The Dirty Napkin is an online literary journal that was created in August 2007. It seeks to publish the best Poetry, Fiction, and Letters in four issues a year. What are the best poems, fiction, and letters, you ask? Well, thankfully we have a rather wide submission base and so we get to approach this question fresh with every issue.
This issue includes:
Letter from the Associate Poetry Editor • Katie Schmid
Nocturne • Paula McLain
Bog Man • Paula McLain
Talk of Sports and Youth Turns to Sex and Mourning • Howie Faerstein
Debbie: Early October 2007 • Therese Newman
How Oggy Did It • Susan Kaplan
Reframing Her Paintings • MaryAnn Franta Moenck
On the Fabric of the Human Body, Book I: Chapter 19: On the Bones of the Thorax • Sandy Longhorn
Incision • Carmella Braniger
Mothers' Apologia • Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Jacob: 31 December 2007 • Hilary Disch
Cozy Cottage • Karen Neuberg
Blue Chevies • Jim Klein
Glimpse • Scott M. Bade
Suckle • Doug Ramspeck
core study: notes on an apple • Peter Schwartz
Outdoor Café, October • Sarah J. Sloat
Music and Skin • David LaBounty
Night Music • Stephan Delbos
Boy Scout Serenade at St Mary's Home for the Aged • Brent Fisk
Everything Off • Michael Cocchiarale
midflightmeteors • Urayoán Noel
Public Pool • Carmella Braniger
If the Beginning Is in Turn— • John Pursley, III
The Dirty Napkin is an online literary journal that was created in August 2007. It seeks to publish the best Poetry, Fiction, and Letters in four issues a year. What are the best poems, fiction, and letters, you ask? Well, thankfully we have a rather wide submission base and so we get to approach this question fresh with every issue.
This issue includes:
Letter from the Associate Poetry Editor • Katie Schmid
Nocturne • Paula McLain
Bog Man • Paula McLain
Talk of Sports and Youth Turns to Sex and Mourning • Howie Faerstein
Debbie: Early October 2007 • Therese Newman
How Oggy Did It • Susan Kaplan
Reframing Her Paintings • MaryAnn Franta Moenck
On the Fabric of the Human Body, Book I: Chapter 19: On the Bones of the Thorax • Sandy Longhorn
Incision • Carmella Braniger
Mothers' Apologia • Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Jacob: 31 December 2007 • Hilary Disch
Cozy Cottage • Karen Neuberg
Blue Chevies • Jim Klein
Glimpse • Scott M. Bade
Suckle • Doug Ramspeck
core study: notes on an apple • Peter Schwartz
Outdoor Café, October • Sarah J. Sloat
Music and Skin • David LaBounty
Night Music • Stephan Delbos
Boy Scout Serenade at St Mary's Home for the Aged • Brent Fisk
Everything Off • Michael Cocchiarale
midflightmeteors • Urayoán Noel
Public Pool • Carmella Braniger
If the Beginning Is in Turn— • John Pursley, III