Spring 2010: The Hunger Issue

Setting

• Cooks’ Notes (Catherine Keefe)

Light

• new moon at hilltop (Erica Romkema)
• Its roundness curving to a cleft (Lee Sharkey)

Bread

• How to be a toaster (Judy Kaber)
• They Asked Us to Imagine (Atar Hadari)
• Reward (Erica Romkema)
• Pappankalan, India 2 (Leila A. Fortier)

Etiquette

• And tomorrow we will eat cake (Judy Kaber)
• Literacy (Elizabeth Wyatt)
• Story Hunger (Vivian Faith Prescott)
• The Interrupter (David Brennan)
• A Cuban Welcome (Hjertelig Velkommen I Cuba) (Pia Tafdrup, trans. K.E. Semmel)

Spread

• How do you say? (Molly Lower, Jackie Littman)

Crow

• Psalm V (Karen An-hwei Lee)
• Madonna of the Sidewalk (Rumjhum Biswas)
• Calcutta (Arkava Das)
• Ecuador (Erica Romkema)
• Gallimaufry of Days (Helen R. Peterson)
• Nick's Luncheonette (Rachel Rabbit)

Game

• Mr. Floppy, Winkie, Wilma, Winterfred, and Roy (Danielle Mitchell)
• My Mother with a Hammer (Brian D. Morrison)
• Five & Dime (Patty Seyburn)
• Rabbi (Patty Seyburn)
• Leftover Ingredients (Lee Minh Sloca)
• I would dance if you asked me to (Ryan Sharp)
• Feed this Raven (Vivian Faith Prescott)
• The Frigidaire Prayer (Jaime O'Neill)

Fasts

• Poema con Silencio. Sombra, y Auga (Octavio Quintanilla)
• Difference (Changming Yuan)
• Man, Kind (Steve Shilling)
• We do not cry for meat (Althea Romeo-Mark)
• Motherless (Rebekah Denison Hewitt)
• Hunger and Solace (Karen An-hwei Lee)
• Haiti (Tec Petaja)

Confection

• Friday Night (Ryan Sharp)

Front Cover Art: “Release” by Nathaniel Mather.
Interior and Back Cover Design by Jessica Quadra Andrews.
Back Cover and Spread “I am hungry” translations by Molly Lower.
Centerfold designed by Jackie Littman.
News Clippings by Joshua Jennings Wood.