Table of Contents
Matthew J Spireng, Hoop Snake
Doug Ramspeck, Foursquare
Paula Friedman, Captured Mole
Joddy Murray, Beluga Whales, Atlanta
Brenda Yates, An Invitation to the Idea of Wallace
Paul Willis, After the Lesson, Mary Jane Looks
Elizabeth Barbato, Mary Shelly
Robert Arroyo, Jr., Lucifer Speaks of Man Made Things
Irene McKinney, Offerings
Jill Kupchik, Penelope at Home
Toni Thomas, My Mother Wishes for Happiness, Settles for the World’s
Tutelage of Rapt Machinery
My Mother Wears Her Sage Mask and Rethinks Heaven
Donna Vorreyer, Housekeeping
Michelle Moore, After the Fall
Philip Memmer, Lucifer in The Orphanage
Michelle Moore, Hrastovlje
Sally Zaino, Why We Band Hummingbirds
Rebecca Foust, Herzog Out-Takes
Laura Donnelly, Notes on the Appositive
Laura Bontrager, sailing in Belize
Geri Rosenzweig, Detours of Hunger
Matthew Zingg, The oldest city, the sea and you / a semi-historical account of love
Kelly Terwilliger, Bonfire
About Ten
Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Thomas P. Feeny,
Night Scenes from My Window
Todd Possehl, Ship in a Bottle
Marjorie Maddox, Articulate
Lynn Pederson, Correction
Maggie Schwed, Between a Subject and Its Rendering
Dennis Saleh, Detail, Dali
Meghan Brinson, Museum
Love Poem
Jeffrey Bean, Letters
Berthold Brêcht, translated by Jenne Fortune Knight, The Book Burning
Edward Beatty, Colorful Language
David Bart, Good Year
Chris Crittenden, Ode To the Pumpkin
Alex M. Frankel, Ode to 7-Eleven
Suzanne Allen, Free Refills
Stan Sanvel Rubin, Against the Birds
Julie L. Moore, Dark Birds
Jill Kupchik, Ellipsis
Bethany Reid, If Plot is What Happens
John Krumberger, Advent, Wisconsin
Dwayne Thorpe, Opening the Tent
Kevin Burris, Winter Storm
Mercedes Lawry, Something Useful
Grace Mattern, Anniversary II
Sarah Luczaj, Missing the dead
thin yellow woman jumping
Tim Suermondt, Einstein Looks in the Window
Mordechai Geldman, translated by Tsipi Keller, I Dreamt You
Joseph Kerschbaum, The Leaplings
Arlene Naganawa, Diane Mae
Kristina Van Sant, Bees
Blackout, Night Before My Appointment
Keetje Kuipers, What We Call Indian Summer
Theory of Lost Things
David Shumate, A Hundred Shamans
Natalie Diaz, Lorca’s Red Dresses
Dane Cervine, Adam Naming the Spring in Central Park
Kathryn Nuernberger, To the Tulips, to the Particles
Michael Phillips, Godpowers & Choice
Kevin Miller, Non-League Play
Kenneth Pobo, Marigolds
Eric Paul Shaffer, The Inmate Speaks of Poets and Psychopaths
Jeffrey Little, A Chorus of Romany Ball-Point Pens
Because In Mapping Becomes Them
Karina Borowicz, Maps
All Hallows’ Eve
Mary Christine Delea, The Middle of the Night is Not the
Best Place to Find Love
Seth Michelson, The Shower
Waking Up to a Broken-down Villanelle
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Is Time Immortal?
GinnaKarla Nicolas, honza
somehow you know
P. Ivan Young, The Roofer’s Song
Paul Willis, Preparedness
David Meischen, Amber
Chris Crittenden, Nest
Joan White, Northern Lights
Mary Wallach, Japanese Tourists Wait for Aurora Borealis
Nina Corwin, Abe Lincoln in the Landscape of Chance
Michael Simon, Mice Playing Hamlet
The Wall
Ludwig Steinherr, translated by Ken Fontenot, Gifts
Clouds
Andres Avelino, translated by Hedy Habra, From “The Infinite, an Anise Seed and I”
Tanya Rucosky, In Times of High Water
Ed Madden, Solace 124
Marc Harshman, Why No Dogs Were Found at the Tower of Babel …
Charles Wyatt, Washing the Dog’s Feet
Reviews
The Question of Rapture, by Claire Keyes, reviewed by Penelope Scambly Schott
Loveliest Grotesque by Sandra Lim, reviewed by Kristina Marie Darling
Threat of Pleasure by Philip Memmer, reviewed by Julie Funderburk
This Big Fake World: A Story in Verse by Ada Limon, reviewed by Kristina Marie Darling
Signals by Ed Madden, reviewed by Robert Wynne
Line Dance by Barbara Crooker, Reviewed by Phebe Davidson