Contents

Editor's Note

Poetry
Adrienne RichVictory
Donald RevellThe Grand Caprice
Kevin McWha SteeleThree Poems
Martha Ronkfrom The Quotidian
Cate MarvinAfter the Last Fright
Bruce AndrewsTwo Poems
Gabriel GuddingBird
Betsy FaginThree Poems
Iustin PantaA Confession
Laura DidykFriend
Kevin LarimerUntitled
Lee UptonTwo Poems
Joshua McKinneyEmbarking upon an Enterprise in Which
One Obligation is Opposed by
Another Obligation
Dana Guthrie-MartinUntitled
Dawn Lundy MartinReligion Song
Wolfram Swetsfrom A Graveyard of Honey
LB ThompsonInterlocking Shapes
David ChiricoThe Art of Thinking
Prageeta SharmaThree Poems
Christian Nguyen LangworthyWhy I Look at Girls
Lauren HaldemanP.S. #4
Geoffrey O'BrienTwo Poems
Ronaldo V. WilsonChronophotographe
Henry DumasFour Poems
Mông-LanTwo Poems
Maureen WhiteThe Night a Thousand Rabbits Moved
Slowly through the City
Linda HealeyMad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
Sheryl NoetheThe Elective
Dara WierThree Poems
Jackson Mac LowNot Taken
Caroline FinkelsteinQuestions with Hands Upturned
Tanya LarkinThe Heavenly Bodies Are Bowls of Fire
Catherine MengThe Poetics of the Poet
Allyssa WolfAnamorphosis
Camille Guthriefrom Articulated Liar Poems for
Louis Bourgeois
Elizabeth Robinsonfrom Carrington
Kristin BockAmor Vincit Omnia
Amy EnglandStarting with Davenport's Archilochos
Peter RichardsTwo Poems
Jorie GrahamSolitude
Brendan Lorber& We Vote

Fiction
Jane UnrueSeven Favorite Dog Stories
Matthew DerbyThe Father Helmet
RJ CurtisKnick, Knack, Paddywack
Judy BudnitzDid the Sun Shine Before You Were Born?
Gary Lutz

Her Dear Only Father's Lone Wife's
Solitudinized, Peaceless Son
Non-Fiction
Claudia KeelanAn Ethics of Practice:
Reading and Writing Spiritual Unity

Elizabeth AlexanderWhat's African American
about African American Poetry
Cornelius Eady
Tracie Morris
Harryette Mullen
Kevin Young

Art
Melissa MarksThe Adventures of Volitia: The Drip Prevails
Louis BourgeoisFemme Maison, 1945-47
Femme Maison, 1945-47
Reading List