Argument by Design

Literature & Fiction

Katherine Smith

Poetry

Washington Writers' Publishing House

The characters in Kathleen Wheaton's linked stories are exiles-from their native countries, their families, their objects of desire. Political refugees from Argentina's "dirty war," survivors of a Cuban shipwreck and of Franco's Spain all navigate life as foreigners, whether in Madrid, Buenos Aires or suburban Washington, D.C. With wry, nuanced compassion, Wheaton follows these resilient people as they reconcile the absurdities of contemporary life with a legacy of dislocation, loss and longing.

Aliens & Other Stories

Wheaton, Kathleen

Contemporary

Taking as their starting points the various sub-definitions of the word "cleave" (to hew asunder; to adhere or cling to), these poems are lyrical meditations on love, longing, and loss, as well as on the nature of being the poet-daughter of a poet-father.

Cleave (poems)

Egan, Moira

Poetry. "If Patric Pepper's apprehensions are temporary--as whose are not?--his attention is comprehensive, and his imagination prehensile, with a hold that gives moment to the moments he holds"--H.L. Hix. Patric Pepper was born, and lives, in Washington D.C. His poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Confrontations, The Distillery, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review and The Comstock Review. In 2003, he founded Pond Road Press with his wife Mary Ann Larkin.

Temporary Apprehensions

Pepper, Patric

Temporary Apprehensions: Poems

Poetry. Chosen for The Montserrat Review's Best Picks for Poetry 2005, GAGARIN STREET offers an edgy and disquieting meditation on the intersection of private and public history. "From the title poem of Piotr Gwiazda's impressive debut collection, a recurring theme announces itself: altered history and the poet's qualified attempts at recognition, if not full reclamation"--Gaylord Brewer. "These poems remind us how easily the Gagarin Streets of our youth may disappear, and of the poet's vital task to re-inscribe them for the future's fellow travelers"--Mark Nowak. Piotr Gwiazda teaches modern and contemporary poetry at University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Gagarin Street

Gwiazda, Piotr

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her work was included in Best American Poetry 2004. The Steam Sequence offers a journal into the mind of a Holocaust survivor in which past becomes present and a single woman struggles to locate herself. This book asks us to examine the silences and the spaces between memory and reality. "Breath, body, water, even wire seem unlikely candidates for eternal presence. But something that those name in this poem--a 'story' of inexplicable substance--will last forever"--Lyn Hejinian.

The Steam Sequence

Sachs, Carly

Fiction. The burden of silence passes from old to young in this lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel, dry land of Texas. Richard Bausch has said of AND SILENT LEFT THE PLACE: "Elizabeth Bruce's characters leap off the page at you; they have vividness and substance, and the result, reading her work, is that one feels the life there." Bruce, the winner of the 2007 Washington Writers' Publishing House Fiction Competition, has published in The Washington Post, Writers' Roundtable, The Long Short Story, and other publications.

And Silent Left the Place

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bruce, Elizabeth

Mystery

Poetry. Poems in this collection have appeared in Salmagundi, Boulevard, The Sewanee Review, Poetry East, Poet Lore, The Indiana Review, The Nebraska Review, Green Mountains Review, Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Literary Review, Sonora Review, The Sycamore Review, The Midwest Quarterly, WordWrights, and Poetry Northwest. "In his attention to detail and in his reverence for the smallest moments of experience Bruce MacKinnon compounds and intensifies the events of daily life"--Michael Collier. "MYSTERY SCHOOLS is thorough and deeply textured poetry and adult in the way serious poetry should be--by not taking itself too seriously while allowing the writing to take its own good time"--Stanley Plumly. MacKinnon teaches creative writing at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Mystery Schools

MacKinnon, Bruce

Poetry. In PROVENANCE--her first collection and a a semifinalist for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman prize--Brandel France de Bravo explores not only her own roots but the roots of words. Taking her cue from Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, "Every word was once a poem," France de Bravo has written 26 poems-one for every letter-inspired by etymologies. "Sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, sharply etched and sharply worded, Provenance is a book of alphabets and fables, of narrative precision and verbal passion"--Campell McGrath.

Provenance

Bravo, Brandel France De

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