Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Editor’s Note, vii
ESSAY
Out of Notebooks
W. S. Di Piero, 19
Patience
Nick Bozanic, 34
The Vatican Rag
Lisa Erb Stewart, 37
Nobody Cannot Be Saints
Brian Doyle, 40
Grace of the Ordinary
Michelle Cruz Skinner, 44
The Transparency of Faithful Existence
Forrest Gander, 78
On Laughing
Patrick Madden, 141
Beyond Reasons
Gene Frumkin, 145
Wavelength
Naomi Shihab Nye, 147
from On Water
Thomas Farber, 152
DRAMA
Damien
Aldyth Morris, 48
FICTION
True Stories
Eduardo Galeano, 1
The Letters of Heaven
Barry Lopez, 9
A Swarm of Bees Fluttering
Alai, 23
Chhinar
Sanat Regmi, 88
Miwok Moon
Chester Aaron, 103
Ascension
John Zuern, 109
Daily Evangelism
James D. Houston, 127
POETRY
Three Poems
Pat Matsueda, 82
Two Poems
Sur Das, 86
Four Poems
Nick Bozanic, 94
Three Poems
W. S. Di Piero, 99