AQR Vol. 30, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2013

About the Cover

A close-up of a birch uprooted by ice during spring thaw and deposited along the shore of the Charley River in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska.
© 2013 Richard J. Murphy

Table of Contents

Special Feature
Two Novellas

The Army Disease, Cary Holladay
Mistakes I Made, Christie Hodgen

Fiction

A Child In The World, Ben Brooks
The Reenactor, Matt Carmichael
Pitiful, Patricia Schultheis
Raymond, Peter Gordon
The Gratitude of Strangers, Ihab Hassan
Pink Man, Blue Woman, Catherine Bussinger
Biography, Emily Mitchell

Nonfiction

Maple Lane, Anne Kaier
What Can You Do, Edward Hower
Lock Up, Mary Koral
A Brief History of an Imagination, Leslie Ullman

Poetry

Archaeopteryx, Matthew Westbrook
Archeology, Joan I. Siegel
The Moons of August, Danusha Laméris
Etymology, Kim Farrar
Adolescence, Courtney Queeney
Swan Song, Kristin Robertson
It’s the Black End of a Blue Day, Carol Edelstein
First Winter, Doug Ramspeck
Table, Cynthia Atkins
Flies, Benjamin S. Grossberg
The Ring Toss Lady Breaks a Five, Mark Kraushaar
Write About This, Deborah Brown
“Me And My Parrots,” Frida Kahlo, 1941, Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Blood Ghazal, Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Monet Paints the Willows, 1918, Patricia Hooper
Daytrip, Sarah Kortemeier
Meadow at Night, Gary H. Holthaus
Sometimes Night Is a Creek Too Wide to Leap, Gail Martin
Thinking of You, Laura Read
The P.O. Box, Maria DiLorenzo
Shutting Up, Maria DiLorenzo
Remnants, Don Stap
Christmas Eve, Florida, Don Stap
The Children of Lovers are Orphans, Alice Weiss
The Illiterate in New Mexico, Gary Fincke
Boys’ Choir, Gary Fincke
Broke, Jared Harel
My Mother Asks Me What I Wanted, Kirsten Andersen
H, Stephen Gibson
The Magic Carpet, Andrea Fry
My Daughter’s Journal, Steve Gehrke