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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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Spring 2011

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Volume IV, Number 2

Poetry

Nicky Beer

Scene 43, Take 1: Interior, Sushi Restaurant
Jennifer Chang

Some Say the Lark Makes Sweet Division
Gro Dahle

Excerpts from A Hundred Thousand Hours
Alex Dimitrov

The Composer’s Lover
Albert Goldbarth

Photographs of the Interiors of Dictators’ Houses
Leslie Harrison

Eve
Anna Journey

Elegy Where I Initially Refuse to Eat Sand, The Spirit of the Hour Visits Big Pappa’s Barbeque Joint, Moose Head Mounted on the Wall of Big Pappa’s Barbeque Joint, & Mercy
Katherine Larson

Metamorphosis & Solarium
Gareth Lee

Romance in a Time of Rockets & Gift
Rose McLarney

Don’t I Know
Daniel Poppick

The Animals are Undisturbed
Raisa Tolchinsky

Saint
Catherine Wing

The Brain Truck

Fiction

Matthew Baker

A Sort of Infinity
Amy Bonnaffons

Black Stones
Meagan Ciesla

Incubator Baby World’s Fair, 1939
John Kinsella

Sissy
Reese Okyong Kwon

The Stations of the Sun
Kevin McIlvoy

The Last Things We Said
Pat Smyklo

The Architecture of the Place is Killing Me

Essay

Joelle Biele

Pulled by the Hair: Deborah Digges and the Power of Myth
Atar Hadari

What I Learned About Writing in Drama School, or Kissing in Drag
Amit Majmudar

The Ludlum Identity
Nick Papandreou

Two Brothers and Their Father, Under Indictment, Athens, May, 1989

Review

Jeremy Bass on James Longenbach

Difficult Simplicity: On James Longenbach’s The Iron Key
Andy Frazee on Michael Burkard

On Michael Burkard’s Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990
Burke Hilsabeck on Adam Levin

A Review of Adam Levin’s The Instructions
M. Lynx Qualey on Adonis

A Review of Adonis: Selected Poems
Kascha Semonovitch on Thomas Sayers Ellis

Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis: This Book Is Not “Like” Anything You’ve Ever Read
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter on Charles Simic

A Review of Charles Simic’s Master of Disguises
Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley

“a severe but brilliant mother mosaic so go in”: On Alice Notley’s Reason and Other Women
Alexander Yates on Peter Mountford

On Peter Mountford’s A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism

Interview

Geeta Kothari with Robert Yune