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Poetry

Volume 2:

6.15.2008—Jason Mccall, "Father to Father, Sun to Son," "No Search Engines in Valhalla," "Ulysses Discovers That His Son Wants to be Batman for Halloween," "Homecoming" and "Scope"

6.8.2008—Michelle Lerner, "For Percy, a month short of her 20th birthday"

5.25.2008—Howard Camner, "The Man in the Moon for Real," "Kismet" and "Bonus Eventus (god of happy endings)"

5.18.2008—Margarita Engle, "The Longing of Pegasus" and "Madre-de-Agua"

5.4.2008—Paul Hostovsky, "The Sneeze of Telemachos"

4.27.2008—Anca Vlasopolos, "The Eastland Daphne"

4.13.2008—Pamela L. Laskin, "Bare and Blistered" and "The Naked Emperor"

4.6.2008—Sheila Kaveny, "The Truth from Baba Yaga"

3.16.2008—Kenneth Gurney, "Glow," "Patter" and "God"

3.9.2008—Susana Roberts, "Lethe-ward" and "Hades at Work"

2.24.2008—Donna Lewis Cowan, "Daphne & Apollo: Meditations"

2.17.2008—Eric Martin, "The Cross"

2.3.2008—Suzanne L. Frost, "Kali Puja"

1.27.2008—Gale Acuff, "Confession"

1.13.2008—Saba Siddique, "To be a goddess" and "Al Hambra"

1.6.2008—Paul Hostovsky, "Young Orpheus," "Job" and "Pygmalion"

Volume 1:

12.23.2007 – Liz Dolan, "A Kitchen Legend"

12.16.2007 – Wesley Biddy, "Society of Icarus" and "Vesper"

12.2.2007 – Stephen Bunch, "Five Retablos"

11.25.2007 – Billie Bernard, "Little Red"

11.11.2007 – Alan Morrison, "Ganymede"

11.4.2007 – Jeanne Wagner, "Medusa's Version" and "Penelope's Song"

10.21.2007 – Alex Galper, "Daring Winter Escape"

10.14.2007 – John Dutterer, "The Bathtub of Proteus" and "Tantalus Sells Out"

9.30.2007 – Kenneth Gurney, "Twenty-Nine July Two Thousand and ..." and "Naming Names"

9.23.2007 – Sherre Vernon, "Elijah Dreaming" and "Of Penelope and Calypso: ca. 1973"

9.16.2007 – Joanna Sit, "On Fire"

9.2.2007 – Felicia Mitchell, "Minerva at 48" and "Cerberus Revisited"

8.26.2007 – Andre Monserrat, "Flotsam"

8.19.2007 – Mary Langer Thompson, "School of Hard Rocks" and "Myth-Take"

8.12.2007 – Wayne Crawford, "Echo Teaches Her Daughter to Sing"

7.29.2007 – Annette Basalyga, "Two Wives," "Fairy Tales," "Blonde Burning" and "In Seclusion"

7.22.2007 – Teresa Middleton, "Demeter's Sunroom" and "Earth Mamas"

7.15.2007 – Janice D. Soderling, "Centaurs" and "The Unicorn and the Rider"

7.1.2007 – Doug Ramspeck, "TKE" and "Epimenides"

6.24.2007 – Kenneth Gurney, "Poem for Cafe Tazza" and "Shedding Centuries"

6.17.2007 – Billy Reynolds, "Rhea"

6.3.2007 – Chuck Rybak, "Homer-Erotic" and "Atlas on the Stairs"

5.27.2007 – Dale Harris, "Penelope"

5.20.2007 – Maureen Seaton, "Venus Examines Her Breast" and "Pele"

5.13.2007 – Jennifer Koiter, "Thoreau’s Last Hunt," "Karna Waiting" and "God in the San Juans"

5.6.2007 – David Wright, "The Three Graces Unite" and "After Myth"

4.29.2007 – Bertha Rogers, "To Orpheus"

4.22.2007 – Angela Maria Williams, "Artemis' Rousing"

4.15.2007 – Cassandra Labairon, "Hera Spies on Zeus From the Corner Booth at the Diner" and "Bodhisattva"

4.8.2007 Saba Siddique, "Ballad 2" and "Ballad 3"

4.1.2007 Carrie Cutler, "Cain's blessing" and "Bluebeard"

3.25.2007 Cathryn McCracken, "[in the scrying bowl]," "hagging," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Sleeping Beauty 2"

3.18.2007 Andrea Potos, "From His Ribs" and "Cinderella Gets Smart"

3.11.2007 Taylor Graham, "Daphne in the Mining Claims"

3.4.2007 Tony Zurlo, "Still Without Rhyme" and "Household Disharmony"

2.24.2007 kat heatherington, "In the Wild Wood"

2.18.2007 Kevin Klein, "Orpheus at the Florist's"

2.11.2007 Stephen Bunch, "News from the Ultra Deep Field"

1.28.2007 Margarita Engle, "Taino Petroglyph" and "Baucis and Philemon"

1.21.2007 Carol L. MacKay, "A Gift for a Gift" and "Three Poems of Kathlin Hermandsdottir"

1.14.2007 – Robert Arthur Reeves, "The Last Ship from Atlantis"

1.7.2007 – Jeannine Hall Gailey, four poems from "Becoming the Villianess" – "Little Cinder," "The Selkie Wife’s Daughter," "The Snow Queen" and "Persephone and the Prince Meet over Drinks"

Fiction

Volume 2:

6.22.2008—Margaret Hammitt-McDonald, "Elvenwood Acres"

6.1.2008Ryan P. Standley, "Blizzard"

5.11.2008Beth Camp, "Rusalka"

4.20.2008S.V. Wolfland, "The Mathematical Box"

3.23.2008Susan Hazen-Hammond, "Mudbow"

3.2.2008Daniel Braum, "The Ghost Dance"

2.10.2008Miriam Sagan, "Winged Victory" and "The Reader"

1.20.2008—Sam Leng, "Consulting Hermes"

Volume 1:

12.30.2007 – Nick Padron, "Papa's Bastard Son"

12.9.2007 – Mary Rae, "Corvus The Crow: An ancient star myth"

11.18.2007 – Harry Youtt, "First Night"

10.28.2007 – Stephanie Johnson, "Thesmophoria"

10.7.2007 – Melody Mansfield, "The Rape of Persephone"

9.9.2007 – Stefan Kiesbye, "The Mill"

8.5.2007 – Elizabeth Furiga, "How Stars Came to Be"

7.8.2007 – Virginia M. Mohlere, "How it Came to Gingerbread"

6.10.2007 – Stephen Bunch, "Ad Astra"

5.20.2007 – Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, "Fickle Myths"

2.4.2007 – M. M. De Voe, "From the Leaf Lore"

Nonfiction

Volume 2:

January 2008—Essay by Lloyd D. Graham: "The Origin of Evil and the End of the World"

Volume 1:

May 2007 – Book Review: Keri Hulme’s “The Bone People”

January 2007 – Book Review: Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Becoming the Villainess"

Art

Volume 2:

April 2008“gargoyle lion” by Steve Cartwright

March 2008“Lantern with Words” by Annie Dawid

February 2008—"Tree Dream Encaustic" by Stephen Mead

January 2008"Dragon 2" by Jill Brooks

Volume 1:

November 2007 –"Clothesline 1" by Annie Dawid

October 2007 – "Open to Source" by Micah Schatz

September 2007 – "fractured reality" by Gregory Dolnikowski

August 2007 – "Ode to Vulcan" by Stephen Mead

July 2007 – "Titaness" by Leslie Fox

June 2007 – "Contract on America" by Lenny Krosinsky

May 2007 – "Sunset" by Joseph Biondi

April 2007 – Art by Phyllis Bertoni Krosinsky

March 2007 "Gong" by Steve Cartwright

February 2007 "Phoenix" by Andre Monserrat

January 2007 Illustration of "The Last Ship from Atlantis" by Lenny Krosinsky

Current Feature:
"From Gods Mouths to My Ears"
a poem
by Michele Madigan Somerville