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Alice Bolin
Landscape: stages
Landscape: the moon
Landscape: trilliumDexter L. Booth
Love in the Time of Revolution
May 13th, 2012
White DwarvesClaudia Cortese
Dear Claudia—
Lucy,
Lucy wraps salmonMichael Croley
Passings in the NightThomas DeSanto
Haitian Death SongJoshua Gottlieb-Miller
In the Dream I Am Visiting
Epithalamion
Negative Theology
The Clouds Are Up to My NeckCynthia Marie Hoffman
The Ball of Human Cells Speaks to the Double Helix
The Homunculus Speaks from the Bed of the Ovarian
Dermoid Cyst
The Lambs Wool Strap Speaks from the Gurney, 1915
No Midwives Can Do What Angels CanCorey Van Landingham
engagement
I. To Have & To Hold
II. To Have & To Hold
III. To Have & To Hold
Ben Cleary
Peter Taylor: The Basement TapesEleanor Ross Taylor
A First ReaderRemembering Eleanor Ross Taylor
Casey Clabough
Room for Only One Cowboy Hat:
George Garrett, Ramblin’ ManDaniel Cross Turner
Review | Confederado: A Novel of the Americas, by Casey ClaboughIn Previous Issues
George Garrett
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Peter Taylor
Justin Torres
from We The Animals
Seven
We Wanted MorePanel Discussion: Publishing a First Novel
A Conversation with Justin Torres
Lena Moses-Schmitt
Review | We the Animals, by Justin Torres
Leia Darwish
No Comparable WarmthSusan Settlemyre Williams
Man of Fire: The Poetry of Jake Adam York
Harvey K. Littleton
A Legacy in Glass
Founders of American Studio Glass 
Claudia Emerson
Irene Virga Salafia
Limb Factory
The Ocularist
The Opposite House
Chelsea Woodard
Midwinter
St. Zita
Bruce Bond
The Tree of Forgetting
Stanley Plumly
After the Tzeltal
Archaic Torso of the Sun God Apollo as a Star Apple,
an Oil Lamp, a Broken Mirror
Winter Coastal Haiku
A Conversation with Stanley Plumly 
Dana Crum
Portraits of a Former Lover
David Huddle
from The Faulkes Chronicle
Jehanne Dubrow
Don’t Have Any Kids Yourself: On Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”
Ellen Caswell
Story Problem
Stalker
To a Girl Named Siberia
Brian Henry
Asteroids
Four Porches
Susan Grimm
Appetite: Handbills and Thumbnails
Locked Up Tight
Steam from the Blue Closet
Carrie Green
Fannie Burlingame’s Herbarium
First Fruit
Lisa Williams
Aquatic Herd
Brooding Eels
To an Exterminator
Judy Halebsky
Li Po Loved Two Things
Howard Risatti
United by Ritual
Dana Levin
Moo and Thrall
You Have Nothing to Fear
A Conversation with Dana Levin and Matthew Zapruder
David Wagoner
At a Press Conference Concerning the Invasion
Miguel Murphy
The Hungering Eucalyptus
Victoria Chang
[The boss rises up the boss keeps her job]
[Once the boss fired a twin the twin was torn in]
[Some days one day every day I am over like the]
[There are two ways maybe four there are]
Kristin Marie Kostick
Handpick the Lame Horses from the Able-Bodied
Learn to Fight
Will I Come Back as a Moose or an Aardvark or Something?
Lisa J. Cihlar
February Angst
Girl at Nine and Again at Thirteen
Rouse
David Rush
from Nureyev’s Eyes
Sean Patrick Hill
Gauguin Among the Tahitians
Lawrence Judson Reynolds
Love and Death in Newark
Clay Matthews
Small-Town Suicide
Roy Bentley
On the Difficulty of Pumping High-Octane Gasoline into a
’39 Buick Century without Spilling a Drop
Michaux Dempster
Review | Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds, by Patrick Lawler
Claire Keyes
Review | Dream Cabinet, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ross Losapio
Review | Rousing the Machinery, by Catherine MacDonald
Emilia Phillips
Review | On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, by Lucia Perillo
Ella Fuller Maitland and Sir Frederick Pollock
Incipit Excommunicatio Canina: selections from The Etchingham Letters
