Problem Child

Penn State’s Alternative Literary Magazine

20th Anniversary Double Issue

Volume 20 Issue 2
Spring & Fall 2007
Editors: Sarah Gordon, Chad Ostrowski & Lisa Yoder

Cover Art


Poetry & Prose

Bono Is Number Two - Daniel Anderson

Chicago Story - Mish Irish

Separation With Autumn - D. Thoures

Perception - Kristen A. Kutz

Midnight Portrait: Pollock Road, Winter 2006 - Joanna Guldin

“You’re dashing!” - Christine Witchey

A Pardon - Ian Ostrowski

closet - Greg Schwartz

Saving Grace - Mish Irish

The Carlton Cards Experience - Kristen A. Kutz

the future sucks - Greg Schwartz

& A Cupboard Slamming Open - Maurice Oliver

She Walked With Proust - Ronald James Kerrigan

Bear the Red Cross - Daniel Anderson

Odalisque. - Christine Witchey

Small Spiral Notebook: Entry Twenty-Nine - Maurice Oliver

An Unfair Advantage - Byron D. Howell

Wet Black Bough - Meredith McTamany

If I had a cannon - Ian Ostrowski

Saber-rattling Liberal - ts brock

Blow On - Michael Haeflinger

Tornado in Summer 1998 - Kristen A. Kutz

Midnight Entrancement - Tatiana Gochez-Kerr

Learning to Fly - David B. McCoy

Tableaux from Whitehall, Michigan - Dave De Fina

Kinshasa: 2004 - Patric James

dirty memory - David McLean

History on Trial - John Libertus

Valencia - ts brock

Family of Birds - Thaddeus Rutkowski

The Adolescent Garden - Danna Hobart

Two Green Turtles - G Emil Reutter

BirdMadPoem - Suzanne Ryan

Leave These Horses Alone - Thaddeus Rutkowski

And She Was Right - Laura Ann Tramontanna

Baby Busters - Danna Hobart

Sex Education - Meredith McTamany

implant appointment - Mish Irish

State of the Union, 2003 - David B. McCoy

Hickory Dickory Cock - Xaq Blecher

A Teacher Speaking To Students In Love - Kristen A. Kutz

Happier - Chad Ostrowski

Letter from Aching - John Libertus

free will - Max Moon

Rice Fish: Prose Poem - David B. McCoy

Recipe - David Giordano

Post Mortem - ts brock

If I were my coffee cup - Meredith McTamany

Something Like Splendor - Joseph Reich

When All Else Fails - Jason Wilkinson

A roaring disconcerting light - Patric James

This Bike - David B. McCoy

Goddess - David B. McCoy

Untitled - Jason Wilkinson

New Years Day: 2005 - Patric James

Liquid Eden - Chelsea Rawlings

There Once - Ian Ostrowski

Sixteen - Chad Ostrowski

Crawlers - Timothy J. Morton

Leaving Disney World - Chad Ostrowski

You’re Late - Vicki Wilson

I Saw You Across the Street Today - Kristen A. Kutz

On the Day My Daughter was Born - David Huthmacher

Intimacy - Kristen A. Kutz

Goodbye - Chad Ostrowski

To Steve - Ian Ostrowski

Contemplation on the World Cup from Inside the Parc Olympique, Montréal - Joanna Guldin

night - Greg Schwartz

Lizard Lips - Thaddeus Rutkowski

Best Offer - Vicki Wilson

i have a tremendous urge to poke you in the eyeballs. bofa dem. bofa bofa. YAY!! - Ian Ostrowski

Invaders - Ian Ostrowski

Hennesey and Plath - Joanna Guldin

Hiding in a Sandwich - Timothy J. Morton

Once upon a Stomach Rumble - Chad Ostrowski

Post-Breakfast Blessing - Zoe Nichols

Every Wednesday - David Huthmacher

Bird Watching - Thaddeus Rutkowski

Photos & Art

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