Table of Contents

Why Monkeys?

A Note from the Publisher, Stephan Anstey

Jungle Boogie

A Note from the Editor-in-Chief, Tracey Paradiso

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The Writings

Cut Grass
by Stef Baker

Six Days in Barcelona
by Renata McCormish

Penelope Abroad
by David Hirt

The Trouble with Frogs
by Jim Benz

Kathleen Free
by Peter Dunne

LP Duty
by Norm Milliken

Christmas 1968
by Norm Milliken

Asparagus
by Maryann Corbett

Guns, Blunts, and Poets: Major Jackson Reads His Work, 4.26.07
by Mike Tousignant

My South
by Julie Ann Cook

Chesapeake
by Kathleen Walker

Mass Ave. Remembered
by Jesse Chapman

The Guano in Guantanamo
by Leanne Hanson

What Mosquitoes Whispered
by Stephan Anstey

Mount Gabriel
by Peter Dunne

Six Foot Seven
by Sarah Mae Allard

Sidewalk
by Thomas Fallica

To Do: Death and Gerbils
by Ruth Day

Cuckoo’s Nest
by Joy Kettren

Sitting in the Shower, Drinking
by Chris Morris

Textual Ecosystem Preserve
by Kath Abela Wilson

Missoula in my State of Mind
by r. e. young

A Brush with Prague, 1992
by Tracey Paradiso

Half Acre Lot
by Brent Fisk

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Simian Contest Winners

First Prize: For the Sake of Sounding

by Amanda Baker

Honorable Mention: Number Fourteen
by Carol Lucas

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Meet the Monkeys

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