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Claudia Emerson
Acre
Ghost-Road
Rabbit
Rabies
Razor
SeedAllison Seay
The Disappearing ThresholdClaudia Emerson Remembrance
Amanda Bausch, Justin Belote, Leia Darwish, Christian Detisch,
Gregory Donovan, Kathleen Graber, Catherine MacDonald,
Lauren Miner, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Lynda Fleet Perry,
Emilia Phillips, Annie Rudy, Ron Smith, & David WojahnPoetic Principles: An Evening with the Poetry of
Claudia Emerson
Betty Adcock, Debora Greger, William Logan, Debra Nystrom,
Dave Smith, & Ellen Bryant Voigt.
Norman Dubie
The Death of the Encyclopedia Salesman
T.R. Hummer
Heraclitus
House
In Utah
The Morning Mail
My Daughter's Passport
Jacqueline Balderrama
Accountability for Your Blind Sheep
Somewhere Else in Texas
Max Berwald
Preventative Medicine
Eman Hassan
Invasion (0329, 1990)
Suspended
Emily Skaja
Figure of Woman Coming Out of a Wall
It’s impossible to keep white moths
Cabell First Novelist Award
Reading Loop Introduction and Table of Contents
Boris Fishman
Oksana’s Kitchen: An Unlikely Friendship across Three Generations,
Two Continents, and One Dinner Table (A Memoir, with Seasoning)
Cabell First Novelist Award
A Reading by Boris Fishman
Panel DiscussionChelsea Gillenwater
Review | A Replacement Life, by Boris Fishman
Megan Peak
How the Wasp Girl Nests
Sex Ed
Kai Carlson-Wee
Hiding in a Well in the Northtown Yard
Mercy Songs
Where the Feeling Deserts Us
David Huddle &
Meighan L. Sharp
from Effusive Greetings to Friends
Brian Schwartz
Inside the Envelope
Jimmy Santiago Baca
A Reading by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Javier Etchevarren translations by Jesse Lee Kercheval
The Corner Grocery
Family Song
The Library
Daniel Bănulescu translations by Adam Sorkin & Lidia Vianu
Then Suddenly, in the Little Bar of Your Body, I Overturn the Table
You Sang Beautifully but You Didn’t Change Your Life
Nicolas Born translations by Eric Torgersen
The Dancer
Juices
Sewing Time
That’s How It Was
Debarati Mitra translations by Paramita Banerjee & Carolyne Wright
The Green Stigma
No, No, and No
Edward Mayes
Benders of Past Glory at the Blankety-Blank Bar
Gæð A Wyrd Swa Hio Scel
Revanche, or Passing for Twenty-One
Victoria Chang
Mr. Darcy (Cars surround us)
Mr. Darcy (He ignores us)
Mr. Darcy (These men can be collected)
Lisa Hartz
The Rebecca Portraits, Paul Strand, 1920–1932
Triangles, Imogen Cunningham, 1928
Sandra Marchetti
1965
Denouement
Robert Krut
River Side, Rain Side, Fire Side
Time Travel Bargaining Tactics
John Rybicki
The Man in the Field Is a Pop-up Book
Henry Hart
Annunciation, 1960
Inkstone Box
Slides of Hiroshima
Trakl at Sandy Hook
Richard Jespers
Delia’s Reunions
Lisa Wells
Cain Flees
Chore Wheel
We must be coming down
B.K. Fischer
Finger
Girl
A small (or large) machine
Ugly
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Astrobleme
Scott Montgomery
I Walked Away with This Object and It’s Possible
She Put a Spell on Me
We Could Be Dreaming
David Wojahn
“On Hearing That My Poems Were Being Studied in a Distant Place”:
Thoughts on Distance, Difficulty, and Secret Addressees
Kate Partridge
Chatter
Drunk Again
Visitor
Katie Berta
Dream Catalogue
My City Is Also a City
Victoria Lynne McCoy
Bad Company
Christopher Emery
The Back Porch
Detroit Boxtrain Wood
Finisher
A Reading by Jean Thompson
A Conversation with Jean Thompson
Craig Beaven
Review | Count the Waves, by Sandra Beasley
Ross
Losapio
Review | Thief in the Interior, by Phillip B. Williams
Laura Van Prooyen
Review | Quiet City, by Susan Aizenberg
