Spark, an online literary review

Issue 4, June 1998

 


POETRY

Rachel Dilworth, Anniversary: San Marco, Venice, Picture Window: Snowscape Opened

Sean McDonnell, You Shovel Under Stars

Pamela Moore, driving to work, Sacramento freeway, bread crumbs

D. Foy O'Brien, Redness Spreads Its Message, Hyacinths and Flash: Snakes: Others, Beds, Murder

Laurie Regan, Signs, Contemplating Spheres

Andrea Ross, Mortar and Pestle, A Year in Chico Creek Canyon, La Negresse

 

FICTION

Lana Abernathy, Flashpoint

Sabina Chen, Mrs. Rottenbacher's Box of Chocolates

Kirk Colvin, The Oldest Woman in the World

Augustus Rose, The Lost Father

Stephen Stralka, The Inside Man

S.A. Walther, Burn Day

 

 

 

Special Feature
WRITING IN PLACE

Introduction

Amy Boyer, Making Home

Rachel Dilworth, The Starry Day, Backroad Ornithology

Sean McDonnell, Hieronymus Bosch in the Sacramento Valley

Sandra McPherson, Research Trail, Cold Canyon, November, Path Through a Few Things that Must Be Said for Putah Creek, at the Foot of Monticello Dam

Pamela Moore, tule perch, mariposa lily, yellow star thistle

Andrea Ross, The Architecture of Belonging

Christopher Sindt, Self Portrait from a Broken Down Aviary

 

FEATURED AUTHOR
Sandra McPherson

Interview, by Pamela Moore

Poems from Beauty in Use (Janus Press, 1997)

 

 

Quilt designs from Beauty in Use by Claire Van Vliet.
(Click on any quilt for a full-size image.)

 

 

SPARK features fiction and poetry by students, alumni, and faculty of the graduate creative writing program at UC Davis.