SLM 3.2 (Fall 2009) The "Families" Issue
Order of Contents:
Alireza Taheri Araghi (untitled photo)
Christian Hanz Lozada “The Falcon 500” (poem)
Stephen Mead “Rise” (poem)
Katrina Prow “Portrait of My Parents, 1983” (poem)
Christopher Mulrooney “the ward of my six wives” (poem)
a. paul cartier “Carnaval 80” (photo)
Brooks Roddan “Mirror” (poem)
Suejin Suh “Long After Some” (prose poem)
Joan Jobe Smith “Good Wives Don’t Drive” (poem)
Kyle Moreno “Sisters” (poem)
Werner Low “The Other Daughter” (story)
Dennis Duncan “Chronograms” (poem)
Hazzel Yen “Imagination Creation Digestion” (mixed media)
Christa Westaway “Pill Bugs” (story)
Joan Jobe Smith “The Most Miserable Go-Go Girl
of Them All” (poem)
Shelagh Davis “That Which Hath Wings Shall Tell the Matter”
(prose poem)
Joseph Reich “The Family Tree and the Roots and the Weeds” (poem)
John G. Rodwan, Jr. “The Banana Eater” (essay)
Gerald Uyeno “Bonehead Therapy” (cartoon)
Jeffrey C. Alfier “Prayer for Winsett Street” (poem)
Shelagh David “Predator” (poem)
Donal Mahoney “An Irish Christening” (poem)
Jennifer Woo “Welcome Home” (drawing)
Brad Bisio “Someone I Used to Know” (story)
Michael Estabrook “Majestic Beneath Her Umbrella” (poem)
Bill Mohr “The Decanter” (poem)
Fred Voss “Turning Frank into Fred Astaire” (poem)
Alireza Taheri Araghi (untitled photo)
Lorene V. Garrett “City on the Edge of Forever” (poem)
Michael Buckley “In the Summer We Eat Roses” (story)
Stephen Mead “The Movie of Our Lives” (poem)
a. paul cartier “Gold Coast” (photo)
Tobi Cogswell “Landlady #5” (poem)
Tobi Cogswell “Holding Pattern” (poem)
Fred Voss “Rolling Dice from the Shoulder” (poem)
Christian Hanz Lozada “What You See in Hawaii When
Married to a Hawaiian” (story)
Jeffrey C. Alfier “The Beachcomber” (poem)
Luisa Peña “A white ceiling yields no answers” (poem)
a. paul carter “Weddings, Lake Tahoe” (photo)
Macrae Sutherland “Her Side of the Bed” (poem)
Kyle Moreno “King-sized Mattress” (prose poem)
Clint Margrave “My Father’s Brain” (poem)
Steven Carey “Belly Lint” (poem)
Hazzel Yen “Cyber Love” (mixed media)
Greggory Moore “Internal Affairs” (story)
Lisa Manning “Fathom” (poem)
Susan Hansell “Little Kings” (play)
a paul cartier “Merida PM #3” (photo)
SLM 3.1 (Spring 2009) The Third Unthemed Issue
Brooks Roddan “At the Shore” (poem)
Rick Kilpatrick “Languages Grow Among Stars” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp “Devil of Summer” (poem)
Jeffrey Alfier “Puerto Escondido” (poem)
Tobi Cogswell “Massage Chairs” (poem)
Kyle Moreno “Hands” (photo)
Stephen Mead “Consecration” (poem)
Bill Mohr “Better Yet, Both Thieves Cursed” (poem)
Gerald Uyeno “Bail Out” (cartoon)
Susan Hansell “Waiting for Two” (new play excerpt)
Jennifer Woo “Dreamscapepawn” (drawing)
Michael Buckley “Hit” (story)
Jennifer Woo “Keyhole” (drawing)
Laurel Ann Bogen “Taking Care of Futurism” (poem)
Tobi Cogswell “Trading Light for Winter” (poem)
Michael Lee Johnson “Bird Feeder” (poem)
Brooks Roddan “The Nature of Art” (poem)
Joan Jobe Smith “Minding the Eternal Generation Gap with Virginia Woolf” (poem)
Steven Carey “The Scientist and the Watch” (poem)
Laurel Ann Bogen “My Celluloid Heroes” (poem)
Kyle Moreno “Water” (photo)
Lisa Manning “Static” (essay)
Jennifer Woo “Marbles” (drawing)
Bill Mohr “Poem Commemorating Tours of Duty” (poem/series)
Michael Buckley “A Quiet Complete Place (story)
Robert L. Wells “4th Street” (photo)
Rick Kilpatrick “To Live a Deathless Name” (poem)
Donal Mahoney "The Landlord" (poem)
Bill Mohr “The Restoration” (poem)
Stephen Mead “Getting Clean Hands” (poem)
Jade Hidle “Rough Pony” (story)
Jonathan Rapp “Listen Left, Twice” (poem)
Fred Voss “He’d Better Use a Net” (poem)
Robert L. Wells “2 Bars” (photo)
Kyle Moreno “Death of a Flower” (poem)
Greggory Moore “Another City of Light” (story)
Milos Petrovic “Water” (poem)
Joseph Reich “Four Excerpts from When There Were Seasons” (poem/series)
Hazzel Yen "Once Upon a Time in the Gardens of Time" (mixed media)
SLM 2.2 (Fall 2008) World/s Issue
Order of Contents:
Greggory Moore “Color Me World” (prose)Lisa Manning “On Our Watch” (poem)
Paul Lieber “Allied Model Train Store” (poem)
Michael Buckley “Ice Blocking” (story)
Bill Mohr “Exactitude” (poem)
Suejin Suh “In Between” (poem)
Tobi Cogswell “Jumping the Constellations” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp “The City” (play)
Steve De France “I Am a Seagull” (poem)
Matthew Karver “Delicate” (poem)
Jeffrey C. Alfier “5 am. – Awaiting the Airport Shuttle” (poem)
Luke Salazar “Persona” (poem)
Anne Finger “Scout” (story)
Lori Lubeski “prayer” (poem)
Elizabeth Iannaci “Short Cut” (poem)
Greggory Moore “It Turned Out Reality Was Overrated” (prose)
Lisa Manning “The Ghost of St. Augustine” (story)
Gerald Uyeno “Taco Heights Haiku Haiku” (poem series)
Christian Lozada “Fishing in Dirty Water” (story)
Jeffrey C. Alfier “Deflection Toward a Back Street, Los Angeles” (poem)
Steve De France “Exile in the Land of the Dead” (poem)
Susan Hansell “Rollover Othello” (play)
Curtis Last “Broken Window Coconut” (poem)
Suejin Suh “Unbothered” (poem)
Greggory Moore “Johnny Bench, E.L.O., and Other Things from My Childhood”
John G. Rodwan, Jr. “Partitions on Parade” (essay)
Tobi Cogswell “Transubstantiation” (poem)
Jennifer Lester “Ignore the Door” (poem)
Elizabeth Fenimore “Dead Man, New York City” (photo)
SLM 2.1 (Spring 2008) The Second Unthemed Issue
Order of Contents:
Jennifer Lester, “Blue” (poem)
Greggory Moore, “K.K.” (story)
Michelle Lauren Kay, “All Cities Are the Same” (story)
Robert L. Wells, “Fern’s Drinkers and the Joker” (photo)
Suzanne Allen, “Candle” (poem)
Elizabeth Iannaci, “Calypso Awake” (poem)
Tobi Cogswell, “How to Vanish” (poem)
Jeffrey Alfier, “Fidelity” (poem)
Matthew Karver, “Accomplice” (poem)
Curtis Last, “Precursor” (poem)
David Barnes, “She waits for the rush of the tide” (story)
Mark Gurarie, “In Peanut Shells” (story)
Steve De France, “Over the Rainbow” (poem)
Elizabeth Fenimore, “Self-Portrait” (photo)
John G. Rodwan, Jr., “Ink” (essay)
Jeffrey Alfier, “’Calling it’ at 3 a.m.” (poem)
Tobi Cogswell, “All She Can Do” (poem)
Christopher Mulrooney, “my fair and faith” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp, “Manual Roses” (poem)
David E. Howerton, “Tyrannical youth mutter godhead” (poem)
Elizabeth Fenimore, “Acupuncture Baby” (photo)
Susan Hansell, “It Means Dick” (play)
Christopher Mulrooney, “a purpose under heaven” (poem)
Steve De France, “Rain” (poem)
Hari Bhajan Khalsa, “Love on Paper, Celluloid” (poem)
Neal Storrs, “Harem Queen” (story)
Robert L. Wells, “Mikey and Elvis at Alex’s” (photo)
Luke Salazar, “All, or Nothing at All” (poem)
David E. Howerton, “Who Decides” (poem)
Gerald Uyeno, “Demo Haiku” (poem)
Jennifer Lester, “Currents” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp, “Theater Notes” (poem)
Elizabeth Iannaci, “Art and an Annotation Tango (poem)
SLM 1.2 (Fall 2007) The All Holiday Review
Order of Contents:
Brendan Constantine, “Something You Can Use” (poem)
Joshua Peralta, “Returning at Dusk from a Walk in the Hills” (poem)
Julianna McCarthy, “New Year’s Eve, 1938” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp, “Outdoor Table” (poem)
Connie Pham, “Second Cousins” (poem)
Elizabeth Iannaci, “At Dinner” (poem)
Steve De France, “Winter of Our Discontent” (poem)
Bill Mohr, “Personal Chef” (poem)
Jennifer Lester, “A Note for My Birthday” (poem)
Robert L. Wells, “Birthday at Fern’s” (photo)
Lainee Frizzo, “Secret Santa” (story)
John G. Rodwan, Jr., “King and Me” (essay)
Joshua Peralta, “Wild Amaryllis in Pescadero Cemetary” (photo)
Elizabeth Iannaci, “Second Moon” (poem)
Steve De France, “Christ at K-Mart 2007” (poem)
Bill Mohr, “Alphabetical Holiday” (poem)
Mark Gurarie, “Year of the Cock” (poem)
Julianna McCarthy, “Annunciation” (poem)
Susan Hansell, “Mary Mary” (play)
Elizabeth Fenimore, “Carnival” (photo)
Lori Lubeski, “Slush FIGURINE” (poem)
Greggory Moore, “A Few Remains” (story)
Joshua Peralta, “On Unhurried Evenings Like This” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp, “Holiday” (poem)
Greggory Moore, “A Personal Essay on Individual Phenomenology for a Friend
(Merry Christmas, Janna)”
Tobi Cogswell, “New Year Tale” (poem)
Suzanne Allen, “Funny” (poem)
G.P. Uyeno, “ukiaH Haiku” (poem)
Natalie Hurter, “From an Old Blue Shoebox” (poem)
“Found Object” (front) Christmas Card, c. 1950
“Found Object” (back) Christmas Card, c. 1950
Neil Storrs, “Consummation” (story)
Suzanne Allen, “Three Star View” (poem)
SLM 1.1 (Spring 2007) The Inaugural (Unthemed) Issue
Order of Contents:
Bill Mohr, “Keyboard Thumb Inspection” (poem)
Jonathan Rapp, “Old Coyote Den” (poem)
Lori Lubeski, “Land” (poem)
Brendan Constantine, “Errata” (poem)
Grim, “Superstars” (poem)
Jennifer Lester, “One Gets Weighed Down” (poem)
Elizabeth Fenimore, “Amnestie” (photo)
Mallory Reeves, “Entrophy” (story)
Joshua Peralta, “The Activists: A Moving Story of Mistreatment” (story)
Suzanne Allen, “Too Smart” (prose poem)
Neal Storrs, “Entanglement” (story)
Connie Pham, “Stop Road Blocks” (photo)
Jonathan Rapp, “Fassbinder’s Teahouse” (poem)
Rachel Maize, “I Hold Desire in My Hands” (poem)
Lori Lubeski, “Your face in my dark clouds” (poem)
Suzanne Allen, “Milk” (poem)
Connie Pham, “What Happens” (poem)
Bill Mohr, “The Hard Return” (poem)
Chris Jara, “Speed. Noise. Hardcore. Rags.” (drawing)
Susan Hansell, “We Are All Dick 3” (play)
Grim, “Untitled” (charcoal)
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