Beth L. Virtanen, PhD
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ISBN 978-0-9823733-0-9
Kippis! A Literary Journal
Table of Contents
Welcome from the Editor 1 Beth L. Virtanen, PhD
No Place for a Woman 2
Sirpa Kaukinen
First-place winner, Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
Three Poems 7 Kathryn Benninghoff
Winter War Third Place Winner, Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
Grandpa Verner's Skis Third Place Winner,
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
Aino Swims
Minerva 9 Mary Caraker
Poems 11 Faye Hirvi
There Is Silence Honorable Mention,
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
The Universe Unites
Awakening . . . on the Twenty-ninth Day 12 Don Hagelberg
Three Poems 19 Ernest Hekkanen
Valley of Lost Souls
Bones that Sing
Journeys We Must Take
A Poem 22 Hazel Lauttamus Birt
Finns in the Valley Honorable Mention,
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
A Poem 23 Lisa da Cunha-Koski
Old Barns Honorable Mention,
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
Three Poems 24 Greg Watson
Elocution 101 Honorable Mention,
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
Washing Her Hair
At the Library
Paired Poems in English and Finnish 26 Burt Rairamo (English)
Queen’s Park (English) Sirpa Bagman (Finnish)
Queen’s Park (Finnish)
Today the Sky Looks Like/ Taivas näyttää tänään
Today I Spotted/ Tänään huomasin
Three Poems 29 Suzanne Matson
Birds at Six O’Clock
From SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (Hostel Satakuntalo)
Reading Lesson at a Farm Workers’ Community School, Woodville, California, 1942
Three Poems 32 Jamie Buehner
What Words Have that I Didn’t
Ercan in the Sun and the Rain
Report in Four Parts
Three Poems 34 JoEllyn Belka
Exhausted
It Is Almost Night
Salty Mist
Two Poems 35 Ted Jansen
Soudan Avenue
the passage
One Poem 36 Don Hagelberg
Ichthyology
Two Poems 38 Anna Pajunen
Welthauptstadt Germania
Leticia in the Back with the White Foundation
Kantele 41 K. A. Laity
About our contributors 51