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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 2016

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Volume IX, Number 2

Poetry

Joseph Campana

A Shirt Loves a Body
Weston Cutter

Saint Longinus; For Instance: I Am Beautiful
Benjamin Garcia

Le Daría Mis Pulmones
Jennifer Givhan

Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection
Jennifer Givhan

Race in America
Corrado Govoni translated by Paula Bohince

The Sweetness; Villages
Jeffrey Morgan

Translation
Catherine Pierce

From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Howl; From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Whip-Smart
Carol Potter

Nothing But Blue Skies
John Smelcer

Indian Blues; Smoke Signal
Claire Wahmanholm

Lullaby with Daughter Cells; Given
Jim Whiteside

Saudade [What is destined to burn, burns]; Saudade [In my daydream, a bush engulfed by flames]

Fiction

Elvis Bego

Janus
George Choundas

The Old Hok Wisdom
Brock Clarke

The Bus
Peter Jacoby

On Route
Spencer Nadler

An Ambulance Ride
Cecily Patterson

How to Make Dark Blue
Terese Svoboda

The Cloud Painter’s Lover

Nonfiction

Elizabeth Merritt Abbott

Conversations with Frank
Lynn Casteel Harper

When I Have Dementia
Rebecca McClanahan

Women’s Hour, YMCA
Jordan Millner

An Index of Other People’s Tragedies
Micah Perks

Enormous Wings
Ilan Stavans and Charles Hatfield

The Companion of Empire: Translation and the Making of Latin America

Review

MICRO-REVIEWS

May
April
March
Author Notes
Jeff Alessandrelli

On James Shea’s The Lost Novel
Deborah Helen Garfinkle

Stories of Forgotten Dreams: Ryan MacDonald’s The Observable Characteristics of Organisms
Daniel Green

Reading the Past and the Future: John Keene’s Counternarratives
Lisa Higgs

“How Much That Want Matters”: On Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
M.P. Jones IV

Resetting Our “Creature-clocks”: Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave
Virginia Konchan

O, Democracy!: A Fallen Republic Rises, in Retrospect, to Its Knees
Carrie La Seur

On The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
Ethel Rackin

Songs for Life: Daniel Mark Epstein’s Dawn to Twilight: New and Selected Poems
Solmaz Sharif

“To open like the ear, when eye is shut”: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
Molly Spencer

To Correct the Text of a Life: A Review of Lisa Fay Coutley’s Errata
Jay Aquinas Thompson

Alchemy and Myth: New Books by Emily Wilson and Julie Carr
Willie VerSteeg

The Untameable Wilderness: A Review of Cecily Parks’s O’Nights