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Vol. 35, No. 1 and No. 2 (2012)
The Chariton Review publishes the best in short fiction, poetry, translations, and essays in two issues each year. This international literary journal founded in 1975 by Andrew Grossbardt and edited by Jim Barnes from 1976 to 2010 and now edited by James D’Agostino.
Vol. 35, No. 1 is sold out.
Vol. 35, No. 1
The Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize, 2012
Judge: Kellie Wells
Winner
Waimea Williams: Vienna Quartet, With Dog
Finalists
Martha L. Burns: City of Paris
Heidi Naylor: A Season of Curing
Mil Norman-Risch: Leave It
Short Fiction
Rachel Kincaid: Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Essays
Chad Hanson: Call the Wild by Its Name
Poetry
David A. Axelrod
Decorum in Poured Concrete
A Story as I Sharpen My Knife
Swallow It
The Kabab Stand
Nancy Botkin
On Not Being Coherent on Life or Death
Franklin K. R. Cline
The Inadequate Bookshelf
The Aubade
The Moony Poem
On Greenness
12/20/2010
Jo Doran
Eryoneicus
Cradle
A Diameter of 100,000 Light Years
Miranda
James Grabill
Civilized Identity
from “Double Helix”
Daniel Lusk
Midwest Memoir: Two Poems
Angie Macri
The Titan Before It Slides
John McKernan
At the Grave of Frank Stafford
Jeff McRae
Scrimshaw
Verisimilitude
Against Feeling
The Doctor Is Out
Evidence
Alex Moseley
midwinter
bile bear
Mike Nelson
Beelzebub
The Wonder Found Word by Word in the Telling
To Thalia, Muse and Grace Whose Name Means “Flowering”
Wood
Glade
Lawrence Revard
The Writing on the Fence
John Ridland
The Failing Reader
Turning Back to Standard Time
Her Fingerprint
Molly Tamarkin
Auto-Complete 2010
The Day Bernice Changed Her Ringtone
The Evolution of the Poem
Sally Van Doren
Divided
38 Bradford Road, Around the Back
Translations
Georges Godeau, translated by Kathleen McGookey
Il est venu de loin… / He has come from far away…
Á l’ombre du tilleul… / In the shade of the linden tree…
Seoul / Seoul
Leur Place / Their Place
Contributors
Vol. 35, No. 2
Short Fiction
Katherine Heiny: Single, Carefree, Mellow
Eric Neuenfeldt: Mechanics of Crash
Jenn Scott: What She Knows
Peter Stine:Sailing
Lois Taylor: Do You Know What Your Problem Is?
Essays
Ray Holmes: On Bowls
Lori Horvitz: Mongrels of Salamanca
Poetry
Nancy Aldrich
After
Richard Carr
refused medicine
a derangement
dead dead
Richard Cecil
Back Home Again
Nightmare
Riding into the Sunset
Bubble Boy
My Work Ethic
Annie Christain
A Maple Gets Red
Sometimes under Prague
Michelle Disler
Reality Dating Show Love the Language of Season Number
Gary Finke
The Geology of Hell
The Scientist in Siberia
The Hitler Car
The Faith Surgeries
Laugh Track
The Curse Tablet
John Hitzel
Waveformer
Owls All Over
The Terrible Wrath of Meaninglessness
Whatup, Poem?
Truth Salad, Movement 1
Calli Lilies
Victoria Kelly
Planning
Mike Lewis-Beck
Naming Ucelli
Matt Mauch
My brother the reluctant hiker . . .
The ribs and sternum being no kind of fence
O green and white porcelain, O representation of frog
She loves me, she loves me not
Thoughts like the molecules of exhaust . . .
So much depends on the rains, on the runoff
Ben McClendon
Revolutionary Hymns
Inconsequential
Paul Nelson
Learning to Miss
Ebb
Equinox
Icebox
Brady Rhoades
Uncle Patrick
1973
Bradford Tice
Seagulls at the Local Walmart in a Landlocked State
Charles Harper Webb
The Good Survives
Violence
Out of Sight . . .
Steven Wingate
Octet of Praise and Animosity for New York
Octet of Distorted Affection for Paris
Octet of Nostalgic Longing for Los Angeles
