We're very pleased to announce that UPS just dropped off our copies of Backwards City Review #2. Subscribers and contributors should be getting their issues in a week or so.

Excerpts are going up this weekend -- but it wouldn't hurt to place your order early.

The taste explosion that is Issue 2 includes:

Comics from Paulette Poullet, Kenneth Koch, Nate Powell, Jeremy Broomfield & Claude le Monde, and Patricia Storms

Fiction from Chris Bachelder, Alika Tanaka, Dave Housley, Julia Ridley Smith, and Kurtis Davidson

Nonfiction from Traci Burns

Poetry from Dan Albergotti, Linh Dinh, C. Derick Varn, Joanne Lowery, Michael Constantine McConnell, Lisa Jarnot, Adam Clay, Eric Amling, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Anna Fulford, Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, Chad Davidson & John Poch, Nick Carbo, Michael Robins, Marc McKee, Jon Leon, Becky Cooper, Matthew Rohrer, Chris Vitiello, and James Grinwis

Art and Photography from John Norris, Jon Clark, Mitchell Ostrover, and Mike Stauss

Humor from Tom Greenwood

and introducing Index by The Editors

And current subscribers: we love you. It's never too early to renew.