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Ma takes me shopping for school clothes. We love how the mall
goosepimples our flesh. Ma says, "I'm as comfortable as ice cream." So we stay a long while and browse the cosmetic department
looking for matte lipstick. "Let's see your hoax, baby baby," Ma says. I pucker in the mirror.

—Airin Miller: A High, Hard One

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In this Issue:

Owen Andrews • Sallie Bingham • Thomas Bolt • Traci Brimhall •
Chris Castle • Cora Currier • Oliver De La Paz • Kristen Fitzpatrick •
Sidik Fofana • Kathleen Founds •
Tim Gomez • Sarah Gutowski •
Edward Hirsch • Andree Lockwood • Domingo Martinez • Matthew McGevna • Bryan Miller • Airin Miller • Mary Norris • Jacqueline Osherow • Alan Peterson • Susanne Petermann • Rainer Maria Rilke • Philip Schultz • M.R. Sheffield • Jack Bradigan Spula • Sarah Stern

Reading: Monica Z.

Chapbook Contest:

We are Clay by Russel Evatt was chosen by poet David Shumate as the winner of Epiphany Editions first annual chapbook contest. Congratulations Russel!

David also wanted to bring special attention to two very close runners-up; More Weight, by Carol Tyx and Insomniac Circus by Amorak Huey.

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David Shumate is the author of High Water Mark  (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and The Floating Bridge (University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008.)  His poetry has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including Good Poems for Hard Times and The Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship and is poet-in-residence at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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