24.2 - Summer/Fall 2012
2011 Barthelme Prize
- Grand Canyon II by Erica Olsen (Winner)
- Master Bedroom by Sonja Vitow (Honorable Mention)
- Why I Became a Fireman by Paul Zaic (Honorable Mention)
Fiction
- Listen by Liam Callanan
- Kat Daddy by Thomas Cooper
- Happy Birthday, Clementine by Lisa Glatt
- A View from Pulkovo by Josip Novakovich
- Hunger Strike by Kevin Wilson
- Joseph by Etgar Keret, trans. Sondra Silverston
Poetry
- At the Age of Fifteen Some of the Necessary Facts of the World by Jeff Alessandrelli
- Two poems: Wright Park, and Brown Refrigerator by Rick Barot
- Sideshow by Ciaran Berry
- Birthday Party by Jason Bredle
- Dumb Girl by Lissa Cattrone
- Two poems: [The boss wears wrist guards I risk carpal tunnel without them can't], and [The boss looks over us the boss likes us the boss lurks us the boss irks us] by Victoria Chang
- Still Life by Jehanne Dubrow
- Two poems: To Cora Goldman, My Exorcist, and Arriving at School in My Underwear, My Exorcist is the Principal by Brandi George
- America (Train) by Kathleen Graber
- The Impossibly Boy Returns by Bradley Harrison
- Between Menus by Jennifer L. Knox
- Two poems: A Round Porcelain Jam Pot, Again, and Rescue Song by Joy Katz
- Two poems: A Recent Transformation Tries To Climb the Stairs, and When the World Was Ten Years Old He Fell Deep in Love with Egypt by Patricia Lockwood
- Ceremony for Lying Completely Still by Marni Ludwig
- Colony Collapse: The Colony Has Collapsed Before by Erin Lyndal Martin
- Unfunky UFO, 1981 by Adrian Matejka
- The Soft Machinery of the Dark by Kyle McCord
- The First Part of the Earth by Shane McCrae
- Staking a Claim by Erika Meitner
- Wolf Cento by Simone Muench
- America Mix-Tape, Track 51 by Jason Myers
- a field guide to pronouncing vegetable by Robby Nadler
- [a woman in Dior] by Mark Neely
- Two poems: Torch Song: Hickory by Allyson Paty, and Torch Song: Stagger Lee by Allyson Paty and Danniel Schoonebeek
- Latent Print: Pale Suits by Emilia Phillips
- Enthusiasm as Inheritance by Thibault Raoult
- From "Elegy in X Parts" by Matt Rasmussen
- Poem for Virgil Banescu by Matthew Rohrer
- Yoga I by Sandra Simonds
- The Wine-Dark Sea by Mathias Svalina
- Tea Ceremony by G.C. Waldrep
- Two poems: Love Letter Committing Some Other Crime, and A Husband Is a Telescope with Long Legs by Fritz Ward
Nonfiction
- Marriage in a Time of AIDS by Alan Barstow
- Axis by Carand Burnet
- Two works: Part Miracle, and Altared There in a Darksome Place by Tom Lake
- Unsleeping by Matthew Mahaney
- The Treachery of Trees by Marilyn Martin
- Making Fine by Ben Merriman
- Convergence by Amy Lee Scott
Interviews
- "I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness": A conversation with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth by Zachary Martin
- Erica Olsen, winner of the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Fiction responds to my inquiries about her piece “Grand Canyon II.” by Erica Olsen
- "I came from a tussle with the sea": An interview with Michael Ondaatje by JP O'Malley