Poetry
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY The Dragon
AGHA SHAHID ALI There Is No God But
G. C. WALDREP Their Faces Shall Be As Flames
PAISLEY REKDAL Birthday Poem
REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS The End of Life, a Secret
KHALED MATTAWA Borrowed Tongue
LAURA KASISCHKE Executioner as Muse
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI Boxers in the Key of M
CARL PHILLIPS Parable
JERICHO BROWN Prayer of the Backhanded
VICTORIA CHANG Yang Gui-Fei
DEBORA GREGER Head, Perhaps of an Angel
MATTHEW OLZMANN Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion
TOMAS Q. MORIN Red Herring
JORDAN DAVIS From the Twentieth Floor
DAVID YEZZI Woman Holding a Fox
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Redbud
JENNIFER GROTZ The Woodstove
GERI DORAN Tonight Is a Night Without Birds
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy
Fiction
KRISTIEN HEMMERECHTS Fairytale
translated by Margie Franzen & Sandra Boersma
PETER LASALLE He Was Beginning to Wonder
DENNIS MCFADDEN Little Brier
JONATHAN DURBIN Husbands
LENORE MYKA Mascots
CHRISTINE SNEED Clear Conscience
BROCK CLARKE Transported
Music
J. E. UHL The Prince of New Orleans Piano:
How James Booker Missed the Boat but Made the Parade
Investigations
ROBERT POGUE HARRISON The Riddle of Age
VINCENT CZYZ Collage and the Secret Adventures of Order
Testimonies
NATASHA LVOVICH Sister in Russian, Cousin in English
Observations
ELIZABETH O’BRIEN Naming Is a Sacred Act Because: A List
ALEXANDRIA PEARY Holes and Walls
Reports from American Places
RICHARD TILLINGHAST Eastward Bound, Across a Storied Landscape
Rediscoveries
BORIS SIDIS American Mental Epidemics