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ISSN 1540-3068
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Graham Hillard
Oldest Squirrel Monkey in Captivity
The Polygrapher
Cindy King
Girl in Sheep’s Clothing (1989)
An Invitation
Dustin Pearson
Mr. Hen
Letter 2
Letter 5
Letter 7
Letter 14
Letter 15
Cabell First Novelist Award Reading Loop
Angela Flournoy
from The Turner House
Cabell First Novelist Award
A Reading by Angela Flournoy
A Panel Discussion
A Conversation with Angela Flournoy
AWP Memorial Panel and Reading
Remembering Claudia Emerson
with panelists Kathleen Graber, Jill
McCorckle, Emilia Phillips, Wyatt Prunty,
featured readers, & audience members.
Diana Arterian
The Little GirlBoy Lost
London Song
Sara Biggs Chaney
In Which St. Irene, Born Penelope, Is Spared
by Beasts of Water, Earth and Sky
Monica Datta
Poupée de cire, poupée de son
Vi Khi Nao
Black Snow
Coat The Skillet
Gỏi Gà
How Long Have You Been Sleeping, Snow?
Licking Light
Margaret Gibson
Story
Soap
Door
Continuing the Story
Jennifer Franklin
Amor Fati
Lavinia, Afterwards
Philomela After the Metamorphosis
Kathy Fagan
Cooper’s Hawk
Forest
E. L. Tremblay
The Language of the Heart
Andy Fogle
Crossing Mourning Kill
Mark Irwin
Brief Sketch from There to Here
The
Chimpanzee
Twist-O-Flex
Sandy Longhorn
A Coward for a Daughter
October Chorus
Dana Crum
Bruised Forest
i know who you
are
Rec Center
Debra Nystrom
Seasons Change Before We’re Ready
Where
the Cancer Center’s New Wing Will Be
Zoe
Gadegbeku
At a Stranger's Funeral
Derek Mong
Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt
Martha Silano
Derivation Devotional
Amina Gautier
Childhood, Princesshood, Motherhood
Kathryn Merwin
Consort (Carriage & Miscarriage)
Steven Ratiner
Bard
Schubert (with the volume turned up)
So It Goes
Paisley Rekdal
from The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime,
and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Jeanne Larsen
The Shock of War & All Those Bodies Effed [Dead
Rob Shapiro
Abandoned Shacks in North Carolina
Etkin Camoglu
Garlic Baby
Hollywood Beach
Maggie Schwed
Bedtime in the Tropical Hotel
C. Dale
Young
Las Palmas Reales
Marcela Sulak
To Get Here Today (a piano)
Seth Brady Tucker
Kwik-n-Reddy™ Pastry Recipe for Poetry Golem
Technology Used by Dogs
Jorge Benitez
Unequivocal Painting: The Watercolors of Javier
Tapia
Kelly Cherry
Review | 7000 Sparrows by Duffie Taylor
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Amanda Goemmer
Review | Cities I've Never Lived In by Sara Majka
Rosanna Oh
Review | Overpour by Jane Wong
Cassie Pruyn
Review | There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Carrie Brown & Hiba Krisht
Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize Reading
Gregory Kimbrell & Allison Titus
A Reading by Gregory Kimbrell and Allison Titus
