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Issue 5 (November 2009)

sends poems from Poughkeepsie.

indulges her sweet tooth in Chicago.

hangs with the wiseguys in Ozone Park.

writes frenemy fiction.

remembers, in verse.

writes an obituary for peer review.

reads and watches Watchmen.

makes poetry of cockroaches, pizza, Mondays, a baby.

mows life’s lawn (it’s a story).

bids farewell, my lovely job.

finds poetry in what they say about prose.

Issue 4 (May 2009)

alphabetizes Obelisk’s literary smut.

, English teacher, races against race.

finds love, or something, in the Holy Land.

, in an exclusive interview, talks a good game about poetry.

drinks to that.

Deborah Eisenberg, Anna Shapiro, Peter Smith, Anna Quindlen, Alice Quinn,
Thisbe Nissen, Willard Spiegelman, Tessa Brown, Sarah Gardner Borden, Rosa
Jurjevics, and Eva Geertz remember their friend , even if some of them
never met her.

on desire, muu-muus.

loses it at the movies.

♥ John Crowley.

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Issue 3 (November 2008)

defends that liar who lied in his memoir.

finds art in the ruins of our Coliseum.

, fiction writer, puts on heirs.

believes the poetical is political.

takes photographs of today’s slaves.

was born male. Discuss. (She does.)

is a prisoner of war.

travels to Japan, gets lost in translation.

waits for more rain.

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Issue 2 (May 2008)

has a Simone de Beauvoir affair to remember.

feels otherworldly about fantasy master Robert Jordan.

gets let down.

says Karl Marx had at least one capital idea.

of New Haven says her heart is where her home is.

mourns his mother, who may have kept him out of Yale.

poetry has something for morning, something for evening.

story is set during another war, one worth fighting.

offers a course on three new food books.

on how to score with women, readers.

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Issue 1 (August 2007)

loves, and is distracted by, her children.

laces into Victorian New Haven.

dances with joy for Joan Acocella.

cozies into medium-size towns.

review books deeply, briefly.

headbangs with Roland Barthes and another rock critic.

, forgotten master from the 1950s, returns with new fiction.

proclaims evening in America for a new biography of Ronald Reagan.

has ‘tude ‘cause novellas don’t get no respect.

gets solitary with a book and movie about monks.

grooves with a musicians’ cult-fave book.

flies high with fiction about Amelia Earhart.

shops for why New Haven always thinks malls are the answer.

gets geeky with sci-fi fandom.

plays Jeremiah about the decline of these United States.

fumes about industrial safety.

, cineaste, says it’s not an art house, it’s an art home.

works out a poem.

defends the capitalist pig.

zooms off on a fictional motorcycle, with babe.

shrinks into the life of a prepubescent boy.

wrenches lyricism from plumbing.