Please join us for the launch/reading of Verdad, Volume Four, noon on Thursday, April 24, in P110, the English lounge at Long Beach City College. Formal reading begins at noon, followed by a light lunch and open mic. (Free admission, donations accepted.) Parking is available for one dollar in the lot at Carson/Clark.

Summer 2007, Volume 3

Drury Award Winners

About Donald Drury

• Bossanova of Her
• Helen in the Sand
• The Night Like a Siren Calls
• Wild Lilies
  View a video reading
  by Eric Loya
  
  
• Risk - Chapter 4
  by Lynne Wainfan
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Interview with Chris Buckley and an excerpt from his memoir, Sleepwalk

Fiction

• 1— 0
  by Shome Dasgupta
• A Fur Man
  by Mona Panitz
• Gasoline Alley
  by Michael Ettel
• Good-bye Tom
  by Becca Poulson
• Excerpt from Home School
  by Suzanne Greenberg
• Excerpt from In Loco Parentis
  by Christina Guillen
• Little Pearl
  by Peter Basson
• Lying in Bed
  by Michael Guardabascio
• Me & Homey
  by Max Evans
• A Morning Drive
  by Steve Shaw
• Neon Cactus in the Night
  by Jeffrey Douglas
• Paris (for Bill Roberts)
  by Alyssa Burge
• The Shelter
  by David A. Lipton
• The Shining
  by Richard Short
• Excerpt from Unwired Girl
  by John Stacy
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Poetry

• Your Shadow
  by Amanda Basson
• All Over You
  by Peter Basson
• Accomodating
  Dirty Cares
  by Geoffrey Bateman
• fifteen kisses before the day begins
  by Emily Belzer
• Noon
  by Bonnie Bolling
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• The Garbage Man
  by Audrey Burge
• A Bushwick Backyard
  Sometimes, and With a Kind of Fury
  This is the Last Picture that Van Gogh Painted Before He Killed Himself
  by Elizabeth Dosta
• Black Out
  Chamomile Hammocks
  by Kevin Franklin
• The Bullet Hole in the Twelfth-Street Door
  The Olive Trees
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  by Frank X. Gaspar
• Ambition
  Second Degree
  by Rhoda Greenstone
• Tattoo Removal
  by Darren Grippando
• Lake, Mountain
  Roots
  by Sean Gunning
• Carolina
  Sweat Chlorides
  by John Guthrie
• After Mom Leaves II
  Paleontology
  by Harold Hoffman
• The Girl in the Ladder
  by Brie Huling
• Buddha Needs Students not Disciples
  by Phuongthao Le
• Internal Rhythm
  by Blake Love
• Danced Round the Dreadful Thing in Fiendish Glee
  Six Ways to Know You're Listening to Silence
  Uriangato
  by Roxanne Moreno
• Blue-Collar Woman
  Cuddling
  Traffic
  by Shannon Phillips
• The Legend of The Snow Geese
  by Juanita Rivers
• Carousel
  En(d) List
  Open Mic
  Relief
  Retail Experience
  by Dan Romo
• The Ghost & H.P. Lovecraft
  by Dolorez Roupe
• Aubergine
  The Train
  by Patricia Seyburn
• Male Logic
  by Jerry Shaefer
• athens
  l.a.
  by Anthony Starros
• Fevers
  Sometimes
  by Chrys Tobey
• Famous Potatoes
  For Matthew
  by Tamara Trujillo
• To Pat Bird, Ipana Toothpaste Girl (1942)
  by Conlye O. Waggoner

Memoir

• Monsoon Leave
  by Douglas Evered

Gallery

• Nicole De Leon
• Sid Hoskins
• Andria Lo
• Suzan Lustig

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---

Emily Dickinson