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Poetry
AARON BAKER    In Articulo Mortis
DAVID BAKER    Simile
PATRICK PHILLIPS    Will   /   Elegy with Oil in the Bilge
GREG WRENN    Northwest Passage
TOMAS Q. MORIN    Royal Silence    /   Red Herring
ROSE MCLARNEY   Disclaimer
JAMES ALLEN HALL    One Train’s Survival Depends on the Other Derailed
NATALIE GRAHAM    The Temptation of Saint Anthony   /   Judas Kiss   /   Last Lament for Judas
AUSTIN SEGREST    Trastevere
WILLIAM LOGAN    The London Ice Well
AMY GLYNN GREACEN    Helianthus Annus (Sunflower)
CLEOPATRA MATHIS    Book of Dog, 1    /   Book of Dog, 2
HENRIETTA GOODMAN    Quiscalus mexicanus (Great-Tailed Grackle)

Fiction
HOYT ROGERS    Flying Backwards
KATE PETERSEN    Construction bid for poets [Love letter] SCOTT LANDERS    The Age of Heroes
CHARLES LAMAR PHILLIPS    Prairie Symposium
JOEL FISHBANE    A Clever Science
LESLIE BAZZETT    Screen Test
GREG PIERCE    Later That Night

Art
HILDA WERSCHKUL    Rothko, Meloncholia, and the Spiritual Promise of the Baroque

Reports from American Places
NANCY ZAFRIS   Occupants Unknown

Revaluations
SYDNEY LEA    Robert Frost and the End of Poetry

Translations
JOACHIM RINGELNATZ    The Wild Gal from Ohio
translated by Catherine Riccio
LECONTE DE LISLE    Five Poems
translated by John Kinsella
SEMYON AKIMOVICH AN-SKY    Among the Pioneers
translated by Michael R. Katz

Reflections
KATHRYN KRAMER    Still Life with Caged Lion

Rediscoveries
HARRIET MARTINEAU    The Long Shadow of Economic Ruin

Contributors’ Notes

Cover Artist: Christina Saj