Contents Her Laugh Was a Line Drawn Firmly Spring.....................................................................................13 Josh Guilford The Way to Life......................................................................14 John Garcia The Story of the Lugau...........................................................18 Jeremy Couillard Locked Corners......................................................................27 Suzanne Spiegoski Private Manifesto...................................................................28 Julia Herzog Ink on Paper...........................................................................29 Gregory Wright When Smiling Dogs See in Threes........................................37 Nicole Bernadette Birkett Popular Poetry Royalty..........................................................39 Crystal Passmore The Mexican Tuxedo.............................................................40 D. Harlan Wilson The Rodent Speaks................................................................45 Theresa Mlinarcik Disconnect..............................................................................47 Carl Armstrong Vodka.....................................................................................48 Amanda Goodrich-Stuart That Woman..........................................................................49 Crystal Passmore They Beat Me Near Death, But the Pay is Good...................50 Richard Lund Farming Woes........................................................................53 Chris Bigelow Fluff an' Taffeta......................................................................54 Nicole Bernadette Birkett Stuck on Liquefy.....................................................................61 Blake Schmidt Track One...............................................................................63 Colleen Farrow A Man Named Poetry............................................................64 Amanda Goodrich-Stuart Defenestration Hall Rd., M53, Where Ants Still Crawl the Pavement..........66 Andrew Hungerford Mt. Pleasant...........................................................................68 John McAuley Learning How to be Pink.......................................................69 Theresa Mlinarcik Peace Time.............................................................................70 Jennifer Heliste Safe Sex..................................................................................72 Alex Rossman Seventeenth Post....................................................................74 Lindsay Smith To Fly or Fall..........................................................................75 Christie Sampson Analog Sigh Through a Digital Pipe......................................77 Andrew Hungerford Time Cries..............................................................................78 Brian Lapp Journal Entry Made After September 11...............................79 Kendra Anspaugh Engines Toward a Personal Renaissance..............................80 Andrew Hungerford Humanity's Closet.................................................................82 Mary Douglas Voided Exposition..................................................................83 Julia Herzog Night Drive.............................................................................84 John McAuley The Search For John Elliot Synclair.....................................85 Laura Portwood-Stacer Little Girls in Woman Shells.................................................89 Lisa Bush Fall..........................................................................................90 Aryn Bently Waiting in Line: Time Spent with Gavin Craig....................96 Timothy Carmody East Lansing Is Not a Good Place For Poetry.....................104 Gavin Craig The Reading List For the New Revolutionary.....................105 Gavin Craig My Father Taught Me to Forget Things...............................112 Gavin Craig Walk-In.................................................................................113 Gavin Craig Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?................................116 Gavin Craig Piece of Cake.........................................................................119 Lisa Bush Offbeat..................................................................................122 William Branch Author Biographies..............................................................125 About The Offbeat................................................................127 
 

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