Issue 1, Volume 1

1 May 2007

Interviews

A Branch on the Tree of Whitman: Martín Espada on the 150th Anniversary of Leaves of Grass

Edward J. Carvalho

Lingua Franca: Writing Across Cultures

Karen Riedel

Poetry

Ars Poetica

Cynthia Nichols

Night Bus

Cyril Wong

Rebirth

Davide Trame

How I Quit Smoking

Ingrid Pruss

No Fair

Curtiss S. Butler

West of Homer, Michigan

Jon Ballard

Long-Distance Waking

Matthew Hotham

In a Bar (At the celebration of Emily Dickinson’s 177th Birthday)

Janet McCann

India / “A Portuguesa”

Edward J. Carvalho

The Nurses Will Not Listen to You Speak About Work

Edward J. Carvalho

Indirect Sunlight

Lane Falcon

(untitled)

Maria Williams-Russell

39 Degrees

Karen Terrey

What It Means To Be Happy

Allen Hoey

Shoeshine

Bruce Weber

Patience

Alan Catlin

Address

Mani Rao

Grand Finale

Mani Rao

 

Fiction

Philipsburg

Aaron Hellem

Drunkards and Policemen

Bruce Holland Rogers

American Debut

J.P. Briggs

Capt. Spaulding and the Missing Motor

Scott Humfeld

Cowless, Rainbowless

Myfanwy Collins

Echoes of Green

Jean Ann Wertz

Dramatic Writing

The Kind That Doesn’t Budge

Lisa Soland

You Rang

David Robson

Mirrorball

Timothy Braun

Field of Vision

Ross Brown

Nonfiction

One Cigarette A Day

Matthew M. Quick

Foregone Conclusions

Neil Landau

Contributors

 

Lantern photo taken by Karen Riedel in the university district of Bologna, Italy, the home of the oldest university in Europe, founded in 1088. Text illustration for Foregone Conclusions by K.M. Chenault. Illustration for Capt. Spaulding and the Missing Motor from photograph supplied by Scott Humfeld. Photographs for the Wallis Wilde-Menozzi article by Paolo Menozzi. Photographs for cover, Night Bus, How I Quit Smoking, and Address by Dave Tavani.

Quay is a nonprofit journal of the arts published by Six Bad Apples Press, P.O. Box 369, Calvert, Texas 77837, USA.

ISSN 1935-259X
May-June 2007

A special thanks to Mariana Romo-Carmona for her support of Quay.