April 2010 Editor's Note


Sometimes, summers suffocate, and winters make bones of us. Spring seems just a short bridge between the extremes. Yet, borders are crossed, and in these spaces of transience and transgression, reality is challenged.

In this issue, Loren Kleinman writes with a voice that knows the distances a body stretches. Chris Crittenden wonders how to put down ideas on paper, and proceeds to write poems that describe phenomena “no one sees.” Alison Iovino’s photographs are of summer in winter’s rudderless wake. Leah McCormack turns the clinical eye inside out, giving us an arresting view. And finally, we have our second podcast from Hammad Ahmed. He performs for us an act I whole heartedly recommend when reading stories and poems: to try it out loud.

Thank you for reading,
Sol Park