Table of Contents
W. E. Butts, Everywhere is Everywhere
Colleen McKee, Blue Like an Orange
Marc Harshman, Whitman and Wright Visit the Wheeling Middle School
David Waite, Schoolground
Brandon Bourgeois, a girl
Sean Prentiss, No (or Careful or Slow)
John Meyer, Under the Open Sky
JC Reilly, Ex Somnium
Rachael Z. Ikins, Autumn Evening With Cool Drizzle
Carol Willette Bachofner, Evolution 3
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, The Rope
Geri Rosenzweig, My Life Shook Its Mane
Susana H. Case, Incantation
Leonore Hildebrandt, In the Book of Apparitions
Aden Ross, Leda: Swan’s View
Donna Prinzmetal, The Three Temptations of Snow White
Susan Grimm, You’ve Got to Excuse the April in Me
Changming Yuan, S. E. W. N.
Mark McKain, A Houston Toad Vocabulary
Naoko Fujimoto, June Ink
Kelly Terwilliger, The Garden Rake
Kristina Van Sant, Force
Katie Tunning, The Party
Sarah Luczaj, The Grief Question
Kathleen Clancy, Vehicle
Robert Parham, Freedom
W. Vandoren Wheeler, The Accidentalist
Paul Nelson, Andre the Giant
Iris Moulton, Endorheic
Carla Panciera, How We Know These Are the Last Days, Half Moon Pond
Pamela Hart, Sky Burial
Flynn’s Pond
Brian D. Morrison, Some Assembly Required
Amy Miller, For Blossom, a $10 Hamster
Joseph A. Chelius, Boy with Vegetables
Christine Hope Starr, Regarding the Chocolate Beet Cake
James B. Nicola, Pastry Shop
Caitlin Dwyer, On the Nose
Kristina Marie Darling, [In which the Song is a Field, White with Snow]
[In which the Composition Remains Unfinished]
Peter Ludwin, The Music Student
Wendy Vardaman, Sesto: Art History Lecture
Jill M. Kupchik, L’Hymne de la Coupable
Laura Bontrager, Bilge Koyu, Turkey, May 2009
Catherine Wiley, Why Jane Eyre Quit Painting
Marie C. Jones, Per una selva oscura
James Valvis, Reno Wedding
John Surowiecki, The Vomiting Bride
Lunch with My Cat
J. P. Dancing Bear, Moth and Mouth
Adam Penna, The Lessons Trees Can Teach
K. E. Duffin, What a Palm Tree Says
Gary L. McDowell, What Else are Trees For
Gabriela Melinescu, translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Inger Johansson
The Rabbi’s Song
Alberto Blanco, translated by John Oliver Simon
Dame Does Herself In
New Moon
Carol V. Davis, Plumeria
Simon Perchik, * [This rotted log yes and no…]
Edward Byrne, Kindling
Suzanne Roberts, The Rising Sun
Gustavo Bécquer, translated by Thomas Feeny, When They Told Me
A Tear Appeared in Her Eye
Irena Praitis, Running
Reunion
Catherine Harnett, She Forgets
Munir Niazi, translated by Alamgir Hashmi, Talk of the Late Years
Adam’s Thoughts
Lindsay Bland, Sea But Bare Yellow Sand
Ida Gerhardt, Thracian I
Kenneth Markee, Set-Over
Marc Malandra, The Retired Miner
Karen McPherson, Joinery
Amy Meckler, Aere Perennius
The Rejection
Robert Wynne, Rejection Letter with Full Moon
BOOK REVIEWS
Hilda Raz, All Odd and Splendid, reviewed by Katherine D. Stutzman
Jamey Hecht, Limousine Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film, reviewed by Rebecca Foust
Elizabeth Oakes, The Luminescence of All Things Emily, reviewed by Jane Olmsted
Penelope Scambly Schott, Six Lips, reviewed by Barbara Crooker
Jim Burns, Laying Something Down: Poems 1962-2007, reviewed by Marc Harshman
