FEATURED WORK

ROBERT PFINGSTON:
MICHAEL BERRYHILL:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TERRANCE HAYES:
  • The Blue Emmett (p)
  • A Girl in the Woods (p)
  • A Plate of Bones (p)
GARY L. MCDOWELL:
  • All Stones are Broken Stones (p)
STEPHEN DUNN:
  • How to Write a Dream Poem (p)
CAROL GUESS:
  • Shove (p)
  • The Belltown Angel (p)
  • Dodge and Burn (p)
DORIANNE LAUX:
  • Starling (p)
  • The Birthday Party (p)
PHILIP PARDI:
  • Yearning for God in the Absence of God, Yearning for Beauty in the Midst of Such Beauty (p)
LAWRENCE RAAB:
  • The Uninvited (p)
EMILY PÉREZ:
  • The People Under Your Couch (p)
DENISE DUHAMEL & MAUREEN SEATON:
  • CAT 4 (p)
  • Olive Oyl and Popeye (A Family Dynamics Poem) (p)
STEVEN D. SCHROEDER:
  • Deathmatch Mode (p)
ARTHUR SMITH:
  • Endanger (p)
DAVID MCCOMBS:
  • Fossil Fuel (p)
AL MAGINNES:
  • Evacuation and Display (p)
TIM O’CONNELL:
  • Letter #12: Never Sent, Never Received (p)
  • City of Air (p)
ALLEN C. FISCHER:
  • City of Windows (p)
  • What is Felt (p)
LISA WILLIAMS:
  • A Waterfall (p)
SAM TAYLOR:
  • Next (p)
  • Background (p)
  • Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude (p)
GRACE BAUER:
  • A Little Like Dorothy (p)
BRYAN PENBERTHY:
  • Lovetown (p)
  • Goodbyetown (p)
NICKY BEER:
  • Stumphumper (p)
DENISE DUHAMEL:
  • Photo Op (p)
MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK:
  • Zodiac (p)
BILLY COLLINS:
  • The Student (p)
MARILYN KALLET:
  • Tell Yourself (p)
JOANNE LOWERY:
  • Envy of Birds (p)
PHIL WEST:
  • Proposal on the Lake in Central Park (p)
NOAH FALCK:
  • Confessions Inside a Pickup Line (p)
CARRINGTON MACDUFFIE:
  • Reversal of Order (p)
AMANDA AUCHTER:
  • The Magician’s Girl (p)
  • Gardenia (p)
JAMES HARMS:
  • Known You Were Loved (p)
LANCE LARSEN:
  • On Mourning (p)
  • Geographical (p)
EUGENE GLORIA:
  • Bilbao, Spain(p)
MARK M. MARTIN:
  • Pain (p)
  • Human Love (p)
H. L. HIX:
  • A: (p)
MARY AUSTIN SPEAKER:
  • The Champion (p)
CYRUS CASSELLS:
  • The Ruins in Total Eclipse (p)
JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN:
  • Funeral, Mineral, Vegetable (p)
BOB HICOK:
  • My Iron Age (p)
MICHAEL CZYZNIEJEWSKI:
  • pleurisy (f)
MARYL JO FOX:
  • Marker (f)
SARAH BLACKMAN:
  • Weather (f)
  • Brides (f)
JOHN DUFRESNE:
  • from ‘Requiem, Mass.’ (f)
STEVE ALMOND:
  • Heart Radical: The Strange, True Flight of Airships (nf)
CARLOS EDMUNDO DE ORY:
  • Feature: Poems
    “Autoelegy,” “Monkey Hands,” “The Papyrus X-Rated,” “Under My Work Lamp,” “Finite Theory,” “Biographies” Translated by Steven J. Stewart
    (p)
AIMEE BENDER AND GEORGE SAUNDERS:
  • A Conversation with Aimee Bender and George Saunders (nf)
ROGER PFINGSTON:
  • Pegasus (a)
MICHAEL BERRYHILL:
  • Pipe Dream (a)
  • Francisco (a)
SANDRA JOHNSON:
  • Procrastination Transfiguration (a)
RACHEL LAVIN:
  • La Encueratriz (a)
BEN OLSEN:
  • Baxter Lecture Hell (a)

STAFF

EDITOR
  • Elia Zashin
MANAGING EDITOR
  • Melissa Morrow
POETRY EDITOR
  • D. Antwan Stewart
ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITOR
  • Tom Nurmi
FICTION EDITOR
  • Nathan Rostron
ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITOR
  • Amy Boutell
DESIGNER
  • Mark Gutierrez
ART COORDINATOR
  • Allison Pattison
READERS
  • Katarina Dolejsiova
  • Amanda Frost
  • Miriam Greenberg
  • Kate Hagner
  • Brian Hart
  • Justin Helfrich
  • Hala Herbly
  • Greg Koehler
  • Josh Morison
  • Nyssa Morris
  • Paige Normand
FOUNDING EDITORS
  • Jessica Piazza
  • R. J. Lambert
  • James Capozzi
ADVISORY EDITOR
  • Kurt Heinzelman