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Last updated: January 24, 2026 11:18 AM

SIR 1999


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Poetry

Hydrologic Sonnet — Leslie Adrienne Miller
No Man’s Land — Leslie Adrienne Miller
Archie and Veronica — Lynne Kuderko
Dream Father (Cloud Father) — Barbara Edelman
Inevitability — Terry D. Seaton 
Hit By a Hearse — Carol Carpenter
Routine — Grant Vecera 
Bad Breaks — Matthew Brennan
Selling the House — Jack R. Ridl
In the Olden Days — Richard Newman
A Tourist in New Harmony — Helga Kidder 
February Thaw — Jordan Smith
I Like It — Jordan Smith

Nonfiction

The Maker’s Manipulation of Time — Stephen Dobyns

Fiction

The Woman Who Received Stigmata on the Eve of Referendum — Patricia Aakhus
Disaster of the Catastrophic Kind — Kirby Gann 
The Truth about Mangoes — Jim McGarrah 
Nickels and Dimes — Richard Dokey

Creative Nonfiction

Vida O Dignidad Life or Dignity — Charles David Kleymeyer

Art/Photography

View of the Ohio from Pagoda, 1999 — Eric D. Braysmith
10 Holes in Indiana #1, 1998 — Chet Geiselman
Untitled Figure Study, 1998 — Matthew Gehring
A Difficult Landscape, 1998 — Anita Powell 
Main Street Walkway, Evansville, 1998 — Eric D. Braysmith
Amish Wash Day, 1998 — Charles L. Price
Sterling Brewery, Evansville, 1999 — Eric D. Braysmith
Wood Strawberry, 1996 — Charles L. Price
Untitled Muscles Study, 1998 — Matthew Gehring 
Winter Solstice, Ireland, 1988 — Michael K. Aakhus
Clonfinlough Stone, 1990 — Michael K. Aakhus
Land’s End Beach, 1996 — Yuri Reshanov
Gloves, 1998 — Chet Geiselman
Suburbs, Newburgh, Indiana, 1997 — Eric D. Braysmith 
Untitled Figure Study, 1998 — Matthew Gehring
10 Holes in Indiana #3, 1999 — Chet Geiselman

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