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Back in time for the dog days of summer, The MacGuffin returns with a collection of souvenirs from our summer travels. Zilka Joseph whisks us off to Alaska in her picturesque poem, “Imagine the Inside Passage,” and, back in Michigan, Lori Eaton lets us room up with some goats and a lonely wife. Allen Forrest sends us a few hand-painted postcards of scenic Washington state and we meet up with Grant Clauser and “With Shelly in the Goodwill.” This issue also features the winners of the Detroit Working Writers’ 2016 MacGuffin Poetry Prize.

In this Issue:

6: Mary Schmitt – Green Baskets
7-14: Robert Kerbeck – Change Your Life Day
15-24: Nancy Bourne – Act Your Age
25: Zilka Joseph – Forests of Stone
26: Zilka Joseph – Imagine the Inside Passage
27: Zilka Joseph – Crocodile Love
28-29: Dick Yaeger – Pathways to Death
30: Grant Clauser – Sight Casting
31: Grant Clauser – To Read Dead Poets
32-40: Margaret Karmazin – Rebuilding
41-47: Lori Eaton – Goat Queen
48: Mary Schmitt – The Badlands
49: March Schmitt – Homecoming—The Prodigal Son
50-59: George Dila – All Beautiful and Splendid Things
60-65: Joan Wilking – Leticia Comes Clean
66-73: Clinton Crokett Peters – Lifeguard
74: Diana Anhalt – The Spanish Speaker
75: Diana Anhalt – Plegaria—Prayer
76: Diana Anhalt – Esperanza
77-82: Casey Pycior – Chasing a Leak
83-87: Bill Crawford – “I Hear You Lima Charlie—How Me?”: A Radio Transmission from the Jungle War
88-96: Terry Sanville – Johnny Five Diamonds
97: Allen Forrest – Bellevue WA—Shoreland Drive Facing East
98: Allen Forrest – The Bel Reds—130th Ave NE, Cadman Gravel
99: Allen Forrest – The Bel Reds—Metro Transit Yard
100: Allen Forrest – Bellevue WA—Shoreland Drive Old House
101: Alexander Payne Morgan – Biographical Statement
102: Alexander Payne Morgan – The Mathematician’s Daughter
103: Diana Dinverno – The World Spins
104: Diana Dinverno – Letting Go
105-107: Kevin Tosca – In Animals We Trust
108-115: Frank Scozzari – In the Valley of the Dry Bones
116-125: Mary Carolyn Morgan – A Place for the Wedding
126-132: Brandon Patterson – The Soldier and the Gunsmith
133: Kathleen McCann – Cutting the Grass, Blackman’s Point, Marshfield
134: Roger Camp – On the First Bloom of the Eucharis Amazonica
135-139: Sudha Balagopal – Rorschach’s Blot
140-145: Charles Laird Calia – The Genius Factory
146-154: Tenley K. Lozano – The Diver in the Oil Well: September 30, 1921
155: Grant Clauser – With Shelly in the Goodwill
156-157: Rosalie Sanara Petrouske – In the World Tonight
158-160: Contributor Notes

Edition 32Binding Paperback