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Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Mary Carpenter
• Transformations
Deborah Gold
• Cody, age 14 (or 15, if you ask him)
Mark Spitzer
• Polemic: The History of Pirated English-Language Translations of Jean Genet’s Poetry (with Chronology)
Poetry
Karren Alenier
• A College Boy Finds His Way
• Paris in the Twenties: 1929
• Bupple’s Cat
Kelli Allen
• Beginning with a Wager
R. A. Allen
• Not So Easy
Elaine Bander
• Angouléme
Kacee Belcher
• No Ass Licking
Jocko Benoit
• Freud’s Lesser-Known Cousin
• Why Atlas Shrugs
• The Nagging of the Surreal
Jill Bergkamp
• Conjuring Angels in Davao City
Vanessa Blakeslee
• The Swamp Goddess
Chris Bullard
• The Boy Stood on the Burning Babe
Mary Lou Buschi
• Maybe I Wanted to Give You More Than Ruin
• Cloud I
Katie Cappello
• Scorpion Hunting
Emily Carr
• Queen for a Day
• Lateral Gene Exchange
Christopher Citro
• A Marriage Made on the Dining Room Floor
Robert Cole
• Saffron
Brandon Courtney
• The Startle of the Sleeping World
James Davis
• Charity
Nicelle Davis
• A Girl named June Says about the Desert
Mark DeCarteret
• Another Beatrice Chesterton Diary Entry
• A Being Seen as a Decoy
Brian Komei Dempster
• The Mother Dreams Her Daughter Away from Benjamin
Matt Dennison
• El Sabor
Michelle Disler
• Solutions
Aschala Edwards
• Black Widows
Lori Ellison
• In the Mouth of the Evening
Sylva Fischerova
• Old Worlds (tr. by Stuart Friebert)
Piotr Florczyk
• Fairway Falls
Theophile Gautier
• The Fellah (tr. by Len Krisak)
Jean Genet
• Rediscovered Poems (tr. by Mark Spitzer)
Corey Ginsberg
• The Illusion of Sturdy
Maryanne Hannan
• Desiderium: Ardent Longing, as for Something Lost
M. Michael Hanner
• Almost Extinction
Toni Hanner
• the dim radiance of HE 1523
Myronn Hardy
• The Desert Unrequited
• Gigou
Daniel A. Harris
• To a Friend at 65, Getting a Divorce and a New Hip
Gayle Elen Harvey
• Flagellation
Chris Haven
• The Cake Girl
Stephen Haynie
• Thirty Bodies in Houston
Jasper Haze
• A Jar of Baby Teeth
Nancy Hechinger
• Never Was the Heart
• Star Wars
Allison Hedge Coke
• Breathing
• The Last House Creeley Left
Travis Hedge Coke
• God and Pony Show
Robert Herschbach
• Scottish Play
Elizabyth A. Hiscox
• Vanguard Aria for Minor Organs
Gretchen Hodgin
• Acme Co.
• To You: (On Behalf of My Words . . .)”
David Hubbard
• The Last Swimming Pool in Managua (1979)
Amorak Huey
• Love Letter During the Opening Scenes of Law & Order
Bethany Schultz Hurst
• The Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
Rich Ives
• Scottish Ancestors
Ted Jean
• Flower Child
Douglas A. Jones
• [Already day three . . .]
Rob Kenagy
• Air No. 7
• Air No. 16
Sandra Kolankiewicz
• Claudia, 19 East, Bed A
• Tipping the Ferryman
Gerry LaFemina
• Clown Baby, the Yogini and Me
• The Cruelty of the Third Hand
• Story Problem
• Role Players
Deanna Larson
• The Flexibility of X
Nikia Leopold
• The Constant
• Fragile
Joseph E. Lerner
• Sci-Fi
Lyn Lifshin
• For the Roses
• Out of the City and Down to the Sea Side
• Michael from Mountains
• Hitchcock and the Hunks
• The More I Think of Janet Leigh
• Hitchcock’s Circles
James Magorian
• Salamanca at Sunset
Mary Claire Mahaney
• Knitting
Richard Martin
• Stoic Surrender
Susan H. Maurer
• Rain Taxi
Jennifer A. McGowan
• Commute to Kutnåe Hora
Dora E. McQuaid
• Alchemy
• Avatar
Dan Memmolo
• Bombardment
Leslie F. Miller
• the brouhaha after the traveling carnival pulled out of town
• psalm of the shoe
• requiem for a vacation
Dawn Montefusco
• A Good Bluff
• A Private Conversation
Keith Montesano
• Blood
Adam Moorad
• this handicapped stall is paducah
Christina Olson
• On Turning Thirty
Joanna Pearson
• The Ice Sculptor
• Mermaids
Kate Pendlebury
• from “Baby Poems” XI
• XIII
Carly Physioc
• Learning Things with My Mother
• Elephant and Castle, North Line
Jean Prokott
• The High School Teacher’s Old Spring Fling
Dean Rader
• Five Rooms
Jade Ramsey
• She Lives in a Pat of Butter
Billy Reynolds
• Dusk at Rocket Park
Susie Reynolds
• My Neighbour the Revolutionary
Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Rose Interior (tr. by Len Krisak)
Liz Robbins
• Before the Cut
Stephen R. Roberts
• Roy and Dale Memorabilia
David Romanda
• drought
Daniel Romo
• Pancho as Protagonist in the 9thGrade Grammar Book
Eric W. Schramm
• Five Landscapes with Shopping Cart
Emily Severance
• Espousal
Gregory Sherl
• Once Upon a Time
Gary J. Shipley
• Waiting on Ectoplasm
Brian Simoneau
• I Hold a Grudge Against a Well-Known Poet
Noel Sloboda
• Trim Fit
Erin Elizabeth Smith
• The Plastic Triceratops Questions Behavioral Integrity
Jay Snodgrass
• My Ghost Made an Art Movie: 27.2
Kurt Steinwand
• Gettysburg
Dariel Suarez
• Signs
K.M.A Sullivan
• River’s Bend
Terese Svoboda
• Bring Home the Groceries
• Banduri or Mandari or Merle
• The Disappearing Hippo
Adam Tavel
• Letter to Hathaway Writ on Water
Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Three Witches
• Tony’s Mother Left Him 7 Umbrellas
• Writing in the Dark
Parker Tettleton
• Mad Snickerlish
Meg Thompson
• 13 Affordable Ways to Become a Famous Poet …
Padma Thornlyre
• Mavka #35
Michelle Tooker
• Motorcyclist on 206
Sandee Gertz Umbach
• Cures for Epilepsy
James Valvis
• For the Headless Mannequins
Thomas Vaultonburg
• A Poem I also title “The Donner Party” after a Night of Reading Richard Brautigan’s Poetry
• Beaten
Jaime Warburton
• From a Young Girl
Theresa Williams
• Reading Winesburg
Mark Wisniewski
• Maturity
Nicholas YB Wong
• Tasteless Desserts: Thoughts on Teachers in Hong Kong: An Alien Encounter
Stefanie Wortman
• Careless Simile
Kirby Wright
• Kowloon Tong at 3 O’Clock in the Morning
Theodora Ziolkowski
• Shakespeare’s Children
Fiction
graphics
Bonnie Arning
• Bodies of Water
A.A. Balaskovits
• The Ibex Girl of Qumran
Ned Balbo
• Rollo and Apollo
Jill Birdsall
• Loafers
Rachel Brill
• Poet’s Guild
John L. Campbell
• Courageous Little Philomena’s Wondrous Bait
Julie A. Corwin
• My First Husband
Barbara Westwood Diehl
• Mermaids
Chris Dungey
• The Enforcer on the Road
Jaclyn Dwyer
• Lost in the Red City
Gloria Dyc
• The New Age
Ian Golding
• Electric Light Orchestra single “Mr. Blue Sky” as heard in a White Castle dining area
Matthew Harrison
• The Making of Creatures
Allison Hedge Coke
• Flutter (from “Veldt”)
Charles Holdefer
• The Plans
Nik Houser
• Under Hindsight’s Knife
Trevor J. Houser
• Malta
Robert Kloss
• Our Calm was Born from Your Burning
Franz Knupfer
• The Informants of Kengtung
Beth Konkoski
• Desert Horse
Len Kruger
• Marianas Trench
Kimberly Lojewski
• Swamp Food at the Rapture Café
Deepak Maini
• The Brother
Mark McBride
• Lacy
Delaney Nolan
• Shotgun Style
Yarrow Paisley
• The Revised Minutes
Pete Pazmino
• Lyle-O
Lorine Kritzer Pergament
• Lost
Bridget Plekavic
• Lillian’s Closet
Marie Potoczny
• If Not Now, When?
Sean Quinn
• Asuncion
Karin Rosman
• Blue Dress Day
Andrew Shelden
• SeaTac Rain
Michael Spann
• Maroc Con
Jenniey Tallman
• Gertrude is Gay
Rene Georg Vasicek
• The City of Machines
Ann Wahlman
• Six-Shooter
Tim Wendel
• Gallows Poll
Paul West
• Oxford
Nin Andrews
• Shakespeare
• Uncouth Mister
• Glamour Shot
• This Is Just to Say – I
• This Is Just to Say – II
Ren Garczynski
• Cover Photo “Not Your Bitch”
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