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Michael Bazzett
The Actress
Aria
The Date
Manhood
The SchoolAdrienne Celt
The Dimensions of the AnomalyRodney Gomez
Cassowary
Harvest
LoveSally Wen Mao
Dirt-eating Poem
Metamorphic Diary
Myopia: A CartographyL.S. McKee
Adam at the Garden’s Edge
Company Town
Shark’s Tooth
Ramona Ausubel
from No One Is Here Except All of UsCabell First Novelist Award 2013
A Conversation
Panel DiscussionMatthew Phipps
Review | No One Is Here Except All of Us, by Ramona Ausubel
Tom Sleigh
with paintings by Michael Hafftka
KM4
A Conversation with Tom Sleigh 
A Conversation with Kevin Powers
Ailish Hopper
Circle in the Grass
Julie Marie Wade
Hourglass I
Hourglass II
George Ferrandi
The Prosthetics of Joy 
A Poetic Principles Reading: Charles Wright & Ellen Bryant Voigt
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Review | Headwaters, by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Robert Rubin
Camelot, after Fifty Years: Remembering Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Michael McGriff & J.M. Tyree
from Our Secret Life in the Movies
Bernard Martin
Stagecoach: The Paintings
Shane Seely
The Death of Roland Barthes
Peter Sellers on The Muppet Show
Manhatta Suite
Parker’s “The Art of the Camera: An Experimental ‘Movie’”
Sheeler & Strand’s Manhatta
Melissa Barrett
Everyone Here Is a Tourist
Your Virtue Unswerving, But Miles from Any Mark
Matthew Hotham
Honey,
Molting
Without Like or As
Anis Shivani
Translations from Lorca
F. Daniel Rzicznek
Of Earth
Of Current
Of Hardship
Of Opposites
Of Religion
Jane Satterfield
Angel of Becoming
Landscape and Departure
Dan Rosenberg
The City
The Field
New Food
Sonnet
Spacemen Specimen
Elise Levine
On Floating Bodies
Circe Maia
translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval
The Bridge
Compositions
A Horrible Shock
Incarnations
In Memoriam
Scars
Len Krisak
translating from the Latin
Catullus: Carmina, XXXIX
Catullus: Carmina, XL
Ron Wallace
Bellwether
The House Always Wins
Misanthropic
The Rapture
Liam O’Brien
Revenge of the Love Song of the Boy Parachutist
Jen Hirt
Why Not Malachite for Resurrection
Ralph Hamilton
His long & glowing tail
Sidney Wade
The Chickasaw Trees
Kelly Younger
from This World We Know
Andrew Kozma
And Here It Seems the Author Died
Huge Piece of Building
Mark Wagenaar
Ghost Hour Gospel
Meg McKeon
I Didn’t Tell You I Wanted to Feel Your Chin at the Nape of My Neck
I’ll Make Dinner Tonight
Tyler Mills
Dream of the Morning Before It Split Open
Hypothesis: An Interview
Negative Peeled Back from a Cardboard Album
Voice of a Silhouette
Kimberly N. Frank
Jersey Shore
Emilia Phillips
Chapbook Omnibus Review
reviews of work by Scafidi, Lenahan, Minicucci, Poulos, and Metres
Craig Beaven
Review | Signaletics, by Emilia Phillips
Michaux Dempster
Review | A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa, by Elaine Neil Orr and River of Dust,
by Virginia Pye
Ross Losapio
Review | Its Ghostly Workshop, by Ron Smith
