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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

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Rebecca Purdum