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Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Claire Blechman
• Derrida, Interrupted
Carolyn Cooke
• The Rape Parade
Carmen Delzell
• Moving Away
Brandel France de Bravo
• I’ll Make Room
Simki Ghebremichael
• The Wedding Season
Poetry
Albert Abonado
• The Secret History of Joy Division
• Monkeys on the Hood
Clayton Adams
• This Nickel and Dime War
• Bar-le-Duc
Heather Anastasiu
• The Body Dynamic
Nin Andrews
• How to Write an MFA Poem
• How to Write an Artistic Statement for a Grant Application
• How to Become a Famous Poet
• How I Became Our Lady of the Orgasm
Saadia Ali Aschemann
• Below Zero
JoAnn Balingit
• My Life as the Fugitive, Tijuana
Mary Bargteil
• An Elegy in Word Problems
• The Authorized Artifacts of Lilith
Laurel Bastian
• Callipygian
• Appetites
Jeffrey Bean
• The Dead Arrive
Jill Beauchesne
• A Tale of the Makara
Maria Bennett
• four metaphors for the body
Clifford Bernier
• Congo Square
Linda Blaskey
• World Atlas
Claire Blotter
– Elegy for
an Electric Angel
Dan Brady
• From “Sonnets to E—”
Elissa Braff
• Synthology
Steven Breyak
• What I Learned in Bill Knott’s Poetry Workshop
Phillip Calderwood
• H
Michael Casey
• diction,
a detriment to the working class
Alex Chertok
• Being Liquid
Katharine Coles
• Pancake Batfish
Antoinette Constable
• Reading His Letter
Robert Cooperman
• The Museum of Lost Causes
Claudia Cortese
• Places to Hide
Nina Corwin
• Chameleon Man Flips History While Penning a Switch
Bill Costley
• BYRD fiddles in purgatory
Kelly Coveny
• The Orkin Man
Barbara Crooker
• Very Long Afternoons
• All Saints
Jim Daniels
• Spinning Donuts in the Universal City Mall Parking Lot …
Kristina Marie Darling
• Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel
John Davis
• Dear John Letters
Barbara DeCesare
• Accidents Grotesque
Liz Dolan
• The Russian Émigré’s Book Store
Philip Dozal
• Garcia Lorca’s Coffee Lounge
Doug Draime
• Zoot Sims Crying Softly
Gabe Durham
• Craft Hut
Moira Egan
• Wisteria sinensis
Kristina England
• When I Die
Blair Ewing
• For My Father
• Borderau
Sarene Friedman
• Cupcake
Molly Gaudry
• Bug, Car, Man: A Triptych
• Velveteen
• Is to love an imperative infinitive?
• A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings
Megan Giller
• Someday, When I Meet You in a Foreign City
Kimberly Grey
• Mnemonic of the Invented Man
• Mnemonic for the Reconstruction of Memory
Michael Gushue
• The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Explained
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bling Teeth
Jeff Hardin
• Compelled
David M. Harris
• Ever After
Nowan Hasm
• Stickingjagged Edgers
Chris Haven
• How Nuclear Fusion Works
Kathleen Hellen
• You’re Nothing If I Don’t Believe
David Hernandez
• The Pompous Man
Alison Hicks
• Tu Me Manques
Le Hinton
• God’s Immaculate Memory
• Fire in the Night
Jean C. Howard
• The Visit
Colette Inez
• Windlust
Fred Joiner
• half note
• Solidarity
Don Judson
• the secret of the world is the beautiful room you die in
Anne Keefe
• Neruda’s Things
Stephen Kessler
• Sonny Rollins at Zellerbach
Danil Kharms
• Trunk (A Hard Case) [tr. by Alex Cigale]
Alan King
• My Barber Will’s Case Study of the Flintstones
Benjamin C. Krause
• Jasper Owen Interview
Sarah Layden
• Monkeys Ponder What Could Have Been
A. Loudermilk
• Lisp
Adrian C. Louis
• Horse Academy
• Professional Development Plan
K.E. MacMillan
• Periodicals of Grief
Anthony Madrid
• We Find the Boom Is Too High
Stephen Malin
• Forecast: Dry
Aoife Mannix
• The Last Show: A No Beginning
• Nicobar Scare Devil
Joyce Mansour
• Four Poems (intro + tr. by Bill Wolak)
• Fever (tr. by Bill Wolak)
• Invite Me
• The Blind Intrigues
• The Amazon
Peter Marcus
• Crabs in Recife
Hugh Martin
• Home from Iraq, Eating Dinner
Frank Matagrano
• Self-Portrait with Facebook
Steve McClain
• The Colombian Prayers: Poemstories Assembled from the Green Year City
Sjohnna Bruce McCray
• Burning Down Suburbia, An Ode to Bob Ross
• Night Sweats
Alex McRae
• The Kiss
Mark Melnicove
• Four Blessings
Michael Monroe
• Blown Cover
Nancy Carol Moody
• The Negative Space of Cows
Stephen Moran
• Annie
Mary Morris
• Have You Ever Been Experienced?
• The Wind Whispers Mary, a Namesake
Kristine Ong Muslim
• Abandoned Dwellings
Tim Myers
• Trilobite
James Norcliffe
• The flying saucer is a breast
Jay Pabarue
• trip, We take a desperate
Shelley Puhak
• The Death Quartet
Kim Roberts
• Not-So-Super Heroes
Ronald Simon Rubin
• The Spanish Lesson
• Zinacantan (tr. Michael Thomas Taren)
Sarah Sarai
• The Quiet Softness
Sami Schalk
• Promiscuous Promnesia
Eric Paul Shaffer
• The Godzilla Delusion
Michael Shorb
• Elegy for the Aral Sea
Barry Silesky
• A Line
Edgar Gabriel Silex
• Letter to Calliope
• Nothing
Joan Stepp Smith
• Sparrow Meat
Patricia Smith
• Dear Jimmy Connoll
• Because
• One Way to Run from It
Rob Spiegel
• Supergirl’s Poem
Carlie St. George
• Why Princess Leia Never Became a Jedi …
Marilyn Stablein
• Helium Event
• Dry Humping on Stage
Kurt Steinwand
• Physics
D. E. Steward
• Syndetic
• Oneiros
Marc Swan
• Mexico DF
Adam Tessier
• It’s a Shame about Ray Eames
Samantha Erin Tetangco
• Upon Viewing Man Ray’s “Noir et Blanche”
Meg Thompson
• Question for My Nurse Practitioner
Jim Tolan
• Corpus Poetae
Billie Travelini
• Upon Reading Rene Descartes …
• Everything I Know About Religion I Learned From My Breasts
• Anatomy of a Frog
Meredith Trede
• Still the Noises
James Valvis
• The Pause
Mimi Vaquer
• On the Discovery of the Wild through the Drawings of Small Children
Dan Vera
• Nabokov Visits the Smithsonian
• Lago de mil ojos
Kim Vollmer-Lawson w/Jenny Badman
• Ways to Appear a Reliable Source
Avni Vyas
• Dear Floozy
Ronald Wallace
• In the Winter Kitchen
Pamela Murray Winters
• Guitarslinger
Bill Wolak
• Impossible Tenses
• You Who Taught Me Tenderness
Fiction
Art
Forrest Aguirre
• Gepetto
Roberta Allen
• Signs
• Secrets
Stephanie Allen
• Life and Times
Alexander V. Bach
• Ye Ol’fashioned Olfactory
Jill Birdsall
• Sea Monkeys
Jamie Brown
• How do you Get to the Sixties?
Rae Bryant
• A Pop-Modern Genesis
Tom Carson
• from Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter
Kim Chinquee
• I Got Shot
• Doodle
• Chasers
• Wildcat Mountain
• She Had Legs
• Stillbirth
Susann Cokal
• Perfect, for You
Charles Conley
• Data
Beth Couture
• The Disappearing Children
Ramola D
• Adulthood
JenMarie Davis
• from The Science Concerned
Katrina Denza
• The View Is Like Something from Seurat
Glenn Deutsch
• The Closing
Meghan Dombrink-Green
• Bog
Janice Eidus
• There Is a War
Saskia Fischer
• The Ship of Sheep
Thaisa Frank
• Enchantment
Scott Garson
• Certain Things I Might Have Done in 1998
Alessandra Gelmi
• Diary Entry
• Twigs
James Grady
• Demolition Derby
Myronn Hardy
• Pluto
Jessica Hollander
• Ultimate Makeover: Zombie Edition
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
• March
Julie Innis
• Metallurgy
Robert Kloss
• How the Old Man Trained His Assassins
Bettina Lanyi
• Chocolate Bust
Nathan Leslie
• In Different Rooms
Peter Tieryas Liu
• The Buddha of Many Parts
Ben Loory
• The Swimming Pool
Jonathan Mack
• The Extinction of Stories
Cynthia Newberry Martin
• Mackenzie
Susan McCarty
• Corridors
Lindsay Merbaum
• Solitude
Corey Mesler
• Monster
Janet Mitchell
• Scenes From a Funeral
David Mohrmann
• Monster
Teresa Burns Murphy
• Mr. Bra
Clare Marie Myers
• The Scene
Susan Smith Nash
• I, Vampire
M. E. Parker
• The Man Inside Her
Meg Pokrass
• The Party
• So Much to Tell
Zena Polin
• Warm Ice,
Cold Eggs
Meredith Pond
• On a Dark Desert Highway
Wena Poon
• Extract from The Biophilia Omnibus
Pilar Quintana
• from “Collectors of Weird Screws” [tr. by Joel Streicker]
Michelle Reale
• Timbal
Doug Rice
• A Prayer for One Sentence
Ethel Rohan
• Sorry
Gabriela Romeri
• HYPNOS 101
Ann K. Ryles
• How My Heart Spoke and I Heard the Voice of Pain …
Kris Saknussemm
• Letters from Old Girlfriends
Robert Scotellaro
• Beep-Ball
Lynda Sexson
• Eye of a White Rabbit
Elisabeth Sheffield
• i live in a hole
Marcia Slatkin
• Gifts
Curtis Smith
• Silent
Katherine Smith
• Phantom
Amber Sparks
• The Woman Across the Water Wore the Shape of Love
Dawn Sperber
• Wind in a Ring Box
Daniel Stolar
• Twenty Years Later
Lee A. Tonouchi
• Sex and the Holy City
Roz Kuehn Unruh
• Suburban Window (from “Various States of Undress”)
Judy Viertel
• Becoming Steadily Denser
Elizabeth Warren
• Last Year’s Model
Paula Whyman
• Another Story
Bess Winter
• Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds
Sally Wilde
• Top Ten from the Bottom
Matthew Kirkpatrick
• Frontispiece: Light without
C. Albert
• 2 collages: Offering, Over the Town
Bill Wolak
• 2 collages
