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Foreword
Lee Smith
Fried Chicken
Betty Adcock
Found
Irene McKinney
Past Lives
Protection Cord
Unthinkable
Sarah Vap
A cradle of warmed oats for the chickens on the Epiphany
A snuggery, evolved
Children
Clear and dark gills of mushrooms
Reconcile
Self-portrait as a butter-churner
Spring in Phoenix: An answer to the vanishing god
Terri Witek
How to Apparel Yourself for the Hunt
How to Lure a Lizard into a Bird Feeder
Walking Angry in That City
Walking Houseproud
Matt Donovan
new poems
Coleridge in Scotland, Walking  
Tchaikovsky at the Trinity Site: A Dance of Sorts in Three Acts
poems from Vellum, winner of the Levis Reading Prize
Charlie Chaplin Dug Up & Ransomed: A Prayer
St. Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives
Towards the Sound of a Heron Stepping on Ice
Todd Fredson
Larry Levis
Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles
Larry Levis Found Portraits
Christopher Buckley
Larry Levis—The Poet & His Prose
David Roderick
Book Review | Vellum, by Matt Donovan
Gerald Stern
Larry Levis Visits Easton, PA During a November Freeze
A Reading by Gerald Stern
Constance Adler
Season of Miracles
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
The Beetle
Letter to N., Paris
Henry Hart
Mr. Brown Takes His Students to the Museum
Post-Op
The Chinese Compass Lost Its Bearings
Patrick Lawler
Hummingbird
Living on Burrowed Time
Unnatural Selection
David Huddle
The Way of the Blue-Winged Wangdoodle
Ron Smith
Edward Teller’s Leg
Flashes
Joe Wilkins
Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas
Jessalyn Wakefield
Prayers to a Young God
Jonathan Weinert
An Ice Age
Allison Titus
Motel 1
Motel 2
Modern Romance
K. Kirk
Stand: Two Excerpts
Ramola D
Letter Home to Madras
Jeanne Larsen
The Cellar Stairwell at Jizō House
David Roby
Arts and Science
Khaled Mattawa
Two translations of Iman Mersal
Oranges
The Visit
A poem by Khaled Mattawa
The Room Is Cluttered, the Suitcase Night Thunder
Todd Fredson
Mistress (1)
Vietnam
Mistress (2): Teeter-Totter
John Allman
Dear Sis,
Bruce Weigl
Pastoral as Complaint
For Penelope
Response to, “Why Don't You Write About Something Happy?”
M.C. Allan
Archimedes under Myronas
Forrest Anderson
Hey Bubba
Adam Chiles
Variation on a Landscape
after David Hockney’s Winter Tunnel With Snow, March
Variation on a Landscape
after David Hockney’s A Bigger Puddle Near Kilham
John Ravenal
Work by Teresita Fernández
Edie Rhoads
Being Bird-Blooded
Louise Mathias
Remnant
Andrew Allport
Rae’s Mask
Self-Representation in the Arabian Gulf
Chapbook Omnibus Review
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 1
Eugene Ostashevsky
Jonah Winter
Charles Jensen
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 2
Marianne Boruch
Leigh Anne Couch
Allison Titus
Lesley Wheeler
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 3
Mathias Svalina
Joy Katz
Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Kathy Davis
Mary Lee Allen
Book Review | Moon Road, by Ron Smith
Karla Huston
Book Review | Eden in the Rearview Mirror, by Susan Elbe
Catherine MacDonald
Book Review | Field, Folly, Snow, by Cecily Parks
Randy Marshall
Book Review | Slantwise, by Betty Adcock
Matt Myers
Book Review | On Dream Street, by Melanie Almeder
Michelle Poulos
Book Review | Just Breathe Normally, by Peggy Shumaker
Ron Slate
Book Review | A Murmuration of Starlings, by Jake Adam York
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Book Review | Houses Fly Away, by Leigh Anne Couch & Theories of Falling, by Sandra Beasley
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