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Monkey Puzzle #8 features the following works of prose:
excerpt from Visions of Neal by John Allen Cassady
excerpt from Searching for Suzi by Nancy Stohlman
A Real Sweet Thing by Shane Joaquin Jimenez
Snow Globes Are the Bane of Our Existence by Leah Rogin-Roper
Hills Like Golden Arches by Dale Bridges
excerpt from The Whole to The Parts by Paige Doughty
Z-Eros by Paul A. Toth
So, this is the beginning… by Lily Scarborough Heehs
Slowly Ringing Bells by Ian Washburn
War Wounds by Stan Flukinger
Getting Published by Allan Richard Shapiro
Van Gogh by Lori Heflin
and the following works of poetry:
Theosophy by Tim Skeen
4/4/09 by Irene Joyce
8th Week by Violet Monday
11:11 Didn’t Work by Jonathan Montgomery
black transistor series by Michael Bernstein
Classifications of Space-time Intervals, Where: c is is the speed of light/loss, love &/or the missing by LaVonne Natasha Caesar
The Coda by Naomi Lore
Coffee Shop Poetry by Carlos Ponce-Melendez
Danchel by Mark Lamoruex
Espresso by Naomi Lore
extermination of boredom by Aimee Herman
Graffiti on Mission Street by Gerard Morel
I Hope You Got a Copy of the Memo, Louise by Barbara Price
Impasse by William Benton
Isaac Newton’s Sister by Karen Douglass
Island Theory by Andrew McEwan
Jazz Toad by Carolyn Zaikowski
Letter Redacted by Adrienne Dodt
Musical Score for Desire by Megan Burns
My Dishy Canadian Cousin by Corey Mesler
No Apologies by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
Pacific by Dennis Caswell
A Phone Booth in Boylston by William Doreski
A Photograph of Rilke by Barry Spacks
Photographs by Leticia Luna
Possession by Jessey Nickells
Sanctuary by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Sea Blanket by Leticia Luna
Side Effects May Include by Howie Good
Something Comforting There Is by Matt Dennison
Speaking of Tehran on a Train by Jasmine Marshall Armstrong
Standing Naked by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
This is Not about Performing Anal by Get In the Car, Helen
Tipsy Love Song to Charlie Parker by Emily Owens
To a God Undiscovered by Diane Klammer
Walloon at Walgreens by Lois Leveen
with photography by:
Alexandra Parsons
Cecilia Kunstadter
Jennifer Hamilton
Lily Scarborough Heehs
Michael Filimowicz
Nate Jordon
Peter Schwartz
Philip Meersman
Stacy Walsh
and artwork by:
Alex Nodopaka
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BACK ISSUES
Issue #7 - Spring/Summer 2009
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Features the following works of prose:
Dear Kari by Akilah Oliver
The Big Wheel by Nicholas B. Morris
The Problem with America Today by Benjamin Dancer
Time of Death: A Semi-True Tale by JA Kazimer
God Hates Liars by Katharyn Grant
The Shoreline: A Dynamic Interface by Serena Chopra
South of the Border by Henry Rasof
Expatriate Interprets Economics with Alcohol by Kaen Joyler
The Birthday Party by Dave Moyer
Pretty Lake by Julie A. Berner
The Creek by Peter Rugh
Before Profit or Loss by Shane Clements
Pedaling Tides by Joel Parker
and the following works of poetry:
Dinner Plans by Junior Burke
Another Day of Eid by Dr. Shurooq Amin
In a Mist by George Evans
gedicht des seufzenden rots by Hillary Keel & Karin Seidner
Burma Shave Poets by Howard Winn
Metal Quivers by Alexandra Lukens
In the End by Travis Cebula
The Siren of Kubla Khan by Lindsey Anderson
The Gift by Kim Nuzzo
Another Year Forward by Suzanne Savickas
We Ave Plan by Travis Macdonald
Tar is a Cloth for Rubber by Megan DiBello
Hard Paradise by Nate Cook of Ego vs. Id
Patron Saint by Doug Tanoury
Song #36 by Nathan Antar
A Thousand Ways by Diane Klammer
After Work in LeConte Canyon by Cameron Aveson
among all things in particular by Rodrigo Gonzalez
A Dusting of Memories by Rea Allen
Prism Break by Nick Demske
Quadratura Circuli by Mona Nicole Sfeir
A New Member by Philip Meersman
Last Act by Ashleigh Middleton
Bius to Tius by Shane Scaglione
Home on Leave by James Tyner
shop talk by Erica Varlese
full stride smear on glasses by Daniel Dissinger
another night at sea level by Meg Day
i never could make anything work out right by Michael D. Edwards
Ostensibly by Kimberly Castanon
The Plunge by Laura Garrison
with photography by:
Ben Olson
Luke Bennett
Travis Cebula
Sean Hutchison
Megan DiBello
Ellen Elise Dillefeld
Nate Jordon
and artwork by:
Clarissa Butler
Andrew Antar
Melanie Miller
Keith Kumasen Abbott
Sam Jablon
with a comic strip by:
Timothy Foss
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Issue #6 - Winter 2009
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Features the following works of prose:
The Edge of the Known World by Travis Cebula
Our National Poet Haibun by Keith Kumasen Abbott
Cry Palestine by Nancy Stohlman
The Confession by Peter M. Laffin
Notes of a Modern-Day Expatriate #2 by Mittie Roger
A Half-Day in the Life…of an Adminstrative Assistant
by Amy Pommerening
Atlantic Nocean by Alexandra Lukens
cigarettes by Rebecca George
Jimmy Six Pence by Scott Larson
Erection Day by Mitch Maraude
Rosa Marie Over the Rooftops of Isla del Vistoso by Merrill Shane Jones
from Unwinding Myself Whole by Paige Doughty
Speechless by Rea Allen
And Juan Makes Three by Kona Morris
Karma at the Egg Roll Queen by John Staudt
America, Your Penis is Stuck in the Zipper of Abu Ghraib by Rebecca Diaz
and the following works of poetry:
Babinet’s Sprinkles by Aaron D. Scher
The Lotus Sutra (or Exodus 20:1-10) by Andrew Bethke
The Bingo Halls of Arkansas by Nicholas B. Morris
Soldiers Awaiting Discharge by Tim Skeen
We Had a Meeting by Margaret Randall
28. The List of Sins by LaVonne Natasha Caesar
Open Wide by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
Manifesto del Poesia XVI by Philip Meersman
Belarusian Capital by Hillary Keel
Poetic Genius by Sarah Suzor
What the Water Gave Me by Kimberly Castanon
excerpt from [text]urally transmitted dis{ease} by Aimee Herman
Gradually by Lily Scarborough Heehs
selections from in the silver waste to(o) be a mirror by Daniel Dissinger
The One-Eyed Poet Speaks in a Library Basement Two & a Half Years Post Mortem by Scott Alexander Jones
Second Hour by Richard Schwass
Self Portrait by Yasamin Ghiasi
Through Her Eyes by Jessica Surabian
Happy Like That by Mel Kozakiewicz
I.L.O.V.E.Y.O.U. by Rob Geisen
Haiku for Hillary by Daniela Beuren
Have I? by Sarah Cooke
43. beside her, giving by Ryan Clark
Wood and Wire by Tiph Parrish
As Heraldic by Michelle Puckett
Turmeric by Jennifer Phelps
Blue by Melanie W. Kachadoorian
fled: light density by Irene Joyce
Another Monkey Puzzle by Diane Klammer
with photography by:
Luke Bennett
Mittie Roger
Kimberly Castanon
Cecilia Kunstadter
Nate Jordon
and artwork by:
Keith Kumasen Abbott
Samuel Jablon
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Issue #5 - Fall 2008
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Features the following works of prose:
Reflections on Prayer Calls by Alexandra Lukens
Chica Chica: Forsaking Illusion by Ana Maria Martinez
from The Moonstone by Elizabeth Robinson
A Mouse Cage by Lauren Andrews
Falling Asleep While Reading by M. D’Alessandro
Coming to Know (Annie) Oaklynn by Merrill Shane Jones
Notes of a Modern-Day Expatriate by Mittie Roger
Inside Man by Nicholas B. Morris
The Play by Perry Lavin
Some Boys by Shane Joaquin Jimenez
The Kitchen by Stacy Walsh
When I Was Younger by Steve Kisicki
The Handwriting by Varlam Shalamov
(translation from Russian by L. Draaghtel)
and the following works of poetry:
Texas, 1872 by Adam Perry
Meta-Meta Poetry by Amy Catanzano & Jack Collom
Two from Old India translations from Sanskrit by Andrew Schelling
Macaques in a Steambath by Brandon Arthur
Darwin by Brendan Hamilton
Waste Lands by Carly-Anne Ravnikar
Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by Christopher T. Schuman
Catching Up with Almost by Daniel Dissinger
Multiverse by Dawn Sueoka
Avenue Maria by Diane Klammer
from The Bus is a Van by Hillary Keel
Silent Terrain by Irene Joyce
When We Were by James Kerley
Seventy Monkeys by Jefferson Navicky
Reactive Sandalwood Mala-ic Bowling Balls by Kimberlie Robinson
from the fall by Kristi Yorks
from Details on Photographs by Lindsay Colahan
Don’t Change a Hair for Me and not if you care for me by Lisa Birman
Seven Words by Margaret Randall
Lonely Like This by Mel Kozakiewicz
from She, A Blueprint for InterSurface by Michelle Naka Pierce
It Splinters Through by Nathan Antar
Lobotomy Buttons by Nicholas Michael Ravnikar
An Empire of Coins by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
Memorize by Rebecca Maillet
I Dream We Smoke a Bowl in a Cave in France by Renee Zepeda
To the West by Ryan Clark
Pantoum from the Actual Diary of Christopher Columbus
by Scott Alexander Jones
Old Monk Napping by Tim Skeen
Seri by Tiph Parrish
Sometimes, the Sky by Travis Cebula
A Wrenching Blue by Yasamin Ghiasi
with photography by:
Ben Olson
Luke Bennett
Andrew Antar
Cecilia Kunstadter
Brandon Gray
and artwork by:
Samuel Jablon
Andrew Antar
with the following advice from:
Julius Caesar
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Issue #1 - September 2007
Features the following works of poetry:
A Moan Keep You Zeal by Ryan Clark
At This Point by Travis Macdonald
Seth Speaks by Brooke Lehrer
Liquid Memory by Mittie Roger
My Dream Converter by Amy Pommerening
The First Week of February by Travis Macdonald
Pulling Scenes from a Song by Daniel Dissinger
Untitled by Lindsey Anderson
Notes from Then by Richard Schwass
Returning by Jed Thomas
Cream by Susie Huser
and the following works of prose:
Katrina by Bill Borskey
excerpt from Wanderlost by Ben Olson
excerpt from Every Gyro Day by Gerard Morel
You May Need Glasses by Dr. Cornelius
Jawbone by Nicholas B. Morris
and the following advice:
The Six Mistakes of Man by Marcus Tullius Cicero
with photography by:
Chuck King
Punnu Jaitla
Brooke Lehrer
Dwayne & Charlene Shockley
Issue #2 - October 2007
Features the following works of poetry:
A View to Heresy by James Kerley
In the Name of by Lyndsey Anderson
Pureland by Brooke Lehrer
Untitled by Nicholas B. Morris
Accra: Two Lovers Parted by Dr. Zira
Diction by Jamie Townsend
It’s All Stories by Ryan Clark
Repose by Jonathan Moser
and the following works of prose:
Richie Palmieri by Dr. Cornelius
with photography by:
Mittie Roger
Brooke Lehrer
Issue #3 - November/December 2007
Features the following works of prose:
from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Rod of Correction by Dr. Cornelius
Bacchus in Repose by Justin M. Kulyk
Bitch Slap by Dana Burkhalter
and the following works of poetry:
The Armillary Sphere by Brandon Arthur
Royalties for Parenthesis by Meghann Mccormic
Consider Methods of Evaluation by Daniel Dissinger
Molested by Tim Inman
When Petersburg Fell by Brendan Hamilton
from Family Album by Lindsay Colahan
Saint Kaobawa, Fallen Angel by Megan Fincher
Manifest Pantheism by Travis Cebula
Ode to Snow or Hit Me in the Face with a Snowball, Baby by Ryan Clark
with photography by:
Jed Thomas
Nate Jordon
Ethan Brown
Jeremiah Johnson
SWP Issue #1 - The Bonobo Issue - Summer 2008
This special issue contains works from the students and faculty of Naropa University’s famed Summer Writing Program.
Features the following works of poetry:
Surprising Burma by Margaret Randall
Hello-Goodbye by Daniela Beuren
I Carnivore by Travis Cebula
attempting to get a good look by Ryan Clark
the length of our imitation like a chunk of sea by Megan Burns
Instructions on Investigating Your Lineage by James Kerley
I Am by Tomara Kafka
and the following works of prose:
Flicker by J.M. Hart
Tennis Shoes by Shane Joaquin Jimenez
Times Square Rant by Hillary Keel
with photography by:
Travis Cebula
SWP Issue #2 - The Orangutan Issue - Summer 2008
This special issue contains works from the students and faculty of Naropa University’s famed Summer Writing Program.
Features the following works of poetry:
The Papers in Leadville by Ryan Clark
blue by Amy Pommerening
most likely about word association by Daniel Dissinger
Life’s Script by Joyce Joseph
Spain by Lindsey Anderson
Rules by Mittie Roger
Boulder Creek by Travis Cebula
Shen Nung & Shakespeare on Central Park Bench by Travis Macdonald
and the following works of prose:
After “Symbolic Exchange and Death” by Jennifer Phelps
with photography by:
Travis Cebula
SWP Issue #3 - The Chimpanzee Issue - Summer 2008
This special issue contains works from the students and faculty
of Naropa University’s famed Summer Writing Program.
Features the following works of prose:
Thirty Nine Dreaming by Matt Wise
Corkscrews by Kim Castanon
Health Class by Molly Conner
and the following works of poetry:
Planet of the Apes by Diane Klammer
On Second Thought by Trina Askin
My Cottonwood by Kristine Crandall
“Identity Cellar” by Gina Caciolo
SWP by Kelly Sexton
Clan of the Random Bear by Shy Mukerjee
In Mexico by Tiph Parrish
with photography by:
Cecilia Kunstadter
SWP Issue #4 - The Gorilla Issue - Summer 2008
This special issue contains works from the students and faculty
of Naropa University’s famed Summer Writing Program.
Features the following works of prose:
Berries a Russian translation by L. Draaghtel
Let Me Be Lonely by Kim Castanon
Drunken Man Freezer Song by Kona Morris
So Long SWP 2008…by Rebecca George
and the following works of poetry:
Bad Thoughts by Adam Perry
without responsibility to literature by Daniel Dissinger
Shooting the Moon by Diane Klammer
I Could Lie Down in this Grass Here by Francis Carr
She Lived in East Berlin by Ryan Clark
Desk Job by Shy Mukerjee
Jungle Mythos by Travis Cebula
with photography by:
Stacy Walsh
B-Load
Cecilia Kunstadter