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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Summer 2009

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Volume II, Number 3

Poetry

Matthew Cooperman

General Syntax, Major Lure
Jeffrey Encke

a full-grown man in his ear, the message of the dolls, he drifted toward uselessness
Kimiko Hahn

The Apiculturalist, Raptor, Space
Shane McCrae

Continuing, Sightseeing
Paisley Rekdal

Laocoon
Corey Zeller

Criminals

Fiction

Beth Bosworth

Current
Merle Drown

Anniversary Cards
Thomas Gough

Lost Water
Elliott Holt

Fem Care
Scott Kenemore

“Killer”
Nathan Poole

The Cane Brake
Mary Rechner

Pattern
Erin Stalcup

Gravity

Essay

Dan Coshnear

What This Is About
Brian Doyle

Do You Think We Should Pull Over?
Randall Mann

Thom Gunn: A Memoir of Reading

Review

Joe Campana on Russell Edson

Review of Russell Edson’s See Jack
Margot Demopoulos on Grigoris Balakian

Review of A Voice For The Silenced
Zach Savich on Sam Sampson

The Pursuit of What Exists
Sam Simpson on Best African American Essays 2009

Has King’s Dream Been Realized?
Sam Simpson on Best African American Fiction 2009

Review of Best African American Fiction 2009

Interview

David Baker with Fady Joudah

A Conversation With Fady Joudah