#9

Poetry

Mary Coolidge
My Familiar Empty
In Spite of Myself

Mark DeCarteret
Coverage

Nick Demske
Psyche 101

Mae Emerick
"Little Like the Drum"

Kathleen Eull
Dinner Party

Emily Kendal Frey
Child Song
Faster than the Sun

Ricky Garni
Wire Haired Daschund

Michelle Learner
The Eternal Recurrence of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

J.T. Ledbetter
Byron Notch
Shadows

Glenn Reed
2001: A Kubrick Night at the Accidental Gallery

Peter Schwartz
A.R.H. (Automatic Radio Heart)

Ann Tweedy
The Same Breath
Rain Gear

KNOCK #9 Staff

Poetry Cont.

Raymond Wachter
Some Mornings I Dream of Gregor Samsa

Joshua A. Ware
Modeling Back into Architecture
10 Sentences for My Variable White Netting

Fiction

Aaron Dietz
Support

Luke Geddes
T.V. Girl

Rich Ives
The Chosen Ones

Michael Jauchen
Loser

Gladys Justin Carr
Terminal

Wythe Marschall
The Mother

Art

David Cooley
4 train maps

Melora Kuhn
2 paintings

Tracy Lang
woodcut prints & drawings

Izel Vargas
6 paintings

Editorial

Absti-enz

Essay

Chad Faries
excerpt from Merit Street

Plays

Jason Grote
Cats

Elizabeth Heffron
Foxy Populi

Nick Stokes
Birds and Terds

Interviews

Jonathan Evison
Bryan Tomasovich

Serj Tankian on Elect the Dead
Tyler Ingram & Bryan Tomasovich

Book Launch Watch

An excerpt from Jonathan Evison's new book All About Lulu, set for release from Soft Skull Press in July 2008