A joint venture of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and New Virginia Review, Inc.
Copyright © 2014 by Blackbird and the individual writers and artists
ISSN 1540-3068
Taylor Altman
A Delicate Balance
Aaron Apps
from Dear Herculine
Beth Bachmann
afterlife
bright one
restriction
Sarah Barber
Gender Studies
How to Survive
Lindsay Bernal
An Early Nude by Rothko
George David Clark
The Past a Sanctuary Staffed by Poltergeists
The Peace
Mark Cox
Chutes and Ladders
Here
Spawning
The Storm-torn Edge of Heaven
Camille Dungy
Frequently Asked Questions: 1
Frequently Asked Questions: 2
Notes on What is Always With Us
Claudia Emerson
Bird Ephemera
Lacuna
A Partial Ledger: Dr. C.D. Bennett
Raina Lauren Fields
Salvation, or Tupac is Alive in Jersey City, New Zealand
Ghalib
translated from the Urdu by M. Shahid Alam
[Inside the heart, love carps it lacks space.]
[One life, a thousand wishes, each to die for slowly.]
[You stopped just short of the highest note.]
[What will my friends do when all their gambits fail?]
Spencer Hanvik
Regret Economies
Wolves Grovel at the Gate of a Fourteenth Century Hermitage
David Hernandez
Parking FAQ
The Prophecies of B.B. Guthrie
Thirteen
The Universe
Kate Rutledge Jaffe
Said Agatha
James Henry Knippen
Bedroom (In the Ear)
Patrick Lawler
Dear Bose-Einstein Condensate
Larry Levis
Elegy Ending in the Sound of a Skipping Rope
Ross Losapio
Hephaestus as Midwife
Holiness, Again
Tattooed
Michael McMahon
Cleopatra in the Club Car
Joshua Poteat
Department of Aerial Photography
Roger Reeves
poems from King Me
Cross Country
In a Brief, Animated World: The Marriage of Anne of Denmark to James of Scotland, 1589
Self-Portrait as Ernestine “Tiny” Davis
Romanticism (the Blue Keats)
Sara Quinn Rivara
Lake Ice
Road to Canaan
The Swan Girl
Laura Sobbott Ross
Paul’s Daughter
The Study of Tragedy
Kyla Sterling
The Villain & the Helpless One
This Life with Bees
Margo Taft Stever
Idiot’s Guide to Counting
Ken Taylor
how to draw seven circles
winter landscape with newspaper & dog
Lindsay Tigue
Elevator
Millions
Sarah Trudgeon
Drugstore Baby
My Pet Baby
The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus
Sharon Wang
Elegy Addressed (Atom Cloud, Hand)
William Kelley Woolfitt
My Father as Weather Formation
My Mother as Harp Seal, as Sacristan
