Front Porch Journal
May 2012
Fiction
Chester Himes (1909-1984) - The Something in a Colored Man
Suzanne Richardson - Nouvelle Vague
Poetry
Claudia Cortese - Dear dirt stain and rain-freckled snow— | Without Hansel
The End, without Iron Shoes
Jane Wong - Mole Sick | Yellow Star-Thistle
Jim Redmond - Indoor Plumbing
Derek Gromadzki - Orant | Drive
Nonfiction
Diane Hoover Bechtler - The Bride Wore Cocktail Sauce
Georgia Kreiger - Lawrence Welk Is Dead
Sarah Pirozek - Death, and Me, and Wasil P, and Chester Himes...
Interviews
The Hilarity of Being: An Interview with Nick Courtright
Synthesis and Storytelling: An Interview with Dr. Toyin Falola
Reviews
Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, and Michael Northen, Beauty is a Verb
Daniel Clowes, Mister Wonderful
Percival Everett, Assumption
Sheila Kosher, Love Child
Jim Krusoe, Toward You
Peter Richards, Helsinki
Maxine Scates, Undone
Glenn Shaheen, Predatory
Vinnie Wilhelm, In the Absence of Predators
Media
Loiuse Edrich, Elissa Schappell, and Richard Siken
Notes
The 2011-12 Front Porch Staff shares their front porch memories...
