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CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Editors’ Prizes
Contributors
Carl Adamshick All light is arriving light – poem (PDF)
Neil Aitken - Outside Plato’s Republic, the Last Poets Wait for Departure
Maureen Alsop – Finding the Best Mathematician
Priscilla Atkins – I Was Telling You About Love
Edward Beatty – A Father’s Dream in Time of War
Kristy Bowen toward the blue peninsula and midnight pastoral
Marion Boyer – New River Gorge, West Virginia and One Shoe on the Freeway
Joey Brown – A Girl You Could Get, Pt. 2
Julia Budenz – Diary of Flora Baum: January 23, 2005, Ianualia
Julie Cooper-Fratrik – At Dusk, Driving Past a Small Nursery on Upper Mountain Road
Jill Alexander Essbaum – Houses, Haunted
Michael Estabrook – frogs and the Boston Strangler
Brent Fisk – At Flood Stage
Chris Forhan – Cruising Lake City and The Fall
Geoffrey Forsyth – The Wall
Carrie Fountain Alamogordo
Matthew Gavin Frank – Second Honeymoon
Marc J. Frazier – Anomalies
Diane Furtney – Lithium, Chromium
Paul Gibbons – How the Sky Touches
Alexandra Grace – Solstice
Greg Grummer – The Root Causes of War and First Breaths
Jared Harel – Falling in love in the 6th grade at a pool party –
Peter Harris – Sister Brigit
Liam Heneghan – An Intentional Forest
Claire Hero – Coming of Age in America
Tom Hunley – None of Them Wanted to be a Cloud
Joseph Hunt – Looks Like a Lemonade Stand
Andrea Jackson - Leakage
Daniel Johnson Imagine Getting Exactly What You Want
L. Bellee Jones Six Days Late
Erin Jourdan Cult of the Subconscious
Sally Rosen Kindred Noah Waiting, Not Praying
Janet Norman Knox – Gravity Dog
Kristina Kocan – Jo was here –
Ted Lardner – From Afar – poem (PDF) and Singing
Diane LeBlanc – Living With Forbidden Desire in the Midwest
Rebecca Loudon – Learning to Drive the Tractor
Erin Malone – At the Seams
Paul Martinez-Pompa – Police Dog and Want
Frank Matagrano – Psalm Two
Clay Matthews – Elegy for the Organ Slowly Dying Inside
Kathleen McGookey – At the John Ball Zoo
Ellen McKnight – Watching
Roger Mitchell – Always Somewhere
D.O. Moore – Wedding Dress: Doubting Color, Doubting Memory
C.J. Muchhala – Legacy
Art Nahill – Miracles
Carla Panciera – At Helen’s House
Ricardo Pau-Llosa - Ryman Auditorium, Nashville
Jennifer Perrine – The Resurrectionist’s Wife
Gretchen Primack – Avenue
Marcia Lynx Qualey – From Underneath the Nile
Doug Ramspeck – Visiting Hours
Michael Robins - First Doubts in the Third Person
Margaret A. Robinson - Like Marvin Bell
Lindsey Gail Ronfeldt – The Art
Geri Rosenzweig – Jealous Only of the Red Bowl of the Sun and Pastoral
Lee Rossi – “Figure with Meat”
F. Daniel Rzicznek – Mane and Claw and Natural: History
Jacob Saenz - Blue Line Incident
Andrea Scarpino – Trou de Mémoire
Maureen Seaton – Cybele’s Caves
Patty Seyburn – Pop-Quiz: The Spider, Itsy Bitsy
Marian Kaplun Shapiro - Watching Grass Grow
Sarah Sloat – The Silent Treatment
Ardis L. Stewart – Dead Poet’s Dresses – poem (PDF)
Barbara Buckman Strasko – Solo in the Snow
Jim Tilley – Serendipity in the Cosmos – poem (PDF)
Justin Vicari – Trakl at the Front
Jeremy Voigt – The Paper Around the Orange
Lynn Wagner – Glass Case No. 35
Sara Wallace – blue curve of empty interstate
Ernie Wormwood – Shampoo
Donald Zaremba – Passing Through
Translations
Ioan Flora - Field Notes
translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Elena Bortà
Àlvaro Garcià – the painter
translated by Chris Michalski
Geneviève Huttin – Near Belchatov
translated by Bradford Gray Telford
Ioana Ieronim – Melody of the Day I and Melody of the Day II
translated by Carrie Messenger
Li Nan – Falling Leaves
translated by Amy Liang and Steven Schroeder
William Ospina An Old Historian Tells His Story
translated by Elaine Fowler Palencia and Michael Palencia-Roth
RHINO Reads: Reviews of volumes by Paulette Beete, Jan Bottiglieri, Kristy Bowen, Patricia Clark, Michael Hettich, Kathleen Kirk, Bill Morgan, Simone Muench, Lynn Pattison, Anele Rubin, Judith Valente, Judith Valente and Charles Reynard.
Contributors’ Notes
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