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SUGGESTED READING ORDER

Foreword

Video Essay Suite  
   Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane, John Bresland,
   Carl Diehl, Marilyn Freeman, Claudia Rankine &
   John Lucas, John Scott.

Introductions Reading Loop

Melody S. Gee
   History Filled In
   Witnesses

Joanna Pearson
   Epithalamion
   The Dream Animals Long to Return

Liana Quill
   Sixteen Poems

R.H.W. Dillard
   An ABC of Reading the Poems of Liana Quill

Sara Quinn Rivara
   Family Vacation
   In the Fields of Asphodel, Evening
   Last Date with Narcissus

Jocelyn Cullity
   Mutiny

Zachary Mason
   The End of the Game

Michaux Dempster
   Review | The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason

Airin Miller
   Singing for Dixie

Ben Jurgensen
   Missteps

First Novelist Reading Loop Introduction

Deb Olin Unferth
   from Vacation

Deb Olin Unferth & Scott Bateman
   from Housepainters

Avery Beckendorf
   Review | Vacation, by Deb Olin Unferth

A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth  

A Reading by Deb Olin Unferth  

Jessica Lang
   A Conversation with Jessica Lang  

Irene Ziegler
   Full Plate Collection

Claudia Emerson
   Secure the Shadow

Margaret Gibson
   Equilibrium
   Meditation at Main Brook
   On Balston Beach
   One Finger
   Seeing

T.R. Hummer
   Skandalon  
   The Nietzsche Horse  
   Commentary and Acknowledments

Hal Crowther
   In Defense of Straight-Chuters

Dilruba Ahmed
   Birthmark
   Ghazal
   Qawwali

Kathleen Graber
   Letter from Gozo

James Hoch
   Anniversary
   Dust
   Galactica

Kelli Anne Noftle
   Mating Chain
   Penis Fencing

Jamie Quatro
   The Withholding

Katelyn Romaine
   Scale Practice

Ron Smith
   Campidoglio

Jenn Habel
   A Steady Surprise of Stars
   When All the Words Were Grass

Agymah Kamau
   from Finding My Father

Curt Eriksen
   What’s Buried in the Ground

Al Sim
   Banking for the Dead

Paul Gibbons
   Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
   When What Is Lost Is Said

Joel F. Johnson
   Jesús and the Snowman

W. Todd Kaneko
   Moving Day
   This Is the Brain

Henry Hart
   Communion
   Learning How to Meditate in Gowhar’s Plum Orchard
   The Angel of Death Knocks at the Door

Natalie Shapero
   A Moving Poem

Biljana D. Obradović
   Where Is My Sadhu Painting?

Carol Ann Davis
   After Lorca

Andrew Hudgins
   Everything Before “Happy” Is True

Matthew Healy
   Always the Obvious Places

Sarah Vap
   Deaf Spots

Catherine Staples
   All Souls Crossing

Drew Blanchard
   For the Record
   From Grace to Goshen
   Not Whiskey
   Son
   Sweethearts

David Roderick
   6 Standish Court

Miriam O’Neal
   Delivered
   House

Leon Weinmann
   Water/Zero

Lesley Wheeler
   Bringing in the May, 1941
   The Dead Man, 1958
   The Electrician’s Mate, 1954

Grant White
   Review | Heathen, by Lesley Wheeler

Bethany Reid
   The Conservation of Memory

Allan Peterson
   Meanwhile
   Whim of the Minute

Philip Gross
   A Distance
   Concentrations

Desmond Kon Yishǒu-Zhetian
   : before the armenian church :
   hart crane after a heart–to–heart

Kimberly L. Becker
   Chapbook Omnibus Review
      Fisher-Wirth, MacDonald, Ross,
      okpik, Rexford, McDougall, Perez-Wendt

Michaux Dempster
   Review | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, by Kevin Wilson

Randy Marshall
   Review | Taste of Cherry, by Kara Candito

Gregory Kimbrell
   Review | Boys Whistling like Canaries, by Jorn Ake

Maggie Schwed
   Review | The Last Four Things, by Kate Greenstreet

Susan Settlemyre Williams
   Review | Sight Map, by Brian Teare

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