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Betty Adcock
Transport
Word for the 21st Century
Heather Altfeld
Planet of the Aged
Anne Barngrover
The one drag show in town is closing
Michael Bazzett
The Blank Page
The Conversation Paused
The Reader
Traci Brimhall
Self-Deliverance with a Line from George Herbert
Translation Theory
Colin Cheney
Environmental Impact Statement
Post-Oil
Laura Da’
Curving of the Corn
Frontier Arithmetic
Athwominie
Auction of the Bonded
Jaclyn Dwyer
When My Childless Friend Asks What the Birth Was Like
The Mermaid Who Wants to Play House Finds Only Wrecked Ships to Live In
Josué Guébo
translated from the French & with commentary by Todd Fredson
from Think of Lampedusa
Jenny Irish
Sally Isn’t Doing Well
Sally’s Daughter, a Young Poet, Explores the Idea of Dad
Rodney Jones
Making Ready
Roommates, 1969
Staying in Cold Springs
The Portal of the Years
Fable
Andrew Kozma
Body Bags
Karen Greenlee
Manifesto
Rickey Laurentiis
Poems from Boy with Thorn
Lord and Chariot 
Writing an Elegy
Mood for Love
Epitaph on a Stone
Larry Levis
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It
Poem
Ending with a Hotel on Fire
William Logan
Bramble Lane
Sincerity
The Truth Dog
Janet McNally
Is there any proof that unicorns exist?
What is the most venomous animal?
David Moolten
Instinctive Drowning Response
Scylla & Charybdis
Melissa Range
The Invalid Master and His Slave Take a Train from Macon to Savannah, 1848
Noyes Academy, the Nation’s First Coeducational Integrated School, Canaan,
New Hampshire, 1835
Sue William Silverman
If the Girl Refuses
Ron Smith
“A foolish moon in a foolish sky,”
Seven Deadly Sins
St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, Petersburg
David St. John
Going Places
The Darkroom
Sofia Starnes
Last. Child. Last. Child.
Margo Taft Stever
Supermarket in Autumn
Surfaces
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Cruising Altitude
My English Teacher Tells Me
G.C. Waldrep
The Abandoned Hour
The Lame Take the Prey
River Bytham
St. Winifred’s Well (2)
David Wojahn
Absolute Rhythm
Canis Familiarus
Concerning Pan
Extinction Event: The Book of
Revelation, as Interpreted by Link Wray
Give
Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give
Me Eat Orange Give Me You
Sinatra: The
Concert at Pompeii, 1991
Chelsea Woodard
The Cardinal
Charis
Hypatia
Tobias Wray
All the Grand Deaths
Javier Zamora
Since Last We Spoke
