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CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Editors’ Prizes
Founders’ Prize Contest
Contributors
Colleen Abel • [The Rooster is Perfect]
Jim Pascual Agustin • People Like You – audio version
author’s own translation from the Tagalog
Lindsay Ahl • In the Gallery – audio version
Dilruba Ahmed • In the Echo Chamber
Rio Alma • waiting at consuelo’s
translated from the Tagalog by Eric Gamalinda
Nin Andrews • On the island where I come from
Hans Arnfrid Astel • Stonecreek Pond
translated from the German by Eric Wayne Dickey
Diego Báez • What Has Gone Before
Cirilo F. Bautista • Song of Hong Kong
translated from the Tagalog by José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes- Poem – (PDF)
Lindsay Bell • Chrysotile
Marvin Bell • The Book of The Dead Man (Rhino) – audio version
Aleksandr Blok • [Night, street, lamp post, pharmacy,]
translated from the Russian by Laura Roberts
A.M. Brant • Instead of This
Paul Breslin • Catechism
Charlene Logan Burnett • I Promised Not to Remember
Mary Lou Buschi • Big Little Same
Nancy Chalker-Tennant • Omen/Prince and Spring
Floyd Cheung • Irrational Fear
Bill Christophersen • Some Personas; Pursuing the Hem of Truth into the Foothills
James Cihlar • Epistemology Roadshow; Rancho Nostalgia
Cathryn Cofell and Michael Kriesel • The Reason Trees Don’t Talk – audio version
Esteban Colon • Requited
T. Zachary Cotler • When the Student is Ready, the Master Appears; Blue Eye Wake Up
William Coughlin • Beatitude Shift
Lisa Fay Coutley • Listen
Renée E. D’Aoust • If Sappho Owned a Dog
Tom Daley • After a Stroke, My Mother Examines a Picture of the Icon of Our Lady of Guadelupe
Mark DeCarteret • Sabotage
Laura M. Dixon • A Storm It Is
Deborah H. Doolittle • Paul Gaugin’s Still Life with Cat
Rebecca Dunham • Lines Written on the Margin of My Book
Maureen C. Ewing • Four Celestial Dancing Beauties (Cambodia, 13th Century)
Brett Foster • Love’s Casualties
Richard Garcia • The Poker-Playing Dog Poetry Workshop
Brandi Gentry • Arranged Man Body Worlds Exhibit – audio version
Liz Gerber • Piety – audio version
Hafizah Geter • [paula] – Poem – (PDF)
Colette Gill • A Sister E-mails Her Brothers
Nene Giorgadze • *** [Night arrives like a wolf's howl.] – audio version
author’s own translation from the Georgian, with Timothy Kercher
Ruth Goring • Arithmetic
John Hart • Vlado Daydreams about a Woman after She’s Been Shot- Poem (PDF)
M. Ayodele Heath • The Stuttering House Negro Diviner Speaks: Heath Plantation, 1863 – Poem – (PDF) - audio version
Ruth Holzer • Good Enough
Michael Homolka • Household God
Tim Hunt • In this photo that does not exist,
Josh Kalscheur • Grotesquerie
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann • Affair
Genine Lentine • Fire Lane – audio version
Nicholas Liu • Before seeing Ugolino and His Sons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adam Lizakowski • A poem about the rooster
Roddy Lumsden • Sakes
Angie Macri • Ourania, Pandemos, Apostrophia
Frank Matagrano • Song of Myself in a Hotel with a View of the Pacific Ocean
Susan H. Maurer • Rite Aid
Austin Mayfield • Narcissus – audio version
Daniel McGee • Harmonica- audio version
Bo McGuire • My Mother Asks About Carolyn Childers – audio version
Ana Merino • [Here begin new days]
translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei
Kathi Morrison-Taylor • In the Dream of My Father at the Bar on Tatooine – Poem – (PDF)
Elisabeth Murawski • Little Eileen – audio version
Abby E. Murray • Quick Draw
Mark Neely • The Middle of the Night
Matthew Olzmann • After I Introduce My Brother To Person X, I am Asked if I was Adopted
Christina Pacosz • Scattering the Ashes
Abby Paige • The Undefended Border poem (PDF) audio version
Simon Perchik • G1 ; G7
Jeffrey Perkins • Army of Lovers
Robert E. Petrick • Curve in the Road (Bowen Cento)
Kenneth Pobo • Hand and Clock - audio version
Mike Puican • Nonfiction - audio version
Jacques J. Rancourt • Messenger
Chris Reid • This Is Not A Sonnet
Kirsten Rian • “It’s better to know in advance that we are going to fail.” (from 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life) – Poem – (PDF)
Melissa Roxas • Returning
Steven Schroeder • souls falling – Poem – (PDF) – audio version
Ben Schwartz • The Probability of Anything Happening; Sacrificial Versions
Roy Scranton • Hummingbird
Sarah J. Sloat • Whisk
Gary Soto • Campesino
Shenandoah Sowash • Dress for Eliot
Joannie Kervran Stangeland • The Three Rabbits
Jeneva Stone • Nursing a Daughter before Work
Alison Strub • Struck by a Falling Arrow
R L Swihart • A Sequence of I ’s Contrives to Describe a Locus
Maxine Syjuco • Premonition; Cages
Fiona Sze-Lorrain • No Title Required for Yeye and Me
Donna Vorreyer • Billy Gets the Analogy All Wrong
Jeanne Wagner • Dr. Frankenstein on Love
David Wagoner • Elegy at the Side of the Road
Ann Walters • Pipes
Megan Watkins • High Noon, Sunbury House
Charles Harper Webb • A Jealous Dad
Jackie K. White • Body Cento, From the Decade I Edited: Year One, and the Last
Mary Clara White • Matryoshka
Ross White • Coordinates for Subconscious Travel
John Sibley Williams • Away
Doog T. Wood • At the Aid-El Kebir; Farach Bought a Fur Rabbit
Ellen Wright • The Amaryllis Report
Zi Ye • Two Zi Ye Poems
translated from the Chinese by David Lunde
Contributors’ Notes
Donors
Founders’ Prize Information
