Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal
Volume 9, Number 2 (2010)
The second issue of Harpur Palate’s ninth volume contains bright and complex cover art — the cover being credited to Paul Rogers, who creates his pieces through the use of mediums such as spray paint, acrylics, oils and more. This issue opens with the announcement of “The Owl” by Ruth Thompson winning “The Milt Kessler Memorial Prize For Poetry.” Other pieces written by Thompson have won other awards such as a new Millennium Writings Poetry Award in 2007, and have appeared in the Comstock Review, the Naugatuck River Review and more. Thompson’s “The Owl” explores the ideas of how an owl’s characteristics can relate to those of human experiences — creating a powerful and thought-provoking piece in this issue.
Fiction
Train Shoes
Vanessa Blakeslee
The Legend of Dutchy the Chicken
Patrick Crerand
Normandy Park
Jaquira Díaz
The Lizard Man of Logan County
Tim Hedges
Poetry
On Cold, On Green
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
Family Therapy IV
Cynthia Atkins
Etymology of Questions
Kaveh Bassiri
Vague Concept
F. J. Bergmann
Poem Beginning with a Line from Lorca
Jaime Brunton
My Life as Roland Barthes: Classe/Class
Jaime Brunton
My Life as Roland Barthes: Nuit/Night
Jaime Brunton
A Tornado of Nothing
Adam Clay
Blind Minotaur Guided by Birds
Christina Cook
Sonnets to My Father
Brandi George
Vatayanasana
Robert H. Guard
End of Milking
Michael Hall
Evening Sky of Frontier
Michael Hall
Fourth of July
Jenny Hanning
Eating His Girlfriend's Foot
William A. Henkin
You're a Pearl
Michael Jenkins
Rockabilly Muchachos Street Brawl
Jill McCabe Johnson
Opening Day: Sister Beatrice Throws Out the First Pitch
Ellen La Fleche
Pacific Solitaire
R. J. Lambert
Probable Robin
R. J. Lambert
Yearlong Abroad
R. J. Lambert
Love Story or What Polar Bears Know
Cynthia Lowen
I watched her going into a gas station
Travis Mossotti
St. Stephan
Nikoletta Nousiopoulous
Arrivals Gate
Romy Ruukel
In His Sleep
Emily Scudder
Queen of Spade
Theresa D. Smith
The Wasp & the Fig
Bonnie Stanard
Suddon Oak Death Syndrome
Ruth Thompson
Elegy with Two Lemons
Mark Wagenaar
The Future
Jonathan Wells
Love Letter to RuPaul
Marcus Wicker
Wasp in a Trap
Lindsay Wilson
Creative Nonfiction
Off the Road
Jennifer D. Munro
Art and Photography
Full Issue
Harpur Palate, Volume 9, Issue 2, Winter 2010
Harpur Palate .
Editors
- Editor
- Barrett Bowlin
- José Rodriguez
- Associate Editor
- Matthew Burns
- Fiction Editors
- Angie Pelekidis
- Kim Vose
- Poetry Editors
- James Capozzi
- Virginia Shank
- Layout Editor
- Camden Flath
- Art Direction
- Matthew Burns
- Camden Flath
- Faculty Advisor
- Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Founding Editor
- Toiya Kristen Finley
Cover Art
Cover: No Copper Wire by Paul Rogers. Cover Design: Kathryn Henion. Book Design: Kathryn Henion. Text set in Garamond. Printed by Montrose Publishing, Montrose, PA.
Copyright Statement
Copyright 2009 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 means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, 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 Humanities International Complete and Poem Finder.