This month we are pleased to offer an interview with the man behind one of contemporary writing’s most unique and dynamic voices, poet Bob Hicok. Our December edition also features an exclusive studio session from Chicago pianist and songwriter Daniel Knox, in addition to a stream of Knox’s second album, Evryman For Himself; new poems from Howie Good and Gary Metras; the latest short story from author Ethel Rohan, along with...

Please enjoy our November issue, featuring an exclusive interview with author Ehud Havazelet, the music of The Storylines, new fiction from Jascha Kessler, and much more. Benjamin Evans Executive Editor, Fogged Clarity November 2011 Table of Contents Fiction Jascha KesslerJascha Kessler has published seven books of poetry and fiction, as well as six volumes of translations of poetry and fiction from Hungarian, Persian, Serbian and...

This month we are pleased to bring you an exclusive audio interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides. Mr. Eugenides’ third novel, “The Marriage Plot,” will be released this month, and our discussion provides listeners an opportunity to learn more about a great writer’s approach to construction. Also featured in our October issue is the latest album from the former singer and banjoist of Squirrel...

Amidst a spell of stifling heat along the shores of Lake Michigan, Ryan and I are pleased to swab our sweating brows and share our 31st issue with you. Our August offering features new work by Los Angeles poet Brendan Constantine, a new manifesto by Elaine Sexton, and the final installment of Alan Drew’s novella, In the News. This month also finds us streaming an album and exclusive studio session from the very gifted and intensely...

New Year–a continuation of beauty and the ache that inspires it. In his collection Breakfast with Thom Gunn, Randall Mann melds vulnerability and eloquence like few poets can. This month, in a truly poignant interview, he reads his poems and talks to me about heartache, homosexuality, drugs and death in San Francisco. Annie Palmer is an introspective storyteller with a liquor-honey voice who was born in Chattanooga and now lives in...

Table of Contents Fiction Harvey Havel The Cloth M. David Hornbuckle The Boy Who Cried Wolves Bill Hillmann The Birth of Pistol Pete Poetry Jules Gibbs Love’s Apparatus Song for a Bomb Washer Women Ashok Niyogi Exercises at Ten Thousand Feet J.M. English Lot’s Firstborn Paltith, or Lot’s Other Daughter Fallon Kimball Beams Upon Cherry Kirk P. Hansen the whispering of names adam Kimberly Ruth A Note to Self on Why it...

Table of Contents Fiction Ikhide R. Ikheloa The Second Coming Richard Cassone Out of Gas Angela Natividad The Expats Poetry Ashok Niyogi Lunch on Holi Stopping at a Traffic Light Post Office on the Ridge Parakeet Howie Good There’s No Money In Poetry, Someone Said Spring, Delayed The Secret Policemen’s Ball Brian Hardie Alice James, Untitled Christine Herzer Mouth Stamps Ben Nardolilli Ferris Wheel Megan Jones...