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ISSN 1540-3068
Joshua Bennett
On Flesh
Samson Reconsiders
VCR&B
Jacob Boyd
Eight Million in Cash from Armored Cars
Jenny Browne
Boom
From Which the Method of Drawing in Space Between the Trees Instead of the Trees
Themselves Might Well Be Employed
In the Unlikely Event of a Water
Landing
Jean Valentine Was Here
Nine Miles outside Comfort, Texas
The Oldest Story
Anders Carlson-Wee
Birdcalls
Flood of ’97
The Raft
Sarah Crossland
Death Mask
Hush
Aleš Debeljak
translated from the Slovene by Brian Henry
Schoolboy’s Blues
When You Get Out of Prison
Yesterday a House, Today Nothing
Chard deNiord
Poem on My 60th Birthday
Benjamin Goldberg
Foregone Psalm
Sound Wall
Stephen Haven
Equal, Always Equal, to the Inexpressible
Lauren Hilger
Almanac of What’s Real
Palinode
Gentris L. Jointe
The Other Side
Waiting for the Diverted Trolley at
40th & Market St.
Laura Kolbe
Fatti maschii parole femine
Planting
Celeste Lipkes
cam·pa·nol·o·gy
ne·pen·thes
Snail
Kyle McCord
Disciplining the Body
Elegy for the Deodand
Politics of the Afterlife
Kat Meads
P’town Triolets for the Poet Maisel (1942–2006)
Matthew Minicucci
Brief Song of the Almost-Lost
Goat
Rosalie Moffett
Outside Pasco
Rosalie Ruth Moffett
Weird Prayers
Tomás Q. Morín
Echo
I Sing the Body Aquatic
C.L. O’Dell
Dear Animal
He Thinks in Squares and Melted Grass
Heaven
Sam Pereira
Ambien Oatmeal
Anniversary
Allan Peterson
Influenced
I Saw Everything
Things on Purpose
Emilia Phillips
Pastoral (Future Interstate)
Pastoral (Radio)
Pastoral (With One’s Head Out the Car Window)
Tomaž Šalamun
translated from the Slovene by Brian Henry
Agca
Blue Flower
Richmond
Diane Seuss
A Poet Came to Town
As a child I ate and mourned.
It’s Like This
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Six Explanations for Migraine
Laura Van Prooyen
San Antonio Dogs
Sister
Emily Vizzo
Sea Cow
Your Death vs. My Death
