A Taste of the Dirty Napkin Archive

Below is a list of works from the Dirty Napkin's previous issues. If you become a subscriber you will have full access to all of these works (and those in current and future issues) as well as their audio recordings for one full year.

Issue 1.3, Summer (21 June 2008)

Poem I Would Rather Your Mother Not Read   Christina Olson
Buffalo: One Thousand Feet   Christina Olson
Dark Bars   Christina Olson
First Four   Christina Olson
The Why   Christina Olson
   
Little Known Fact Number One   Richard Garcia
Tickling the Ivories   William Doreski
Curtsy to the Drain Pipe   kelly boyker
The 37th Secret Love Poem   Arlene Ang
Jane   Morgan Harlow
Caveat Emptor   Melody Sage
Vanilla   L. J. Sysko
Powers   Aaron Shulman
After Montale   William Doreski
Lives in Decline   Jayne Pupek
Orpheus' Head, Still Singing   Brandi George
No One   Richard Garcia
letter to me at 22, from me at 52   Margaret Stawowy
Relic   Arlene Ang
Gravitational Lens   George Moore
Their Eyes Were Open § VII   Anne Marie Macari
Their Eyes Were Open § VIII   Anne Marie Macari
S & R   Morgan Harlow
Dinner Party   Jayne Pupek
Thanksgiving Dinner in July   Joanne Edelmann
lobelia   Nanette Rayman Rivera
To the Light, Darkly   Ted Jonathan
Ismene   Brandi George
Sally   Morgan Harlow
This dirty napkin   Arlene Ang

Issue 1.2, Spring (20 March 2008)

Nocturne   Paula McLain
Bog Man   Paula McLain
Talk of Sports and Youth Turns to Sex and Mourning   Howie Faerstein
untitled letter   Therese Newman
How Oggy Did It   Susan Kaplan
Reframing Her Paintings   MaryAnn Franta Moenck
On the Fabric of the Human Body
     Book I: Chapter 19: On the Bones of the Thorax   Sandy Longhorn
Incision   Carmella Braniger
Mothers' Apologia   Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Ko Samet Letter   Hilary Disch
Cozy Cottage   Karen Neuberg
Blue Chevies   Jim Klein
Glimpse   Scott M. Bade
Suckle   Doug Ramspeck
core study: notes on an apple   Peter Schwartz
Outdoor Café, October   Sarah J. Sloat
Music and Skin   David LaBounty
Night Music   Stephan Delbos
Boy Scout Serenade at St Mary's Home for the Aged   Brent Fisk
Everything Off   Michael Cocchiarale
midflightmeteors   Urayoán Noel
Public Pool   Carmella Braniger
If the Beginning Is in Turn—   John Pursley III

Issue 1.1, Winter (22 December 2007)

The New Thing   Gerry LaFemina
Your Whole Life Would Be Different If You Had a Chart with Feet on It   Gerry LaFemina
Reverse Self Portrait, Age Nine   Jules Gibbs
untitled letter   Alex Herning
Friday night picnic   Bill Garvey
On a Definite Path to the Moon   Abigail Keller
December Settles In Over HaverStraw Bay   John Hoppenthaler
untitled haiku   Randy M. Brooks
Korea Letters: The Drum   Joanne Edelmann
The Lesson   Jacqueline Garlitos
Where in the Story the Horse Mazy Dies   Jane Mead
Korea Letters: Fifty Something . . . Women   Joanne Edelmann
Back Home, after a Funeral   Kristine Rae Anderson
Eastern Europe   Jennifer Gravley
Korea Letters: Happy Thanksgiving   Joanne Edelmann
a lie.   Jenna Martin
No Sex, No Booze, No Cigarettes   Lorraine Healy
Price of a Kiss   Jeff Friedman
Korea Letters: Getting Paid—The Bank   Joanne Edelmann
Heat   Becky Hilliker
Enlightened   Adam Fieled
Like a Bullet   Dan Gallagher
O Positive   Brad Liening
Sword Fighting   Sid Miller
Envy   Alicia Ostriker
Mineshaft   Alicia Ostriker
Big Flat World   Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
Being Familiar   Michelle Menting
April Snow   Cheryl Byler Keeler
untitled letter   Jenna Polk
Кот   Дмитрий Псурцев
The Cat by Dimitri V. Psurtsev   translated by F. D. Reeve