Spring 2006

Fiction
“Reasons to Smoke” by Matt Mueller
“Polar Opposites” by Tom Sawyer
“On the Night of the Death of Kitty Bergman” by Andy Stimpson
“Make Believe” by Erin Timm
“And Now, a Word from the Beav” by Scott Winkler
“The Devil Won’t Dance” by Matthew Worzala

Nonfiction
“The Greatest Gift” by Suzi Linder
“Tea Time” by Suzi Linder
“Jupiter Pluvious Allies with Mars” by Gerald Saindon
“Winter” (Rising Phoenix creative writing winner) by Scott Winkler
"Brock Clarke Interview: Finding the Story" by Rick Zimmerman

Poetry
“Answering Machine” by Maureen Armstrong
“One Wistful Walk to Class” by Maureen Armstrong
“It’s Just the Sunshine” by Lea Baierl
“Sur la montagne (On the mountain)” a translation piece by Ashley Ballweg
“Easy Love” by Lacee Beggs
“Ode to Cheese Grater” by Marc Biedermann
“The Ever-Failing Experiment: A Study in the Science of Boys and Girls” by Grant Cousineau
“we shouldn’t have to remember” by Julie Ennenbach
“The Pause” by Joel Lee Liberski
“Generational Metronomes” by Mary Mattson
“How to be a Mother” by Mary Mattson
“Cottonwood” by Sarah Rose Thomas
“Grandpa” by Nicole Toerpe
“Slanted Images” by Nicole Werner

Visual Arts
“Tranquil Dependability” by Amanda Aamodt
“Reflecting Puddle” by Shanna Casperson
“Escaping the Cruelties of Women” by CJ Good
“another world” by Teresa Haas
“Reflections” by Amy Irmen
“A Study of Texture” by Amy Irmen
“For now I see clearly” by Dan Klewer
“The impossibility of understanding without the ability to communicate” by Dan Klewer
“Escape” by Eric LeBarron
“Buildings in Chicago” by Vaughn Panek-Sweet
“Drunk in Central Park” by Vaughn Panek-Sweet
“The Closet” by Kelsey Rank
“Spiralocity” by Tammy Resulta
“Tires in the Mist” by Tammy Resulta
“Untitled (Self-Portrait with Pipe)” (Rising Phoenix visual arts winner) by Zach Roush
“Romantic Classic” by Katherine Saelee
“6-Feb” by Matt Sorenson
“Bumblebee” by Matt Sorenson
“MM: Taoism the Void” by Chris Style
“Chicago” by Jennifer Wanserski
“Kilmainham Jail #2, Dublin” by Dan Whelan
“Lutsen” by Dan Whelan