Contents

POETRY

Deema K. Shehabi
           Khadijah

Eamon Grennan
           On Change
           Hawk Enterting Hemlock

Alex Lemon
           Senso Commune

Coral Bracho
           Turbulenta su fluida calma

Forrest Gander (trans.)
           Its fluid calm, turbulent

Clay Matthews
           Sonnet Terrorized by Another Sad Song

Ellen Wehle
           Girlhood Diptych

Chad Davidson
           A Russian Moment

Jibade-Khalil Huffman
           Fugue
           Prayer

Philip Metres
           Two States (Graduation Day, 2005)

Joshua Poteat
           From J.G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science: Illustrating
           From J.G. Heck's ... Illustrating that objects on earth can throw shadows into space

Billy Collins
           Carpe Diem

Marian Haddad
           Correction

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
           Honig

C.M. Burroughs
           Glory Box
           & Glory

Nicholas Reading
           Stick and Jab
           Sam's Meaning

Shrode Hargis
           Gait of the Feathers

Jesse Graves
           His Confession

Bradley W. Buchanan
           The Feral Child
           Spilled Milk

Timothy Liu
           Romance

Richard Garcia
           The Persistence of Objects

Luke Sykora
           Poem

Thomas Sayers Ellis
            Song On

Andrew Najberg
           The Last Note

Dean Young
           Sex with Strangers
           Blue Hands

Nicky Beer
           Stumphumper

F. Daniel Rzicznek
           Tinnitus

Jeff Encke
           From Most Wanted: Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Tai (8<3)
           From Most Wanted: Hani Abd Al-Latif Tilfah Al-Tiktirti (K<3)

Eryn Green
          Tent Poles

Thomas Kane
           How to: An Apology
           After Untitled/(Maple Street)

Sharon Dolin
           At the Reception, 1963

Joe Barnes
          A Walking Tour of W.H. Auden's Face

Allan Peterson
          Imperative

Hayan Charara
          You

Eitan Kadosh
          Muppet Howl

Fady Joudah
          Proposal
          Atlas

Naomi Shihab Nye
          The Frogs Did Not Forget

David Hernandez
          Snowman

Josiah Bancroft
          Birthday Boy
          Bird Strike at Bancroft International

Frannie Lindsay
          Pet

James Tate
          The New Horses

Helena Mesa
          Notes on a Saint: Deirdre, Brigid of Munster d. 570

Jonathan Fink
          Hades and the Agony of Spring

David Francis
          Proper Destruction

FICTION

Patrick McGrath
           from Trauma

James Reed
           Mr. Tesla's Thunder

Sean Beaudoin
            It Was Modeling School
            from Requiem, Mass.

William Peacock
           The Confessions of Juan Hernando Cruz y Vera, Later

NONFICTION

Colm Tóibín
           A Dance to the Music of Time: Anthony Powell and the British Tradition

POETRY FEATURE

Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Fady Joudah
           The Horse Fell Off the Poem
           Nothing but Light
           The Beloved Hemorrhaged Anemones
           A Poetry Stanza / The Southerner's House
           A Cloud from Sodom

ART

George Boorujy
           Pronghorn
           Brandt's Cormorant
           Guillemots

Retsu Takahashi
           Townscape

Clint Baclawski
            Eye in the Sky

Kristi Head
            Saving Space

Nicky Arscott
           Illustrations to "The Confessions of Juan Hernando Cruz y Vera, Later"

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