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Evening Street Review NUMBER 8, SPRING 2013

Issue: Number 8, Spring 2013

Contents

By the Editor Occasional Notes: A Revaluation of All Values–Russell, Stanton, “Dawn”6

Neglected Help: Needing Freedom: Plath, Jeffers 163

Cover: Homage

Associate Editors: Jan Schmittauer, Donna Spector, Steve Abbott

Contributors: 165

Fiction

VALERIE CUMMING Girls in White Dresses 46

DENNIS VANNATTA Hero of Our Time 83

ROBERT EARLE Cul de Sac 112
MARY ELIZABETH POPE Moulting 127
DIMITRI KERIOTIS Waiting 142

Nonfiction

WILLIAM SIAVELIS Into Africa 15

LEE FIRESTONE DUNNE Life in the Poorhouse 63

MARY CARPENTER Wolves and Pessimists 95

JOE NOVARA Whole Hearted Prayer 160

Poetry

ELIZABETH BECK Six poems from insignificant white girl 8

JAMES SCRUTON Eclipse 42

Just Keep Talking 43
The Eye Appointment 44
Dry County 45

MICHAEL CASEY Rained Out Block Party Two 60

MARY MCCARTHY ECT the Curing 62

EMILIO IASIELLO Postcard from L.A. 77

CINTHIA RITCHIE How We Saw Her 78

How She Died 80
Eating with John in Ruidoso 82

ROY BENTLEY God Shows Up in Iowa 94

JAMES DICKSON In Peace 109

PAUL HOSTOVSKY My Mother’s Whitman 110

Hardware Store 111

CHRISTINE DESIMONE You’re a Big Girl Now 121

High Water 122
Porn Town 123

SALLY ZAKARIYA Dinner Party 124

Truth Telling 125

JENNIFER LAGIER First Love 126

PAULA YUP At Fifty-five 137

Overdosing 138
Riwut Corner 140

MARJORIE POWER New Bike 153

Towards Rhythm 155

LYN LIFSHIN Early Friday I Wondered . . . 156

My Mother Listens to Classical Music 157
My Mother’s Third Call . . . 158
That Damn Bolero 159

 

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