Volume 1, Number 2 (2001)

Harpur Palate’s second publishing features a section dedicated to Writing by Degrees, a group dedicated to meeting and discussing writing submissions created by graduate students. The issue features its typical short stories and poems as well as a section dedicated to Writing by Degrees that is composed of many different genres. This issue includes the Milton Kessler Memorial Award for poetry, given to Edward Machan Howd’s “Cell”. This poem, and others like “My Mother’s High Heel Shoes” by Adela Najarro and “An Interpretation of the Dream or the Way the West Was” by S.K. McDonald, explore unorthodox structures to convey their themes. In terms of short stories, witness the fate of a strained relationship in Adelphia, and discover the watercolor paintings that accompany the multimedia story “Beyond the Blue Smoke” by Mokuo Nagayama.