Contents

Editor's Note
 
Poems
Rodrigo Toscano
Three Poems
Aaron Kunin
Four Poems
Lucy Ives
Three Poems
Kathleen Ossip
Document (2003)
Will Smiley
I saw a theft occur
Chen Dongdong
Two Poems
Hugh Steinberg
from Shy Green Fields
Chris Pusateri
Thanks and Acknowledgments: A Daybook in Scenes
Matt Turner
Two Poems
Carol Szamatowicz
Three Poems
Dan Machlin
Four Poems
Steve McCaffery
from Dark Ladies
Priscilla Becker
Shane Book
Two Poems
David Blair
Two Poems
Diana Barnes-Brown
Main Archive, The Land of No Boats
Daniel Borzutzky
Sexual Pressure
Julianne Buchsbaum
Garrett Caples
A Young Girl Recalls Meeting Erich Von Stroheim
Bill Cassidy
Layover
Daniel Brenner
4th Avenue Window Fan
Corina Copp
Brian Henry
from Quarantine
Regan Good
Two Poems
Ray Hsu
On Trespass
Henry Israeli
Promises, Fog, Gold, Ice
Antonio Jocson
Where I Used To Love You
Noelle Kocot-Tomblin
Two Poems
Anthony McCann
Two Poems
Stan Mir
Two Poems
Stephen Ratcliffe
from REAL
Diane Wald
Dean Young
Bunny Tract
Bradley Paul
Two Poems
Christian Peet
from The Nines
Bruna Mori
Drift
Eva Jane Peck
End of Winter
Susan Scarlata
Two Poems
Lacy Schutz
The Land of Permanent Bliss
Peter Jay Shippy
Hamlet Seeks to Avoid, All That Death
Karena Youtz
Further Proclamations After Many Proclamations
Chris Gordon
Three Poems
Andrea Zanzotto
Two Poems
Matthew Ladd
What I Found Under My Skin
Brandon Downing
Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
Robert Fernandez
Naked in Defeat
Paul Killebrew
Two Poems
Jennifer L. Knox
Three Poems
Jenny Mueller
"The Hick from French Lick"
Melanie Hubbard
Two Poems
Daniel Kane
Seven
Joyelle McSweeney
from The Commandrine, A Verse Play
 
Fiction
Manuel Gonzales
The Artist's Voice: Hearing Is Believing
Alice Bradley
The Panty Thief
Viet Dinh
Delenda
Rebecca Beegle
This Is How Life Is Created
Claude Cahun
from Aveux non avenus
Paul Maliszewski
Anthony Pirnot
The Wolff
Lisa Pearson
How the Slowworm Struggled, But Not Too Much
Doug Nufer
Daniel Rolf


Back When I Prayed I Always Thanked a Cowboy Jesus That My Mom Was My Mom and Michael Jackson Was My Dog Because I Couldn't Imagine Anything So Perfect
 
Other
Philippe Aronson
I Have Something Important to Tell You
Harry Mathews
My Life in CIA: How It Began
 
Summer Literary Seminars Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners
Laura Sims
Kenneth Calhoun
An Account of the Advance at Northgate
 
Reading List