Issue Number 1, 2009

Zahhak's Rebirth:
reflections on the uprising in Iran
an essay by Sassan Tabatabai

Tara Arts' Tempest
a review by Katherine A. Evans

Selections from Curtain Speech
by Ellen Glassie

• Theatrechurch
• Thomasina's Poem to Be Lost to the Sands of Time
• Entropy and Conservation
• The One-Letter O-Word

Fiction:

• A Planet Is Worth a Thousand Lies
  by Ryan M. Lawson
• Metamorphosis
  by Elinor Reed

Poetry:

• Mollusk
  by Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• sonnet for another season
  by James Stotts
• The Ferry North to Isle of Mull and Legend
  by Valerie Duff-Strautmann
• Letter from Andersonville, 1864
  by Lynne Bigley
• Palatable, Desertion and Will This Do
  by Emma Brittany Hawes
• Moving Landscape
  by Hilde Domin, translated from German by Michèle Mendelssohn
• Victim Number 18
  by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from Arabic by James Riggan
• On News of Hearing a Hymen and The Postman
  by Sándor Reményik, translated from Hungarian by Ágnes Győrfi

Original illustrations by Alice Delaney and photos from Bangladesh by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen

A lunchtable interview with Jonathan Safran Foer, and a quick conversation with Deborah Landau

A flyer insert showing a map of Lhasa, copyright 1980

Essays:

• The Writer and the Workshop
  by Jon Wooding
• On the Other Side of 'Natural': Avoiding Smugness in Understanding Religious Thinking
  by Gretchen Koch

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