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Jan/Feb 2019
Vol. XLI No. 1
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2018 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
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Jena Chapman Andres
Short Fiction Contest Introduction -
Laura Roque
Dientes for Dentures -
Tyler Barton
Spiritual Introduction to the Neighborhood -
Christopher Fox
Breaking
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Jena Chapman Andres
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Fiction
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Hanna Halperin Goldstein
An Excerpt from “Experts on Pain” -
Gabriela Alemán
Superheroes -
Wendy Rawlings
Coffins for Kids!
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Hanna Halperin Goldstein
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Nonfiction
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Albert Goldbarth
Like -
Sangamithra Iyer
Governing Bodies
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Albert Goldbarth
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Poetry
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Philip Metres
Checkpoint -
Philip Metres
Isdoud (for Fady Joudah) -
Mary Ruefle
Vocation -
Mary Ruefle
30 March -
Mary Ruefle
Boutonniere -
Elizabeth Bradfield
First Walk on Sea Ice -
Elizabeth Bradfield
The Fossil Whale -
Elizabeth Bradfield
Turnaround Day -
Elizabeth Bradfield
The Blinds Must Be Closed by Dusk -
Rajiv Mohabir
Vestigial Bones -
Rajiv Mohabir
Kabira -
Brian Cochran
Egrets, Regrets -
José Kozer
The Tailor’s Requiem -
José Kozer
Harvesting -
José Kozer
Ode, of My Country -
Jerzy Ficowski
O Drawer! -
Jerzy Ficowski
Incantation -
Sharron Hass
From “Noon, Fire, and No Shade” -
Brian Tierney
National Anthems in a Nuclear Era -
Keetje Kuipers
Collaborators
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Philip Metres
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Out Loud
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Nov/Dec 2018
Vol. XL No. 6
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Editor's Notes
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2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Natalie Shapero
Young Poets Introduction -
Audrey Kim
What I Left Behind -
Emily Perez
Extraterrestre -
Jenny Li
Chapter Seven Quiz
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Natalie Shapero
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Getting and Spending
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David Baker
Introduction: Getting and Spending -
Edward Hirsch
That’s the Job -
Edward Hirsch
Someone Is Always Shouting -
Edward Hirsch
The Task -
Brandon Amico
Customer Loyalty Program -
Eloisa Amezcua
The Money -
Katy Lederer
Market Day -
Katy Lederer
Market Day II -
Sanki Saitō
“Three Demons”: Sanki Haiku I
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Nicole Hebdon
Excommunication -
Francesca Scotti
“Casta Diva” -
Tia Clark
A Great Dad -
C Pam Zhang
The Wolf Girl of Terezia
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Nicole Hebdon
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Nonfiction
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Sarah Menkedick
The Third Territory -
Erika T. Wurth
Forcing His Body to the Water -
Paisley Rekdal
Memorial Time: Poetry, Elegy, and the War Memorial
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Sarah Menkedick
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Poetry
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Tiana Clark
The First Black Bachelorette -
Andrea Cohen
Self-Portrait with Eraser -
Andrea Cohen
Weep Holes -
Andrea Cohen
Transatlantic -
Alessandra Lynch
Meditation on Rain -
Ishion Hutchinson
Carol -
Amaud Jamaul Johnson
What Spells Trouble -
Bob Hicok
Sincere -
Garrett Hongo
Her Makeup Face -
Garrett Hongo
Blues with a Feeling, Cassis -
Garrett Hongo
The Bathers, Cassis -
Leslie Williams
Friend Shift
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Tiana Clark
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Sept/Oct 2018
Vol. XL No. 5
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes: A Poet of Many Dimensions
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Joshua Idaszak
May It Come Easy -
Jonathan Blum
The White Spot -
Dariel Suarez
The American President’s Visit -
Haïm Hazaz
Excerpts from “The Gallows”
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Joshua Idaszak
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Interview
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William Walsh
Below the Real World
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William Walsh
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Nonfiction
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Lesley Jenike
I Love You. You Have Nice Hands
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Lesley Jenike
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Poetry
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Rita Dove
Canary -
Mary Ruefle
Vow of Extinction -
Mary Ruefle
Resin -
Yuki Tanaka
Evidence of Nocturne -
Yuki Tanaka
Ghost in Waiting -
Kazim Ali
What New Name -
Chet’la Sebree
Rewriting -
Chet’la Sebree
Dispatch from the Dark Continent -
Chet’la Sebree
Ab Hinc -
Karin Gottshall
Origin Story -
Brian Brodeur
Ghazal of the Polar Vortex -
Roger Desy
I-80 -
Yang Lian
Venice Elegy | 2 | Rot Poem -
Brian Michael Murphy
The Memory of Teeth -
Laurence Lieberman
Welshman and Muscovite
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Rita Dove
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Review
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Wendy Singer
“Polysituating” -
David S. Reynolds
Walt Whitman and the Bohemians
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Wendy Singer
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July/Aug 2018
Vol. XL No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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Fiction
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Mahreen Sohail
The Newlyweds -
Anjanette Delgado
Once in a Blue Room -
Charles Johnson
Follow the Drinking Gourd
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Mahreen Sohail
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Nonfiction
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Kimiko Hahn
The Journal of My Psychidae -
Rodger Kamenetz
Natural Dreamwork and the Poetic Imagination
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Kimiko Hahn
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Poetry
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Victoria Chang
Obit -
Arthur Sze
Whiteout -
Arthur Sze
The White Orchard -
Arthur Sze
Eye Exam -
Arthur Sze
Trawler -
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Receta en el cajón -
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Macho :: Hembra -
Joanna Klink
Almanac -
Joanna Klink
The Devotions -
Cintia Santana
Inherit -
Cintia Santana
Dear O, -
Alice Notley
The Fortune-Teller -
Alice Notley
Why Are You Writing These -
Amanda Auerbach
Self-Having -
Amanda Auerbach
Removing Degrees -
Peter Everwine
How It Is (Later) -
Peter Everwine
I Thought -
Peter Everwine
Needs -
Milo de Angelis
From “Encounters and Ambushes”
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Victoria Chang
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Reviews
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Jeffrey Meyers
Eliot Agonistes -
David Wojahn
“Our Abidance Along with Theirs”
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Jeffrey Meyers
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May/June 2018
Vol. XL No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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Nature's (Human) Nature
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David Baker
Introduction: Nature’s (Human) Nature -
Bruce Smith
Garden -
Charley Mull
Nine Things I Learned about Nature on My Skateboard -
Dilruba Ahmed
In Everything a Little Remains -
Jorie Graham
On Salgado’s “Genesis” / On Disturbance or -
Terrance Hayes
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin -
Dana Levin
Two Autumns, Saint Louis -
Sylvia Legris
Morbid Florilegia (Part I) -
Sylvia Legris
Morbid Florilegia (Part II) -
Joanne Dominique Dwyer
Decline in the Adoration of Jack-in-the-Pulpits -
Alice Notley
Polluted -
Alice Notley
The Cure -
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Parable of the Groundhog -
Monica Sok
Parable of a Brief Ceasefire -
Monica Sok
Windfall -
Kathleen Ossip
From “July” -
Marsha de la O
A Grove of Trees -
Marsha de la O
The Understory -
Tess Taylor
Habitat Exchange -
Tess Taylor
Apocalypto w/ Aquaria -
Tess Taylor
Song with Sequoia and Australopithecus -
Liz Countryman
Forest -
Jill Bialosky
Interior Landscape: 6:00 a.m. -
Paul Lindholdt
Hawk Watching
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Patricia Engel
Aguacero -
Erin O. White
The Minister
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Patricia Engel
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Nonfiction
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Debra Nystrom
You Didn’t Hear It from Me
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Debra Nystrom
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Mar/Apr 2018
Vol. XL No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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Drama
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David Butler
Blue Love
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David Butler
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Fiction
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Claire Boyles
Chickens, 2019 -
Jamie Quatro
Dirt Man -
Marvin Shackelford
Parade of Homes
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Claire Boyles
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Nonfiction
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Edan Lepucki
Forest of Feelings
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Edan Lepucki
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Poetry
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Terrance Hayes
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin -
Tommye Blount
Not an Elegy for Erik Rhodes -
Tommye Blount
Icarus Does the Dishes -
Carl Phillips
Pale Colors in a Tall Field -
Carl Phillips
The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow -
Carl Phillips
So the Edge of the World -
Stephen Dunn
I Was Thinking -
John Koethe
Walking Backwards -
John Koethe
Thinking about Death -
Rebecca McClanahan
Sacrament -
Philip Schaefer
Ransom -
Marianne Boruch
Museum Footage, 1945 -
Marianne Boruch
Divers on Film
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Terrance Hayes
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Review
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Jonathan Farmer
“Within Stone / the Mind Writhes”
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Jonathan Farmer
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Jan/Feb 2018
Vol. XL No. 1
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2017 Short Fiction Contest
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Kirsten Reach
Short Fiction Contest Introduction -
David Greendonner
Lionel, for Worse -
Kimberly King Parsons
When Do We Worry -
Lorain Urban
Canto
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Kirsten Reach
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Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry
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Katherine M. Hedeen
Introduction: Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry -
Luis Yuseff
Blueprint of an Impure Rose -
Luis Yuseff
Iron Flowers on the Chest of a Man -
Isaily Pérez González
Mall on 54th Street -
Isaily Pérez González
Flourishing in Ruins -
Isaily Pérez González
Under the Power of the Crinoline -
Javier Marimón Miyares
Letter Alpha Writing (selections) -
Leyman Pérez
In the Drying Shed of Souls -
Leyman Pérez
The Sorters -
Leyman Pérez
West Indies -
Marcelo Morales Cintero
Matter (selections) -
Oscar Cruz
The Years of Learning -
Oscar Cruz
What Counts -
Liuvan Herrera Carpio
Quail -
Liuvan Herrera Carpio
Tiger -
Liuvan Herrera Carpio
Saturday Shroud -
Liuvan Herrera Carpio
Carnival Irons -
Jamila Medina Ríos
Ananguish -
Jamila Medina Ríos
Palp/ Antenna/ Tentaculary -
Moisés Mayán Fernández
The Stationary Man -
Moisés Mayán Fernández
Strange Animal, Innocence -
Moisés Mayán Fernández
Prehistory -
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
99 -
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
33 -
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
77 -
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
11 -
Sergio García Zamora
Mother -
Sergio García Zamora
A House with No Attic -
Sergio García Zamora
The Truck Driver and Me -
Sergio García Zamora
Poems with Fog
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Katherine M. Hedeen
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Fiction
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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Wing -
Hannah H. Kim
Listen -
Jessica Roeder
Wax -
T. S. Dillon
Them Captives, Them Heartbroke
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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
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Nov/Dec 2017
Vol. XXXIX No. 6
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2017 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Natalie Shapero
Young Poets Introduction -
Eileen Huang
Movie Scene on a Highway Shoulder -
Daniel Blokh
Family Portrait with Lost Map -
Isabella Victoria
Clemente Curls
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Natalie Shapero
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Fiction
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Vanessa Cuti
A Box from the Moon -
Lauren Schenkman
Fat Little Gods -
Anna Hartford
But Right Now You Must Know More about Heaven
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Vanessa Cuti
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Nonfiction
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Kevin Young
Cowboys & Aliens -
Tyrese L. Coleman
How to Mourn
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Kevin Young
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Poetry
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Analicia Sotelo
Ariadne Plays the Physician -
William Logan
Summer in the Ordinary -
Bruce Smith
Garden -
Bruce Smith
Ferment -
Bruce Smith
Beautiful Throat -
Bruce Smith
Ballad and Proposition -
Marie Étienne
Japanese Notebooks -
James Hoch
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird -
Diane Seuss
Six Unrhymed Sonnets -
Alex Lemon
This Paradise This This -
Alex Lemon
Better Get Better -
Monica Sok
Ask the Locals -
Bruce Beasley
And Think Yourself Yourself -
Jim Moore
I Call It Joy -
Jim Moore
Not to Know How to Live -
Jim Moore
So Be It
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Analicia Sotelo
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Sept/Oct 2017
Vol. XXXIX No. 5
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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The Hybrid Lyric
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David Baker
Introduction: The Hybrid Lyric -
Meghan O’Rourke
Unnatural Essay -
Michael Collier
The Storm -
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
In a Landscape of Perpetual Springtime -
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
[I like it when] -
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
[If I wait long enough]
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David Baker
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Fiction
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T. C. Boyle
Surtsey -
Joyce Carol Oates
The Long-Legged Girl -
Marian Crotty
Kindness -
Karl Taro Greenfeld
We Not Die
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T. C. Boyle
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Nonfiction
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Emily Withnall
Disembodied
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Emily Withnall
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Poetry
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Cintia Santana
Hum -
Cintia Santana
Scales -
Kyle McCord
Self-Portrait at Eighteen Seen at Thirty -
Philip Schultz
Welcome to the Springs
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Cintia Santana
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July/Aug 2017
Vol. XXXIX No. 4
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Fiction
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Charles Johnson
Idols of the Cave -
Alix Ohlin
Risk Management -
Kevin Wilson
Door to Door -
Elizabeth Wetmore
Slipping
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Charles Johnson
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Nonfiction
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Jeffrey Meyers
Xan Fielding: Romantic Adventurer
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Jeffrey Meyers
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Poetry
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Marilyn Hacker
Calligraphies III -
Albert Goldbarth
Wrist Beep -
Albert Goldbarth
A Range of the Watched and the Unwatched -
Meghan O’Rourke
Mistaken Self-Portrait as Mother of an Unmade Daughter -
Meghan O’Rourke
Self-Portrait as Myself -
Meghan O’Rourke
Dread -
Grace Schulman
The Rooted Bed -
Grace Schulman
The Worst -
Derek Mong
“When the Earth Flies into the Sun -
Rae Armantrout
My Love -
Rae Armantrout
Vessels -
Eric Pankey
A Map of Venice -
Christopher Childers
Sappho 58a: The Cologne Papyrus -
Christopher Childers
Two Epigrams from the “Greek Anthology” -
Christopher Childers
Catullus 11 -
Christopher Childers
Horace Ode 4.7 -
Shuzo Takiguchi
One Thousand and One Nights on White -
Shuzo Takiguchi
Fairy Distance -
Lawrence Joseph
In This Language, in War’s Revolutions -
Lawrence Joseph
Of What We Know Now -
sam sax
Theia Mania
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Marilyn Hacker
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Reviews
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Wyatt Prunty
Rereading Ransom -
Robert Hahn
Nothing There: The Late Poetry of John Koethe
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Wyatt Prunty
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May/June 2017
Vol. XXXIX No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Nature's Nature
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David Baker
Introduction: Nature’s Nature -
Kimberly Johnson
Foulbrood -
Jay Hopler
Swarm -
Meggan Kehrli
City Swarm -
Rae Armantrout
To -
Rae Armantrout
Object -
Rae Armantrout
Are -
Lee Sharkey
Pears -
Kazim Ali
Checkpoint -
Brian Teare
Convince me you have a seed there -
Ryan Patrick Smith
Escape from Milam Landfill -
Ryan Patrick Smith
Augury -
Charlie Smith
Wilderness -
Lisa Williams
Arrived -
Katy Didden
From “The Lava on Iceland” -
Rose McLarney
After the Removal of 30 Types of Plants and Animals from the “Junior Dictionary” -
Rose McLarney
And Still I Want to Bring Life into This World -
Rose McLarney
Little Monster, Masterpiece -
Linda Bierds
Ivory Tightrope Walker -
Ellen Bass
Witnesses -
Stephen Burt
Ground Cherry, Chinese Lantern, or Cape Gooseberry -
Gretchen E. Henderson
A Philosophy of Stones -
Glenn Shaheen
Generosity and Performance -
BK Fischer
Plasticity -
Sandra McPherson
The Dijon Sky -
Amaris Feland Ketcham
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake -
Amaris Feland Ketcham
Spear Globemallow -
Jennifer Michael Hecht
On the Cultivation of a Garden -
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Self Portrait through a Glass, Dimly -
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Hope Is a Raptor with Talons -
Beth Bachmann
nature -
Beth Bachmann
plenty
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Debbie Urbanski
LK-32-C
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Debbie Urbanski
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Nonfiction
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Bruce Bond
Reclamations of the Marvelous
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Bruce Bond
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Review
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David S. Reynolds
The Hidden History of Slavery
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David S. Reynolds
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Mar/Apr 2017
Vol. XXXIX No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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John Kinsella
Special Issue: Contemporary Australian Literature
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John Kinsella
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Fiction
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Kim Scott
Collision -
Tony Birch
The Ghost Train -
Paddy O’Reilly
The White Line -
Robert Drewe
Black Lake and Sugar Cane Road -
Brenda Walker
The Houses That Are Left Behind -
Michael Brennan
Ishinomaki
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Kim Scott
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Nonfiction
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David Brooks
Field’s Kangaroo
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David Brooks
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Poetry
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Bella Li
The Island Coronado, or, A Brief History of Industry -
Jaya Savige
Fort Dada -
David Brooks
Winter Gardening -
David Brooks
The Night Coming -
Michelle Cahill
Museum of Natural History -
Sarah Holland-Batt
Light Years -
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Even Solomon in All His Glory -
Judith Beveridge
His Funeral -
Paul Hetherington
Onions -
Geoff Page
Dove Lake -
Stephen Edgar
La Vita Nuova -
Tracy Ryan
Ceiling -
Tracy Ryan
For My Father -
Ouyang Yu
History of Figures -
Ouyang Yu
Pigeonholed -
Jordie Albiston
□³ -
Gig Ryan
Muzzled Altar -
Philip Salom
Strange Music -
Philip Neilsen
Cane Toad -
Philip Neilsen
Wildlife of Berlin -
Lucy Dougan
Scenes from a Novel -
Andrew Taylor
The Chopping Board -
Fay Zwicky
In Memoriam JB -
Peter Minter
Remembering Sandstone Country -
David McCooey
Animal Studies -
Kevin Brophy
To My Fever -
Peter Goldsworthy
Butterfly Effect -
Maria Takolander
Cruel -
Ali Alizadeh
Animals -
Clive James
Head Wound -
Charmaine Papertalk Green
Old Girl -
Charmaine Papertalk Green
Yurna Australia
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Bella Li
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