AQR Vol. 28, No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2011

About the Cover

A traditional Tlingit dugout canoe encounters fishing boats while en route to Juneau, Alaska.
© 2011 by Clark James Mishler

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Dangerous Doctors, John Gamel
Growing Up Among Skeletons and Radios, Adriana Páramo
The Vacuum, Jackie Bang
The Canceled Invitation (Notes on Griffith Park), Wes Hempel
350 Pounds, Marybeth Holleman
Pocketing, Peggy Shinner
Mother’s Hands, David Singyke
An Accidental Dictionary, Charles Wyatt

Fiction

Dead Girls, Andrew Peery
The Widow’s Grievance, Mary Kuryla
Cakeneck, Kara Levy
What Broken Water Brings to Boiling, Quintan Ana Wikswo
Stones, Becky Hagenston
If You Help the Same People Too Often, J. Malcolm Garcia
My Neighbor, Susan Kim Campbell
In the World Below, Nathan Oates
Inheritance, Jody Azzouni
To Ashes, Richard Lange

Poetry

Alternative Etiologies of the Common Cold, Greg Vargo
A Passage, Greg Vargo
Living With the War, Greg Vargo
In the Gambler’s Loneliness, Intimations of the Eternal, Greg Vargo
Pulling Up Stakes, David Wagoner
Puddle, David Wagoner
Water Saints, Kelli Russell Agodon
Words for “Water”, Kathleen Spivack
The Blind Skater, Kathleen Spivack
Genesis, Quetzal, Peggy Shumaker
Tent Revival, Peggy Shumaker
Strangler Fig, Peggy Shumaker
What She Calls Eternity, Heather Kirn Lanier
Terminal Illness Through the Wrong End of a Spyglass, Anna George Meek
Echocardiogram, Meredith Davies Hadaway
Sasquatch Goes All Darwin on Your Ass, Sherman Alexie
Goodbye, DDT, Goodbye, Sherman Alexie
But All is to be Dared, Because Even a Person of Poverty, Sonja Livingston
Honky, Sonja Livingston
Amazing Grace Man, Ricardo Pau-Llosa
A Hundred Words for Loser, Rebecca Lehmann
Tunnel, Susan Rich
Picking the Kitten, Faith Shearin
Of Moment, Margaret B. Ingraham
Smoking Together, Carl Mayfield
Zero, Bruce Bond
The Need, Michael Hettich
Two Horned Lizards That were Not My Newly-Divorced Parents, Jon Boisvert
At the Angel Museum, Gary Fincke
The Smallest Barometer, Jen McClanaghan
The Jewish Woman Remembers Deuteronomy 6: 6 – 9, Rachel Mennies
Shark Week, John Hodgen
Night Driving, Lucy Bucknell
Tocsin, Kurt Olsson
Darkened and Forgetful, Doug Ramspeck
Dream Snake, Doug Ramspeck
One Life, Jonathan Wells
After Curfew, Hugh Martin