14. Summer 2013: Music

MUSIC

Art: Kind of Blue, Robin Rose. Design: Deb Dulin.

The Summer 2013 Music issue launched at a reading held June 22, 2013.

You can preview two of the pieces in the issue in their entirety by clicking on the “text” link in the table of contents items below.

You can order complete copies from the Individual Issues sales page. (Note that annual subscriptions are available online as well.)

You can also view Eva Quintos Tennant’s videos of contributors presenting their published pieces and more by clicking on the “video” links below.

EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY

MOLLY BASHAW To the Audience

DEBRA KAUFMAN Strays

CLARINDA HARRISS Locust Songs (video)

KATHLEEN O’TOOLE Mo-Bay, December Score (video)

SUZANNE DRACIUS Pointe-des-Nègres (with translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson)

STEVEN LEYVA Highlandtown after the Zappa Statue

GERRY LAFEMINA Sunday Girl

STEVEN OSTROWSKI Neil Young

ADAM TAVEL Eazy-E’s Abandoned Letter to His Seven Children from Cedars Sinai Medical Center

DERRICK WESTON BROWN Open House

TARA BETTS When I Loved You

BRO. YAO broken glass (video)

HOPE D. JOHNSON Sangin’

GREGORY LUCE Aspirins and Coffee (video)

TIM HUNT Thelonious Monk (The Village Vanguard, New York City)

LISA ROSINSKY Watching Bernstein’s Mass without You (video)

LORI POWELL To the Bird that Wakes Me (video)

MARIE HOWE The Game, How Some of It Happened, What the Living Do, Hurry, Mary (Reprise), Annunciation

FICTION

DAVID VARDEMAN Known to God

MISSY ROBACK Close to You

INTERVIEWS

LINDA JOY BURKE Dancing with Chris August (video)

ANN BRACKEN An Interview with Nancy Naomi Carlson

SUSAN THORNTON HOBBY An Interview with Marie Howe

ART

ROBIN ROSE Close to Oceans, Paradise, Dark Star, Round Midnight, Isolation, Kind of Blue

ESSAYS

CLIFFTON PRICE An Otherwise Empty Room

MICHAEL SALCMAN I Look for Mysteries: The Art of Robin Rose