Summer 2012

Poetry

• Catherine Barnett

  Categories of Understanding; From the Doorway; Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid

• Michelle Boisseau

  Mid-Day Sunrise

• Jay Hopler

  So Many Birds to Kill and So Few Stones

• Zilka Joseph

  Death of a Frog; You, Without Shoes

• Nathaniel Perry

  Thunder Moon

• Michael Peterson

  Three poems from Repeater

• Nance Van Winckel

  Loyal Order Of

Fiction

• Brian Doyle

  Four Boston Basketball Stories

• John Kinsella

  Orbit

• Robert Kostuck

  Vanda

• Kelly Magee

  You’re Not Going to Die

• Madeline McDonnell

  It Was the Summer

• Ilan Stavans translated by Harry Morales

  Who?

• Mabel Yu

  A Matter of Course

Essay

• Thomas Gibbs

  The Nigerian Dentist’s Cousin

• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  The Blues: A Craft Manifesto

• Timothy Kenny

  The Siege of Sarajevo, July 1992

• Khaled Mattawa

  On Libya’s Recent Elections

• Peter Selgin

  Unclassifiables: A Tour of Books on My Bed Stand

Review

• Jensen Beach

  Moses’ Son: Adam Levin’s Hot Pink

• Elaine Bleakney

  Reading Ravicka: Two Novels in a Trilogy by Renee Gladman

• Erika Jo Brown

  Aspen and Plastic: Adam Fell’s I Am Not a Pioneer

• Dan Chelotti

  The Capital World: Geoffrey Nutter’s Christopher Sunset

• Patrick Dacey

  Among the Ash-heaps: Vanessa Veselka’s Zazen

• Keith Ekiss

  First in Vers Libre: Jules Laforgue’s Last Verses

• Anna Journey

  If the Past Is a Ghost Town: On Catherine Pierce’s The Girls of Peculiar

• Adam Novy

  Zen and the Art: Christopher Boucher’s How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

• Craig Santos Perez

  On Robert Sullivan’s Cassino: City of Martyrs/Città Martire

• Nathan Poole

  Becoming: The Southern Subjunctive of Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise