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Tomas Tranströmer
English translation by Patty Crane
Sorrow Gondola, a book-length collection
David Wojahn
Good Evening, Beautiful Deep
on Tranströmer’s Sorrow Gondola
Jean Valentine
Letter to Tomas Tranströmer
Brittany Cavallaro
Magician’s Girl
White-Armed Persephone Walks Into His VanEve Jones
Between
The Edge of the Sea
In the Afternoon Men Are Dreaming of the DarkYu Shibuya
Counting Things
Japanese Ghosts Don’t Have Feet
Some Things You Know Exactly
Cabell First Novelist Reading Loop
Victor Lodato
from Mathilda Savitch
a novel excerptVictor Lodato
from “Dear Sara Jane”
a play excerpt
Kathleen Graber: An Audio Suite 
three audio pieces featuring Kathleen Graber with Kate Greenstreet,
Jake Adam York, and Jean Valentine
Norman Dubie
Again
At the Tomb of Naiads
Butter
The Hat Called Sky:
The Quotations of Bone
The Quotations of Meat
Sif Mons & the Messenger Birth Star
Jeff Porter
Mother of Invention
Lost and Found Radio
Robyn Schiff & Nick Twemlow
Radon 
U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Duck and Cover
Jehanne Dubrow
Iron Curtain
Purged History Of
In the Grand Theater
Three Generations
Rick Hilles
From Three Words of a Magnetic Poetry Set Found Caked
in Dirt beneath James Merrill’s Last Refrigerator
David Keplinger
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate
a five-poem sequence
John Allman
Ceci N’est Pas . . .
“I Reject All Likeness . . .”
La Moustache
Paul Nemser
Introducing Poems from Taurus
Lucinda Roy
Disarmed
Diamonds in the Rough
Kelly Cherry
On Familiar Terms
Dave Smith
Skating Waitress at the Circle Drive-in
Allen Whicher’s Love Tale
Ruffed Grouse Feeding on Moonseed Berries
Woman, Snake, Percy Sledge
Bourbon in a Cup
Early Bird Dog Training
Jennifer Chang
Myself—be Noon to Him
Why I Am Not a Funny Poet: An Elegy
The Lovely Theresa
Pastoral with Dog and Frank O’Hara
Catherine Pierce
The Delinquent Girls
The Quiet Girls
The Drama Girls
The Geek Girls
She Gets Drunk and Talks Too Much at Her 20th Reunion
Maggie Schwed
Body Double
Nights with Almanzo, Days
Passing Through
Derrick Harriell
Letters to Jack Johnson from Joe Frazier
Pamela Garvey
Eve’s Fall Through Technology
Paradise
Brochure for Exile
Lilah Hegnauer
The city was burning—or it wasn’t.
The world is my
I am the city and you are my work of great mischief.
What They Tell You
Cynthia Hogue
Offhanded
At the Lawrence Ranch
Fluff
Chad Davidson
Portrait of a One-Legged Hero
Cannibals
Adam Houle
Cook Takes Stock after the Ice Road Fails
Randy Marshall
Review | Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems, by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Abraham Burickson
if an inner landscape
but for us they
Yasmine Rana
from The Fallen: Kalinovik
Susan Elbe
The Dressmaker’s Daughter
Victoria Chang
Pete
Elegy as a Shopping List
Dear P. XXII
John Casteen
My Time Among the Swells
Kristi Garboushian
Canon of Disassembling an Iceberg
Dana Roeser
That Was All I Ever Knew of Nepal
Keith Montesano
Finding Ray’s Sausage in East Cleveland on Google Earth
Emilia Phillips
Review | Ghost Lights, by Keith Montesano
Simeon Berry
from Ampersand Revisited
IV.
V.
Austin Segrest
Phenix City
On the Road to Damascus
Jeremy Spohr
Tagore Variations
a six-poem sequence
Mathias Svalina & Allison Titus
A Reading by Mathias Svalina & Allison Titus
Gregory Kimbrell
Review | Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World, by Joshua Poteat
Laura Van Prooyen
Review | I Was the Jukebox, by Sandra Beasley
