Issue Number 2, 2009

Notes From a Journal: with the Lowells in Brazil
Keith Botsford remembers a journey

A Blizzard Meeting and a Poem
M. A. Schorr recalls Lowell in a blizzard in Cambridge

Selections from Melissa Green's Akeldama:

• Editor's Note
• Author's Introduction
• Three excerpts from Mary's Day, 15 August:
  ii Prime 6 AM ; iii Terce 9 AM ; and v Nones 3 PM
• Glossary

Literary Despatches:

• Delhi, India by Vivek Narayanan
• Galicia, Spain by Xurxo Borrazás
• Istanbul, Turkey by M.A. Whitten
• The Center of the Galaxy by Daniel Hudon
• Tokyo, Japan by Jay Otsuka
• Tanzania, East Africa by Laura Mueller

Fiction:

• Sometime of the Night (Part 1)
  by David Green
• from The Lost Books of the Odyssey
  by Zachary Mason
• At the Airport in Kalai
  by Floyd J. Miller
• The Gulf Between Love and Hate Is No Greater Than 6
  by Jason Zimba

Poetry:

• Sodenonaka
  by Akehiro Shirai, translated from Japanese by Jay Otsuka
• To the Argentine Living on Argumosa Street
  by Marjorie Hogan
• Today Is Not T. S. Eliot's Birthday
  by Jonathan Wooding
• Scenic Route
  by Samantha Mineo Myers
• Remember Me
  by Lindsey Gould
• Shift on Balls
  by Síol Bhodhú, translated from Irish by Daniel E. Pritchard
• To a Minor Poet of the Greek Anthology
  by Jorge Luis Borges, translated from Spanish by George Kalogeris

Original ink drawings by Essie Martsinkovsky

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