I. The Health of the Nation David Rutschman _______________________________________ The Unnaming Shaelyn Smith _______________________ An Abject Aversion to Academia Dean Young _________________________________________ Coyote Syllabus Joseph Di Prisco _______________ The Plums and My Imaginary Daughter John Findura _______________________________________ French Spelling II. A Doorway Michael Schiavo ________________________________ September Sonnet 21 Nate Pritts ____________________________________________ Bird Feeder Morgan Parker ____________________ Untitled While Listening to Drake Amelia Ferguson _________________________________ Was I Ever a Bird? Corey Zeller ______________________________ Specific Birds: Interior Sam McCormick ____________________________________ Window Piano Fire III. A Dainty Bunch of Spring Breakfast Radishes Kallie Falandays ________________________________ Hear Stable Stable Jennifer H. Fortin ________________ Responding to a Life with a Life Rob Talbert _______________________________________________ Knocking Tyler Gobble ___________________________ My Whole Life, These Spokes Dorothea Lasky ___________________________ The Kierkegaard of Lucite Alexandra Reisner ______________________________________ Sweet Tooth Christie Ann Reynolds ________________ Ode to My Selfish Consumerism with a Cow in It Virginia Konchan _____________________________ Shostakovich’s Fugues IV. Boat Blasts Banished Layne Ransom _________________________________________ Heavy Weather Ryan Walsh _______________________________________________ The Cloud Nate Pritts ______________________________________________ Rainmaker Tyler Gobble _____________________________ A Decade’s Worth of Water Krzysztof Jaworski trans. by Benjamin Paloff _____ The Pacific, etc. V. An Old Screw-Pine in the Tropics Amelia Ferguson ______________________________________ One at a Time Alexis Orgera __________________________________________________ Ode Joseph Di Prisco ______________________ Sleep Is/Is Not a Lost Cause Sam McCormick _________________________________________________ Poem Mary Biddinger ______________________ Invention of the Antihistamine Morgan Parker ___________________________________ Delicate and Jumpy VI. The Appearance of Lines Sarah Green ________________________________ Woman with Head in Hand Joshua Kleinberg _______________________ This is the winter sadness. Amelia Ferguson ________________________________________________ Mud Sam McCormick ______________________________________ Feeling Strange Dorothea Lasky ________________________________________ The groveler Erika Meitner _________________________________________ Thoroughfare VII. Pride of the Market Amelia Ferguson _______________________________________ Folding Fans Sarah Green ____________________________________ Winter Tree in Rain Alexis Pope _______________________________________ Romantic America Krzysztof Jaworski trans. by Benjamin Paloff __________________ NYPD Gary Hawkins __________________________________________________ Vice Jeff Sirkin ____________________________________ This Simple Machine VIII. 750 Million Lumps of Sugar John Findura ______________________________ Pancakes in a Small Town Corey Zeller ____________________________ When Your Kitchen was Blue Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen ____________________ All But the Baking Jon Gertz ______________________________ There Is a Moth on the Wall Layne Ransom ___________________________ Northern Kentucky Interlude Dean Young ____________________________________ Plastic Bag of Ashes IX. Illustration for Sample Interpretation Matthew Olzmann ____________________________________________ Empathy Meg McKeon __________________________________________________ Ritual Rob Talbert _________________________________________ Accountability JoAnna Novak ______________________________________________ Liparoid Erika Meitner ___________________________________________ Funkchance X. Safer Car Smoking Ken’ichi Sasō trans. by Joe DeLong & Noriko Hara ______________ Gift Dorothea Lasky _______________________________________ A new reality Jeff Sirkin ____________________________________________ Real Estate Zach Powers __________________________________________ My 9/11 Story Michael Schiavo ________________________________ September Sonnet 24 XI. A Zest for Living Sam McCormick ___________________________________ Today I’ve Decided George Kalamaras ______________________________ The Poem Starts Here Simon Jacobs _________________________ “Something Else Irreversible” Joshua Ware _______________________________________ Fourth Note Poem Jeff Sirkin ______________________________________________ The Ghost XII. The Climax Basket Meg McKeon ________________________________ These Are My Confessions BJ Love __________________________ I Named All My Problems After You Nate Slawson ________________________________________ How Amazing Is Alexandra Reisner ___________________ Caramel Apple Upside-Down Cake Jon Gertz ___________________________________ Sometimes I Want to Be Matthew Olzmann ___________________________ The Man Who Was Mistaken XIII. A Strange New By-Product Ben Kopel ___________________________________________ Sad Punk Sutra Tanya Olson ____________________________________________ Zeno’s Boat Ken’ichi Sasō translated by Joe DeLong & Noriko Hara ___________________ The Planet of Hearts Mary Biddinger __________________________________ The New Wilderness George Kalamaras _________________________ I Taste a Range of Loving Weston Cutter ________________________ Another Tattoo I’ll Never Get | ||
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