Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal
Volume 5, Number 2 (2006)
The cover of Harpur Palate’s fifth volume, second issue, is adorned with a hyperrealistic, panoramic painting of downtown Binghamton, done by Anthony Brunelli—known locally and internationally for his extraordinarily refined artistry. The contents of this issue, in company with the splendor of its cover, showcase a series of prominent writers, including: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, whose works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and a plethora of esteemed literary journals; Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of Broken Hallelujahs, The Blue City, Death Prefers the Minor Keys, and 15 other books; and Jaimee Wriston Colbert, a distinguished professor at Binghamton University and is the winner of the CNY Book Award in Fiction, Indie Excellence Award in Literary Fiction, and was a finalist for the American Fiction prize. The contents of this issue ponder what kind of life can come out of death, how to quantify love, and all the possibilities of an arid desert; all noting the surreal landscapes of being.
Fiction
Everything Under the Sunsphere
Andrew Farkas
All the Men
Anne Germanacos
Excerpt from the Novel Shark Girls
Jaimee Wriston Colbert
The Sexual Predator's Handbook
Viet Dinh
The Last Tasmanian
Sarah Klenbort
F[x] ≠ Love
Renée E. D'Aoust
A Regular Paradise
Matthew A. Ricke
Poetry
Dark Sky, White Sands, New Mexico, 1956
Amanda Auchter
After the fall of all of this
Amanda Auchter
Jubilation
Margaret Robinson
In Defense of Objects
Linda Dove
Counting Down
Kate Beles
Dip Your Finger in the Water, Come and Cool Your Tongue
Lori Anderson Moseman
Black Tupelo Country
Doug Ramspeck
Lively Oaks Trailer Park
Farrah Field
Louisiana Phone Call
Farrah Field
Baptism in the River
James Doyle
Upon Charley's Marriage to a Girl From Idaho
T. J. Beitelman
Upon the Birth of Mike's Daughter, Some Unsolicited Advice Regarding Love and Other Such Vagaries
T. J. Beitelman
Teenager: Thirteen
Neil Shepard
Further Suggestions for the Story
Eric Rawson
Declarations from Ghosts
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
A Partial Genealogy of Spoken Waves
Bradford Gray Telford
Slide Show
Dara Mandle
Stillbirth
Peter B. Hyland
The Iris House
E. R. Turner
Eight Navy Seals
Dara-Lyn Shrager
A Storm at Dusk
Amy Spade
Formal Dream State
Ed Zahniser
Megan, Inside
Tom Haushalter
Thinking About Emerson
Judith Harris
My Mother's Ghost
Judith Harris
Kneading Bread Every Saturday
Roxana Cazan
After the Election
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Creative Nonfiction
Twenty-One Stories About Gun Control
Thomas Miller
School Daze: Reflections and Riffs on a New York Childhood
Michael Steinberg
Art and Photography
Full Issue
Harpur Palate, Volume 5 Issue 2, Winter 2006
Harpur Palate .
Editors
- Editor
- Catherine Dent
- Associate Editor
- Maggie Gerrity
- Fiction Editors
- Giselda Beaudin
- J. D. Schraffenberger
- Poetry Editors
- Carolyn Fargnoli
- Josh Keiter
- Deborah Poe
- Layout Editor
- Kathryn Henion
- Faculty Advisor
- Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Interns
- Lauren DeSimone
- Joel Davis
- Ann Marie Genzale
- Tiffani Incorvaia
- Founding Editor
- Toiya Kristen Finley
Cover Art
Cover: Parlor City (1999) by Anthony Brunelli (24" x 44", oil on linen). Copyright © 1999 by Anthony Brunelli. Cover Design: Kathryn Henion. Book Design: Kathryn Henion. Text set in Garamond. Printed by Montrose Publishing, Montrose, Pennsylvania.
Copyright Statement
Harpur Palate (ISBN 978-0-9749107-3-4) is pusblished in Winter and Summer by the Department of English at Binghamton University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902. Vol. 5, No.2, Winter 2005/2006. Copyright © 2006 by the Department of English, Binghamton University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any menas, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or othersie, without the prior written permission of the English Department, Binghamton University. Members of CLMP, CELJ, Broome County Arts Council, Gorgeous Washington Street Association. Indexed by the American Humanities Index and Poem Finder.