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Volume 3    Issue 2

Spring 08


Book Preview


Four Poems from

Tim Mayo’s new

chapbook,

The Loneliness of Dogs

published March, 2008

Pudding House Publishers.



Fiction


P.J. Martin               White Girl


Jared Ward              El Gabacho      


Deidra Dallas          Purple Shoes



Non Fiction


Sandra Gail Lambert

        Theories about Bodies

            and Truth


Michael Allyn McCormick

          A Bogus Divide

     


Featured Writer


Mansour Koushan


Each issue of Babel Fruit presents an exiled or previously persecuted writer.  Most of these writers struggle with funding for translations, therefore most of the translations presented here are provisional. If you are interested in volunteering your language skills to the International Cities of Refuge Network, please send an email to editors (at) babelfruit.org


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Poetry


Catherine MacDonald

        Pinocchio in Africa
        BBC News, Friday 18 March 2005
        Eccentric Orbit of the Moon

Sankar Roy

        Agra Song
        Praise-Sick
        Origin of Ash


Neil Carpathios

        Instead of Writing a

Poem about Writing a Poem, I     Step Outside and Smell the Air 

        Pressing Buttons
        I Go Out Walking With My Dead Friends


Barbara Benoit
  
     Commonplace Desire


Rod Peckman
       
Breath

        Sternum


Joseph R. Trombatore

        Raw Honey

        Yellow


Claire Keyes’ translation of a poem by

        Gertrudis Gomez de Avallaneda:


        Deseo De Venganza


Leslie F. Miller (audio)

        The End


Carol Dorf

        Fruit Of Stories

        Caution: Home

        Hall Pass: Scand'lous


Gene Justice
       
The Giftbearers


Richard Fein
  
     Intelligent Design


Ed Higgins

        Tohono O’odham:

        The Desert People