General 1 — Alaska Quarterly Review

About the Cover

Sea anemone, Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska.

© 2011 by Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 28, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2011

Table of Contents

Fiction

Mr. Fur Face Needs a Girlfriend, Melinda Moustakis
Chicken Little and the Boys Have Some Words, George Looney
Robert Greenman and the Mermaid, Anjali Sachdeva
Horseshoe Bend, Brian Hart
No Contest, Heather Herrman
Buzzard, Coby Hoffman
Gorge, Katherine Hurley
Grotowski’s Miniature Men, Michael Buckley
Do You Drink Alone?, Linda Legters
Give Us this Day, Some Meaning, a Purpose, Harmony Neal
A Man Who is Too Good, Richard Alwan
Ahmed’s Wife, Scott Tucker

Special Feature: Memoir as Drama

Ungipamsuuka: My Story, Susie Silook

Nonfiction

Walking Chaucer, W. Scott Olsen
Rolling in the Mud, Sandra Gail Lambert
Quercus, Yelizaveta P. Renfro
Colic, Joseph Gross
The Precision Kill, James Miranda
Gloria, John Picard
The Yangtze, Laurie Frankel
Fog, Bill Capossere

Poetry

The Waiting Room of Past Lives, Lauren Schmidt
Going Forward Looking Back, Marge Piercy
Long Live the Land, Marge Piercy
From Memoir of an Amnesiac, Henry Hart
Someone Must Have Spoken, Antoinette Constable
Where, Mark Irwin
In the Space of an Hour, David A. Axelrod
Time, Robin Chapman
Fights, Keith Leidner
Zonnet, Michael Kriesel
The Carnegie System, G. C. Waldrep
Grammar School, Brandel France de Bravo
In a Cemetery by the Sea: One Definition of a Circle, Katherine Larson
The Woman Who Can’t Forget: Flooding, Carrie Shipers
Night Mud, Doug Ramspeck
East River, Richard Schiffman
36, Sean Lause
X, Julie Marie Wade
dx, Mary Peelen
Hat, Mark Kraushaar
Before the Bridal Shop, Shara Lessley
On the Subject of Want, Shara Lessley
Notes from a Tenement Downtown, Terese Coe
Billy and Stephen and Me, Jim Tilley
About Dr. G., Ann Emerson
Blackbirds, Christopher Robinson
Firefly, Jessica Greenbaum