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CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Editors’ Prizes
Founders’ Prize
Contributors
Michael Aird • As if to Avoid Crushing an Egg; Perfectly Taylored
Peter Alvarez • Christmas Visit
Kim Andrews • Love’s Varietal – poem (PDF)
Jasmine V. Bailey • What Berries Mean
Rebecca Kinzie Bastian • Aubade and Possessing No Lock on Our Door
Mark D. Bennion • Dear Brian
Monica Berlin • Triple Elegy
Candace Black • Grouper
Peters Bruveris • One-Liners
translated by Inara Cedrins
Buson • Selected Haiku of Yosa Buson
translated by Ed McFadden
Michael Cherry • From “Letters to a Dead Rilke”
Eduardo Chirinos • Ascent to Mount Sentinel
translated by G.J. Racz
Patricia Clark • Tawny Light
Rafael Courtoisie • Chapter 10, Sergeant Sanders
translated by Patricia Dubrava
Marosa Di Giorgio • Excerpts from The History of Violets I, XIX, and XX – poem
translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas
Jane Downs • The Weight of Pink Peonies
James Doyle • The Girl at the Dinner Table
Rebecca Ellis • Swarm
Alex Epstein • Beyond the Wall
translated by Becka Mara McKay
Vincent Francone • Variations on Texts by Vallejo and Justice
Megan M. Garr • Document #1; Own
Pamela Garvey • The Trembling – poem (PDF)
Georgia Gelmis • How to Get Across the Room
Rae Gouirand • Zero at Sea
Greg Grummer • Cain, Explaining the Origin of His Tatoo; Abel’s Last Date – poem (PDF)
Jenny Hanning • Dice
Susan Elizabeth Howe • Found in The Horseshoe Trader
Ladee Hubbard • Colossus 1953
Tim Hunt • Mackinaw Parade, 2004
Bethany Schultz Hurst • Elegy for Beauty School and Fallen Satellites – poem (PDF)
Byron A. Kanoti •Tyrannosaurus X-Ray
Rich Kenefic • Rehearsal Dinner
Kateri Kosek • The Art of Throwing Oneself Away
John Krumberger • Mid-Summer
Marianne Kunkel • Children’s Menu
Jenna Le • Three Short Poems on a Common Theme
Kelly Lenox • In the Country of the Bone Flute
Dana Mackowiak • Taboo
Michael Malan • A Grim Appearance
Rebecca Manery • Goatherd
Roy Mash • “They’ll Never Find Me Here”
Carol Matos • At Different Times
Marilyn McCabe • Thoughts on Systems Theory
Laura McKee • Excerpt from Paper Cut
Joshua McKinney • [Every damned thing you can think of is true] and [Re-enacted, the battle lags behind]
Benjamin Miller • Reasons I No Longer Date
Jack Miller • Selection from “Feast of Excited Insects”
Jessica Moll • It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Ingrid Browning Moody • Prayer 18
Xi Murong • Question
translated by Jianquing Zheng and Angela Ball
Steve Nickman • My Last Swahili
Jesse Nissim • Being the Neighbor - poem (PDF)
T.A. Noonan • Helen of Denham
Ron Offen • Franzie K., Boy Explorer
Sonata Paliulyte • Silence
translated by Irena Praitis
Jeffery Perkins • Independence Day
Steven Plewnarz • Night
Saara Myrene Raappana • 72-Hour Observation and Journal for Dr. Saper
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu • all seeds & blues
Marilyn Robertson • Special Effects
Dan Rosenberg • Heaven
Michele Rozga • Last Night I Dreamed I’d Found Joey Ramone’s iPod
David Rutschman • The Royal Butcher
F. Daniel Rzicznek • Podium
James Schiller • Aubade I
Penelope Scambly Schott • As If I Could Ever Go Home – poem (PDF) and In which I am the Skeleton Girl
Danielle Sellers • Aestus
Susan Slaviero • The Botanist
Mike Spikes • Oatmeal on the Stove
Matthew J. Spireng • Gut Shot
JeFF Stumpo • Bokashi
Nat Sufrin • ghazal
Karen Terrey • What separates us from animals
Marissa Bell Toffoli • Lacework – poem (PDF)
Justin Vicari • Popular Swan #5
Agustin Vulgarin • Beautiful Creation
translated by Alexix Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
Valerie Wallace • Debbie Pope
Fritz Ward • Parents, Undressed
J.D. Whitney • From “All My Relations”
Books Received
Contributors’ Notes
Donors
Founders’ Prize Information
