Poetry
JENNIFER GROTZ Snowflakes / The Fog / The Forest
JORDAN DAVIS From the Twentieth Floor / Ha Ha Only Serious
CHELSEA RATHBURN Among the Animals
SUSAN RICH The World to Come
CATE MARVIN The Apparition / A Catalogue of Lures
JAMES MAY The Reddened Flower, the Erotic Bird / Natural Grief
THEODORE DEPPE Elegy with a Stopped Knife in It, for Larry Levis
MICHAEL COLLIER In Certain Situations I’m Very Much Against Bird Song
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on Dissecting the White Negro, 1851
DAVID HERNANDEZ Sincerely, Blue Blood
ROBERT BEVERLEY RAY Don’t Know About You
MAURA HIGH Embroidered Field / Passing
Fiction
SCOTT SOUTHWICK Time Keeps on Slipping, etc.
CAROL KEELEY Confession, with Wolves
SANDRA LEONG Manga Dolls on Skype
MICHAEL COFFEY I Thought You Were Dale
JAMES MAGRUDER Matthew Aiken’s Vie Bohème
ANNE RAEFF Keeping an Eye on Jakobson
C. P. BOYKO Malcolm Gawfler
Literary Lives
MICHAEL MILBURN My Brother, the Writer
Translations
SCIPIO SLATAPER A Youth in the Karst
(translated by Nicholas Benson)
Art
AMY BENSON Other Places
Cultural History
CHARLES HOLDEFER Orwell’s Hippopotamus, or The Writer as Historical Anachronism
FRANK M. MEOLA Emerson Between Faith and Doubt
Music
JOSHUA HARMON Speculative Markets and the 7-Inch Single
Rediscoveries
ISABELLA BIRD BISHOP On Board the Nevada, Bound for Hawaii
Cover Artist: Roger Camp