River Walk Journal

Publisher's Note - Notes from a Journal

Review of Atheist Manifesto

Review of Bliss

Review of The Stones Cry Out

Film Review of "Karov La Bayit"

A Reverence for Words
By Virginia Hendry

For the Wife of Bath and the Wife of Yeats, I Give Thanks
By Sara J. Ford

Birth
By Clint Pearson

Gong Fu
By Tim J. Brennan

Phases
By Tolu Ogunlesi

They Are Driving Their Cars Again, They Are Driving...
By Anne Cammon

Death of the Travelers
By Abigail Grant

Leaves
By Matt Gee

The Wood Splitter
By Michael Phillips

Boogie & Sarah Leigh
By Sandra L. West

What Happened to Matt Dillon
By Chris Drangle

Red, Manhattan, 523
By Beth Hogan

Titanic Hat
By D. K. McGill

Volume 3: Issue 5 - Jan/Feb 2007

Publisher's Note - State of the Union

Review of Paint It Black

Review of The i Tetralogy

Zoology
By Patricia Murphy

Framed Gift
By Sheila McLaughlin Sikorski

Friends 'n' 'at or Ode to Pittsburghatory
By Betta Risa

In My Father's Shoes
By Richard Fein

Freedom
By Skip Shea

Quitting Time
By Barbara Archer

Tumbleweed
By Thom Brennan

Maternal Instincts
By Diane Kimbrell

You Should Write People Dead
By T. M. Warfield

Spring Fling
By Patricia Murphy

Volume 3: Issue 4 - Nov/Dec 2006

Publisher's Note - Time Isn't Linear

Review of Virginity or Death!

Review of Coventry

Review of Imperial Reckoning

Politico
By Beth L. Block

Peonies
By Natasha S. Garnett

A Foreigner in the Street
By Tony Zurlo

Sand Hill Cranes and Other Eccentricities
By Jaqueline Powers

On Sleepless Nights
By Joy Harold Helsing

I Don't Want To Be Hughes
By Joe Koch

Baseball Games and One-Eared Cats
By Pete Laffin

Beige
By Dawn Merrow

Geezer Cage
By Scott W. Alten

Sandlot
By J. Conrad Guest

Dinosaurs and Barbie Dolls
By Michelle McMahon

Burlesque Show
By Stanley P. Anderson

Volume 3: Issue 3 - Sept/Oct 2006

Publisher's Note - Autumnal Musings

Review of Cherry Blossoms in Twilight

Review of Terrorist

Review of God's Gym

Ain't Is A Word
By Marcie Hollowell and Kristen Munch

Love Under the Big Top
By Andy Martello

Revival
By Brenda G. Wooley

Letting Go Wish
By Antoinette Brim

Pam Farwick
By G. David Schwartz

Confession While Dining
By Mary Lou Taylor

Homeschooling Adventures
By Beth Happel

Ike Experiences Vanity
By Sydney Kidd

What Keeps Me Alive
By Paul Brittain

Minor Damage
By Jane Hammons

How To Cook for Your In-Laws
By Ricky Ginsburg

Volume 3: Issue 2 - July/August 2006

Publisher's Note - Searching for Truth

Review of Language and Mind

Review of This Is My Best

Review of Lost in the Void

Puttin' On My Pearls
By Cathryn Braswell

My Dinner with Gacy
By Andy Martello

Mysteries of the Shenandoah Valley
By Casey Clabough

Getting Lucky
By Dale Purvis

Your Mind and You Are Our Sargasso Sea
By Lita Sorensen

Midsummer
By Lita Sorensen

Windows
By Lita Sorensen

Simple Man
By B.K. Birch

The View From Here
By Mary Hudock

The Dinner Party
By Ruth Mark

It's in the Stars
By Linda Gallant Potts

An Intimate Evening with Papa
By Lance Garrison Ballard

The Prank
By Terri L. Knight

A Pocketful of Starflakes
By Leslie Wolter

About the Contributors

Volume 3: Issue 1 - May/June 2006

Publisher's Note - Twist of Fate

Review of The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You

Review of If Instead of Apes We Had Come From Grapes

Review of Anson County

Review of Dissolution of Ghosts

1998
By Samuel Hazo

Booing the Pope
By Matthew D. Taylor

Sgt. Robert Starbuck, USMC: Elegy and Essay
By John Guthrie

Shrink Wrap, Diet Cokes and a Kazoo
By Sara J. Ford

And the Time Is
By Samuel Hazo

In His Winter
By Wanda D. Campbell

Lester
By Thomas Reynolds

Generation Gap
By Valerie Lauria Stanske

Two Poets
By Gary C. Wilkens

Mongolia, 1930
By Gary C. Wilkens

A Death in the Family
By John Speeking

Letters
By Suzanne Abbot

Among the Briars
By Pat Tompkins

Filling in the Angles
By Jessica DelBalzo

Miss Mary
By Beth L. Block

About the Contributors

Volume 2: Issue 6 - Mar/Apr 2006

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Publisher's Note - Becoming the Archetype

Review of A Man Without A Country

Review of Gail's Place

Review of Three 1-Act Plays

Review of Yesterday's A Dream

Crossword (Solution in May/Jun 2006 issue.)

Jan/Feb Crossword Solution

Imagining Nora
By Lisa Norris

Loving the Fat Girl
By Christina Fisanick

Nate's Fish and Poultry Shop
By G. David Schwartz

The Folly of Valentine's Day
By Andy Martello

Hawk King
By Wanda D. Campbell

After the Rain
By Wanda D. Campbell

You Cannot Fold the Flood.
By Mariela Perez-Simons

And Darkness Fell
By Beth L. Block

Demise of a Family Resort
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson

The Asparagus Cutters
By Joe Wilkins

Voices
By Ed Boyd

Little White Sambo
By Brett Alan Sanders

Dies Irae
By Timothy Reilly

Follow
By Dawn Paul

Crumbs
By Kim Tremblett

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Volume 2: Issue 5 - Jan/Feb 2006

Publisher's Note - Who Are You?

Review of This Is Not For You

Review of Potato Queen

Crossword (Solution in Mar/Apr 2006 issue.)

Tunis, Forever
By John Champagne

Bisexuality 101
By Evelyn McFarland

Blackouts
By Steve Rydman

Self Loathing
By Steve Rydman

A Boy Reads YM
By Steve Rydman

I Finally Found Me
By Lucretia Randle

Acorn Boy Above the Conclave
By James Penha

As If In Time Of War
By Christopher T. Leland

Stone Musings #5
By Mike Munsil

Ascent Into Being
By Holly Mitchell

Come Winter
By Sandra M. McDow

The End of Stories
By Sonia Vora

Coal Blood
By Tom Bennitt

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Volume 2: Issue 4 - Nov/Dec 2005

Publisher's Note - Communing with the Dead

Editor's Note

Review of Poet of Tolstoy Park

Review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Shadow Oer the North Coast
By: Angus McMahan

Christmas Around the World
By: Christine Hammar, Neeldhara Misra, Victor Flores, Kajsa Wiberg

The Christmas Miracle
By: Andy Martello

How Deep Do Your Roots Run?
By: Mike Huston

She-Spider: Reflection on a Tragedy
By: Mike Huston

Love Note
By: Daniel Barbare

Familia Sandwich
By: Don Campbell

Newspaper Announcements
By: Shawn McLain

The Flowers on Bloom Street
By: Wayne Scheer

Balls
By: Buzz Tanner

The Accident
By: Christopher Shade

Kali's Revenge
By: John Speeking

Volume 2: Issue 3 - Sept/Oct 2005

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Publisher's Note - Loss of Innocence

Editor's Note - Coming of Age

Review of gods in Alabama

Review of The Bitch Posse

Stone Musings #4
By: Mike Munsil

How to Treat Girls
By: Michael Harvey

Graves Duty
By: J. Conrad Guest

Essays From a Life of Hyperlexia
By: Geralynn Maisano

Fishing
By: Mike Huston

Aunt Jeanne
By: Jan Gero

North Wind
By: Daniel Barbare

Pinewood Derby
By: David B. McCoy

Icehouse Monologue
By: Gary C. Wilkens

When Life Went Out Like a Lightbulb
By: Lynn Strongin

Hub-Caps Were Shiny
By: Jacob Uitti

Cannoli Countdown
By: Linda Potts

Second Chance
By: Sandra McDow

A Journey From Which Many Do Not Return
By: Linda Boroff

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Volume 2: Issue 2 - July/August 2005

Publisher's Note - Philadelphia Freedom

Editor's Note - Recognition of the Individual Voice

Review of A Sense of Place

Interview with Michael Shapiro

Review of Trains in the Distance

Review of Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour

Painting Lessons
By: Stephen Mead

The House of Nits
By: Tammy Wilson

Baltimore and Back
By: Adam Kapel

Lines of Entry
By: Cynthia Dobbs

Poems 26 & 34
By: Samuel Hazo

Thursday, October, 31,1996
By: Matthew Schmeer

Hester Park
By: Rebecca Noy

Idealism
By: Mary Hudock

The Subway Book Club
By: Bill Schweizer

Tramp
By: Ian Schwartz

Only So Much Space
By: Amy Sample

Don Felipe and the $4 Haircut
By: Lafe Metz

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Volume 2: Issue 1 - May/June 2005

Publisher's Note - Feminism in Literature: A Conversation

Editor's Note - New Horizons

Review of Florida

Review of A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer

Interview with Christine Schutt

Review of The Lonely Other

Review of Kennywood

Disrupting the Gaze; or How I Turned Chicken
By: Diana Hume George

So Sweetly Violent
By: Brett Alan Sanders

Smoke and Mirrors
By: Patti Kurtz

Stone Musings #1, #2 & #3
By: J.M. Munsil

Ars Poetica
By: James Penha

Bars Poetica
At Cafe Batavia, Old Jakarta, Indonesia
By: James Penha

The One Eye Love
By: Jack Conway

Red Pens
By: Jack Conway

Losing Ground
By: Liza Janco

Demon Children of the Eiffel Tower
By: Jessica Del Balzo

Elmer's Tune
By: Patricia Anderson

Namesake
By: Justin Crouse

(Mis)Adventures in Consciousness
By: Ed Hamilton

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Volume 1: Issue 6 - March/April 2005

Publisher's Note - Winds

Review of The Lonely Other

Review of In Fact

My Homeland
By: Kimberlee Medicine Horn

Bringing It Home In the Big Hole
By: Linda Ballou

Who...What...Is Crazy?
By: Lee Gutkind

Across the Hudson
By: Joseph Bruchac

Dolphins Off the North Coast of Hawaii
By: Joseph Bruchac

Four Winds
By: Carleen Phillips

The Storm
By: Anna Hall

Gargoyles
By: Paul Kloppenborg

The White Horse
By: Ron Fischer

Dancers, Please Take the Stage
By: Karen Alea

Survived the Fall
By: David Bulley

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Volume 1: Issue 5 - January/February 2005

Publisher's Note - The India Issue

412 Conference Coverage

Review of Bombay, London, New York

Review of Last Night of Carnival

Puja
By: Jennifer Leigh Rosen

In Search of Sikh Gold
By: Avner Ofer

Means Literature Deigned to Employ
By: Aamir Aziz

Chance the Challenge Within
By: Bradwaj Gobira

Not Again
By: Neeldhara Misra

Flying Bike
By: Marie Kazalia

Leper Couple South India
By: Marie Kazalia

That Moment
By: Marie Kazalia

Truth
By: Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

Gilgamesh
By: Valerie Frankel

29 and a Little Salt
By: Alicia Tolbert

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Volume 1: Issue 4 - November/December 2004

Publisher's Note - Transitions

Interview with Natalie R. Collins

The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

Review of "Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974"

Review of "Wives and Sisters"

In Search of Dorotea Baz�n
By: Brett Alan Sanders

Poetry of the Dead Dog
By: Melanie Mock

Happiness in a Swivel Tube
By: Terry Hernon MacDonald

Raisins
By: Barbara Wade

Heroic Measures
By: Alicia Tolbert

Illumination
By: Zinta Aistars

Badlands
By: Zinta Aistars

Sans Souci
By: Zinta Aistars

The Conversation
By: Laurie Carson

The Old Girlfriend Who Stole Christmas
By: Victor Lana

Portrait of a Man Burning Letters
By: Mary Ann Webber

Fastest Service in Town
By: Conrad E. Davidson

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Volume 1: Issue 3 - September/October 2004

Publisher's Note - Off the Paved Road

Interview with Edwin Yoder

Ghosts and Human Nature

Review of Edwin Yoder's "Telling Others What To Think"

Review of Delores Phillips' "The Darkest Child"

Cross-country Trail
By: Zinta Aistars

Firedance
By: Angus McMahan

Magic Carpet Ride
By: Linda Ballou

A Quiet Man
By: Wayne Scheer

Sewing a Spell from Memories
By: Bentley Snow Davis

Haiku
By: John Tiong Chunghoo

Tanka
By: John Tiong Chunghoo

The Sea
By: John Tiong Chunghoo

Skipping Shells with My Son
By: Berwyn Moore

Glass
By: Berwyn Moore

Pariah
By: Berwyn Moore

To Choose a Wine
By: Jessica Stilling

Divorce and Karma
By: Alicia Tolbert

Crayons
By: S.S. Hampton

The Shadow
By: Neeldhara Misra

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Volume 1: Issue 2 - July/August 2004

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Publisher's Note - Activism

Kafka and the Being of Allegory

Writing in the Dark

Review of Joseph Foti's "The Carrot and the Mule"

Review of "More Stories We Tell"

Keep the Faith
By: Steven Manchester

Remembrance
By: Travis Aligo

Meeting Barbara
By: Renee Merion

Home
By: Jennifer Djordjevic

A Different Color
By: Rick Watson

Begin the Beguine? Again
By: Rick Watson

Airlifted
By: Barbara Wade

Plants Praise
By: Barbara Wade

Native Soul
By: Carleen Phillips

Tightly Knit
By: Carolyn Chambers Clark

Forgotten Language
By: Chris Damitio

Pipe and Mice
By: Raymond Niemi

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Volume 1: Issue 1 - May/June 2004

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Publisher's Note - What's in a Name?

Interview with Christopher Leland

Review of Samuel Hazo's "Stills"

The Old Hunger
By: Joseph Bathanti

For Anna Catherine On Thanksgiving
By: Samuel Hazo

A Pantoum
By: Patti Kurtz

The Last Ones Standing
By: Jennie Floyd

As If In Time Of War
By: Christopher T. Leland

Be Nice to the Plants
By: Terri Pray

Old Jon
By: Marlowe Peck