The Ram's Tale: 2008 table of contents

"Poetry is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
—Leonard Cohen

My Belief or Your Badosa? by Amita Dhillon Singh
Methadrine Won’t Kill You, All at Once by John Kraft
Fallacy by Jon Meador
Ode to the Seasons by Trisha Houston
Monsoon Prayers by Michelle Renee McDaniel
The Free Season with Three Apples, Lucky and Our Souls by Amita Dhillon Singh
The Corner House by Joseph Rios

"The two most engaging powers of an author are
to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
—Samuel Johnson

Stay by John Kraft
Rock by Rock by Don Rogers
The Burning Question by Joseph Rios
Guide for Continued Employment by Leslie Grenier

"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Piece of Silence by Sahar Majd
Reaching But Too Far by Shannon Johnson
Traditional Dress in Fields by Vangdan Yang
Frank by Armine Sargsyan
Decaying Couple by Francesca Ramirez
Fusion of Cultures by Angelica Hernandez
Self-Actualization by Marina Triantafyllon
Anthony by Veronica DeYoung
My Emotion by Miriam Selah Gheith
Untitled by Chong Vang
Sally Sees Stuff by Steph Sakurai

"The coroner will find ink in my veins
and blood on my typewriter keys.
—C. Astrid Weber

The Echoes of Socrates by Mima Wright

What Court Hearings Don’t Hear by Shirley Haviland-Nakagawa

Traditions by Jennifer Periera

Christmas Presents by Tammy Yrigollen