Monkey Puzzle #6

Monkey Puzzle

by Nate Jordon (Editor)

Monkey Puzzle is a quarterly literary journal published by Monkey Puzzle Press in Boulder, Colorado. Monkey Puzzle 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.

Issue #6 features the following works of
The Edge of the Known World by Travis Cebula
Atlantic Nocean by Alexandra Lukens
Our National Poet Haibun by Keith Kumasen Abbott
Cry Palestine by Nancy Stohlman
The Confession by Peter M. Laffin
Notes of a Modern-Day Expatriate #2 by Mittie Roger
A Half-Day in the Life...of an Adminstrative Assistant by Amy Pommerening
cigarettes by Rebecca George
Jimmy Six Pence by Scott Larson
Erection Day by Mitch Maraude
Rosa Marie Over the Rooftops of Isla del Vistoso by Merrill Shane Jones
from Unwinding Myself Whole by Paige Doughty
Speechless by Rea Allen
And Juan Makes Three by Kona Morris
Karma at the Egg Roll Queen by John Staudt
America, Your Penis is Stuck in the Zipper of Abu Ghraib by Rebecca Diaz

and the following works of
Babinet’s Sprinkles by Aaron D. Scher
The Lotus Sutra (or Exodus 20:1-10) by Andrew Bethke
The Bingo Halls of Arkansas by Nicholas B. Morris
Soldiers Awaiting Discharge by Tim Skeen
We Had a Meeting by Margaret Randall
28. The List of Sins by LaVonne Natasha Caesar
Open Wide by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
Manifesto del Poesia XVI by Philip Meersman
Belarusian Capital by Hillary Keel
Poetic Genius by Sarah Suzor
What the Water Gave Me by Kimberly Castanon
excerpt from [text]urally transmitted dis{ease} by Aimee Herman
Gradually by Lily Scarborough Heehs
selections from in the silver waste to(o) be a mirror by Daniel Dissinger
The One-Eyed Poet Speaks in a Library Basement Two & a Half Years Post Mortem by Scott Alexander Jones
Second Hour by Richard Schwass
Self Portrait by Yasamin Ghiasi
Through Her Eyes by Jessica Surabian
Happy Like That by Mel Kozakiewicz
I.L.O.V.E.Y.O.U. by Rob Geisen
Haiku for Hillary by Daniela Beuren
Have I? by Sarah Cooke
43. beside her, giving by Ryan Clark
Wood and Wire by Tiph Parrish
As Heraldic by Michelle Puckett
Turmeric by Jennifer Phelps
Blue by Melanie W. Kachadoorian
light density by Irene Joyce
Another Monkey Puzzle by Diane Klammer

with photography
Luke Bennett
Mittie Roger
Kimberly Castanon
Cecilia Kunstadter
Nate Jordon

and artwork
Keith Kumasen Abbott
Samuel Jablon

115 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 10, 2009

About the author

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