POETRY
DAVID BAKER Storm Psalm
BRUCE BOND Blood
KAZIM ALI Letter to Zephyr the West Wind, from the boy Hyacinth
KATRINA ROBERTS An Ever of Salt
CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN Elegy / Myth
XIAO KAIYU Our Poets / A Novel
(translated by Christopher Lupke)
(translated by Christopher Lupke)
JOSHUA BENNETT The Sobbing School / Aubade with Insomnia
RICKEY LAURENTIIS Memory and Happiness
VANDANA KHANNA Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation / Goddess in the Dark
ED SKOOG Free Climb
FICTION
CARLA PANCIERA The Kind of People Who Look at Art
JOANN KOBIN Late Dating
SHARON SOLWITZ Gifted
NONFICTION
Testimonies
WEI AN from Life on Earth (translated by Thomas Moran)
Investigations
MARIANNE BORUCH Diagnosis, Poetry, and the Burden of Mystery
Literary Lives
ERIC WILSON I Sing You for an Apple
Film
JAMES NAREMORE Orson Welles: Director, Magician, and Pedagogue
Art
WENDY WILLIS These Are Strange Times, My Dear: Considering Ai Weiwei’s @Large
Literary Criticism
JEFF STAIGER David Foster Wallace’s Contest with Himself
Reports from American Places
CAMILLE T. DUNGY A Shade North of Ordinary
Rediscoveries
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Despotism and Free Expression Under the Caesars
Cover Artist MERRILL SHATZMAN