
-Carolyn Stoloff "The Bibliophile and His Family"
-Yerra Sugarman "Ghazal"
fiction
-Kim Addonizio "Only the Moon"
-Robin Hemley "Reply All"
-Patricia Henley "Intimacy"
-David McClure "After Pleasure"
-Emily Rabateau "Murdering Maman’s Day Boy"
-Margaret Wappler "Babies"
creative non-fiction
-Barbara Baer "St. George Prefers Not To"
- Brooke Hopkins "A Boy’s Story"
- Evelyn Shakir "At Home and Away: Thirteen Takes on Growing Up Arab
in America"
- Elena Sigman "Mother Hunger"
interview
-Conversation with Bob Shacochis by Karen Willson
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for the Arts, a CityArts I grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural
Affairs, a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.