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Poetry
AUSTIN SEGREST    King of the Greeks /   Two Caravaggios /    Peacock and Cobra
JEN MCCLANAGHAN    One Red Look
CHELSEA RATHBURN   Apology /    Getting Personal
ERIC PANKEY   Cogitatio Mortis /    To Dwell in Thought
JENNIFER GROTZ   Poppies /    Sundials /   A Poem about a Peacock
BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG   Why the Space Traveler Declines
LINDA BIERDS   The Swifts /122
JYNNE DILLING MARTIN   Noise Puts Pressure on the Brain  /  Protective Measures Will Prevent Costly Disasters  /  The First of Three Attempts to Understand Our Neighbors

Fiction
CASTLE FREEMAN JR.   The Next Thing on Benefit
BETH LORDAN   A Useful Story
ELIZABETH SCHULTE   A Space Between the Rows
TONY ELIAS   Following the Amazon
KIRK NESSET   Honey
MEGAN STAFFEL   Mocked and Invaded

Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY    Human Resources

Testimonies
MARIANNE BORUCH    Home Planet

Translations
YVES BONNEFOY   A Seascape, a Landscape: Beckett’s Dinghy  /  Leaving the Garden: Another Variant    (translated by HOYT ROGERS)

Reports from Abroad
ELLEN HINSEY   Eternal Return: Berlin Journal, 1989–2009

Reports from American Places
HOWARD KAPLAN   The Grafter and the Picker

Rediscoveries
LOUISE DE GRANDPRE    The Brahmins and Their Sacred Texts

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Roger Camp