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Greenpoint Press is proud to announce its new book:

The Sentence: A Family's Prison Memoir
by Gene Kraig

In this true account of an ordinary suburban family, Kraig chronicles the years leading up to and through her husband's incarceration, including the devastating consequences for her family.

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Issue 17's Editor's Note
I Found it in My Attic... Contest Winners


The Photograph

Jennifer Hurley
Winner of the I Found it in My Attic writing contest.

A Championship Season
Juliet Eastland
Second Place Winner.

Highlights from This Issue
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Essay: Mindy Greenstein
The Last Visit

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Poetry: Suzanne Scarfone
Poems by Suzanne Scarfone

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Memoir: Kuniko Katz
B-29s, from Funny, You Don't Look Jewish

+ Essay: Sarah Iverson
Sex Ed
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Art Gallery: Zoe Strauss
"Public Knowledge"

 
Essays
Thomson Pond in Late Winter: Reverence of the Ordinary by Kim Barke • The Last Visit by Mindy Greenstein • The Frog Prince by Mike Dressel • Sex Ed by Sarah Iverson • Spring Fervor by Loriann Fell
Memoirs
Between Heaven and Earth by Doug Garr • The Moments Between by Helen Zelon • Reality -- What a Concept by Sunsh Stein • Long Gone by Richard Willis
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Fiction
The Difficult Ones by Brandon Cole • The Dunes by Johanna Randall Reed • The Visit by Catherine Pearson • Admit It by Rob Bass • >> More
Art Gallery
Zoe Strauss: Public KnowledgeThe Accumulation ProjectCaitlin Atkinson: Recent Photographs
Poetry
The Absence of Romance by C. H. Coleman • Commotion and Others by Suzanne Scarfone •
Columns
So here's the thing... by Bill Bilodeau • Scouting the New World by Benjamin Malcolm • Domestic Disturbances by Helen Rafferty • Letters from Bulgaria by Jennifer H. Fortin
Humor
The M. Night Shymalan Modern Library by Dan McCoy • Andy Hardy in Camelot by Michael McWey • MyCult by Len Sousa
Humor
Can Humanists Talk to Postmodernists? by Mark Goldblatt • The Great War by Joan Bowman • One Man Out by T.R. Healy
Best of Ducts
Banal to the Bone by Philip Shane • The Day My Grandpa Didn't Die by Nic Darling • Records by Susie ArmitageNumber One Son by J.B. Miller