Issue 27 Contributors

Perigee's 27th issue is due out on January 15th. The last issue of our sixth year is a fine one indeed. 10 short stories, 6 works of non-fiction, and 30 poems are included. Here's a list of the contributors:

Fiction (10)
“Little Life,” by Walter Cummins
“The Bracelet of Date Stones,” by Sahar Delijani
“Lonely Tylenol,” by Okla Elliott
“Long Distance Call to Heaven,” by Clyde Fixmer
“La Palette,” by John Givens
“Afterlife Answers,” by Michael Lee
“Invaders from Mars,” by Timothy Reilly
“Paperboy,” by Jay Rubin
“The Inept Imitator,” by Tom Sheehan
“Something Borrowed,” by Ellen Visson

Non-Fiction (6)
“A New Reading of Rilke’s ‘Elegies’, by John Mood,” reviewed by Duff Brenna
“In Memory of Jack Myers,” by Thomas E. Kennedy
“Revisiting Birmingham,” by Thomas E. Kennedy
“Margaret Atwood,” by Chauncey Mabe
“Wrestling with the Angel: The Image as Writer’s Antagonist,” by John Rember
“The Place on Kansas Street,” by Linda Sandoval

Poetry (30)
“Lavese Las Manos,” by Claire Hsu Accomando
“Decimas to God,” by Guadalupe Amor (translated by Megan Webster)
“Old Country,” by Stanislaw Borokowski (translated by Chris Michalski)
“Sweet Hereafter,” by Stanislaw Borokowski (translated by Chris Michalski)
“Kansas,” by B.F. Fairchild
“Song,” by B.F. Fairchild
“Fragments from the Hospital,” by Elisabeth Farrell
“Runners,” by Clyde Fixmer
“Sign Language,” by Diane Gage
“Legend,” by Andrei Guruianu
“Nothing to Tell Him,” by Eric Johnson
“Bakersfield, 1969,” by Dorianne Laux
“The Beatles,” by Dorianne Laux
“Disco,” by Joanne Lowery
“Drummerboy,” by Joanne Lowery
“Majorette,” by Joanne Lowery
“The Not Sonnets,” by Suzanne Lummis
“The Bear Who Lives in Me,” by Morton Marcus
“I Still Complain About the Government,” by Morton Marcus
“The Town Where he had Never Been,” by Morton Marcus
“Wait Here,” by Morton Marcus
“Clark Kent, Naked,” by Federico Moramarco
“Easter Poem for My Mother,” by Mil Norman-Risch
“My Brother’s Blackberry,” by Leigh Pollack
“For Pablo Neruda,” by Doren Robbins
“Tomato,” by Linda Leedy Schneider
“Burial at Sea,” by Peter Skrzynecki
“Coming Across an Old Girlfriend’s Poems,” by Tom Speer
“The Moment,” by Tom Speer
“The Return,” by Tom Speer

Our thanks to everyone who submitted work. We hope you'll stop by to read our 27th issue when it's released on Friday, January 17th.