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ISSN 1540-3068
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Joshua Bennett
On Flesh
Samson Reconsiders
VCR&B
Anders Carlson-Wee
Birdcalls
Flood of ’97
The Raft
Michelle E. Iwen
The Joy of BakingHiba Krisht
A Cocoon That Would BreakCeleste Lipkes
cam·pa·nol·o·gy
ne·pen·thes
Snail
Jon Chaiim McConnell
Learned in the Old Ways
Louis Draper
The Character of Everyday People 
Tomaž Šalamun
translated from the Slovene by Brian Henry
Agca
Blue Flower
Richmond
Vedran Husić
Translated from the Bosnian
Jenny Browne
Boom
From Which the Method of Drawing in Space Between the Trees Instead of the Trees
Themselves Might Well Be Employed
In the Unlikely Event of a Water
Landing
Jean Valentine Was Here
Nine Miles outside Comfort, Texas
The Oldest Story
Period Responses to The Birth of a Nation
“Fighting Race Calumny” from The Crisis (1915)
Micheaux’s Within Our Gates, full-length film & review (1920)
Stephen Haven
Equal, Always Equal, to the Inexpressible
Jacob Boyd
Eight Million in Cash from Armored Cars
Lawrence Sutin
Can I Find a Thing to Carry Forever?
Gentris L. Jointe
The Other Side
Waiting for the Diverted Trolley at
40th & Market St.
C.L. O’Dell
Dear Animal
He Thinks in Squares and Melted Grass
Heaven
Lauren Hilger
Almanac of What’s Real
Palinode
Lynne Elson
from A Blessed Unrest
David Wojahn
Can Poetry Save Your Life? A Brief Investigation
Emilia Phillips
Pastoral (Future Interstate)
Pastoral (Radio)
Pastoral (With One’s Head Out the Car Window)
Emilia Phillips
Lodge: A Lyric Essay
Laura Van Prooyen
San Antonio Dogs
Sister
Sarah Crossland
Death Mask
Hush
Rosalie Moffett
Outside Pasco
Rosalie Ruth Moffett
Weird Prayers
Matt Donovan
Almost a Full Year of Stone, Light, and Sky
Duffie Taylor
Augusta
Loxley
Panama City
Diane Seuss
A Poet Came to Town
As a child I ate and mourned.
It’s Like This
Aleš Debeljak
translated from the Slovene by Brian Henry
Schoolboy’s Blues
When You Get Out of Prison
Yesterday a House, Today Nothing
Lynda Fleet Perry
No Distant Whir on the Hard
Road: The Lyric Acuity
of Margaret Gibson
A Poetic Principles Reading: Hal Crowther & Margaret Gibson 
Amy Kurzweil
This is a Love Story
Benjamin Goldberg
Foregone Psalm
Sound Wall
Carol Ann Davis
Failing Big: What Elizabeth Bishop Teaches Poets about the Twofold
“Never Again” of Emotion and Craft
Myron Helfgott
An Inventory of My Thoughts
Laura Kolbe
Fatti maschii parole femine
Planting
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Six Explanations for Migraine
Matthew Minicucci
Brief Song of the Almost-Lost
Goat
Kyle McCord
Disciplining the Body
Elegy for the Deodand
Politics of the Afterlife
Helene Wecker
from The Golem and the JinniCabell First Novelist Award 2014
A Reading
Panel Discussion
A ConversationChelsea Gillenwater
Review | The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
Chard deNiord
Poem on My 60th Birthday
Sam Pereira
Ambien Oatmeal
Anniversary
Allan Peterson
Influenced
I Saw Everything
Things on Purpose
Tomás Q. Morín
Echo
I Sing the Body Aquatic
Tomás Q. Morín
Digging into the Dark
Caitlin Doyle
Review | And Short the Season, by Maxine Kumin
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | Sister Golden Hair, by Darcey Steinke
Matthew Phipps
Review | My Sunshine Away, by M.O. Walsh
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Review | Roget’s Illusion, by Linda Bierds
