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Poetry
NICK FLYNN  Paper Wasp / Swarm
BOB HICOK  Complications After Birth
NATHANIEL BELLOWS  Ornithology
PETER COOLEY  Villanelle /  Television
NICKY SCHILDKRAUT  Gratitude
MICHAEL DUMANIS  Ode
DAVID SEMANKI  In Extremis / Gethsemane
NEIL SHEPARD  Corfu
GARY MARGOLIS  In Audubon’s Notebook
J. D. MCCLATCHY  Fado
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI  How Clowns Go / Vaporetto (translated by Clare Cavanaugh)
CARL PHILLIPS  Fervor
SUSAN HAHN  Pity the Judas Tree / Pity Jerusalem
JONATHAN FINK  The Possible Remains

Fiction
KEITH LEE MORRIS  The Children of Dead State Troopers
JOANN KOBIN  Diamonds
ITALO SVEVO  Artist and Model (translated by Beth Archer Brombert)
DAVID H. LYNN  Hirsch and Bratinsky
STEVE AMICK  Fat Tracy
JOSEPH ROTH  Stationmaster Fallmerayer (translated by Michael Hofmann)
PETER CAMERON  Beginning with the Letter 

Provocations
NATALIA GINZBURG  Universal Compassion (translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz)

Biography
RICHARD LINGEMAN  Sinclair Lewis Arrives

Recollections
JAMES BROWN  Fire
IVAN KRAUS  Official Forms (translated by Gerald Turner)

Revaluations
CAROL FROST  Frost’s Way of Speaking
ROBERT COHEN  Adam Zagajewski: An Introduction

Music
GEORGE EDWARDS  Time Signatures

History
MICHAEL R. KATZ  “But This Building–What on Earth Is It?”

Rediscoveries
CHARLES M. DOUGHTY  Conversations in Arabia

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter