GRIST

vol. 2, 2009

The Journal for Writers

Contents

    INTERVIEWS

        Amy Wright
            One Thinks with the Ear, A Gutenberg revolutionary Interview with Rod Smith

        Laura Hoffer and Marcel Brouwers
            Irreconcilably Human: An Interview with Peter Ho Davies

    ESSAYS

        Gary L. McDowell
            Cycles of Imagery in the Prose Poem: The Present Futureof a Misaligned Poetic

        Adam Johnson
            Witnessing an Entire Train, Engine to Caboose: An Essay on the Graphic Novel

        Tom Kealey
            On the Making of Shake Girl

        John McManus
            Outnumbering the Dead

    FICTION

        Neil Connelly
            Henry Wants to Know Your Name

        R.T. Smith
            Maggard

        John McManus
            The Wayside: An excerpt from the novel The Mantooth Covenant

    GRAPHIC NOVEL

        Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey with the Stanford University Graphic Novel Project
            Shake Girl

    POETRY

        Dorianne Laux
            Late Night TV
            Sex is Everywhere

        Ellen Bass
            Daphne
            Green
            Sister

        Danielle Pafunda
            On the Bearskin in Front of the Fire I Construct the Following Tableau:
            [Lodged in the throat. A plaster of Paris throat, erupting, fowl and]
            [Plaque bug, you freestyle out of the loose amber, stagger merry onto the]
            [Petrified wood, coal in a zirconia duck blind. The Kitten in the cat's]

        Keith Montesano
            Elegy for Vicki Van Meter a Few Months After We Both Turn 26

        Linda Parsons Marion
            Mother Land
            Animal
            Shirt Tail

        William Archila
            Shells
            After Reading Hopkins

        John Chavez
            Nielson Ratings

        Gary L. McDowell
            A Love Poem
            Lake of Wings

        Stephanie Lenox
            On Metaphor

        Sandy Longhorn
            For the One Pulled North

        Cody Lumpkin
            Women Don't Like Blanket Statements Made About Them

        Rod Smith
            Identity is the Cuase of Warts
            Moist Feelings: A Love Poem
            Specifically the Luminous

        Lory Bedikian
            The Mechanic

        William Wenthe
            Three Still Lives

        Adam Clay
            Three Minutes into the Newsreel, The Theatre Lit Up
            A Skyline Seen from the Distance in a City Without One

        Nancy Eimers
            To a Friend Whose Mother May Be Dying
            Couplets: On a Mowed Lawn

        Gaylord Brewer
            Jungle Appetites
            Hunting the Python with Mr. Singh

        Al Maginnes
            Tuning
            Whatever Becomes Something Else
            A Myth of California
            In My Good Life

        Richard Bausch
            For Lisa, Sleeping
            Crying Woman on the Beach

        Joseph Millar
            Native
            Divorce