I. HAND STAND SALUTE
Hello, There. How Many Times Are We Doing This? _______ Thea Brown
The Case of Jane 6 _________________________________ M.A. Vizsolyi
Sometimes Stars Shoot from My Breasts _____________ Erika Jo Brown
_________________________________________________ Elizabeth Zuba
What To Do ________________________________________ Lauren Shapiro
The Sun _________________________________________ Elizabeth Arnold
Blue Bowl, Orange Orange _____________________________ Sarah Green
II. WALKING SPANISH
Myth #39 ___________________________________________ Philip Muller
From the Window _______________________________________ MRB Chelko
Seven Day Fast ___________________________________ Kai Carlson-Wee
Is Hunger __________________________________________ Weston Cutter
After Cotán ________________________________________ Amanda Smeltz
Favorite Apples of the Presidents _____________ Jessica Goodfellow
III. REMOVING PITCH
Flights of Meaning _______________________________ Kiki Petrosino
Let Us Assume We Are Each
Other’s Best Mail Order Brides ________________ Erika Jo Brown
Rain, Steam and Speed—
The Great Western Railway _____________________ Jessica Piazza
After Havre ______________________________________ Kai Carlson-Wee
Rage Without Meaning _______________________________ Paige Taggart
A Bit of Forgiveness _________________________________ Sean Bishop
IV. CROSS QUESTIONS
from A hundred thousand hours __________________________ Gro Dahle
Misrule ______________________________________________ Micah Perks
When I Said I’m Changing Hats
I Meant It; This Hat is Crummy. ________________ Michael Teig
The First Time We Felt What Was
Later Diagnosed As __________ ________________ Liz Countryman
The Case of Jane ___________________________________ M.A. Vizsolyi
The One Hundreds __________________________________ Lauren Shapiro
This Pledge Drive Don’t End __________________________ Alex Lemon
V. DUMB CRAMBO
Aromatherapy in the Age of New Form ________________ G.C. Waldrep
Entropy: Take The Stinger Out _____________________ Paige Taggart
Confused Ontology _________________________________ Matthew Donne
The Other Intelligentsia ________________________ Luke Bloomfield
Ligamentary, my dear ________________________________ Nina Corwin
VI. TO STACK AND TAKE ARMS
Storm _______________________________________________ Sarah Dimick
Static ____________________________________________ Carrie Hohmann
Hinges _______________________________________ W. Vandoren Wheeler
Hammock __________________________________________ Luke Bloomfield
Lines _______________________________________________ Sarah Dimick
Oafish ______________________________________________ Michael Teig
Storylines __________________________________________ Mark Bibbins
VII. SEEKING FOR GOLD
I Hesitate _________________________________________ Lisa Ampleman
Why Can I Say I Love Noodles _____________________ Luke Bloomfield
from A hundred thousand hours __________________________ Gro Dahle
Asleep All Afternoon _____________________________ Melanie Hubbard
Poem in Which Something Changes ______________________ J.L. Conrad
Letters to the Guy Who Dumped Me __________________ Liz Countryman
The Supple Hellion _______________________________ Melanie Hubbard
VIII. SHAKESPEAREAN ROMANCE
Happy Hour ____________________________________________ Dean Young
Secret Code _________________________________________ Seth Landman
Soul Gun ____________________________________________ Jackie Clark
Trapped Badger __________________________________________ Adam Day
Blood Diamonds _____________________________________ Dan Rosenberg
Snakes in Suburbia __________________________________ Jenna Nissan
Last Call ____________________________________________ Jeff Sirkin
IX. DRAW A BUCKET OF WATER
Similes Liberation Army _____________________________ Mark Bibbins
Poem for Ferlinghetti ___________________________ Matthew Zapruder
Robert Creeley Was Occasionally
Sentimental & So Am I ______________________Jeff Alessandrelli
Letter to Violi from Prospect Heights ______________ Amanda Smeltz
Philip K Dick Head ________________________________ Matthew Bialer
Dear Handcuff, Dear Capture Man ______________________ Nina Corwin
The Universe Is Making John
Hughes Characters of Us All ____________________ Tricia Taaca
X. SMUGGLING THE GEG
My Dead Sister Is a PVC Pipe __________________________ A.T. Grant
Contra ___________________________________________ Dan Rosenberg
Yes Way ______________________________________ Anthony Tognazzini
To My Twin at the Limit of Perpetual Snow ___________ Seth Landman
Myth # 2 __________________________________________ Philip Muller
Universal Monster ___________________________________ Nate Pritts
from A hundred thousand hours _________________________ Gro Dahle
XI. RING-A-LIEVIO
City of the Advertisers ____________________________ Matt McBride
Elvis In Evansville ____________________________ Matthew Guenette
Heartland _________________________________________ John Loughlin
Soul Gun ____________________________________________ Jackie Clark
The Little Chapters _________________________________ Seth Landman
Personal Style Monologue, or, Everyone Is
Boring & Unoriginal Except for Me _____________ Kiki Petrosino
On the Fall Of Constantinople ______________________ G.C. Waldrep
XII. PRAY, DO
Light Verse Demands Radiant Turns ________________ Erika Jo Brown
Badger’s Daughter ______________________________________ Adam Day
Twinkie-Dog _______________________________________ Amanda Chiado
* _______________________________________________ Brian Trimboli
Look at the Tree ________________________________ Rebecca Lehmann
XIII. SKYTE THE BOB
Summer’s Other ______________________________________ Mark Bibbins
LIMBO No. 1 ____________________________________________ Adam Fell
Change=Loose _______________________________________ Weston Cutter
Enemy Way Music ___________________________________ Evan Commander
Wistful Approach to the Obstacle _________________ Melanie Hubbard
Anaximander __________________________________________ Martin Rock
Two Thousand Nine ___________________________________ Matt McBride
XIV. LITERARY LORE
The Guerilla Lie Factory ___________________________ Alexis Orgera
Poem in Which I Wade Through Coffee __________________ J.L. Conrad
Thank You, Lug Nut Retorquer ______________________ Erika Jo Brown
* ________________________________________________ Brian Trimboli
A Shape by the Side of the Road ____________________ John Loughlin
Anaximenes ___________________________________________ Martin Rock
XV. BUNG THE BUCKET
(The Word of the Day Is)
Delightful or Confused Moonbeam ___________________ Thea Brown
So Much Beauty Turns to Despair in a Hangover _____ Lauren Shapiro
Rainbow, Rainbow _____________________________________ Nate Pritts
Division Signs Look Like Clichés __________________ Carrie Hohmann
Someone Has Sent a Letter ________________________ Rebecca Lehmann
XVI. I SAY, STOOP!
Mouse Myth ________________________________________ Philip Muller
In His Old Age __________________________________________ Adam Day
Nostalgiarama _______________________________________ James Cihlar
Soul Gun ____________________________________________ Jackie Clark
_________________________________________________ Elizabeth Zuba
Saint Home _________________________________________ Weston Cutter
Something to Make Us Feel Real ___________________ Luke Bloomfield
Adam Home from the War _______________________________ Sean Bishop
A Matter of Scale ________________________________ Nick Courtright
WEE BOLOGNA MAN