Winter 2010 (Seventh E-zine Issue) Click on “title links” to open each item.
Title	Author
Poetry
Mother Speaks Her Name	Frank Adams
Thankful (for Dean)	Frank Adams
Kansas City Ice Storm	Greg Field
Falling Asleep Alone In December	Greg Field
Transformation	Greg Field
She Waits	Adrian Fort
There is At Least One Pair	Catherine McGuire
Peeling Potatoes	Catherine McGuire
Mud	Catherine McGuire
The Calm Before	Jason Ryberg
A Tiny Drop Of Truth	Jason Ryberg
The Great Who Knows	Jason Ryberg
I Bring Aunt Mary a Christmas Tree	Maryfrances Wagner
Learning to Be Small	Maryfrances Wagner
Remembering	Maryfrances Wagner
Stories
None published for this issue

Brief Notes
 Winter 2010

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It has been a long, cold one here at our little corner of Northeast Kansas City, with snow covering all and sundry like the ending of Joyce’s story.  Downgo Sun has let a few parting rays of poetry to warm you.  Read works from authors Adrian Fort, Jason Ryberg, Greg Field, Maryfrances Wagner, Frank Adams and Catherine McGuire while sipping some espresso, hot cocoa or buttered rum.  That is sure to take the chill from the air.

The Editors

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Contributors Corner

Frank Adams is a graduate of the University of Central Missouri.  He studied with Lee Strasberg and was a member of The Performance Gallery.  His poetry has appeared in Kansas City Metropolitan Verse, Volumes 2 and 3, Grist, Emerald Fields 2008 Poetry Anthology, and on web sites such as Poets Against War.  His poetic narrative, Crazy Times, was published in 2009.

Catherine McGuire has been widely published over the past two decades, including The Lyric, Melusine, New Verse News, The Smoking Poet, the Poetry In Motion project, Folio and Main Street Rag.  She has published a chapbook, “Joy Into Stillness: Seasons of Lake Quinault” and is currently the assistant director at CALYX Press.

Maryfrances Wagner has five books of poetry including Salvatore’s Daughter (BkMk), nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Red Silk, winner of the Thorpe Menn Book Award for 2000, and Light Subtracts Itself (MidAm), selected as one of the top ten poetry books of 2008 by the Kansas City Star.  Her poems are widely published in literary magazines including Laurel Review, New Letters, Birmingham Poetry Review, Nebraska Review, Karamu, et. al. and various anthologies including Unsettling America (Penguin), Bearing Witness and The Dream Book, winner of the American Book Award.  She has taught writing for over twenty years and has served as co-editor of the New Letters Review of Books and co-president of The Writers Place.  She and her husband sponsor the Crystal Field Scholarship for a creative writing student at UMKC.

Greg Field is a writer, artist, and musician who lives in Independence, Missouri.  His poems have appeared in many magazines such as New Letters, Laurel Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Karamu, and the I-70 Review.  His book, The Longest Breath, won the Mid-America Press Writing Award for 1997.

Jason Ryberg is the author of seven books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box of loose papers that could one day be loosely construed as a novel and a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors.  He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.  His latest collection of poems, Blunt Trauma (co-authored with Iris Appelquist and released by Spartan Press), is available at:

www.prosperosbookstore.com

Bio Notes from Adrian Fort are forthcoming.