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Debtor's Prisan

by Susan Daitch from Barcelona Review

	Lividity
		by Michelle Lawrence from Identity Theory

	She Did Have Some New Moves
		by Lauren Spohrer from Failbetter

	Bibliophagy
		by Kirsty Logan from Elimae

	Flowers Lose Their Smell
		by Alka Roy from Del Sol Rview

Poetry Highlights

Slow-Moving Eye

by Jane Gibian from Perihelion

	A Black Scarf
		by T-Ö Erdenetsogt, translated from the Mongolian by Simon Wickham-Smith from Del Sol Review of Books

	Two Poems
		by Margaret Walther from In Posse Review

	Two Poems
		by Sampson Starkweather from La Petite Zine

	Cyberhill
		by Hugh Fox from Terrain

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Untitled (Sid Vicious, New York, 1978)

by Gabriel Blackwelll from Web Conjunctions

	Burying Dogs
		by David W. Berner from Perigee

	In the Garden of Men: Considering Andre Dubus III's "The Garden of Last Days", and the Sins of the Fathers, Including His Own
		by Laura McCulloughfrom The Potomac

	Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and the Santa Cruz River Sand Shark, Subtitled "This Troublesome Regulatory Constraint."
		by Cheyenne Nimes from The Diagram

	All the Leaves Are Brown
		by Sean Finucane Toner from Perigee

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Photographing the Ninth Ward

by John Rosenthal from Big Bridge

	Gymnopedia1
		Music by Eric Satie, lyrics by Kathryn Rantala from Locus Novus

	E-lit Cube
		by Jeremy Douglass from Mad Bunkers Review

	In the Era of the Sentence Fragment
		Written by Dan Albergotti Grafics and Animation by Martin Brolin from Born Magazine

	Tracce/Traces
		by Lawrence Weiner from Ubu Riot

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Loops and Arches

by Munize M. Khasru from Del Sol Review

	The Tenant
		by Natnia Rosenfeld from The Diagram

	Liberty Tax
		by Jean Thompson from The Barcelona Review

	At Home on the Riverbed, a Stream of Silt
		by David Peak from Elimae

	At the Last Minute
		by Martha Miller from Carve Magazine

Poetry Highlights

Five Poems

by Sherman Alexie from Mudlark

	Soldier of Fortune, 1969
		by Steve Davenport from Perigee

	Jazz
		by Ellen Bass from Missouri Review

	Sanatorium Juqueri
		by Kelleen Zubick from Agni

	As I Remember It
		by Elisabeth Murawski from Blackbird

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Precious (A Christmas Carol)

by Hariette Surovell from Exquisite Corpse

	Conspiring Against Emptiness and Non-Existence: Mandelstams Gothic Pine Cones
		by John Baalkefrom The Del Sol Review of Books

	Body Exposed in the Golden Hind
		by Florence Caplow from Terrain

	Sea Swim
		by Patrick Okell from Ducts

	Snakes
		by Ron Arias from Brevity

New Media Highlights

Farben

by Jeff Crouch and Diana Magallo from 5 trope

	Life in America
		by Alexis Smith from Ubu Web

	Postcards from New Life
		by Megan Martin from Word Riot

	A Human Being A Machine
		by An Army of Clownsfrom Madhatters' Review

	A Serial Killer
		by Kristina Born from Locus Novus

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No People without Dogs

by Saptarishi Bandopadhyay from Mississippi
Review Online

	Minus Exquisite
		by SJ McNulty from The Richmond Review

	The Return of Migrating Birds
		by Ron Rindo from Terrain

	Stranger Things Have Happened
		by Alix Ohlin from Failbetter

	Trophies We Don't Deserve
		by Greg Pierce from Web Conjunctions

Poetry Highlights

Two Poems

by Jeanne Wagner from In Posse Review

	The Institute for Higher Study
		by Oliver Rice from Mudlark

	The Amulet
		by Amy Catanzano from La Petite Zine

	Desertion
		by Kellie Wellsfrom Double Room

	Desert
		by Anne Boutelle from Agni Online

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Animals: On the Role of the Poet in a Country at War

by Hayan Charara from Perihelion

	Kurosawa's Rain
		by Rosanne Griffeth from The Potomac Journal

	Anchor in the Shadows:
		by Bill Coyle from Contemporary Poetry Review

	Birth of the Cool
		by Aisha Sabatini Sloan from Identity Theory

	Nineteen Days
		by Liao Yiwu, translated from the Chinese by Wen Huang from Paris Review

New Media Highlights

31Poems (Katrina Series)

by Bill Lavender from Exquisite Corpse

	Stampologue
		by Nico Vassilakis from 5 Trope

	Knotted
		by Paul A. Toth from Barcelona Review

	Anti_Twitter 6 50-Word Stories
		by Harold Jaffefrom Locus Novus

	Zoology
		by Sasha West/visuals by Ernesto Lavandera from Born Magazine

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Conversation Theory

by Ben Paris from In Posse Review

	The Enemy
		by Tessa Hadley from Barcelona Review

	Three Stories
		by Terese Svoboda from Mad Hatter's Review

	Fishbowl
		by Melanie Haney from Wordriot

	Who's Walking Who?
		by Maury Feinsilber from The Missouri Review

Poetry Highlights

Two Poems

by Sherman Alexie from La Petite Zine

	The End: A Collage of Last Sentences from Novels On My Shelf
		by K. Alma Peterson from Perihelion

	Planet
		by Amy Newman from Del Sol Review

	To a Meadowlark
		by Jim Harrisonfrom Five Points

	Finding Loss in a Flemish School
		by Martin Galvin from Perigee

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Tony Hoagland Sends His Love

by Laura McCullough from The Potomac

	Melting Pot Poetics: An Expansion of American Poetics Through a Multicultural Lens
		by Annelies Zijderveld from Web Del Sol Review of Books

	The New Ludditism in Literature
		by Jacob Silverman from Virginia Quarterly Review

	Yoko Tawada, Storyteller without a Soul
		by Daniela Hurezanu from Chattahoochee Review

	Foot Notes to Poetry
		by Ouyang Yu from Drunken Boat

New Media Highlights

Stampologue

by Nico Vassilakis from 5 Trope

	Report from Monona County: Mysterious Work (with audio)
		by Kelly Madigan Erlandson from Terrain

	Faithfully Observed: Rob Matthews Kindred Drawings
		by Cindy Stockton Moore from Ducts

	Burroughs Speaks
		by Simone Ellisfrom Exquisite Corpse

	I Can No Longer Think
		by Emma Raney/Mojo Interactive/Isaac Ruiz from Born Magazine

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The Hollow

by James Lasdun from Paris Review

	The Crow
		by Simon Barker from Identity Theory

	The Generals Bulldozers
		by Victor Ehikhamenor from The Literary Review

	thirst, 82° f
		by Abeer Hoque from Crossconnect

	The Sleeping Stranger
		by Venero Armanno from Barcelona Review

Poetry Highlights

Fat Man

by Hilary S. Jacqmin from Agni Online

	Luna Moth and The Survivors
		by Jeff Friedman from 2River View

	Three Poems
		by Mary Jo Bang from Del Sol Review

	Three Sensualities
		by Michael Benediktfrom Double Room

	A Parting
		by Don Pomerantz from Failbetter

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Getting Out of the Flames: Letters of Ted Hughes

by Carol Bere from Contemporary Poetry Review

	Approaching the Phenomenon of Obama By Way of Ishmael
		by Joe Bertolini from The Potomac Journal of Poetry and Politics

	Poetry as Prayer: The Vertical Address as Considered in Three Distinct Voices
		by Mary-Catherine Jones from WDS Review of Books

	Stalking John Updike
		by Gordon Weaver from Perigee

	Consent
		by Carol Fletcher from Pif

New Media Highlights

Jerm IX's Photostream

by Jerm IX from Flickr

	Shaker Visual Poetry, 1843
		by Anonymous from Ubu

	Sunsabitches
		by KC Trommer from Textsound

	Dhaka Dust
		by Dilbura Ahmed and Matt Piercefrom Born Magazine

	Mapping Grief
		by Shiela Clark from Diagram

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Obsession

by Duff Brenna from Ducts

	The Taker
		by Rubem Fonseca, tr. from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers from The Literary Review

	In Love with Love and Lousy Poetry
		by Daniel Schmidt from Word Riot

	Hazaran
		by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, tr. from the French by Patricia E. Frederick from Archapelego

	The Storekeeper
		by Tom Sheehan from Perigee

Poetry Highlights

Ecdysiast and Woman with Fruit

by Diane Lockward from Del Sol Review

	Poems
		by Anna Gorenko. tr. from the Russian by J. Kates and Sibelan Forrester from Jacket Magazine

	Our Lady and Pieta
		by Janet Fisher from Richmond Review

	Poems
		by Niels Hav, tr. from the Danish by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen, assisted by Carol Novackfrom Mad Hatters' Review

	At the Loose Noose
		by Kevin Barents from Agni

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Preface on Translation

by Mariko Nagai from Chattahoochee Review

	Season of Miracles
		by Constance Adler from Blackbird

	The Unaccountable Stupidity of Living Things
		by Anca Vlasopolos from Terrain

	Consent
		by Carol Fletcher from Pif

	Mere Oblivion
		by Nicholas Delbanco from Conjunctions

New Media Highlights

The Fine Art of Conversation

by Brian Howlett and Collaborators from Big Bridge

	Tether World
		by Shelly Rae Rich from Locus Novus

	Silver
		by Takeshi Murata from Ubu Web

	If the Customer Studied this Diagram Carefully He Could Learn Everything He Ought to Know about the Appurtenances of Perpendicular Drinking
		by Francis de N. Schroeder, illustrations by Nino Repetto, Henry Stahlhut, and Mario Carreño from Diagram

	Snowbound
		by Elizabeth Tornes, illustration and animation by Joshua Spivey from Born Magazine

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Spleen

by Josip Novakovich from Barcelona Review

	Fried Chicken
		by Lee Smith from Blackbird

	No Bullets in the House
		by Geronimo Madrid from Drunken Boat

	Title
		by Lily Hoang from 5_Trope

	Stick
		by S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. from 3:AM Magazine

Poetry Highlights

Wormholes

by Sarah Byker James from Failbetter

	Dead Fly
		by Ted Kooser from Virginia Quarterly Review

	Zacchaeus the Teacheer, Shames
		by H.L. Hix from Perihelion

	The Case of the Danish King Halfdene
		by Charles Freeland from Mudlark

	A Shaman Climbs Up the Sky
		Siberian poem translated by Jerome Rothenberg from Ubuweb

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

American Poetry: Vietnam and Today

by Greg Mosson from Potomac Review

	Friendship: The Brain (Of a Fascist) & The Heart (Of a Jew): Mircea Eliade & Mihail Sebastian
		by Andrei Oisteanu from Exquisite Corpse

	Extravagances, Hesitancies, & Urgencies: On the Line in Poetry
		by Mark Irwin from Slope

	Chance
		by Stephanie Williamson from Word Riot

	Waiting for the Train
		by Deirdre Dubby from Terrain

New Media Highlights

Video Art

by Phil Davis from Infinity's Kitchen

	Eleven Pieces for Austria-Hungary
		by Fergal Gaynor from Meshworks

	Shift
		by Suzanne Cope from Storyscape

	Susan Leary in a Bikini
		by Chris Martin from Textsound

	Fontanel
		by April Lindner from Born Magazine

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Stopping

by Stephen-Paul Martin from Big Bridge

Her Real Name

by Charles D'Ambrosio from Barcelona Review

In Defense of Audrey Hepburn

by Daniel Morrow from The Del Sol Review

Lives of the Fathers

by Steven Schwartz from Ploughshares

Representing Doris

by Peter Walpole from Virginia Quarterly Review

Poetry Highlights

Two Variations on a Paisley

by Sean Thomas Dougherty from Double Room

Forty Roman Soldiers in 262

by Brandon Mazur from Failbetter

Hush Babe

by Isabella Motadinyane, translated by Ike Mboneni Muila from Poetry International Web

Our Lady and Pieta

by Janet Fisher from The Richmond Review

Two Poems

by Charles Wright from The Paris Review

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

The Head Clown

by Sean Toner from Writers on the Job

Translations from the German

by Cooper Renner from In Desent

Fragments from the "Salt Diaries" (19990-2007)

by Florin Ion Firimita from Exquisite Corpse

Jobs of the Poets

by Michael Gottleib from Jacket

How Catholic

by Terese Svoboda from Brevity

New Media Highlights

Poems from Borderless Bodies

by Linh Dinh from Textsound

In Praise of an Elevator

by Heather Lee Schroeder from Born Magazine

Voicemail

by Amber Boardman from Storyscape

A Study in Shades

by Robert Kendall from BBC Arts

In & Oz

by Steve Tomasula, Krista Hoefle, Jason Lahr, and from Mad Hatters Review

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Small Town Seventeen – An American Triptych

by Ann Garvin from The Del Sol Review

Blackberries

by Naja Marie Aidt from The Literary Review

Tao Lin

by Tao Lin from Mississippi Review

Lo and Behold

by Frederick Raphael from The Richmond Review

The Waiting Room

by E.B. Gallardo from Ducts

Poetry Highlights

The Worst Love Poem Ever Written

by Peter Johnson from In Posse Review

H is Here is a Song, Now Sing

by Mary Jo Bang from Black Warrior Review

(1) love x (force < renewal) = love

by Paul Hoover from 5 Trope

The Sütterlin Method

by Geoffrey G. O'Brien from Perihelion

Three Poems

by Renée Ashley from Pif

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Color Tyranny Blue - Glendale City and Santa Cruz Rob Locals of Their Green

by Robert Sward from The Potomac

Avatars Anyone? Upgrading Movies to 'Near Reality'

by T.B. Meek from Sol Pix

Walk the Work

by Chris Kuhn from Writers on the Job

Melville and Bartleby: Facing the End of an Audience

by Jon Thompson from Identity Theory

The Currancy of Nature

by David Wann from Terrain

New Media Highlights

Shaking the Spiders Out

by Mary Ann Sullivan from BBC Arts

Escape Machine

by J. Santos from Museum of Visual Poetry

Hair here

by Jennifer Phillips from Visual Poetry

Expiration Date

by Magitek Pange from Visual Poetry #1

Fluxus Visual Poetry

by Allan Revich from Digital Salon

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Love by Drowning

by C.E. Poverman from Failbetter

Oomeboody Is Going to Have to Pay for This

by Benjamin Percy from Barcelona Review

Merlot

by Marc Lowe from Big Bridge

And Broke His Crown

by Gene Wisniewski from Exquisite Corpse

Open Your Eyes, Red

by Tracy Robinson from Archipelago

Poetry Highlights

Kerygma

by H.L. Hix from Perihelion

The Geography of Exile

by Rick Bursky from In Posse Review

Seeing Things and Retho

by Mike Chasar from Mudlark

Do You Know About the Raintree?

by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda from Terrain

Scenes from an Ideal Marriage

by Sharon Dolin from Ducts

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Odysseus Elytis’ “Aegean Melancholy”

by Mercedes O'Leary from Web Del Sol Review of Books

It Takes One Child to Raze a Village

by Norman Ball from The Potomac

Relations

by Eula Bliss from Identity Theory

Oome Things About That Day

by Debra Marquart from Brevity

Embeddedness: Robert Irwin in His Seventies

by Lawrence Weschler from Virginia Quarterly Review

New Media Highlights

Culinary Pantoum

by David Floyd and Tim May from Born Magazine

Fig. 9.2.1. Vertical Analysis

by Cameron McPherson from Storyscape

The Third Installment

by Linh Dinh from The Continental Review

Yet Another True Story

by Michael K Meyers from Mad Hatters' Review

Aubade

by Justin Katko from Meshworks

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Going Away Shoes

by Jill McCorkle from Blackbird

Two Stories

by Christopher Boucher from Web Conjunctions

Stopping

by Stephen-Paul Martin from Big Bridge

Senseless Nights in Brooklyn

by Michael DeCapite from 3:AM Magazine

Consumption or An Autobiography of the Mechanical Portrait

by Emily Shelton from Another Chicago Magazine

Poetry Highlights

Bright Nostalgia: Five Poems for Osip Mandelstam

by Katherine E. Young from Archipelago

Millions of Us

by Alice Notley from 5 Trope

Letter from Home

by D. Nurkse from Drunken Boat

Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (A Story for Children)

by Don Chiasson from The Paris Review

Twelve, Awkward, with Shame

by Elisabeth Murawski from The Literary Review

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

St. Francis and the Isle of Foula

by Lynne Shapiro from Terrian

The Art of Lying

by Sarah Gorham from Quarterly West

Too Much Wining

by Mary Bowers from Word Riot

The Fact Behind the Facts

by Philip Gerard from Brevity

The Christian with Four Aces

by Bill Sizemore from Virginia Quarterly Review

New Media Highlights

Landscapes

by Bill Marsh from Beehive

Afterlife

by Keetje Kuipers from Born Magazine

Augury

by Agam Andreas from New River Journal;

The Last Days of Betty Nkomo

by Young-Hae Chang from Poems That Go

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Journal for the Academic Study of Magic

by Liana Scalettar from Fail Better

One Word a Day, Five Hundred Days

by Rebecca Donnelly from Quick Fiction

Clocks

by James Terry from Barcelona Review

Harry’s Evening at Lake McBride

by Myron Ernst from Vestal Review

Friday Afternoons on Bus Number 51

by Sruthi Thekkiam from Blackbird

Poetry Highlights

To a Meadowlark

by Jim Harrison from Five Points

Not Gracious but Hair the Wren

by Marianne Boruch from Quarterly West

The Cottage Cheese Diet

by Amelia Gray from Diagram

What I Do

by Marvin Bell from Narrative Magazine

Studying the Language

by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin from Poetry International Web

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Our Steps Amid a Ruined Colonnade ...

by James Matthew Wilson from Contemporary Poetry Review

(En)trance

by Chris Arthur from The Literary Review

True Crime

by Kate Beles from Drunken Boat

Studies

by Rachel Weiss from Madhatters Review

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The Kid

by Rachel Glaser from Elimae

From The Reserve

by Russell Banks from Web Conjunctions

The Cook at Swedish Castle

by Christopher Merkner from Black Warrior Review

Renting

by John Michael Cummings from Terrain

Maura Takes the Multiple Choice Test of her Life So Far

by Christiana Langenberg from Drunken Boat

Poetry Highlights

Mending Art

by Robert Dana from Pif

Two Poems

by Jo McDougall from The 2River View

Toledo in a Storm (El Greco)

by Jose Luis Puerto, translated from the Spanish by Michael Bradburn-Ruster from Marlboro Review

Alice, in The Garden

by Anne Marie Rooney from Word Riot

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

The Death of Travel Writing

by George Berger from 3:AM Magazine

Aspects of Robinson

by D.H. Tracy from Contemporary Poetry Review

Hard Canvas

by Ryan Smithson from Identity Theory

I Have A Dream Sequence: Revisiting a maligned technique

by Timothy Dugdale from SolPix

Linear/Nonliner: Simplifying the Complex

by Tom Hibbard from Big Bridge

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Painter

by Jana Martin from The Mississippi Review

Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA

by George Saunders from Barcelona Review

The Go to Girl

by Duff Brenna from PIF Magazine

Seven Reasons Jerome Loves Sizzler

by Tom Lavagnino from Barrelhouse

Three Fictions

by Andrew R. Touhy from Web Conjunctions

Poetry Highlights

Two Poems

by Andrea Fitzpatrick from Diagram

The Rumsfeld Sestina

by Roger W. Hecht from Mudlark

How Long This Day of Mine

by Jawdat Fakhreddine, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen from Marlboro Review

Four Poems

by Ali Kazim from MiPOesias

Attempted Autobiography

by Kish Song Bear from Fence

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The Puppet Masters of Ball

by Norman Ball from The Potomac

The Enigma of W.D. Snodgrass

by Gilbert Purdy from elima

The Williams Center Centennial

by Mark Hillringhouse from The Literary Review

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern: Revisiting the New Classic

by Tayve Neese from Del Sol Review of Books

An Age Of Small Anarchies: Some 70's films to reflect on

by Timothy Dugdale from Sol Pix

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Ravel: An Except from the Novel

by Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by by Linda Coverdale from The Literary Review

Beano's Deal

by Rob Roberge from Other Voices

Consumption, or An Autobiography of the Mechanical Portrait

by Emily Shelton from Another Chicago Magazine

Independence

by Kenny Mann from Global City Review

Hideous Blue

by William Girardi from The Chattahoochee Review

Poetry Highlights

The Sea

by Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh from Five Points

Possessions and Ceremonial Spoon

by Arlene Ang from Caffeine Destiny

Cowboy Up

by Charles Wright from Virginia Quarterly Review

Synchronicity

by Maya Rani Khosla from Prairie Schooner

Number 87

by Barbara Holder from Kennesaw Review

Articles, Essays, and Interviews

Longing for Those Mayberry Days

by D.R. Thompson from The Potomac

The Age of Small Anarchies

by Timothy Dugdale from Sol Pix

First Day Back

by Lane Anderson from Painted Bridge Quarterly

Essay on What Is Want

by John D'Agata from Conjunctions

Lisa's Shoe

by Jacques Leslie from Drunken Boat

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The Seaside Town that They Forgot to Bomb

by Adelle Stripe from 3:AM Magazine

Things you Should Know, or Notes to the Abyss

by Sarah Colleen Morgan from Kennesaw Review

The Cook at Swedish Castle

by Christopher Merkner from Black Warrior Review

The New Century

by Linsey Abrams from Global City Review

The Thin Ice of Modern Life

by Judd Mcdonald from The Chattahoochee Review

Poetry Highlights

AWeek Without God, North Shore

by Mary Rose O'Reilley from The Literary Review

Most Accidents Occur at Home

by B.T. Shaw from Caffeine Destiny

Four Poems

by Edward Field from MiPoesis

Magic Mouse

by Mark Doty from Five Points

Two Fox and Hounds

by A. Minetta Gould from Elimae

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Last Tango

by Nancy Jensen from Another Chicago Magazine

Pa Don's Troops

by Josh Capps from Barcelona Review

The Encounter

by Mark Goldblatt from Ducts.org

A Interview with Robert Shapard and James Thomas

by Jennifer Pieroni from Quick Fiction

My Father's House

by Beatrix Ost, translated from the German by Jonathan McVity and the author from Archipelago

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Mother's Summer Vacation

by Katherine Taylor from Prairie Schooner

A Long Wait for Professor Ferry

by Susan Lumenello from Kennesaw Review

The Man's Watch

by Michael Martone from Diagram

Baby Skin

by Chandler Jenrette from Vestal Review

Poetry Highlights

The Tundra Swan

by Jeremey Cagle from 5_Trope

Adornments

by Thanh Thao, translated by Linh Dinh from Drunken Boat

Dialectical Poems

by Jacques Debrot from Mudlark

The Book of Joel

by Robert Hill Long from Marlboro Review

Five Poems

by Teresa Cader from Perihelion

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The Source

by George Garrett from The Chattahoochee Review

Our Silver Anniversary

by Angie Carter from Black Warrior Review

Without a Sound

by Monica Jacobe from Del Sol Review

Seeking Truth in Dramatized Reality

by T.B. Meek from Sol Pix

Looking for Spiral Jetty

by Lance Larsen from Quarterly West

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Fake Fire and Rescue

by Blake Butler from Barrelhouse

Play

by Thomas David Lisk from Potion

5" X 6" in a Sturdy Frame

by Caleb Ross from The Vestal Review

The Thin Ice of Modern Life

by Judd McDonald from The Chattahoochee Review

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Two Poems: Dog and Shuttle

by Mariya Gusev from In Posse Reviw

Still Life in the Shadow of a Volcano

by Frances Justine Post from Diagram

Summer Ceremonial

by Lynne MacMahon from Quarterly West

The Rumsfeld Sestina

by Roger W. Hecht from Mudlark

Erato (Love + Lyrical Poetry)

by Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Translated from the French by Dawn Cornelio from Double Room

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Lilliputian Vermont and the Forces of Giantism

by Richard Russo from Potomac Review

Dostoevski on Skinner Street

by Thomas E. Kennedy from The Literary Traveler

Poetry and Loss

by Russell Thornton from The Del Sol Review of Books

Inside Dick Cavett's Brain

by Timothy Dugdale from SolPix

Learning Friendship

by Dona Stein Luongo from Perihelion

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Personal Effects

by Debra De Blasi from Madhatters Review

A Step Ahead

by Miriam Gershow from Black Warrior Review

Not People, Not This

by Kelly Magee from Quarterly West

The Secret Village

by Catherine Tudish from Prairie Schooner

Poetry Highlights

Brief Questionnaire

by Blanca Castellon, translated from the Spanish by JP Dancing Bear from Marlboro Reviw

Rat

by Kim Hyesoon, translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi from Double Room

Logic of Confession

by Geoffrey G. O'Brien from No: A Journal of the Arts

Dialectical Poems

by Jacques Debrot from Mudlark

Learning Color

by Emily Rapp from Cimmaron Review

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The Functions of Poetry

by Jan Schreiber from Contemporary Poetry Review

The Sham in Shyamalan

by T.B. Meek from SolPix

AKathryn Rantala's The Plant Waterer

by Norman Lock from 5_Trope

Destiny as a Sentence by Henry James

by Arthur Saltzman from Drunken Boat

Report from the Food Chain

by Laurie Stone from Writers on the Job

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