March 2008 Volume 22, Issue 3
poeTry
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GrISel y. acoSTa
Dream Water Breath Death • Holographic Glitter • Concentric Circles
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rIch vIllar
174th Street • Ode to Henry Kissinger • Denitions
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elISa albo
Baby, I Love Your Way • Hatikva • Getting Out of the Kitchen and On With Your Life
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eMMa TrelleS
How to Write A Poem: Theory #62 • What Would Have Happened if I Had MarriedYou • In an Alcove Between the Beacon and the Avalon • Autumn Unexpected
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SaNdra caSTIllo
Quickening Days • This is What Happens When I Fall Asleep
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vIrGIl Suarez
La Madre del Agua • Balsero/Rafter • Blue Cuban • Moon
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SuzaNNe frISchkorN
Letra • What It Means to be Cuban, Hyphenated • Clerestory Sky •Samhain
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achy obejaS
May First • 3 Stories
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huGo rodrIGuez
C-Shift • D.O.A • The Gods of Rescue
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MIa leoNIN
When I Arrive • Unraveling the Bed •
Aparicion de la Virgen
• A Miami Story
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keMel zaldIvar
Poem • Apostrophes to the Sky • How to Read Dick Case
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adrIaN caSTro
Handling Destiny: On Crossing Borders • Handling Destiny: Tools of the Trade •The Fickle Nature of Friendship
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dIeGo QuIroS
The Sun • Superuous Touch (while riding the metro) • Wind
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krISTINa MarTINez
The Escape Artist Otherwise Known as Our Lady of Charity • Fit of Cypresson the Dirt Hill
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rITa MarIa MarTINez
Reading Jane Eyre • Jane Eyre’s Fashion Remedy • Saint John Rivers Popsthe Question on Jane Eyre
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dulce MeNeNdez
Miami • How To Paint A Cuban Dream
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carIdad MccorMIck
Puta • Quinceñera • Erosion
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rIchard blaNco
New Orleans Sestina Against Order • Even if the Sun Explodes • Looking for theGulf Motel, Marco Island, Florida
revIewS
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oScar hIjueloS, rhyThM kING
Kirk Curnutt reviews Oscar Hijuelos’s
Rhythm King
.
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The INveNTIoN of SkIN: love, MaGIc aNd MIracle IN MIa leoNIN’S poeTry
Michael Parkerreviews Mia Leonin’s
Unraveling the Bed.
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MIcro-revIew
Julie R. Enszer on Achy Obejas’s chapbook
This is What Happened in Our Other Lie
.
froNT cover
The Ecstasy o St Theresa
(Diego Quiros) is about the moment just prior to making love. The actual moment of ecstasy in lovemaking is captured inside the triangle, which marks the transition between this world and the other. The trianglerepresents the vulva, and the angelic symbols written around its border represent creation, the doorway to giving life. The arrow ontop is Cupid’s arrow about to strike. The owers are Angel’s Trumpets, which, much like making love, are highly intoxicating and aresometimes ingested for recreational or shamanic intoxication. The painting is a combination of the Bernini sculpture, a model from aVictoria’s Secret catalog, and the painter’s own attempts at experiencing small moments of divinity through the body of another.
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