Issue Number 2, September 2009

Notes From a Journal: The Lowells in Brazil
Keith Botsford remembers a journey with Robert Lowell

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

Selections from Akeldama
by Melissa Green

• St. Mary's Day, 15 August: ii Prime 6 AM
• St. Mary's Day, 15 August: iii Terce 9 AM
• St. Mary's Day, 15 August: v Nones 3 PM
• Author's Introduction
• Editor's Note
• 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
• The Gulf Between Love and Hate is No Greater Than 6
  by Jason Zimba
• from The Lost Books of the Odyssey
  by Zachary Mason
• At the Airport in Kalai
  by Floyd J. Miller

Poetry:

• Trade Secret
  by M.A. Schorr
• Sodenonaka
  by Akehiro Shirai, translated from Japanese by Jay Otsuka
• To the Argentine Living on Argumose Street
  by Marjorie Hogan
• Today Is Not T. S. Eliot's Birthday
  by Jon 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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