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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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Winter 2012

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Volume V, Number 1

Poetry

Lee Bradbury

A Little Nightmare; Shackleford after a Hurricane
W.M. Lobko

My Brother, My Gastroenterologist
Lucia Perillo

Wild Birds Unlimited
Catherine Pierce

The Mother Warns the Tornado; On the Origins of the Tornado
Hope Maxwell Snyder

Memory in the Wine
Mark Strand

Anywhere Could Be Somewhere; Not To Miss The Great Thing
Angela Voras-Hills

Chateaubriand; Nothing to Undo That Can’t Be Done Again

Fiction

Margo Berdeshevsky

Square Black Key
Stephen Haynie

Grandfather’s Wake
Meghan Kenny

The Last Four Seasons
John Kinsella

The Purple Suit
Karin Lin-Greenberg

Care
Kent Nelson

Predators
Jason Nemec

A Brief Sexual History and Its Catalyst
Tamara Shores

The Greatest Slut in the World

Essay

H. L. Hix

One Hundred Definitions of Poetry, Each Unsound
Elizabeth Lopatto

Come On, Pilgrim
W. Scott Olsen

The Beautiful Line
Adania Shibli
Translated by Suneela Mubayi

On East-West Dialogue

Short Fiction Contest

Fan Li

Chiasmus
Anna Kovatcheva

September
Nichols Ford Malick

The Boy in the Lake

Review

Rachel Abramowitz

The Importance of Being Difficult: Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems
Jeremy Bass

Measured Abandon: Mark Doty’s The Art of Description and Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness
Jesse Donaldson

Ducks on the Pond: Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding
Kristen Evans

The Beauty of Waste, the Waste of Beauty: Anna Moschovakis’ You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake
Aimee Pokwatka

Stories in the Best Way: Caitlin Horrocks’ This is Not Your City
Dan Rosenberg

Into the Foreign Tissue: Anja Utler’s engulf — enkindle
Craig Santos Perez

Racial Profiling: Three First Books by Latino Poets
Kascha Semonovitch

Life, Lines: Susan Howe’s That This and Julie Carr’s Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines
John Steen

“It’s the silence which has chosen me”: Claude Royet-Journoud’s The Whole of Poetry is Preposition
Lindsay Turner

“Stubborn as a”: Shane McCrae’s Mule