Selections

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