Virginia Downs, “Small Song (after Chagall),” “Day Lilies,” “The Unsurprised,” “The Gatherer’s Eye,” “Reflections For You On Reading Ginsberg’s ‘Who Be Kind To,'” “It Has Taken So Long,” “Orpheus Later”
Fiction
Mark Winegardner, “The Batting Cage”
Jane Ray Halpin, “Garish Beach”
Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki, “Hashish”
Richard Broderick, “Autumn, 4:00 p.m.”
Poetry
Richard Flynn, “This August”
Jean Nordhaus, “The Boy Underground,” “Protecting the Children from Hurricanes,” “Counting”
Elisabeth Murawski, “Etching”
Mark Craver, “Franz Kafka T-Shirt,” “The Undrunk Glass of Absinthe”
Laura Oaksmith, “The Hard Scream,” “Stranger Behind Doors,” “Ash-Tails & Fingers”
Ross Taylor, “White Lies,” “The Road”
Julie Baca, “Shoes”
Ann Best, “To My Father,” “To My Brother”
Lois Cucullo, “Ox eye,” “Aperture”
Peter Desy, “The Drowning”
Matthew Brennan, “The Three-Bagger,” “In the Luxemburg Gardens at Twilight”
Peter Klappert, “Two Hours Formulating a Question for the I-Ching“
Marcy J. Pitt, “I want to see indigo,” “The Jealous Man”
Brooks Haxton, “The Legendary Winterville Whiskey Raid,” “Clean Profit,” “The Real Story”