The Ram's Tale: 2012 table of contents

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
—Allen Ginsberg

i am a sixth sun xicana, by Mia Barraza Martínez

tagging clovis, by Mia Barraza Martínez

NEW XICHAN@ LUV, by Mia Barraza Martínez

NEW XICANA LOVE, by Mia Barraza Martínez

four movements: the fifth is yet to be written, let’s write it, by Mia Barraza Martínez

a time when we bled blood, by Mia Barraza Martínez

Our Grand Canyon, by Red Wilson

Dearest Cockroach, by Red Wilson

Ear Drum, by Red Wilson

Boundaries, by Isaac Weil

Prayer, by Isaac Weil

Ice Cube Me, by Lyle Nelson

Between Walls, by Jennifer Soria

Make-Believe Season, by Jennifer Soria

On the trade winds, by Alfred Erickson

I’d Rather Be Raped by a Woman, by Emily McKay Johnson

red weed whacker, by Gloria Nazzaretta

moon’s hammock, by Gloria Nazzaretta

"Life beats down and crushes the soul
and art reminds you that you have one."
—Stella Adler

Seated Sophie, by Michael Dominguez

Sorrow, by Josiah Macias

Cloaked Croakers, by Danielle Mayer

Emma Smokes, by Michael Dominguez

Growing Pains, by Katrice Marroquin

Inside Inn, by Daniel Paz

My Childhood II, by Sansanee Boonyad

Olivia, by Andreyna Cazares

Placid Euphoria, by Alex Otero

Pondering, by John Weins

Portrait, by Mari Linares

Richard, by Madeleine Yambupah

The Star, by Sansanee Boonyad

Tou, by Emily Liang

Untitled, by Karen Johnston

Virginia, by Brian Hawkins

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep
and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
—Robert Adams

Twilight Carnival, by Jesse Merrell

Water Angel, by Travis Rockett

Library View, by Jesse Merrell

Perspective, by Jesse Merrell

"We write to taste life twice."
—Anaïs Nin

OCD Waltz, by Isaac Weil

No Country for Nomads, by Carlos Corona

"Fiction is one of the few experiences
where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved."
—David Foster Wallace

Brief Glimpses of Joy, by Daniel E. Arias-Gomez

Only On Thursdays, by William Christensen

The Noise of Sleep, by Lindsey Huffman