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Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Susan Burgess-Lent
• Kenya Kronicles
Gloria Dyc
• Living in the Shadow
Josip Novakovich
• Cat Named Sobaka
Poetry
Kwame Alexander
• I(mus) Be Crazy
• After Reading E. Ethelbert Miller
John Amen
• Missive #6
• Missive #11
Lisa Andrews
• The Tigers
• Story
Antler
• Threat to Our Community
Naomi Ayala
• On Monday Evening The Radiators Hold Their Breath
• Horses
Lucy Biederman
• Pastoral
Linda Joy Burke
• Off the Chain
Joan Colby
• Shell
Teri Ellen Cross
• Morning when a dream lingers
Alba Cruz-Hacker
• March 2007
• Flesh Eaters at Sunbridge Psychiatric Facility
Jim Daniels
• The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir Esperanto
• Marvin Gaye Esperanto
Hayes Davis
• Chinese Takeout Dream
Barbara DeCesare
• The Day After I Destroyed the Women, I Wished I Had Not
Destroyed Them
Danny diCrispino
• Ghazal for Gary Blankenburg
Emma Lizzie Downing
• Piggly Wiggly
Barbara Drake
• Love over Sixty
Bobbi Dykema
• For Gwen
• The Bare Necessity of Place
Sean Enright
• Sheep
Gary Fincke
• The Danger of Yawning
Hugh Fox
• We Arrive
• Aging Comfortably
Jean Genet
• Love Song
• Dialogue between the Sun and Moon
Robert L. Giron
• Santa Fe
Marilyn Kallet
• Is There Lightning on Venus?
Stephen Kessler
• When Edgar Met Audrey
Burgi Zenhaeusern
• Evening New
Oliver A. Khan
• Empire
Ron Koertge
• Library Opens at 1:00 Today
Karen Kovacik
• Elegy for My Sex Life
Gerry LaFemina
• No Omen
Gerry LaFemina
• Thinking Really Hard about God
Mike Maggio
• I Was Born in America
David McLean
• for Georg Trakl
Didi Menéndez
• El Gallo
Philip Miller
• Sex after Death?—The Ghost Says, “Yes, Yes”
Barbara Moraff
• September Fruit
• Labial Bond Juxtapose
• evoking maha machenmo
Ann Power
• Arcimboldo’s Law
• Displacement
Anne Marie Rooney
• Bonnie and Clyde at a costume party
Lorraine Schein
• The Crafty Ones
Cathryn Shea
• Under “M”
Judith Skillman
• The Crinolines
Cheryl Stiles
• Watercress Sings
Carolyn Stoloff
• Where Are You?
Adrienne Su
• Harvard
Jennifer K. Sweeney
• Death Valley
Todd Swift
• Ivo, Marianopolis, 1984
• Mr. Death
Meg Thompson
• Little-Known Facts about Ford Festivas
Melissa Tuckey
• A Lesson in Cuban Cooking
ruth weiss
• I Am Calling You
• for Carol Bergé (1928–2006)
• For Philip Lamantia
Mike White
• World Peace
Allison Whittenberg
• One World or None
Fiction
Art
Holly Anderson
• Recipe for Returning
Carol Bergé
• We Are Not Alone
Neal Blaikie
• Bubbles Rise
Andrei Bhuyan
• You Said You’ll Walk Beside Me
Traci O. Connor
• Starla and June
Kathleen de Azevedo
• The Cure
Kiki Denis
• Foreign Student Prostitutes’ Club
Rachel Dixon
• Sun and Sea and Silver
John Domini
• Blinded by Paparazzi
Ed Falco
• Saint John of the Five Boroughs—An Excerpt
Robert Gregory
• Incidents of 1903
• Gone On (An Epitaph)
Lucy Honig
• The Deluxe Package
Ian Christopher Hooper
• Asakusa Station
Craig Kakuda
• The Secrets of Bonsai Gardening
Ángela Labordeta
• Barcelona!!
Elise Levine
• All We Did
Norman Lock
• To Each According to His Sentence
Lalita Noronha
• Cat Cry
Carol Novack
• The Eating Habits of the Poor
Steven Schutzman
• War of Choice
Glenn Small
• Auto Reply
Marilyn Stablein
• Alphabet Sex
M. Kaat Toy
• What Is News?
Letitia Trent
• The Dancer
Michael Wilding
• Master Class
Gerald R. Wheeler
Susan Smith Nash