Cover Art:
Front: Susan Davidoff, Regiones Botanicas de la Tierra Antilles #1, 5/48, lithograph with hand applied dirt and
collage, 42’’x 29.5’’
Back: Pierre Alechynski, Untitled, 77/150, black and white woodcut, 23.5’’x 19.75’’
Poetry
Julianna Baggott—Q and A: Why don’t you write formal poetry?| Q and A: Don’t
poets just write the same poem over and over?| The Stolen Poem: My Brother Poem
after Levine’s “What Work Is”| Poetry in the Suburbs
Bridgette Bates—It Is on a Big River| The Olympic Room
Eric Chock—As Tears Go By| Things your mother told you not to do, or else…
Marisa de los Santos—Getting the Body Back| After the Unimaginable| New Mother|
The Work of Marriage
Kimberly Blaeser—Drawing Breath| Fantasies of Women| Seasonal
Francesca Abbatte—Oblique| Dear Now| Dear Gone
Paul Hoover—The Interleaving| Gravity’s Children
Ricardo Pau-Llosa—Crumpled Paper
Elizabeth McLagan—Letter from St. Nicholas Church, Prague
Jayson Iwen—2| 4| 5
Richard Jackson—The Boy That Was in Me
Lisa Furmanski—Pantheon
Susan Firer—A Few Sentimental Bombs & One Bindi of Sun| The Luminosity
Equation
Fiction
Suzanne Rivecca—Flying Fathers
Peter Orner—A Waukegan Story
Moira Crone—Seams
Lee Martin—Assisted Living
Orman Day—No Dressing
Evan Kuhlman Petee—The Summer of My Disco Tent
Michelle Boyajian—Like Wildfire
Michael Czyzniejewski—To Be Walker
Creative Nonfiction
Mary Morris—Sense of Direction: Lost and Found
Interview
Kirsten Hemmy—An Interview With, and Three Poems by, Ralph Angel
Recommended Books
Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes
Rosmarie Waldrop
Reviewed by Cynthia Running-Johnson
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
Joseph Roth, translated with an introduction by Michael Hoffman
Reviewed by Peter Blickle
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions
S.L. Wisenberg
Reviewed by Glenn Deutsch
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin; Underground
Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel; After the Quake: Stories
Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
Reviewed by Peter Patau
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
ZZ Packer
Reviewed by Gina Betcher
I Am Not Jackson Pollock
John Haskell
Reviewed by Kurt Haenicke
Miracle Fruit
Aimee Nezhukumatithil
Reviewed by J. Gabriel Scala
Traveling at High Speeds
John Rybicki; Yellow-Haired Girl with Spider
John Rybicki
Reviewed by Cody Todd
Whatever Shines Kathleen McGookey
Reviewed by Roy Seeger
Managing Editor: Glenn Deutsch
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Arlie Dorsch and Jason Skipper
Poetry Editor: Kristen Hemmy
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Sean Hoen
