Editor's Note
 

Poems
Nicholas Shapland
Five Poems
Janaka Stucky
Two Poems
Karla Kelsey
Roughsickweek 1, 2, & 3
James Gendron
Two Poems
Sarah Lariviere
Pronto Flee
Sean Kilpatrick
Three Poems
Jennifer MacKenzie
Three Poems
Chris Pusateri
Romania Is for Lovers
Lizbeth Keiley
Three Poems
Eugene Ostashevsky
The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
Kate Greenstreet
Three Poems
Robin Clarke
Two Poems
Jennifer Kronovet
Three Poems
Page Hill Starzinger
Radiance
Lara Candland
Two Poems
Meena Alexander
Four Poems
Marina Lazzara
Three Poems
Nathan Bartel
Two Poems
Amanda Chiado
Eve's Dreams
Steve Langan
Three Poems
Kimberly Johnson
Wrecking Ball
Brett Fletcher Lauer
from A Thorn of Sonnets
Melanie Hubbard
Awakened by a Far-off Distress
David Mills
Two Poems
Chris Tysh
Night Scales
Dean Young
Thing Is
Steffen Brown
Anon
Heather Winterer
Pearl
Christine Hume
I Exhume Myself


Fiction
Ben Black
The Kettle Pond
Paola Peroni
Oversight
Rachel Sherman
First They Came For...
Colin Bassett
How to Make Something Serious into a Funny Joke and Then Back into Something Serious Again
Gregg Bordowitz & Liza Johnson
Couch


Other
Peter Wollen
Brecht in L.A.
Kate Bernheimer, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Joyelle McSweeney, Eric Lorberer
Truth or Consequences in Nonrealist Fiction: Which Are We Reading For?
AWP Conference Chicago, February 2009


Some Words About the Images


Reading List