Poetry
JENNIFER GROTZ The Ocracoke Ponies / The Jetty / The Cigarette / The Pearl
VALERIE WOHLFELD Pears / Hawk
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI Epistle from Her Daughter Yet to Be Consummated Back East (with a Line from Robert Altman) / Boxers in the Key of M / Sweet Rest Church of Christ (Holiness)
HUGH COYLE House of Representatives
D. A. POWELL scenes from the trip we didn’t take to the antarctic
KEVIN YOUNG from Book of Hours / Book Rate
JEFF MOCK The Goddess of Dreaming
TODD BOSS A Man Stares into the Same Painting Day after Day / The Painters Are Gone, but the Paintings
RACHEL HADAS Adhesive / Strong Medicine
JORDAN DAVIS A Million Random Digits / No One’s Going to Tell You What to Do
MARK RUDMAN “Who Is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?”
Fiction
FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN from Hyperion, or The Hermit in Greece (translated by Ross Benjamin)
KEITH LEE MORRIS The Presidential Suite
MICHAEL COFFEY Trespasses
ABIGAIL ULMAN Chagall’s Wife
JOSHUA HARMON he Passion of Asa Fitch
ARNOST LUSTIG The Night Before (translated by G. S. Evans)
Literary Criticism
JAMES LONGENBACH Line and Syntax
Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY December Gold
Literary Lives
ALDOUS HUXLEY A Gathering of Letters, 1915–63
Reader’s Notebook
RONALD A. SHARP Romanticism and the Zone of Friendship
Art
REBECCA PURDUM Making Paintings
Reconnections
CHARLES CROS, PAUL VERLAINE, CATHERINE POZZI, PAUL ELUARD Four Dream Poems (translated by John Kinsella)
Rediscoveries
THOMAS WENTWORHT HIGGINSON The Greek Goddesses
COVER ARTIST: Rebecca Purdum