Cynics of the world might ask, How can there be an archive for a journal where all the content is current?  True, that is a good question.  A good answer might be the archives are merely the evidence of existence.  Thus Paul’s artistic rendering.  A cup of coffee need not be cold to leave a coffee stain.  Jay is a perfect example of this, as he is incapable of going five minutes through any meal without spilling on himself.  What is left behind is evidence of what he’d been eating.

A few years ago Jay sent fan mail to the humorist Roy Blount, Jr., who was kind enough to reply with his own correspondence.  And it was no form letter reply; he even stated he once “drove through Puyallup so [he] could say [he’d] been to a town with that name.”  And what do you suppose was on the upper right hand corner of the letter?  A three-quarter circle of coffee stain. 

 

 

 

 

 

Issue Number 5

Featuring poetry by Laura Henley, Desislava Parashkevova, Peggy Shumaker, and Jon Tribble; fiction by Siamak Vossoughi and Olga Zilberbourg; nonfiction by Amy Weldon; humor by Katherine J. Leisering.

Issue Number 4

Featuring poetry by Kathleen Boyle, Andrea Henchey, Gary Leising, Antonio Machado (translated by Robert Peake), and Michelle Peñaloza; fiction by Allyson Armistead and Jim Gish; nonfiction by Nicole Callihan; humor by Larry Lefkowitz.

Issue Number 3

Featuring poetry by Lisa J. Cihlar, David Cooke, Brian Doyle, Kristine Ong Muslim, Maria Teresa Oglistri, and Changming Yuan; fiction by Todd Mauer and Jason Skipper; humor by Christamar Varicella.

Issue Number 2

Featuring poetry by Don Colburn, Derek Mong, Casey Fuller, Kate Lebo, Temple Cone, and Chloe Zwiacher; fiction by Alicia Gifford; nonfiction by Julie Marie Wade; humor by Michael Stusser.

Issue Number 1

Featuring poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Adrian Gibbons Koesters, Anne McDuffie, Kristine Ong Muslim, Peggy Shumaker, Patricia Staton, and Julie Marie Wade; fiction by Simon Fruelund and David Huddle; nonfiction by Leslie Haynsworth and Anne-Marie Oomen; humor by Brian Doyle.

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