Volume 3, Number 2 (2004)

The final issue for Harpur Palate’s third volume is different from its predecessors in a few areas. It is the first issue to begin without an editorial intro, and within it are two genres that were then new to Harpur Palate: creative nonfiction, and ‘art’ (which refers to art outside of literature). Alongside its usual Poetry and Fiction sections, this issue has a piece by Sean Thomas Dougherty that is an excerpt from his memoir “The Dark Soul of the Accordion,” as well as a series of photographs from Laura L. Moffitt. In terms of traditional Fiction and poetry, this issue features a piece about a mother of two young children dealing with the death of her husband in Jeny Dunning’s “Tenderloin”, an old relationship stressed in Alice Stern’s “S.S. Pierce”, and Milton Kessler Memorial Prize Winner “Malaria”, by Lexi Rudnitsky, whose title alone is a sufficient enough description.