CONCLAVE: A Journal of Character
ISSUE 2: 2009-2010
Foreword by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Managing Editor’s Introduction by Scott Markwell
POETRY
JONATHAN GREENHAUSE Lights and Movement Between the Two
BARON WORMSER Photo of My Mother, Marcia Chesley, 1940
MONIQUE ROUSSEL The Truth a Poet Can Tell
JACK MILLER Bird Woulda Loved It, Man
K.H. SOLOMON Faces
JOHN J. TRAUSE Almonds
RICHARD C. RUTHERFORD Maureen’s Poem
WILLIAM AARNES Restraint
JACKIE FOX Song of Lilith
Song of Mary
DANNY DiCRISPINO Smile
Ancestress
KATARINA BOUDREAUX Records
VIKKI LITTLEMORE Teenagers in Love
RAFAEL MIGUEL MONTES Gymnauseum
PROSE POEMS
INDIGO MOOR Taking Stock
ANA ELSNER Sobs for Annie Parks
JACK MILLER Compass
DANNY SKLAR Manhattan
The Perfect World of Alumni Magazines
GILLIAN SZE Thumbelina
Sensible Elsie
Rapunzel
PETER WELTNER Sounding New York Harbor
CREATIVE NONFICTION
SOO YOUNG LEE Xanadu
DANIEL GEWERTZ The Hipster Fool and the Holy Fellow of Harvard Square
JUSTIN LEAHEY The Last Christmas in Breslau
SHANE BORROWMAN Chips
FLASH FICTION
KEVIN BROWN Three to Five
C.A. COLE Bedrooms of the Generations
YT SUMNER cul de sac
TEXT AND IMAGE
SARAH COLEMAN Sea Ghost
ELIZA GAUGER Fourteen
FICTION
SUSAN PETRONE Monster Jones Wants to Creep You Out
LELAND JAMES My Brother’s Keeper
DON EVANS Ours Now
DUSTIN M. HOFFMAN Brackish
DARCI SCHUMMER A Good Face
DRAMA
STEVEN SIMONCIC Day Care
WILLIAM OREM Suspension
JACOB APPEL In the Floodplain
PHOTOGRAPHY
GIANG Lê Distracted
MAGNUS FRÖDERBERG Gun Nation
Women in Golan Heights
Sad Soldier
CHRISTOPHE DESSAIGNE South of France Landscape
Blood Procession
JESSICA HUBBARD MARR Generational
Skateboard
RAHUL DHANKANI Old Lady Drinking Chai
Young Boy Selling Lemons
KIRSTEN SPICKARD The Hike Out
Brown Paper Sack
ROGER SALZ Woodworking in Venezia
SANNA STACKE Oranienstrasse
MARK HINDERLITER Show Me the Money
DOUG FAVERO Pensándolo
NATHALIE BOISARD-BEUDIN Palermitan Mummies
MAURA HENN Roller Derby
MARK GILLIGAN Gathering Storm
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
VINAYAK GARG In the Land of Faith
ARTWORK
KRISTINA CARROLL Kidnapped
ELIZA GAUGER Medium
Aristocrat
MOLLY CRABAPPLE Nightlife Portrait
MANDA LANDER Fairy Tale
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES