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Katie Ford
Beirut 
The Singing
Easter Evening
Sighting
Little Goat
Larry Levis
Linnets
Some Notes On The Gazer Within
Found Levis
Madison Smartt Bell
An excerpt from Devil’s Dream, June 1854
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Contemplating Jailbreak: Reflections on the career of Eleanor Ross Tylor
Sherman Alexie
Monosonnet for Rodents, Interrupted
Powwow Ghazal
Subway Song, Interrupted
Chard deDeNiord
A Soul Addresses Her Beloved in the Non–Green Zone
Dawn Lonsinger
Slow Saunter of Wither
Alison Pelegrin
Self–Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots
David Caudle
The Common Swallow
Andrian Dorris
1–800–BUTTERBOLLY
M. L. Brown
It’s Love that Pushes Stockings Down
Mother’s Home Ritual for Quenching Fires
A. V. Christie
Outdoor Room
Signs
Willingly
Lisa Fay Coutley
During the Final Scene
Why to Bury a Parrot
Darren Morris
Fractured Aubade : The Gods of Dawn :: Eating Grapes:
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Alice Coltrane Discovers the World and G/god is B/born
string theory
Airin Miller
Rattlesnake Country
Katrina Vandenberg
D Ghazal
Dark Ages
Catie Rosemurgy
The Monkey Whose Job It Used to Be to Sit on Miss Peach’s Shoulder
Takes Up Olde Timey
Music
Danielle Hanson
Near Sleep in a Smoky Room
Peter Shippy
Self–Portrait & Other Calculations
Christopher Burawa
Antidote to the Chaos of Imagination
Condolence for the Blind Mori
William Olsen
Light or Dark Speech
Jennifer H. Fortin
A System Pamphlet (With Illustration of How They Hide)
from Mined Muzzle Velocity
In a Time of Excess and Hopeless Transport
Peter Cooley
Twenty Line Sonnet
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
translations by Carolyne Wright
House
Mysteries of Memory
Sandy Longhorn
[ the dead worm their way through glacial till ]
Maureen Seaton
Abiquiú
Sex & Petroglyphs
Elisabeth Murawski
As I Remember It
Paisley Rekdal
Imogen Cunningham’s “My Father At Sixty”
Laura Gilpin’s “Navajo Shepherd Boy”
R. T. Smith
Colony
Fiddle-dee-dee
Home Ownership and Self Defense
Shirley Stephenson
Disabled Odyssey
Practice
Tidal Volume
Leah Dunham
Doppler
Natural Bridge
Ron Winkler
translation by Rodney Nelson
Februarsuiten
February Jinks
Shanley Jacobs
Review | Colosseum, by Katie Ford
Randy Marshall
Review | If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, by Anna Journey
Ron Slate
Review | And So, by Joel Brouwer
Review | The Lions, by Peter Campion
Laura Van Prooyen
Book Review | Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, by Paula Bohince
Grant White
Review | Miscreants, by James Hoch
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Review | Salvinia Molesta, by Victoria Chang