Issue 120: Love is Abroad

in which our writers map love & loss in Arusha, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Rome, New York, Tokyo, Soweto, & St. Petersburg.

+ The winners of our poetry & personal essay contests

E-exclusives:

In conversation with:
*Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest winner Kerry-Lee Powell
*Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest winner Lisa Martin-deMoore
*our runners-up: Mary Kim, Nathalie Sorensen, Amanda Baker Patterson, and Elizabeth Crieth (Occasional Verse); Don Charlton (Personal Essay)

Inside the Issue:
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Welcome to this issue

OCCASIONAL VERSE CONTEST

Amanda Jernigan And the Envelope, Please
Kerry-Lee Powell Two Poems
Kim Yong-Hi Las Frutillas
Nathalie Sorensen On Examining Piranesi's Carceri
Amanda Baker-Patterson Happy Heart Day
Elizabeth Creith House Blessing
Mary Tilberg The Far Coast
Cynthia French Planting
Jillian Butler A Lesson as in Gospel

PERSONAL ESSAY CONTEST

Melissa Krone Creating Community
Lisa Martin-Demoor A Container of Light
Cartriona Wright You Just Put Your Lips Together and Blow
Don Charlton The Bald Aesthetic: Women's Attitudes to Bald Men

FICTION

Eliza Robertson Here Be Dragons
Steven Heighton Flight Paths
Steven Heighton Dialogues of Departure
Jasmina Odor Barcelona
Jasmina Odor "Barcelona," An Afterword
Mark Anthony Jarman Adam & Eve Saved From Drowning
Mark Anthony Jarman Tales of Brave Ulysses
Sara Heinonen The Blue Dress
Heather Davidson The Fires of Soweto
Susan L. Scott Where There's Smoke: In Conversation With Heather Davidson
Bernice Friesen: The Night Jasmin Fell In Love With Charlie

POETRY

Emily McGiffin Fall
Jesse Patrick Ferguson Post-Ocean
Kim Goldberg Twilight on Esplande Street
Hendrik Slegtenhorst Wanderings
Angela Long Mile Marker
Susan Telfer 10 p.m., August 16, 2010
Kerry Ryan Two Poems
Jena Schmitt First I Heard You Galloping
Jennifer Still Scarlet Runner
E. A. Carpentier Opal
Rhonda Batchelor Death is an Old Black Dog