April 2011

While the past month has been quite a busy one for the Clarity, I’m extremely pleased with the scope and depth of the issue we’ve put together for April. Included in our latest offering: One of Ryan’s and my most beloved television actors, John Dunsworth of Trailer Park Boys, stops by to decry (extensively) the state of contemporary politics and discuss inebriation; Fred Thomas records an entrancing new studio session; Nick Kimbro and Sam Ramos debut new fiction; poet Perry Janes shapes the past of scientist Nikola Tesla; and much, much more.

Benjamin Evans
Executive Editor, Fogged Clarity

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• Nick KimbroNick Kimbro teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also working on his MFA. His writing has been featured in Underground Voices, Splash of Red, Ghost Ocean Magazine, and Danse Macabre, and is forthcoming in decomP magazinE, Eclectic Flash, and Fast Forward: A Collection of Flash Fiction. Pulse
• Sam RamosSam Ramos was born in Austin, Texas and received his BFA in Art History from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. He has published two novels and his short fiction has appeared in Pindeldyboz and Jettison Quarterly, among other journals. He currently resides in Washington, DC. After the Meteor

• Perry JanesPerry Janes is a student at the University of Michigan, where he has received four Hopwood Awards, a Paul and Sonia Handelman Poetry Award, and a Jeffrey L. Weisberg Poetry Award. Poems from his series on Nikola Tesla have appeared in Salt Hill and The Collagist. Friction
• Maybugs
• Jeff KnorrJeff Knorr is the author of the three books of poetry, The Third Body (Cherry Grove Collections, 2007), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and Standing up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press). His other works include the co-authored Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the anthology, A Writer’s Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Barrow Street, North American Review, Red Rock Review, The Journal, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America (University of Iowa). Out Back at Sunset
• Splitting Up
• James CihlarJames Cihlar is the author of Undoing, and his poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Quercus, Bloom, Minnesota Monthly, Northeast, The James White Review, Briar Cliff Review, Verse Daily, and in the anthologies Aunties (Ballantine 2004), Regrets Only, and Nebraska Presence (Backwaters Press). The recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, he lives in St. Paul.The Reality Show
• John MiddlebrookJohn Middlebrook has been writing poetry since he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where he served on the poetry staff of Chicago Review. His work has appeared in Writers’ Bloc, Foundling Review, and Yes, Poetry. Deconstruction
• Fallout
• Carlos HiraldoCarlos Hiraldo is a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens. His poems have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Bilingual Review, Struggle, Latino Stuff Review, The View from Here, Other Poetry and Fire, among others.Frozen

• Susan AndersonSusan Anderson, known on the internet as tiny evil hog, is a photographer living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. Anything But Square
• Matthias HeiderichMatthias Heiderich is a self-taught photographer living and working in Berlin. Funktionsorte
• White Noise
• Sebastien FerautSebastien Feraut aka Niark1 is a graphic designer, illustrator and fine artist living and working in Paris. Paintings

• Fred ThomasFred Thomas is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Michigan. Thomas has released several solo albums, and is the former frontman for the acclaimed band Saturday Looks Good to Me. He is currently involved in the musical projects Swimsuit, City Center, and Mighty Clouds, among others.The Fogged Clarity Session
• Night Times

• John DunsworthJohn Dunsworth is an actor and artist living in Nova Scotia. Though he has starred in countless theatrical productions, Dunsworth is best known for his legendary portrayal of Officer Jim Lahey in the Trailer Park Boys’ television and movie franchise.a chat with the man behind Officer Jim Lahey
• Fred ThomasFred Thomas is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Michigan. Thomas has released several solo albums, and is the former frontman for the acclaimed band Saturday Looks Good to Me. He is currently involved in the musical projects Swimsuit, City Center, and Mighty Clouds, among others.the musician discusses his passion and process

• Scott HightowerScott Hightower is a poet living with one foot in New York City, one in Texas, and one in Madrid. His third collection, Part of the Bargain, received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. His translations from Spanish have garnered him a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. He teaches at NYU, and has taught poetry, non-fiction, and translation at Drew, F.I.T., Fordham, and Poets House.Brendan Constantine’s “Letters to Guns”