Kippis! a Literary Journal

Kippis! A Literary Journal

Kippis!A Literary Journal is owned by the Finnish NorthAmerican Literature Association,founded by Beth L. Virtanen, PhD. The first two issues are publishedwith support from the Finlandia Foundation National. The Paloheimo Foundation is acknowledged for generously supporting the position of the Editor at Finlandia University.

Editor

Beth L. Virtanen, PhD

Professor and Paloheimo Scholar

Finlandia University

Hancock, MI

Associate Editor

G. K. Wuori

Sycamore, IL

Creative Writing Contest

Judging Coordinator

Sheila Packa

Duluth, MN

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 or by mail by sending your mailing address along with a check or money order made out to “FinNALA” to Beth Virtanen, Editor, FinNALA, 47283 Huron Street, Atlantic Mine, MI 49905, USA.

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

Kippis!A Literary Journal accepts unsolicited manuscripts attached in Word via email to . 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.

ISBN 978-0-9823733-1-6

Kippis! A Literary Journal

Table of Contents

Welcome from the Editor1Beth L. Virtanen, PhD

Three Poems2Elaine Moe

Flush with Egg MoneySecond-Place Contest Winner

What ComesHonorable Mention

My ObituaryHonorable Mention

Two Poems5Johanna Rauhala

IronSecond-Place Contest Winner

Imagination SpeaksHonorable Mention

Rebirth7 Mary Kay McAllister

Three Poems10Jeanne Maki

Summer Mist

Déjà Vu

The Old Man and the Brusher

Finnish Blueberries14Anita Erola

Pulled Under, Set Afloat19Aoise Stratford

Honorable Mention

Three Poems 23Wendy Anderson

Holding On

Whatever It Takes

Sighting

Rebound26Rekha Ambardar

A Rainy Night in Burma33Frank Kinikin

Secrets40Wendy Anderson

Two Poems50Faye Hirvi

The Universe Unites

It’s There

About our contributors51