Description
Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring/Sumer) and 2 (Fall/Winter) 2017
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.
Contents
Short Fiction
Brad Collins • I Found Your Body
Sarah Heying • Logic and the Long Gone
Jacob Mendelsohn • In Old New York
Tony Motzenbacker • Drought
Vincent Wagner • Art as a Boy’s Name
Essays
W. Royce Adams • Too Late, Naytan
J. A. Bernstein • Desert Castles
Poetry
David Axelrod • The Melancholy of Resistance
• A Plea To Strangers
• Dedication
Walter Bargen • The So-Called Good Life
• Exile
• Post Post
Michael Cole • The Mental Universe
Milton Erlich • The Brilliant Function of Love
Andra Emilia Fenton • Amo Todo
• Water
Liz Glodek • Survival
• River
• Offer It Up for the Poor Souls in Purgatory
Jonathan Greenhause • Instead of sheets, Timothy awakes
• Rinse Cycle
• The Limits of Self-Torture
Tom Hansen • Early One Morning
• Jack and Jill
• Children of Water
Edward Harkness• Pine Siskin
John Harn • Read This Poem
• Blackberry Preambles
Victoria Kelly • When the Jets Came Home
Gerry LaFemina • After Labor Day
• Thief
• Captialism
• Event Horizon
• Greenwich Village
Stephen Meisel • Here’s to My Asking
Beth Ann Mock • Falling Down Waltz
• Daddy Eats First
Clifton T. Perkins • Hospital Center
• The Moon Stops Working
Athar C. Pavis • No Matter What They Meant
George Perreault • Preacher Roberts: Remembrance
Daye Phillippo • Independence
• Election Year
• Ordinary Ghazal
Brooke Sahni • An Attempt at Solace
• Dream-Tending
Nathaneal Tagg • Nepalese Poet of Subway
Rachel A. Wise • Yesterday’s People
• From the Highwall
• On Mountain Festivals; or, Dulcimers and Biscuits
• Bar Display
• Beneath the Hackberry
John Zedolik • Hard Word
About the Contributors
End Table
Works Sighted
Book Review