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Poetry
PATRICK PHILLIPS  Ars Videndi
THEODORE WOROZBYT  Sadness
CHARD DENIORD  Night Mowing / The Fox
SARAH MURPHY  Blood Simple / Anniversary
VICTORIA CHANG  Hong Kong Flower Lounge / To Want
RICHARD BLANCO  Crossing Boston Harbor
FLOYD SKLOOT  François Couperin’s Secret Harpsichord, 1732
KEVIN PRUFER  An Ambulance
DIANE THIEL  Another Changeling
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI  Having Never Been To Gettysburg / From the Adult Drive-in
RACHEL HADAS  Final Examination
DIANE KIRSTEN-MARTIN  Fraught with Danger
MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK  Grace
SHARLA BENEDICT  Elegy for the Birdman
DIMITER KENAROV  The Sacrifice

Fiction
BROCK CLARKE  The Apology
JANE MULLEN  Irish Lesson
STEVE ALMOND  Saint Augustine Was a Player Once
DAN DEWEESE  The Problem of the House
K.A. LONGSTREET  Epitaph
SAID SHIRAZI  Mandelstam in Exile

Biography
BLAKE BAILEY  Richard Yates on the Edge of Success

Revaluations
J. M. TYREE  Fanshawe’s Ghost
MARK SHECHNER  On the Road with Philip Roth

Provocations
ANDRÉ GIDE  The Confined Woman of Poitiers (translated and annotated by Benjamin Ivry)

Cultural History
A. J. SHERMAN  Insider Outsiders

Classics Revisited
VIRGIL  Aeneid, Book 2 (translated by Ian Ganassi)

Rediscoveries
JOSEPH JACOBS, EDITOR  Nix Nought Nothing

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter