Monkey Puzzle #5

Monkey Puzzle

by Nate Jordon (editor)

Monkey Puzzle is a quarterly literary journal published by Monkey Puzzle Press in Boulder, Colorado. Monkey Puzzle Magazine publishes imaginative, thought provoking prose, poetry, hybrids, translations, artwork, and photography that exhibits intelligence and creativity, with a bit of socio-political awareness and humor.

This edition features the following works of prose:

Reflections on Prayer Calls by Alexandra Lukens

Chica Chica: Forsaking Illusion by Ana Maria Martinez

from The Moonstone by Elizabeth Robinson

A Mouse Cage by Lauren Andrews

Falling Asleep While Reading by M. D’Alessandro

Coming to Know (Annie) Oaklynn by Merrill Shane Jones

Notes of a Modern-Day Expatriate by Mittie Roger

Inside Man by Nicholas B. Morris

The Play by Perry Lavin

Some Boys by Shane Joaquin Jimenez

The Kitchen by Stacy Walsh

When I Was Younger by Steve Kisicki

The Handwriting by Varlam Shalamov
(translation from Russian by L. Draaghtel)

and the following works of poetry:

Texas, 1872 by Adam Perry

Meta-Meta Poetry by Amy Catanzano & Jack Collom

Two from Old India translations from Sanskrit by Andrew Schelling

Macaques in a Steambath by Brandon Arthur

Darwin by Brendan Hamilton

Waste Lands by Carly-Anne Ravnikar

Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by Christopher T. Schuman

Catching Up with Almost by Daniel Dissinger

Multiverse by Dawn Sueoka

Avenue Maria by Diane Klammer

from The Bus is a Van by Hillary Keel

Silent Terrain by Irene Joyce

When We Were by James Kerley

Seventy Monkeys by Jefferson Navicky

Reactive Sandalwood Mala-ic Bowling Balls by Kimberlie Robinson

from the fall by Kristi Yorks

from Details on Photographs by Lindsay Colahan

Don’t Change a Hair for Me and not if you care for me by Lisa Birman

Seven Words by Margaret Randall

Lonely Like This by Mel Kozakiewicz

from She, A Blueprint for InterSurface by Michelle Naka Pierce

It Splinters Through by Nathan Antar

Lobotomy Buttons by Nicholas Michael Ravnikar

An Empire of Coins by Olatundji Akpo-Sani

Memorize by Rebecca Maillet

I Dream We Smoke a Bowl in a Cave in France by Renee Zepeda

To the West by Ryan Clark

Pantoum from the Actual Diary of Christopher Columbus
by Scott Alexander Jones

Old Monk Napping by Dr. Tim Skeen

Seri by Tiph Parrish

Sometimes, the Sky by Travis Cebula

A Wrenching Blue by Yasamin Ghiasi

with photography by:

Ben Olson
Luke Bennett
Andrew Antar
Cecilia Kunstadter
Brandon Gray

and artwork by:

Samuel Jablon
Andrew Antar

with the following advice from:
Julius Caesar

115 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2008

About the author

Nate tells stories with a pen and a lens. For his musings and other viscera, dig into his website.