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Henry F. Tonn
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Mike Barnes
Benjamin Hedin
Scott Blackwood
Gail R. Henningsen
Simon Van Booy
Leslie Pietrzyk
Jim Simmerman
Carol Fant
Jill Gonet
Albert Goldbarth
Bob Hicok
John Pleimann
Chard DeNiord
Philip Schult
Dean Young
Alice Friman
William Trowbridge
Michael Allen







The Spring 2007 issue showcases paintings by Michael Allen, essays by Ann Townsend and Benjamin Hedin, fiction by Leslie Pietrzyk and Simon Van Booy, and poems by Jim Simmerman, Alice Friman, Bob Hicok, and Albert Goldbarth, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Spring 2007 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 20.1.


Contents
Volume 20, Number 1 / Spring 2007

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages, “Twenty Years,” 5
    Henry F. Tonn, “Rendezvous at Paul’s Place,” 29
    Ann Townsend, “Meretricious Kisses,” 57
    Molly S. Hutton, “Between One Thing and Another: Michael Allen’s Middle         Moments,” 78
    Mike Barnes, “Two Rooms,” 97
    Benjamin Hedin, “Coetzee, Smith, Lasdun, and Roth: New Fiction in Review”         (review of Slow Man, by J.M. Coetzee; On Beauty, by Zadie Smith; Seven Lies,
        by James Lasdun; and Everyman, by Philip Roth), 135

FICTION
    Scott Blackwood, from We Agreed to Meet Just Here, 13
    Gail R. Henningsen, “Strokes,” 41
    Simon Van Booy, “Some Bloom in Darkness,” 67
    Leslie Pietrzyk, “Belle Haven,” 119

POETRY
    Jim Simmerman, “Intimacy” and “Uptown Billiards,” 24
    Carol Fant, “Mouth Blind Bay” and “Painted World,” 38
    Jill Gonet, “Keep Going,” 40
    Albert Goldbarth, “Dial H for ‘Hero,’” and “Reseen in This New Context,” 52
    Bob Hicok, “Root root root for the home team,” 66
    John Pleimann, “Head On” and “Look Twice before Crossing,” 74
    Chard DeNiord, “In a Dark Wood,” 77
    Philip Schultz, “The Amount of Us,” “Exquisite with Agony,” “My Dog,”
        “Notes for Debby the Rockette Poem,” “Uncle Sigmund,” and “What I
        Like and Don’t Like,” 89
    Dean Young, “Our Kind of People,” “Private Waterfall,” and “Sparkler,” 113
    Alice Friman, “Reverie,” 132
    William Trowbridge, “The Juggler,” 134

GRAPHICS
    Michael Allen, Paintings, 81