Issue 21

Conspire Spring/Summer 2003

Featured P o e t
Chocolate Waters
P o e t r y
Carolyn Adams

A Star for Steven

Madeline Artenberg

A Mother's Day

Rush Hour To Brooklyn

Disappearances

Iain Britton

Legend Has It

Tara Chapple

On having a child

Howard Good

Wet Kisses

Philip Hyams

Plastic Flowers In Paradise

Jeff Kersh

Fade Up

Susan Marshall

Rubble

As Heaven As On Earth

Karyna McGlynn

Geraldine at Twenty-Four

Ram M. Mehta

Niagara

Iris

Ode To Earthquakes

Stuart Patton

My Father's Visit

Touched

rex swihart

Juvenilia

J. Marcus Weekley

Chef's Ditty

Making Joyful Noise

Didi Menendez

Mojave

M u l t i m e d i a
Insu Parks

Grandeur

 

Flash F i c t i o n
Karen Bernardo

The Preserves

Peter Clement Davis

Two Men

David H. S. Hubert

Norma's Compromise

F i c t i o n
harrytru

Gift 'em

John Palcewski

Soft Gold Cascade

Creative N o n - f i c t i o n
Michael Byrne

Drought

N e w s
Book Reviews from the New York Times Online, Calls for submissions and more...
E x p l o r a t i o n s
Robert Castle

Cellular Sentences
"I had been reading Monsieur Levert my first few days in Paris. One evening I returned to my Paris hotel on the Boulevarde St. Germaine..."

William F. Lantry

Of Caedmon, Herrick, Sheila, and the bots
I’m typing this in one of the oldest churches in Washington DC, on the worst day of the war so far. I’m not on the net. It’s just a thing I have: I like to be connected, but this evening I’m not. Oh, there are other connections going..."

Randy Money

"Amour Dure– Dure Amour"
"In the borderland between commercial and literary fiction there is a well-developed tract, dotted with castles and high-rises, English villas and Roman ruins, and even amusement parks and baseball fields..."

Sue Nichols

Finding sense amidst the messiness
"So I’m in China, trying to think big thoughts.  Except, every time I’m on the runway to lofty, just about ready to lift off, my thoughts trip over a space heater that’s smack dab in the middle of the floor..."