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Jeff Baker Exodus Three Fluid Graces
Rebecca Black Wakulla Springs Studies from Life Sweet Transmigrations Tolberton County, 1923
Elizabeth Bradfield Snow Goggles: Whalebone and Sinew Polar Explorer #2
Robin Ekiss Meanwhile Under the Shade Palms The Lady Vanishes
Susan Elbe With a Leaf in Her Fist Eden in the Rearview Mirror
Leonard Gontarek Study/Bees Study/Leaves Study/Moon
Carolyn Guinzio Spare
Anne Haines Opening the Hive
Douglas S. Jones A Gathering of Transits Three Days after the Storm
Sally Rosen Kindred Prayer For Mrs. Snead
David Dodd Lee Arc
Larry Levis Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank In the City of Light My Story in a Late Style of Fire
Sandy Longhorn Dispatch From the Outpost Winter Psalm
Robert Lopez Somewhere Other Than Florida
Tomás Q. Morín The Life of the Party
Valerie Nieman Adam and Eve as Fire and Water
Bryan Penberthy The End of Free Love Noah Studies
Sam Pereira On a Day When Rocks Can Think
Sylvia Plath Ennui (introduction and text)
Paisley Rekdal Traumerei Song with Dog and Cemetery Edward Curtis’ “Good Lance: Oglala”
Rachel Richardson Children Born After the War Louisiana’s Swamps
Alan Shapiro Anybody? Handler Skateboarder Temp
Ron Slate Reunion General Sweeney dies at 84 Granite City Apparition of the Virgin The Incentive of the Maggot
Terese Svoboda Motion Makes Us Cough Love Light (Shadenfreude) Selected Imagery Based on Physical Gesture Control C
Laura Van Prooyen Males Often Have Brilliant Colors An Uncertain Sky Makes Her Wary of Stillness
Mark Yakich Seersucker Funeral Direction
Jake Adam York At Liberty Substantiation For Reverend James Reeb For Lamar Smith