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ISSN 1540-3068
Susan Aizenberg
Eleanor Writes She’s Reading Rimbaud
In The Show We've Been Watching The Unloved Beautiful
July at Rose Blumkin
Lacy Barker
Fight or Flight
The Lost Boys
Ma the Movie Star
Sandra Beasley
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #346: “The Banks Have Begun to Contract”
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #1181: “The Calamity is Not Serious”
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #4646: “Vegetation Grows Rapidly”
Sidney Burris
Aubade: Homesong
Dream Cargo
Wyn Cooper
Abstraction
Vectors
Norman Dubie
The Carceral
Last Page of His First Novel, Called The Sisters Grim.
Snow Down in Hong Kong
John W. Evans
Sleep
Young Widower
John Hoppenthaler
Passing
Some Men
Larry Levis
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside it
Ghost Confederacy
God Is Always Seventeen
La Strada
The Necessary Angel
A Singing in the Rocks
Norman Lock
from Alphabets of Desire and Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary Colophons
Alphabet of Barbed Wire
Alphabet of the Peacock’s Eyes
Alphabet of Stones
Edward Mayes
[In London, 1973, watching Ultimo Tango in Parigi]
[Because the queue was far longer for the question]
[To those of us who would rather be alive]
[The shutters close slowly in the camera]
[After we found the sack of tchotchkes in the garage]
Michael McGriff
poems from Home Burial
The Cow 
In February
New Civilian
Note Left for My Former Self
new poems
Figures in the Landscape
Reasons for Staying
The Watch
B.A. Newmark
In a City of Red Ideas
Soon, We Will Give In
Michael C. Peterson
[For fury the Penitent may say]
[So long on Tantrum now]
[Something of occupation]
[When gluttony is less than ruinous]
Catherine Pierce
The Tornado Visits the Town
The Teenager Watches the Tornado in Her Rearview
After the Tornado, the Checkout Clerk Considers Leaving
Rebekah Remington
Little Invocation
My Head a Pine Cabinet with Female Cardinal Ascending
Iliana Rocha
Elegy 2
I Leave
La Estrella
Sara Sams
The Marriage Voyage of Juan Ramón Jiménez 1916
Maya Sarishvili
translated from the Georgian by Nene Giorgadze and Timothy Kercher
[Let my husband know]
Memory
[New days are like the changing of water.]
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
Haibun for the Grantham Station Platform
Ritual with Seven Selves
Diane Seuss
Is there still a Betty in this new life?
It Seems Like a Poem Should Smile Wide, with Rotten Teeth
We fear the undulant
Mathias Svalina
The Wine-Dark Sea (I)
The Wine-Dark Sea (II)
The Wine-Dark Sea (III)
The Wine-Dark Sea (IV)
Alexandra Teague
Clue
House Raising
Winchester
Brian Teare
The Argument
The Fire
The Scab
The Stairs
Allison Titus
The True Book of Animal Homes
Amy Tudor
Death Is Not a Cormorant
Jeanne Murray Walker
November, Two AM
Something to Work With
Trying to Save You
The Two Selves
Where Can I Go to Find You
Yang Jian
translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun and Paul B. Roth
Secret Kindness
Winter Day
Rebekah Zhuraw
Birth
Nude
Sonnet for Nietzsche
