A joint venture of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and New Virginia Review, Inc.
Copyright © 2015 by Blackbird and the individual writers and artists
ISSN 1540-3068
John Allman
GMOs
Jacob’s Limp
Selfie
Thrift Shop
Vernissage
Hala Alyan
In the City of Fire
Retrieval
Talvikki Ansel
Somewhere in Space
(a poem in 10 parts)
Bruce Bond
Allegiance
Ventriloquist
Greg Brownderville
The Homemade Fireworks
Sue D.
Burton
All in All, Another Productive Day in the Thicket of
Disappointment
Somehow Myself Survived the
Night
The Woman Who Is to Be Sawn in Half
The Woman Who Is Sawn in Half Thinks about
Elephants: Marianne Moore Feeding Them
Bread at
the Circus & Houdini Who Made One Disappear (&
Was Not “Uncomfortably Popular”
with Them as
Was Miss Moore)
Gary Dop
What Is It Like to Get Punched in the Face?
Barbara Duffey
Coffey Still
Shelterbelt
Keith Ekiss
Not Far Underground
John Fry
the wilderness rose as incense
I say arid and
the room says storm
Kimberly Grey
How We Take Our Grief
Vanessa Couto Johnson
c(on)ta(in)er
o(vers)ight
Kirun Kapur
The Bird Watchers
In the Rub’ al Khali
Motorcycles
Sea Anemone
Gregory Kimbrell
1900 Gibbon Street
The Age of Miracles
The Succulent Flowers
Between the Something and the Nothing . . .
Editor’s Commentary on Kimbrell’s Form and Process
Keetje Kuipers
At the Arlee Pow-Wow with My Unborn Child
Getting the Baby to Sleep
Larry Levis
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage
Sandra Lim
Certainty [Edward Taylor . . . ] 
Certainty [Perhaps you can . . . ]
Garden
Quarrel
Human Interest Story
Ruth Madievsky
Buttons
On Memory
Peter Makuck
Après le Déluge, or How to Return
Family
Music
Carly
Joy Miller
Nightshift as a Waitress: When the Regular Arrives
Soul’s Colony
Darren Morris
Fear of Stones and Air
Simone
Muench & Dean Rader
[How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder]
[Near dusk, near a path, near a brook]
[Shadow, you'll travel to what waits ahead]
Luisa
Muradyan
A Beaver and His Pile of Wood
Firefly
Vera
Beneath the Floor
E.B. Paige
The Razor in the Apple
They May Only Go
Where They’re Bid
Patty Paine
What Light Does
What You Sow
Dannye Romine
Powell
Confession
Snow
Tunnel of Green
Jim Redmond
Hard Water
Let There Be
Jordan Rice
Epithalamion
Latent
Pre-Op
Louie
Jon A. Sanchez
translated from the Filipino by J.A. Del Prado
Love Story
Austin Segrest
The Missouri Compromise
Yellowhammer
Lisa Russ Spaar
Accidental
Two Weeks
The Wind Wears a
Red Leaf
Catherine Staples
Feeding the Hounds
Moon Blind
Sleeping
in the Good Bed
Tess
Taylor
Harvest Fair
Last Hay
