Beth L. Virtanen, PhD
Kippis! A Literary Journal is published twice yearly, winter and summer. Subscription price for 2010 is $25.00 US in North America and €30.00 in Europe and the rest of the world. Subscriptions are available online at
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Kippis! A Literary Journal publishes high quality prose and poetic works regarding immigrant, diasporic, and ethnic topics. We are concerned with promoting the best writing by authors who live or have lived away from their cultures of origin, whether that is by recent migration of a few years or distant migration of several generations. For complete submission guidelines,
see our website at www.finnala.com.
Kippis!A Literary Journal accepts unsolicited manuscripts attached in Word via email to
admin@finnala.com. A standard font such as Times New Roman is recommended. Short story, personal narrative and other prose submissions should not exceed 3,000 words. Poems should not exceed five pages. Simultaneous submissions are okay as long as
Kippis! is notified immediately should a manuscript be accepted elsewhere.
Materials published in
Kippis! may not be reprinted,
in whole or in part, without the written permission of the copyright holder.
An earlier version of “A Rainy Night in Burma,” by Frank Kinikin appeared in his collection titled
Letters to Jim. An earlier version of “Pulled Under, Set Afloat,” by Aoise Stratford, recently won the Philadelphia Writers Conference Literary Fiction Aware and was Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest Contest, Literary Short Fiction Division. “Universe Unites” by Faye Hirvi is corrected in this issue from
Kippis! v. 1, no. 1.
Cover Art, “Light on Water” © 2009 Beth L.
Virtanen
Copyright © 2009 by Kippis! A Literary Journal
ISBN 978-0-9823733-1-6
Kippis! A Literary Journal
Table of Contents
Welcome from the Editor 1 Beth L. Virtanen, PhD
Three Poems 2 Elaine Moe
Flush with Egg Money Second-Place Contest Winner
What Comes Honorable Mention
My Obituary Honorable Mention
Two Poems 5 Johanna Rauhala
Iron Second-Place Contest Winner
Imagination Speaks Honorable Mention
Rebirth 7 Mary Kay McAllister
Three Poems 10
Jeanne Maki
Summer Mist
Déjà Vu
The Old Man and the Brusher
Finnish Blueberries 14 Anita Erola
Pulled Under, Set Afloat 19 Aoise Stratford
Honorable Mention
Three Poems 23 Wendy Anderson
Holding On
Whatever It Takes
Sighting
Rebound 26 Rekha Ambardar
A Rainy Night in Burma 33
Frank Kinikin
Secrets 40 Wendy Anderson
Two Poems 50 Faye Hirvi
The Universe Unites
It’s There
About our contributors 51