Contents

Editor's Note

Art

Cover art by Jockum Nordstrom | For Once, Playing Guitar | The Coachman
(Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery, New York, and Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm)

Graphic Poem by Unibrow | Early Adulthood by Khaled Mattawa

Photography by Sherre Paris and Xavier Peru

Fiction

Sarah Bird | from Weightless: A Morality Tale

Thomas David Lisk | The Memory of Desire

Ander Monson | Get Started | The Sudden Possibility of Nakedness

Jennifer Neville | The Feel of Water

Terese Svoboda | Tags

Helena Maria Viramontes| The Start of Going Bad

Poetry

Craig Arnold | from Couple from Hell

John Bradley | For T'ao Chien, Drinking Wine Once Again | For T'ao Chien, Home Again Among Gardens and Fields

Michael Burkard | Under One Small Fear

Teresa Cader | Oasis

Mike Chasar | Accounting for Crassus

Philip Dacey | Badlands Love | Nude with Asparagus

Kyle Dargan | Quagmire

Norman Dubie | Curfew | The Ocean

Karl Elder | On the Long-Ago Death of John Lennon | A Short History of History

Marilyn Hacker | Letter to Mimi Khalvati

Bill Knott | The Silo | Smatches (featured on Verse Daily)

Anthony Lacavaro | Babel (The Road) | Running Numbers

Gerry LaFemina | Infatuation

Ben Lerner | Liquid Crystal Display

Eric McHenry | HyperMart

Marc McKee | Everything and a Kite

Maurice Manning | The Haul and What You're Pulling Still

Khaled Mattawa | Adolescence of Burnt Hands | Early Adulthood

Robert Morgan | Apple Howling | Burning Spring

Emmanuel Moses | Old Conversations

Thylias Moss | The Culture of Glass

Paul Muldoon | Narcissus Batt at the Belfast Bank

Andrew Osborn | Addendum (featured on Verse Daily) | Taxidermy (featured on Verse Daily)

Eric Pankey | Late April a Little North of Charlottesville | Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale (featured on Poetry Daily)

Barbara Ras | Pursuit

Ron Rash | The Barn-Fox

Mary Ann Samyn | Draw a little bird. | Draw something secret. Then cut it out and hide it.

Tracy K. Smith | SciFi | When Zappa Crashes My Family Reunion

Andrew Stallings | Something Rich and Strange

Larissa Szporluk | Cuckoo (featured on Verse Daily) | Loosely Related Sheep (featured on Verse Daily)

David Wagoner | The Old Men

Marlys West | The Wet Mouth of Sky

C. K. Williams | Miniature Poodle

Franz Wright | Kindness | October

John Yau | Tuz

C. Dale Young | The Ether Dome

Contributors' Notes