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Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v5 #3, Fall 2005] ed. Joel Van Valin (free, 17+3pp, tabloid) “The Mystery and Crime Issue”. Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · Memories of Edgar · Stephanie Rodriguez · cv 2 · From the Whistler: The Mystery · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · The Alley · Rosemarie Crisafi · pm 2 · Then There Were Six · Moira Richards · vi 2-3 · Bandit Blood · Joyce Yarrow · ss 4 · The Mystery of the Missing Mrs. Corn · Bob Iles · ss 4 · I Think I Have Succeeded · Jenna Cardinale · pm 5 · Franklyn at the Window · John Grey · pm 5-6 · Tahlium Apple Pie · Jarda Cervenka · ss 6 · Dionysus in the Glass Shop · Carol Carpenter · pm 7 · Shady Dealing: Webzine - Leaving the Christmas Lights Up Year Round · D. Garcia Wahl · cl; webzine reviews. 7 · Happily Ever After · Beadrin (Pixie) Youngdahl · vi 7 · A Mend in the Road · Morgan Grayce Willow · pm 8 · Cool Dead People: Henry Darger’s Realms of the Unreal: A Life Contained in Script and Image · Suzanne Nielsen · nf 9 · Spectral Cinders · Joanna M. Weston · pm 9-10 · War Story · Richard A. Thompson · ss 10 · Midnight: July · Heather Helene Hooper · pm 11-14 · Summer of Corn · Ellen Dworsky · ss 12 · She Says Timothy · Jason Wesco · pm 13 · Time Lag · Louisa Howerow · pm 14 · We Shall Wear Orange Scarves · Vladimir Orlov · pm 15 · The Dover of Mondezibar · Brian Reynolds · vi 15-16 · Backyard Writer: William Kent Krueger · Kristin Johnson · iv 16-17 · Books · [Various] · rc _16 · We’re in Trouble, by Christopher Coake · Joel Van Valin · br _16 · Poison Heart, by Mary Logue · Kristin Johnson · br _17 · I’ll Watch the Moon, by Ann Tatlock · Rhonda Niola · br _17 · Making Her Way—The Search for Helga, by Nancy Frederiksen · Joel Van Valin · br 17 · About the Writers · Anon. · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v5 #4, Winter 2005/2006] ed. Joel Van Valin (free, 30+2pp, 8½" x 11" newsprint, cover by Stephanie Rodriguez) should be v5 #4. Details supplied by Denny Lien. ifc. · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg 2 · From the Whistler: What Remains · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Literary News · Joel Van Valin · ms 2 · Faith Is a Sock · Mike Young · pm 3-9 · Her Grandmother · Zdravka Evtimova · ss 5 · Our Daily Things · Mario Susko · pm 6 · Spirit Rider · Diana Lundell · pm 10-11 · About Town: Creative Writing Programs · Jesmia Avery · nf 11 · Shady Dealings: The Inability of Fitzgerald to Rest in Peace [Part 1 of 2] · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 12 · Cool Dead People: The Wonderful World of Machiko Hasegawa · Suzanne Nielsen · ar 12 · The Paleolithics · Christopher Barnes · pm 13-18 · Come Closer, My Pretty: Fresh Meat for the Dharma Freaks · Justin Teerlinck · ss 18-23 · 10 Writers Who Will Be Read in 100 Years · various · ar; short articles on Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Houellebecq, Donna Tartt, Billy Collins, Stephen King, Kazuo Ishiguro, Roddy Doyle, J.M. Coetzee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Barry Yourgrau. 24 · The Commune · S. E. Rindell · ss 28-29 · Books · [Various] · rc _28 · Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, by Lydia Millet · Melanie Faith · br _29 · The Fallen Nightingale, by John W. Milton · Joel Van Valin · br _29 · Ask the Dead, by Joyce Yarrow · Joel Van Valin · br

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v6 #1, Spring 2006] ed. Joel Van Valin (free, 30+2pp, 8½" x 11" newsprint) should be v6 #1. Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · [front cover] · Michael Basinski · cv The Journal Posted Jul 1929 ifc. · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg 2 · From the Whistler: The Village Bard · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Literary News · Anon. · ms 2 · Alarm, Set to the News Channel · Linda Back McKay · pm 3-6 · Always Wet · Daniel Gabriel · ss 4 · The Wall · Liza Porter · pm 7-11 · Boxes · Michael Leone · ss 9 · day of light · Paula Klein · pm 11-12 · Shady Dealings: The Inability of Fitzgerald to Rest in Peace [Part 2 of 2] · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 12 · Dressing Up as Keats’s “To Autumn” · Laura Glenn · pm 13-14 · Cool Dead People: Goddess and Pagan Worship (on Isabel Pagan) · Suzanne Nielsen · ar 14 · Martial: The Means to Attain a Happy Life · Martial; translated by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey · pm (r) 15-17 · Franz Kafka: “In Spite of Everything Writing Does One Good” · Bob Blaisdell · ar 18-22 · Visual Poetry: An Exhibition · Scott Helmes · ar; includes the work of 11 visual poets. 23-24 · Fast Eddie’s Fantastic Autos · Jeff Andrews · ss 25-26 · The Snack · Steve Wheeler · ss 27-28 · Books · [Various] · rc _27 · Real Karaoke People, by Ed Bok Lee · Jesmia Avery · br _27 · Arpeggio for Appetite, by Morgan Grayce Willow · Rhonda Niola · br _27-28 · Madeleine Is Sleeping, by Sarah Shun-lein Bynum · Michael Ramberg · br _28 · Tumithak of the Corridors, by Charles R. Tanner · Joel Van Valin · br _28 · The Sempster’s Tale, by Margaret Frazer · Joel Van Valin · br 29 (ibc) · Backyard Writer: Sharon Chmielarz · Joel Van Valin · iv 29 (ibc) · In His Car · Sharon Chmielarz · pm; reprinted from her book The Rhubarb King (2006).

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v6 #2, Summer 2006] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, free, 30+2pp, 8½" x 11" on newsprint) “The Music Issue”, front cover and ifc are unnumbered; o/w pages run 1-29, with 29 being the ibc; bc unnumbered but would be page 30. Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · illustration of Chet Baker · Stephanie Rodriguez · cv 2 · From the Whistler · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Literary News · Anon. · ms 2 · Do Ghosts Trek Through · Lisa Zaran · pm 3 · The Touch · Jarda Cervenka · vi 4 · Paradise City: Karaoke in Taipei · Shen Johnson · ar 5 · Klezmer in Krakow · Sharon Chmielarz · pm 6-11 · Busking with Martin · John C. Wright · ss 8 · Jazz at the Dakota · D. Garcia Wahl · pm 12 · Shady Dealings: Invitation to the Doggerelist’s Dance · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 13 · Two Guitars on the Communion Table · Steve Larson · pm 13 · I Was a Dumb Drum and Then I Was a Honeycomb · Mark A. Garcia · ar 14 · The Linden Tree · Dietmar von Aist; translated by Edgar Taylor · pm 15-22 · Roadwork 1973: The View from Underneath · Daniel Gabriel · ar 16 · An Old English Riddle with the Answer, Choir · Maryann Corbett · pm 19 · Steer Towards Danger, He Says · Julia Klatt Singer · pm 21 · Sidonie’s Squeeze Man · Jesse Freeman · pm 23-26 · Colonel Bainbridge · M. E. Parker · ss 25 · The Math of My Life · Tony Tauch · pm 26 · Cardinal (Cardinalis Cardinalis) · James McKenzie · ar 27 · For Charles Mingus, on His Birthday · J. D. Nelson · pm 28-29 · Books · [Various] · rc _28 · A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino · Michael Ramberg · br _28 · Rash, by Pete Hautman · Kristin Johnson · br _29 · The Eros Conspiracy, by Greg Hewett · Sharon Chmielarz · br 29 (ibc.) · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v6 #3, Fall 2006] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, free, 30+2pp, 8½" x 11" newsprint, cover by Cybele Collins) “Ancestry” issue, front cover and ifc are unnumbered; o/w pages run 1-29, with 29 being the ibc; bc unnumbered but would be page 30.. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · From the Whistler: Family History · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Literary News · Anon. · ms 2 · Page from Byron’s Day Planner · Anon. · hu 3-5 · Searching for Francis West: How a Colonial Reprobate Became My Spirit Guide · Curtis West · ar 4 · Night Vision · Sean Lause · pm 5 · Late Afternoon, February 16, 1905 · Claudia Stanek · pm 6 · Sometimes It Takes a Little Mud · Doris Bergstrom · ar 7 · Identifying · Jeff Vande Zande · vi 8 · A Question of Place · Bryan Thao Worra · pm 9 · An American Boyhood: Chicago 1950 · Michael Klatt · ar 10 · When I Knew Him · Julia Klatt Singer · pm 11 · Cool Dead People: The Lighter Side of Joan Bennett, Hollywood’s Darker Femme Fatale · Suzanne Nielsen · ar 12 · Shady Dealings: American Poetry on Trial · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 12 · Remembering Golden Bells · Po Chu-i; translated by Arthur Waley · pm (r) 13 · Uncle See-See’s Secret! · Michael Fedo · ar 16-19 · An Empty Sky · Marjorie Owen · ss 17 · New York Postcard Sonnet #29 · Philip Dacey · pm 20 · The Dame Paper · Polly Grose · ar 21 · C.A. · Britt Fleming · pm 22 · Happy · Tony Rauch · vi 23 · Rain in My Childhood · Cangxin Fang · pm 24 · Rabo Encendio · Glendaliz Camacho · ar 24 · Uncle Floyd and Uncle Al Shoot Some Pool · Joyce Sutphen · pm 25 · House of Dreams · Daniel Gabriel · ar 26 · Family Portrait · Beadrin Youngdahl · pm 27-29 · Books · [Various] · rc _27 · Historias de Vida y Muerta (Stories of Life and Death), collected by Alan Grostephan · Sten Johnson · br _27 · Half Wild, by Mary Rose O’Reilley · Jesmia Avery · br _28 · Into the Desperate Country, by Jeff Vande Zande · Anne Wolfe · br _28 · The Illuminations, by Mary Kay Rummel · Joel Van Valin · br 28 · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v6 #4, Winter 2006/2007] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, free, 22+2pp, 8½" x 11" on newsprint) front cover and ifc are unnumbered; o/w pages run 1-21, with 21 being the ibc; bc unnumbered but would be page 22. Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · reproduction of portrait of Lord Byron · Thomas Phillips · cv 2 · From the Whistler: Literary Science · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Literary News · Anon. · ms 3-5 · Piano Lessons · Daniel R. Snyder · ss 4 · Etiquette for Confronting Dead Men · Kristine Ong Muslim · pm 5 · Fields · Michelle O’Sullivan · pm 5 · Bully · Kathy Fish · vi 6 · Cool Dead People: Dessi Espana’s Fall to Grace · Suzanne Nielsen · ar 7 · Wet Paint · Boris Pasternak; translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater · pm (r) 7 · To the Boy · Bonnie Priebe · pm 8 · Shady Dealings: The Postman Cometh... · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 8 · The Gus I Knew · Sharon Chmielarz · pm 9 · Byron’s War: His Life and Death as a Greek Revolutionary · Joel Van Valin · ar 15 · Byron on America · George Gordon, Lord Byron · ms (r) 15 · Tom and Esther Remember · John Grey · pm 16 · John Masefield: A Dry Land Sailor Poet · Gary Lehmann · pm 17 · Creature · Dorothy Uhlman · ss 20 · Books · [Various] · rc _20 · I Want to Look Like Henry Bataille, by Michael Gause · Jesmia Avery · br _20 · Be Mine, by Laura Kasischke · Joel Van Valin · br _21 · 67 Mixed Messages, by Ed Allen · Dallas Crow · br 21 · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v7 #1, Spring 2007] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, free, 22+2pp, 8½" x 11" newsprint, cover by Sten Johnson) front cover and ifc are unnumbered; o/w pages run 1-21, with 21 being the ibc; bc unnumbered but would be page 22. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · From the Whistler: The Cult of Cool · Joel Van Valin · ed 3-8 · Celebrated Navigation · Jarda Cervenka · ss 5 · Abbey Gasoline · Kilian McDonnell · pm 6 · Spare Room · Karsten Piper · pm 8 · Cool Dead People: Rosario Castellanos - “Between My Lips of Granite” · Suzanne Nielsen · cl 9 · Young People Today · Mary Crockett Hill · pm 10 · Shady Doings: Still Trying to Show Slam the Door · D. Garcia Wahl · cl; on Slam Poetry. 11-13 · Mercury · Jeff Vande Zande · ss 12 · The Foal · Thomas R. Smith · pm 13 · Conversation with My Brother · Joanna M. Weston · pm 14 · The Electrifying Mary Shelley · Suzanne Nielsen · ar 15-19 · Requiescat in Pace · D. E. Fredd · ss 17 · ’When You Are Very Old’ · Pierre de Ronsard; translated by Andrew Lang · pm (r) 18 · What Characters Do When We’re Away · Howard Good · pm 20 · Books · [Various] · rc _20 · Things You Will Never See Again, by Greg Watson · Rhonda Niola · br _20 · Barn Dance, by Chuck Brown · Joel Van Valin · br _20 · The Patron Saint of Desperate Situations, by John Harrigan · Suzanne Nielsen · br _21 · The Wind Tells Me Stories, by COMPAS Writers & Artists in the Schools Program · Joel Van Valin · br 21 · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v7 #2, Summer 2007] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, 30+2, free, 8½" x 11" newsprint, cover photo) “The War Issue.” Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · From the Whistler: It Happened Here · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Telegram in a War Year · Sharon Chmielarz · pm 2 · How to Live · Norita Dittberner-Jax · pm 3 · Auction 51952A · Juleigh Howard-Hobson · vi 4 · Letter from the Western Front · Robert Graves · mm (r); reprinted from: Goodbye to All That, by Robert Graves. 5 · Jungle Juice · Everett Smith · mm 5 · On Swearing · Gary Dop · pm 6-7 · The Waiting · Donald O. Halgren · ss 7 · Sgt. Brian Arturez · Gary Dup · pm 8-9 · Listening Post · Clifford Schroeder · mm 8 · Barrack Hospital · Doris Bergstrom · pm 10 · Prisoner of War · Connie Vigil Platt · mm 10 · Sick in Time of War · Mary Kay Rummel · pm 11-13 · First Mission · Bruce B. Rutherford · mm 13-15 · Collateral Damage · Beadrin Youngdahl · ss 15-17 · 1984—Liberia · Britt Fleming · mm 17-18 · Cool Dead People: Elinor Wylie—Every Poiret Has a Silver Lining · Suzanne Nielsen · cl 19 · Shady Dealings: No Contest · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 20-21 · Civil War in Guatemala · John-Ivan Palmer · mm 21-23 · Fawn Eyes · Monika Lange · ss 23 · At the Grave of Polynices · David McLean · pm 24 · Bull Run, 1995 · Stephen MacKinnon · vi 25-26 · The Town That Achmed Built · Ryan Smithson · mm 27 · Trolls · Erin Pringle · vi 28-29 · Books · [Various] · rc _28 · Couplet, by James Browning Kepple · Ailbhe Darcy · br _28 · Map of Murder · Jesmia Avery · br _28 · The Mystery of Max Schmitt, by Philip Dacey · Joel Van Valin · br _29 · Dear Immovable, by LouAnn Shepard Muhm · Britt Fleming · br 29 · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v7 #3, Fall 2007] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, free, 30+2pp, 8½" x 11" newsprint) note: cover says “Fall 2007” while table of contents says “Summer 2007;” the cover is correct. Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · photo of 1844 painting “View of Fort Snelling” · J. C. Wild · cv 2 · From the Whistler: Art or Activism? · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · Literary News · [Misc.] · ms 2 · The Museum of American Opulence · Maryann Corbett · pm 3-12 · Athens · Eric Stener Carlson · ss 7 · in front of ee cummings’ home, perhaps a deep well · Tim J. Brennan · pm 13-14 · Profile—Hermann Broch · Hugh Mahoney · ar 14 · Tichborne’s Elegie · Chidiock Tichborne · pm ca. 1586 15 · Cool Dead People: Graced by the Divine Ms. Paley (on Grace Paley) · Suzanne Nielsen · cl [Grace Paley] 16 · Shady Dealings: The Battle for Minnesota’s Voice · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 16 · Two Truths from the Movie Round Midnight · Steve Larson · pm 17-19 · Everything Is Broken · Patrick Dacey · ss 18 · Memorizing Poems · Philip Dacey · pm 19-20 · Lost Writers of Minnesota: Maud Hart Lovelace · Joel Van Valin · bg 20 · Rothko Room: Phillips Gallery · Sandy Beach · pm 21 · Two Butchers: Circumcision in Nazi Germany · Fred M. B. Amram · mm 21 · another casuality at the 34th street bus stop · Justin Hyde · pm 22-23 · Witherspot · J. P. Rodriguez · ss 24-26 · Sluice · Lisa McCallum · ss 26 · A Note to Paolo Uccello · Robyn R. Hjermstad · pm 27-29 · Books · [Various] · rc _27 · Rough Traces, by Jason Wesco · Michael K. Gause · br _27 · Mere Anarchy, by Woody Allen · Dustin L. Nelson · br _28 · Yahweh’s Other Shoe, by Kilian · Michael Ramberg · br _28 · The I Tetralogy, by Mathias B. Freese · Meaghan Beninati · br _29 · Waking Before Dawn, by Thomas R. Smith · Joel Van Valin · br 29 · Contributors · [Misc.] · bg

Whistling Shade: Literary Journal [v7 #4, Winter 2007/2008] ed. Joel Van Valin (Whistling Shade; St. Paul, MN, free, 30+2pp, 8½" x 11" newsprint) Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · photo of Caye Caulker · Justin Teerlinck · cv 2 · From the Whistler: The Genius Handicap · Joel Van Valin · ed 2 · At the Wayside Home of the Master · Karsten Piper · pm 2 · Literary News · Anon. · ms 3-8 · Almost Paradise · Justin Teerlinck · ss 5 · Nude Driving · R. Yurman · pm 8 · The Spires of Oxford · Winifred M. Letts · pm (r); reprint, source not given: “Letts (1882-1972) wrote this poem during World War I”. 9-11 · Paris Is Burning: Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s Vision · Sten Johnson · ar 11 · Union Depot · George Bishop · pm 11 · Photograph · George Bishop · pm 12-13 · My Tiny Little Mind · Jason R. Riley · ss 13 · Sonnet · Margaret Brady · pm 14-15 · Cool Dead People: Heinrich von Kleist—the Period in the Question Mark · Suzanne Nielsen · cl 15 · Shady Dealings: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad ’tis? · D. Garcia Wahl · cl 16-21 · Khalas · Kevin Dean · ss 21 · Ponte Rotto · Britt Fleming · pm 22-24 · Profile—Graham Greene · Hugh Mahoney · ar 23 · Ten Years · Rita Schweiss · pm 24-26 · The Chicken · Benjamin Arda Doty · ss 25 · My Life and I · Thomas R. Smith · pm 26 · How I Almost Started World War III · J. P. Johnson · mm 28-29 · Books · [Various] · rc _28 · The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman · Joel Van Valin · br _28 · The Last Communist Virgin, by Wang Ping · Jesmia Avery · br _29 · Awakening Indigo, by Diana Lundell · Anon. · br _29 · Gardening in a Time of War, by Maryann Corbett · Anon. · br 29 · About Our Contributors · Anon. · bg