STORIES Monica McFawn Elegantly, in the Least Number of Steps J. David Stevens The Poetry Bandit David Williams Coming Alive in the Milky Way Gary Gildner Pro Bono Mark Hage Luz and Min-Jee Wendell Mayo Inches Victor Schultz The Thrillsprite Downed Jennifer Solheim On the Island Craig Boyko Paddy Gercheszky Denise Dirks Business and Pleasure Colleen O’Brien Montana Miranda McLeod Lady Alone
POEMS Robert Lee Mahon Fed Ex to Beowulf / Better Homes and Gardens / Last Letter from Starbuck Matt Schumacher they go drinking with villon Lyn Lifshin With Everything Opening, Pears, Magnolias, Cherry Petals, Apple, Dogwood Ana Minga, translated by Alexis Levitin Let no one dare to say Jen Edwards Sewing Circle / Disneyland Brandon Whiting The Therapist Speaks Kirk Wilson Deus ex Machina Michael J. Vaughn How to Sing Benjamin Goodney The Untold History of Central Florida Land Development, 1998-2007 / Itinerary for a Post-Industrial City William Jolliff The Rhetoric of Doubt Gary Mesick Smoker Mark DeCarteret Transparencies John J. Ronan At the Museum of Modern Art Charles Wyatt Bell-Ringer’s Knot Gary Lark Snow Sky Matt Summers The Slack Jeffrey H. MacLachlan Narquitecture Thomas Schwank scaling the walls of chicken school
ESSAYS AND MEMOIRS Christopher Thornton Flawed Dreams and the Morning After: Letter from Dubai Colleen Morrissey The Bones in Mammal Hall
Issue 112 - Fall 2012
Confrontation News and Excerpts
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Jonna Semeiks
Editor-in-Chief
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Confrontation News and Excerpts
Coming Soon: The 2013 Poetry Prize Issue
The recipient of the 2013 Confrontation Poetry Prize, we're pleased to announce, is Robert Snyderman, whose winning poem, "Monastery for Sandy Hook Children and Teachers," will of course be featured in this issue.
Christopher Thornton’s Global Spotlight: Letter From Tehran
The View from Valiasr: To travel the length of Valiasr Street is to experience the undercurrent of a society that few media reports attempt to reveal.
The 2013 Confrontation Poetry Prize: The Deadline Approaches!
$750, and publication in one of our 2013 issues, for the winning poem. Submit up to four previously unpublished poems with a $10 entry fee to Confrontation during the months of January or February 2013. Your entry fee includes a year-long subscription to the magazine, beginning with a copy of the prize issue. Include a...
Christopher Thornton’s Global Spotlight: Letter From Lisbon
West Meets East: This story begins where it ends, as it should, because it has something to say about the often circular nature of experience and the lesson we might learn—if we pay attention.
Disneyland
I drive from L.A. to Anaheim
in Judy’s four wheel drive, over-murdered
with mileage and cigarette burns.
in Judy’s four wheel drive, over-murdered
with mileage and cigarette burns.
Flawed Dreams and the Morning After: Letter from Dubai
It wasn’t so long ago—just a few short years, it’s so easy to forget—that the “Dubai boom” was in full swing. Arabs in other parts of the Middle East were still bearing the weight of corrupt, autocratic regimes, but in Dubai, construction sites pounded away late into the night; housing prices, which once seemed to...
With Everything Opening, Pears, Magnolias, Cherry Petals, Apple, Dogwood
the dead bloom, planted so
long ago. You never expected
much from them. It’s as if
long ago. You never expected
much from them. It’s as if




























