Table of Contents

Special Feature

• Introduction
• Keith Waldrop
• Lo Kwa Mei-en
• Noah Eli Gordon
• Nick Demske
• Joshua R. Helms
• Michael Palmer
• Laura Kasischke

Poetry

• Michael Bazzett, “The Dark Thing”, “How It Survived for a While”
• Jerrod Bohn, from Winter Gestations
• Maxine Chernoff, “Notes”, “Momentum”
• Jaclyn Dwyer, “On Our Wedding Night in the Hotel Duval”
• Andrew Grace, “The Country”, “Trespassers”, “Babysitter”
• Eszter Takacs, “Belief”, “A Temperate Walk on the Moon”
• Yim Tan Wong, “The Harper Collins Wittgenstein Webster Benet Britannica Stress Test”

Fiction

• Tessa Mellas, “Six Sisters”
• Mike Koenig, “Sammy Kisses Archie”
• Michael Fischer, “The Bird Man”
• Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger, “Springtime for the World”

Nonfiction

• Seth Sawyers, “John’s House”
• Marin Sardy, “Chokecherries”
• Chelsea Biondolillo, “Bird by Desert-Light”
• Janet Yoder, “Do This for Your Friend”

Art

• Heather Evans Smith, “A Beautiful Smothering” (cover), “A Soft Place to Land”, “A Slow Sink”, “Collide”