From the Editor
Letter from the Editor
Brenda Miller
2010 Contest Winners
49th Parallel Poetry Award
When the Dazzle Isn’t Gradual
Jennifer Perrine
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
Bait and Switch
Jacob M. Appel
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
An Old Man on the Frontier Loses His Horse
Angela Tung
Poetry
| Erinn Batykefer | Love Letter with Broken Glass and Household Chemicals |
| The Poet’s Mother on Beauty and Etiquette | |
| Lillian-Yvonne Bertram | Inside the Face Inside the Heart Inside |
| I Meet My Father at the End of America | |
| Traci Brimhall | Leviathan: A Rapture |
| Possession | |
| Jazzy Danziger | Darkroom |
| Jennifer Habel | Reading Goodnight Moon After News of Suicide |
| This Week’s Sign Asks What the Lord Requires | |
| Christopher Howell | It’s Difficult to Mean One’s Words |
| Sartre | |
| The Meltdown | |
| Shane McCrae | The Last Letter I Got (W. L. Bost) |
| Blood (Andrew Boone) | |
| The Heart Is a Place in the Body but the Body Is Not a Place (Solomon Northup) | |
| Gary L. McDowell | Because I’ll Never Be a Gardener |
| I Write a Line About Orange | |
| Janet McNally | Some Other Elvis |
| Jennifer Perrine | Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares |
| Laura Read | Seatac |
| July | |
| Barbara Rockman | In Dreams We Are All Things |
| My Maternal Grammar | |
| Patty Seyburn | Direct Quotes |
| A Brief Overview of Vision | |
| Bruce Snider | Heat Lightning Over Tunker |
| Omit the Mouth that Answers | |
| Parts | |
| Laura Stott | Dzrongri Top |
| In days gone by, there lived a King and a Queen… | |
| James K. Zimmerman | Cranial MRI |
Creative Nonfiction
| Laurie Alberts | When We Get There |
| Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas | A Catalogue of Dead Birds |
| Diane LeBlanc | Elsewhen |
| Kristen Radtke | Histories |
| Colin Rafferty | Phantoms (A Correspondence) |
| Laura Esther Wolfson | Haunting Synagogues |
Fiction
| Nora Bonner | Walk Out |
| Ivan Faute | Brook of Kishon |
| Brittany Lynn Goss | Missing Person: Female, Fifteen |
| D. Seth Horton | Nightcap |
| A Terrible Kind of Thing | |
| Jill Logan | Your Official Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth |
| Midge Raymond | Fire Season |
| Jenn Scott | Heavy Winter |
| Norman Simon | Mr. Wakamatsu |
Photography
| Steve Byland | White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Minh Carrico | Land Filler |
| Paul Ford | Zorro |
| Havana Skylight | |
| Chuck Graham | Figueroa Mountain |
| Mick Klass | Light Points |
| Geoff Peterson | Ecola State Park |
Interviews
| Christopher Nickolas Carlson | “Something Unparaphrasable”: A Conversation with Christopher Howell |
| Carol Guess | “and we/ Are visible”: Shane McCrae’s Visionary Poetics |
| Alex Stein and Amy Wright | The Blind Turn at the End of the Will: A Correspondence |