Spring 2011: Come One, Come All

The Spring 2011 issue of SHR is here at last!  When thinking about the themes that link the pieces in this issue together, we kept coming around to the idea of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.  Inspired by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett's short story, "Dime's Last Show," we decided on circus-y artwork by Malcah Zeldis.

Indeed, the poems, short stories and creative nonfiction in this issue all seek to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the ordinary in the extraordinary.  Have a taste:

 Sheep and cliff cows orphan

their skulls like discarded

shells of hermit crabs

to the hush of 

forgetfulness in this doomed

landscape.

--Excerpt from Ginny MacKenzie's "The Artist's Skulls-Scotland"

my dead poet   your half-smile in its bad photograph looks out from
the 3x4 frame at Target   I know it's you but you shouldn't be on
display to sell a frame  your exquisite poems framed your life
--Excerpt from D. L. Stein's "Rescuing Elizabeth" for Elizabeth Bishop

And it's the sky the old megaliths gesture toward.  The Callanish Stones, on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, are set on a grass-clad bit of land that looks on the map like a mittened hand with a bit of decorative tassel dangling from the woolen wrist.
--Excerpt from Elizabeth Dodd's "Megalithic North"

We hope you enjoy this issue as much as we delighted in putting it together for you.