Post Road Magazine – Issue #21 | Fall/Winter 2011

FICTION:

Meet Me at the Hedge, My Love — Caren Beilin
How We Looked — James Scott
Chili 4-Way — Michael Martone

NONFICTION:

The Mouth of the Volga — Trent Hergenrader
Touch — Eson Kim
We Smoked in Silence Peter Stenson
Rondo Elizabeth Bales Frank
Dirt — D. Foy

CRITICISM:

For the Love of New York — Asad Raza

POETRY:

Excerpt + Decision — Norman Finkelstein
Rallying in Rhode Island + Duologue in Delaware — Martin Ott and John F. Buckley

12. District Courthouse, Divorce Court, White Plains, New York + 1. Apocalyptic Wife — Elizabeth Powell
Saint Rust + Saint Say It (Over and Over Again) — Weston Cutter

ART:

Knox Martin – Woman: Black and White Paintings by Kristine Woodward

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Stories of John Cheever — Micah Nathan
John Edgar Wideman: The Last Great Radical — Michelle Hoover
Recommending “First Love” by Samuel Beckett — William Walsh
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz — Janice Shapiro
In Youth Is Pleasure, by Denton Welch — Koren Zailckas
One Good Book Leads to Another — Caroline Leavitt
Winter Reading: Jane Brox’s Brilliant — Belle Boggs
Cynthia Morrison Phoel’s Cold Snap — Tracy Winn
The Possibilities of Fiction — Michael Kimball

GUEST FOLIO

Worship — Matthew Di Paoli
The Golden Brain — Donald MacLeod Harrison
Silver Jingle Bobs, The Importance of — Meredith Steinbach
Winter Sky — Barry K. Wade

CONTRIBUTORS

Post Road Magazine – Issue #20 | Spring/Summer 2011

FICTION:

Golden State, by Emma Cline
Father’s Day, by Joseph Scapellato
Davey, by Jesse Cataldo
Alamo Nights, by Sumanth Prabhaker
Raw Material, by Alanna Schubach
An Inheritance, by Dan Pope

NONFICTION:

Ophelia, by Hannah Retzkin
Self-Portrait, Number 1, by Katherine Lien Chariott
The Politics of Play, by Megan Kaminski
I Probably Let Some of It Slip Once, by Jonathan Starke

CRITICISM:

Rebuilding Aesthetics from the Ground Up, by Lindsay Waters

POETRY:

Letters on Space and Hands + Hamal, by Adam Day
Will of the Stunt Double + Once a Boy, by Eric Morris
Summer Evening, Hopper + House of the Fog Horn, No. 3,
Hopper, by Christopher Tozier
Asbury Park, Just Before Winter + Words for a Night Singer, by Jeffrey Alfier

ART:

Luis Coig: Paintings Luis Coig Theatre

THEATRE:

Dante And Beatrice, 2010 + Fugue for a Man and a Woman, by A. S. Maulucci

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Olive Higgins Prouty’s Now, Voyager — Joanna Smith Rakoff
John Dos Passos: USA Trilogy — Pearl Abraham
Treasure Island: An Appreciation — Max Grinnell
Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez — Matt Bell
Shining Examples of Literary Bastards — Natalie Danford
Victor La Valle’s Big Machine — Laura van den Berg
Books with Pictures — Rebecca Chace
Nox, by Anne Carson — Amy Scheibe

GUEST FOLIO

A Plea to My Vegan Great-grandchildren + My Billy Collins Moment, by A.M. Juster
Bubbie + Power 69, by Robert Pack
Saro’s Love Song, by Joseph Bottum
A Vision of India, by Whitney Dubie
The Guinness at Tigh Mholly, by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
A Kind Of Ductility + Morning, by Simone Kearney
When Asked to Explain the Fall of Mankind Hannah Armbrust 80 The Setting Evening + Self-Portraits, by Stuart Krimko
Reasons to Search for Earth-like Planets + Ascension in the Uffizi Courtyard, by Will Dowd
Pavor Nocturnus with Relativity + Someone Will Have to Tell You, by Bianca Stone
The Argument + Proud Hand, by Adam Fitzgerald
Prelusion + The Futurists, by Allison Power
The Visitor + Watching the Light + For Who Knows How Long, by Tryfon Tolides

Post Road Magazine – Issue #19 | Fall/Winter 2010

FICTION:

Microclimates Charles Mc Leod
The Shut-down Class Cam Terwilliger
Chuliak Rachel Cantor
Miss Ang Has a Very Comfortable Life
The Cumulative Effect Jon Chopan Caleb Powell

NONFICTION:

The Burmese Dreams Series Alden Jones
List of (11 of 50): WORM LOOP + List of (25 of 50): DOPPELGANGER Blake Butler
The Impossible Return Jen Girdish
The Elephant’s Head Vasyl Makhno, trans. Oksana Lutsyshyna and Daniel Belgrad
A Little Triage Peter Zinn CRITICISM
The Best Way to Get Good Taste David Schleifer

POETRY:

Sargent Adrift at the Trenches + The Owl for at Least a Few Steps Matt Donovan
Cape Sagres to Lisbon and Back Again + Surface Tension Ravi Shankar

Provincetown, What I’m Going To Do Is, by Michael Klein
Annapolis + View, by Chris Bolin
Unheimlich (Not at Home) + After the Sex, Simile or Something Like It , by Elizabeth Senja Spackman
In Memory of Somebody Else’s Feelings + Upon Seeing Again the Thriving, by Matt Hart
Jornada del Muerto + Late Summer, by Carrie Fountain
Salisbury + The Harvard Square Street Musicians, by Jenna Le
Invasion + Disconnection, by John Popielaski

ART:

The Graffoo, by D. Dominick Lombardi

THEATRE:

OVERTURE: a Riff on the Sin of Despair, by Roy Ira Glassberg

RECOMMENDATIONS:

But For the Lovers, by Wilfredo Nolledo
Reading Ishiguro in Camden Town, by Brian Ascalon Roley
Getting Lost In the City With Edward P. Jones, by Jennine Capó Crucet
An Autobiography, by Anthony Trollope, by Michael Dahlie

Guest Folio

A Penny and A Nickel, by Brenna Casey
To Face the Music and Dance, by Joel Dinerstein
Things I Couldn’t Fix, by Charles Farrell
35.4 Sentences About the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, by Rob Keast
Homeland Security, by Janelle Nanos
An excerpt from Just Say Goodbye, by Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski

Post Road Magazine – Issue #18 | Spring/Summer 2010

FICTION:

Boombox and Neon Flowers, by Abby Savitch-Lew
The Reclamation Specialist, by Elizabeth Gonzalez
Riven, by Jeff Jones
Genetic Disorders, by Nicole Fix
Honeymoon in Beirut, by Stacy M. Tintocalis
Nine Inches, by Tom Perotta

NONFICTION:

Sweet Corn, by Bill Capossere
Field Studies, by Alexios Moore
Balakovo, by Natasha Lvovich
The Next Scott Nadelson, by Scott Nadelson
The Possibility of Ocean, by Michael Copperman

CRITICISM:

Rudolph Wurlitzer’s Infinite West, by Michael Miller

POETRY:

The Nice + Ghost in the Latrine, by Alex Lemon
To my father on the anniversary of his death + Autumn Poetica, by Gretchen Steele Pratt
People in History + The Devil’s Party, by Christian Barter
the ice fields + Against Plugging Away, by dawn lonsinger
After Reading about Cannibals + World, You Need More Calcium, by Hannah Craig
Property + Bickford Avenue, by Jenny Hanning
Local Carnival + The Blessing of the Animals, by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Self-Portrait in My Brother’s Bullet + Chipotle, by W. M. Lobko

ART:

Elizabeth Albert: Paintings, Introduction by Nelly Reifler

THEATRE:

Sumatra Mandheling, by Jakob Holder

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, by Bill Janovitz
Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires , by Dan Albergotti
Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge, by Rebecca Grodstein
Tony Hoagland’s Hard Rain, by Daisy Fried
My Name Is Red, by G. Xavier Robillard
Quickies! and The Dollar $tore, by Kathleen Rooney
Henry Hitchings’ The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, by Norm Shapiro
The End of the Straight and Narrow by David McGlynn – Lee Martin
Half & Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial+Bicultural, by Ru Freeman
The Island Itself, by Roger Fanning – Matthew Schwartz
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth. (Joachim Neugroschel, trans.) – Tony Eprile

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Elizabeth Graver:

BY’M BYE, by Alexandra Chasin
Dead Friends, by Alice Lichtenstein
Confirmation, by Lee Martin
If Laughter Were Blood, They Would Be Brothers, by Mark Brazaitis

Post Road Magazine – Issue #16 | Spring/Summer 2009

FICTION:

Chris Stops the Boys Dawsen — Wright Albertsen
Whatever Happened to Harlan? A Report from the Field —
David Hollander
The Doctors — Kirsten Menger-Anderson
The Day They Were Shooting Dogs — Samuel Reifler
Body Language + Balloons and Clowns and Popcorn + Mash —
Kim Chinquee
Monster — Rebekah Frumkin
My First Real Home — Diane Williams
Transformations — Alice Hoffman

NONFICTION:

Birthday — Kim Goldberg
Farewell — Laura Didyk
Little Orange Bottles — Jeremy Rice
Hold Your Horses the Elephants Are Coming — Christopher Higgs

CRITICISM:

Tiny Monuments: A Look at Snapshot Photography — Hannah Lifson
Slow Freeze — Laurah Norton Raines
Rara Avis: How to Tell a True Bird Story — Jackson Connor

POETRY:

What We’ve Forgotten — Lorraine Healy
Suite for the Twentieth Century (for Carole Lombard) + Suite for the Twentieth Century (for Marilyn Monroe) — Joseph Campana
Cretaceous Moth Trapped in Amber (Lament in Two Voices) + Palinode for Being Thirty-four — Katrina Vandenberg
Dreaming of Rome + While Reading Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on Human Dignity — John Ruff
My Older Brother, June Bug + Name I Will Never Forget — Jason Lee Brown
Die Fledermaus + Sisyphus in Paradise — G. C. Waldrep
Breathless, My Venom Spent, I Lay Down My Weapons + Horoscope — Sarah Murphy
What They Don’t Tell You About Breast-Feeding + What I’m Not
Telling You — Liz Scheid

ART:

Portraits in Plasma Judith Page

THEATRE:

Excerpt from Gint (an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt) by Will Eno

ETCETERA:

Conversation: Marion Ettlinger — Adam Braver
Journal: Black Rock City Journal — Len Goldberg
Journal: (Unexpurgated) Tour Journal Wesley Stace, John Wesley
Harding, and George Fisher (of Henley)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Mikhail Bulgakov — Robert Olen Butler
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara, by Joe Le Sueur — Allison Lynn
Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson — Yael Goldstein
William Faulkner’s “The Bear” — Allen Morris Jones
The Promise of Failure, or Why You Should Drop Everything
You’re Doing and Read Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road
Right Now! — John Mc Nally
A Sport and a Pastime, by James Salter — Noy Holland
Happy All the Time: Loving Laurie Colwin — Margo Rabb
Kerouac’s On the Road at Fifty — Morris Dickstein
The Laws of Evening, by Mary Yukari Waters — Tod Goldberg
October Snow, by Samuel Reifler — Nelly Reifler
The Dog of the Marriage, by Amy Hempel — Perrin Ireland
More Real Than Reality: The Frozen Art of Alistair MacLeod — Jon Clinch
A Far Cry from Kensington, by Muriel Spark — David Leavitt

CONTRIBUTORS