cover of issue 8

ISSUE 9: SPRING 2013

Including Polina Barskova, Michael Earl Craig, Darcie Dennigan, Timothy Donnelly, Rachel Yoder…

FEATURED WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STEPHANIE HORVATH
  • I'm so tired of hunting I don't want to do it (p)
MATT HART
  • The Wild Dogs and Flowers of Texas (p)
  • Work Face (p)
BENJAMIN PALOFF
  • The Illusion of the End (p)
DANIEL POPPICK
  • Like a Fire the Crickets Go All Mafia Inside of (p)
  • Independence Day Manifesto (p)
MEGHAN PRIVITELLO
  • Reverse (p)
ALICE BOLIN
  • Jawbreaker (p)
JEFFREY MORGAN
  • The Commuter (p)
DARCIE DENNIGAN
  • Chop Chop (p)
  • Tiny Sex Acts (p)
  • The Nature of Things (p)
VINCENT GUERRA
  • Outlook Crooning (p)
ANDREW GRACE
  • Deliverance (p)
HALINA DURAJ
  • Shipwreck (p)
SAM SELINGER
  • The Difficulty (p)
POLINA BARSKOVA, translated by CATHERINE CIEPIELA
  • The Lawyer and the Pearl (A Fable) (p)
  • Between Poets (A Vaudeville) (p)
NATALIE EILBERT
  • Ode to the Nascent Conqueror No Longer at Sea (p)
ADAM DAY
  • Gersten Haywood Sutherland Chair of Rhetoric and Composition (p)
  • Security (p)
SARAH CROSSLAND
  • The Super Stupendous Tale of Annie Edson Taylor and Her Harrowing Adventure at Niagra (p)
ALEX CHERTOK
  • Clove (p)
JANE LOECHLER
  • Rabble-rouser (p)
NORMAN DUBIE
  • Ledger Domain (p)
RACHAEL KATZ
  • Animal Valentine (p)
  • I Found the Crawlspace Roomy (p)
MICHAEL EARL CRAIG
  • The Desk (p)
  • Something that Happened Today (p)
  • For Marcel, My Index Finger (p)
B.N. LANDRY
    In Honor of The General's Numerous Shadows (f)
KYLE THOMPSON
  • Spring in Zurveyta (f)
G C CUNNINGHAM
  • The Dog at the Dinner Table (f)
JANALYN GUO
  • Night Floats (f)
LILA PEARL SHAPIRO
  • The Gift (f)
RACHEL YODER
  • The Tiny Mens in Your Boobs (nf)
  • One-Act Plays about Blonde-Haired Ponies (nf)
HEDIEH JAVANSHIR ILCHI
  • Traveler Series (a)
TIMOTHY DONNELLY
    Don't You Waste My Time!
  • (p&a)
FARNOOSH FATHI
  • [Heroics--It Balls All Heads to One Capital: Birth] (p&a)
ANTHONY MADRID
  • [An Atom Bomb for a Pet] (p&a)
HOA NGUYEN
  • The White Board (p&a)
JEFFREY PETHYBRIDGE
  • In the Epic (p&a)
ROGER SEDARAT
  • Listen Carefully (p&a)
SOLMAZ SHARIF
  • Subordinate (p&a)
KATAYOON ZANDVAKILI
  • Lustre (p&a)
MATTHEW ZAPRUDER
  • What Can Poetry Do (p&a)
FAUSTO RUGHESI
  • Maps from the Harry Ransom Center Collection (a)
KARL DMITRI BISHOP
  • Cover Art for Issue 9:
  • Feoh's Haunting (a)

STAFF

EDITOR
  • Mary Miller
MANAGING EDITOR
  • Anat Benzvi
POETRY EDITOR
  • Claire Sylvester Smith
ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS
    Logan Fry
  • Alen Hamza
  • Meg McKeon
FICTION EDITOR
  • Jeff Bruemmer
ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS
  • Hannah Alpert-Abrams
  • Kendra Fortmeyer
ART DIRECTOR
  • Bradley Harrison
MARKETING DIRECTOR
  • Matthew Moore
EDITORIAL INTERN
  • Katherine Noble
READERS
  • Christian Bancroft
  • Katherine Charek Briggs
  • William Clark
  • Reina Hardy
  • Brad Kelly
  • Sarah Leon
  • Monica Macansanto
  • Rebecca McMillan
  • Corey Miller
  • Blake Lee Pate
  • Taylor Jacob Pate
  • Antonio Ruiz Camacho
  • Margaret Schafer
  • Hsien Chong Tan
EDITOR-AT-LARGE
  • Kurt Heinzelman