Table of Contents

Special Feature

• Jessica Smith, “Visual Poetry”
  • Anne Boyer
  • T.A. Noonan
  • Helen White
  • Michelle Detorie
  • Alixandra Bamford
  • Jessica Smith
  • Angela Szczepaniak
  • Jennifer Scappettone
  • Brenda Iijima
  • K. Lorraine Graham
  • Jess Rowan

Poetry

• Zachary Schomburg, “The Defense”
• Charles Bernstein, “The 100 Most Frequent Words in My Way: Speeches and Poems
• Miriam Stewart, “letter to the absent inhabitant of this room”; “how far away is”
• Cheryl Quimba, “The Many”; “Dearly”
• Stephanie Cleveland, “Red Tailed Sandwiches”
• Liberty Heise, “The dingo falters”; “Below the Ponderosa”; “Ithaca”
• Heather Green, “Surley visible from the sky”
• Alejandro Escudé, “Hummingbirds”
• Joe Hall, from Knife & Mirror
• B.J. Best, “for my son, who is not eight”
• K. Silem Mohammad, “Missing out on Heaven”; “The Game”; “As I Walked Out”
• Michael Murray, “Robert Gober”; “Madonna Transversed by a Culvert Pipe“
• Amy Dickinson, “Small Fretful Passengers”
• Karen Rigby, “Cebolla Church”; “Georgia O’Keefe, 1945”
• Reginald Dwayne Betts, “dear john letter #714”; “malcolm explains something”
• James Navé, “The Hat”
• Erin Gay, “Eyelet”
• Brenda Sieczkowiski, “Wailing”
• Brandon Lewis, “Diary of a Stairwalker”
• Pierre Reverdy, “Joys Before the War”
  • (Translated by Brandon Lewis)

Fiction

• Beth Staples, “My Trip to the Hoover Dam”
• Michael Wolfe, “Big and Confidential”
• Aaron Burch, “Perfect”
• Carl Peterson, “Resort town in winter.”
• Kim Chinquee, “Log”; “Plastic Cups”; “Runway”
• Jason Skipper, “Ghosts”
• Nathan Robison, “Pieces”
• Shelley Berg, “A Little Wisp of Soul”
• Blake Butler, “Seabed”