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Our Precious Stratosphere

Richard Benjamin is a recent graduate of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis. His stories have been published in Natural Bridge, Puerto Del Sol, and The Gingko Tree Review. Richard currently lives in Washington, DC, where he is at work on his first novel.

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Capital “I”
Giving Thanks
Choicest Product of the Brewer’s Art
Yo-yo Carvers, July, 1945
Grackles Patrol Suburbia For Homeland Security

Tim Leach, a journalist, public relations and advertising writer for 30 years, has appeared in Literati Internazionale, Delmar, Blue Guitar, Natural Bridge, and in three mid-western anthologies, Poets at the Gate, Tambourine, and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Poetry. He was a 2003 finalist in the River Styx and New Letters poetry competitions as well as the 2003 Winning Writers’ war poetry competition. His work will soon appear in Southern Poetry Review and Kaleidoscope.

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Imagine Your Dinner Cooked by Sylvia Plath
Self-Portrait with Hand-Painted Sweatshirt
Self-Portrait with Captain Kangaroo
Film at Eleven

Catherine Rankovic is the author of Fierce Consent and Other Poems (2005) and a co-author of Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions and Obsessions (2003). She has published poems and essays in Boulevard, The Missouri Review, River Styx, The Iowa Review, The Progressive, and other journals, and has work forthcoming in Natural Bridge.

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