Selections from upstreet
To read a story, essay, poem, or interview, click on the title:
Fiction
Margarita Cárdenas, The Flamboyán, number one
Joyce A. Griffin, Michael Ryan, number three
Annie Breeding, The Downfall of the Reynal de St. Michels, number six
KC Kirkley, Everything is Negotiable, number nine
Janna Brooke Cohen, Picket, number ten
Robert Kerbeck, Breaststroker, number eleven
Hugo Dos Santos, Running, number twelve
Brandon Haffner, The Rise and Fall of Phil Darrow, number thirteen
Joanne Sills, Bag of Snakes, number fourteen
David Mizner, Party Man, number sixteen
Creative Nonfiction
Kenneth Rapoza, Open Markets, number one
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Undercurrent, number two
Frank Tempone, Born Again, number three
Robin Underdahl, The Lovely Maiden Jumps into the Waters, number six
Linda Buckmaster, Becoming Memory, number eight
Emily Arnason Casey, Laughing Water, number nine
Abby Frucht, The Sugar Eater, number ten
Inara Verzemnieks, Stay, number thirteen
Phillip Lopate, Eros in the Classroom, number fourteen
Poetry
Karen Chase, Arranging Books as Elegy, number one
Bill Zavatsky, Live at the Village Vanguard, number two
Patty Crane, Failing to Find the Hudson, number three
Stephen Ackerman, How to Touch a Woman, number four
Paul Hostovsky, A Woman Taking Off Her Shirt, number four
Judy Katz, First Reader, number six
Frances McCue, Turning to Ghosts in the Cemetery by the Sea, number seven
Jeffrey Harrison, Temple, number eight
Jesse Millner, I’d Rather be a Cowboy, number eight
Alison Jarvis, My Mother’s Cars, number ten
Alan Feldman, Leverage, number eleven
Tony Hoagland, Trying to Keep You Happy, number eleven
Ted Kooser, By Flowing Water, number twelve
Jason Koo, Death by LaGuardia, number thirteen
Frances Richey, The Gandy Dancers, number thirteen
Mark Halliday, Elevator Moment, number fourteen
D. Nurkse, Children at Twilight, number fourteen
Denise Duhamel, Testimony, number fifteen
Jessica Greenbaum, My Mother’s Yellow Summer Shirt, number fifteen
Interviews
Vivian Dorsel, A Conversation with Michael Martone, number four
Vivian Dorsel, A Conversation with Robert Olen Butler, number ten