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Lesley Quinn
Richard Ward
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Allan Hepburn
Paul Austin
Charles Haverty
Christopher Brookhouse
Robin Ekiss
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The Spring 2006 issue showcases paintings by George Nick, essays by Lesley Quinn and Allan Hepburn, fiction by Charles Haverty and Christopher Brookhouse, and poems by Steve Orlen, Deborah Bogen, James Haug, and Sidney Wade, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Spring 2006 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 19.1.


Contents
Volume 19, Number 1 / Spring 2006

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages, “The Kingdom of Moroni, Part XII,” 5
    Lesley Quinn, “100 Percent,” 15
    Richard Ward, “My Mother,” 25
    Morgan Meis and J. M. Tyree, “Is It Okay to Read the Coen Brothers as         Literature?” 61
    Molly S. Hutton, “Magnifying the Silence: George Nick and the
        Postmodern Dilemma,” 78
    Allan Hepburn, “Piano Miniatures: An Essay on Brevity,” 89
    Paul Austin, “The Devil Is a Beautiful Man,” 109

FICTION
    Charles Haverty, “The Back Nine,” 37
    Christopher Brookhouse, “Unless Alex,” 117

POETRY
    Robin Ekiss, “Blue Planet,” “Eight Views of the Hôtel-Dieu,” and
        “The House We Never Built,” 20
    Sidney Wade, “No Comfort to Be Had” and “Sexual Blossoms and Their
        Fierce Addictions,” 33
    Carol Vanderveer Hamilton, “Ideas of Reference” and “Ten Thousand
        Lakes,” 35
    Deborah Bogen, “Six at the Beginning,” “Six at the Beginning Again,” “Six
        in the Second Place,” “Six in the Fourth Place,” “Six in the Fifth
        Place,” 53
    Sarah Gorham, “Four Sides to a Mountain That Are Really One,”
        “Immortality,” and “Pond in Winter,” 58
    James Haug, “A Day Unlike Any Other,” “How It Came to Be Connecticut,”
        “A Loft,” and “Nostalgia for the Finite,” 74
    Steve Orlen, “Gaffe” and “A Stairwell, Outside a Bank,” 106
    Jeffrey Harrison, “Fall Truce” and “Unintended Elegy,” 114
    Jay Leeming, “Problem” and “Walking Coy Hill Road,” 163

GRAPHICS
    George Nick, Paintings, 81