Contents

Editor's Note
 
Poems
Gustaf Sobin
Floralia
Ethan Paquin
Range Peaks
Aaron McCollough
Two Poems
Sanjana Nair
Theory About Indians
Michael Dickman
Five American Plays
Brian Young
Five Poems
Stefanie Marlis
five from choice
Paul Fattaruso
St. Paul in St. Paul
Scott Inguito
That is Something that You Have to Watch For
Gina Franco
The Box
Christine Garren
Two Poems
John Olson
Maps
Kenneth Williams
Bruges
Joseph Lease
Enjoy Your Symptom
Landis Everson
The Deserted Village
Amy Catanzano
Chromatica
Heather McHugh
For Want of Better Words
Mark Lamoureux
Spica
Jeffrey Encke
Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan Al-Tikriti (6)
Karla Kelsey
Indoctrination of Sentences
Jorie Graham
Disenchantment
Olena Kalytiak Davis

The Lyric "I" Drives to Pick Up Her Children
from School: A Poem in the Postconfessional Mode
John Latta
One
Carla Harryman
from Open Box
Zachary Schomburg
I'm Not Carlos
Kim Gek Lin Short
Arp’s Lady
Gerard Malanga
Two Poems
Rusty Morrison
Facts of order and attention
John Kinsella
Ten Poems
David Berman
C-U-IN-CUFFS
Paul McCormick
Izabel Joins the Music
Jeannette Allée
S A T C H
Stephanie Schlaifer
Everything you want to know about dishes
Katie Uva
Dam This Stream of Consciousness
Grace Lee
Two Poems
Jesse Ball
Missive in an Icelandic Room 2
Martha Kinney

Tadiscule on Tack
On suppositories of ham, a memo.
Thomas Swan
Three Poems
 
Fiction
Josip Novakovich
One White Night
Jenny Bitner
The Dwarf
Eric C. Aragon
from hot breath
Johannah Rodgers
Before Afternoon
Dawn Raffel
All Along the Silk Road
Frederic Tuten
The Park in Winter
Andrew Foster Altschul
The Future's Not Ours to See
Margaret Luongo
Mrs. Fargo
Tom Lombardi
War Story
Chris Offutt
Lucy's People
Suzanne Rivecca
Death Is Not an Option
Stacey Levine
Kidney Problem
Matt Vadnais


How Bartleby Spent the Night in the Detroit House
of Corrections Preferring Not to Contemplate the
World, Preferring Not to Start His Life Over Again
Sean McConnell
Dead Animals
Rachel Kushner
Blue Ocean, Green Bottle, Red Curtain, Black Flag
Harry Mathews
Jeremy and Wiwar
 
Other
Joe Wenderoth
Letters from The American Poet
Eugene Ostashevsky


Imperfect Symmetry:
An Introduction to Alexander Vvedensky's
The Mirror and the Musician and Where. When.

The Talking Cure: Contemporary
Fiction and Its Critics




Frederic Tuten, Darius James, Laura Miller, Joe Tabbi, Charlotte Carter, Albert Mobilio, Laird Hunt, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Polito, Maureen Howard, Vince Passaro, Lynn Crawford, Lewis Warsh, Julianna Baggott, Anis Shivani, Stacey Levine, Steve Erickson, Robert Glück Rick Moody
 
Art
Amy Hill
Subjunctive
Post-Its
 
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