The Art & Soul of the Delaware Valley Sunken Lines is published quarterly online and yearly in print, and is devoted to artwork, essays, reviews, poetry, and prose........... Annual Poetry Contest.... See below for details

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In this issue
Lisa Pinkowski reports from Haiti in her serialized diary 'Mi Pa Mi Pal'. Anna Evans, who won the poetry prize at the recent Philadelphia Writers Conference, debuts four new poems and in case you weren't there, you can read Maureen Palli’s personal review of the conference. Scotty Blake transforms flatus into high art in 'The Toll Bridge'. Sarah Gallup’s short story, ‘Sanctuary’ deals with wedded bliss. Julie Greenbaum’s poem 'Around The Paddocks' was inspired by her stay in New South Wales. Anna Evans won our spring edition essay contest, read her winning entry here.

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Annual Poetry Contest

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

Write an original poem, in any style, inspired by the photograph entitled Deadwood, in the gallery section on the Inside Track, and send to our poetry editor by November 1st, 2005. All finalists will be published, and the winner will be announced in the autumn edition.

THE INSIDE TRACK


Essays

Forming A More Perfect Union, A Glance In The Mirror • D.R Patterson Jr.

M' Pa Pi Mal: Diary of a Short-Term Missionary Trip to Haiti • Lisa Pinkowski

PWC 2005 Review • Maureen Palli

Is Perfect Freedom Anathema to Poetic Art? • Anna Evans

Prose

Secrets from the Lower Sixth • Aubrey Makepeace

A Hard Rock • Ron Morocco

Sanctuary • Sarah Gallup

Suzanne's Dream Journal • Suzanne

Poetry

The Toll Bridge & Other Poems • Scotty Blake

The Pencil • Kelly Cornett

Four Poems • Paul LeBon

The Wife Of The Ku Klux Klansman Takes The Stand & Other Poems • Anna Evans

Around The Paddocks • Julie Greenbaum

A Dictionary of Philosophy in Limerick Form, Part II • Dogger Banks

Gallery

Deadwood • Paul Lench

Sunken Lines
Behind the Bike Shed
Route 70
Somewhere near Top Dog

Sunken Lines
The Art & Soul of the Delaware Valley
Issue 2 Summer 2005