- from the "Editor's Comment"
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"Our submission invitation for this issue was vague, although not unintentionally so. Without compelling ourselves to articulate sweeping goals for a journal that already enjoys recognition and readership, and in keeping with Black Mountain's broader mission, we simply requested work with 'an international focus.' That work arrived, alongside more general submissions (which we considered with equal interest), in the form of poems, stories, and essays that interpreted our request broadly and in ways that surprised and delighted us. Whether by accident or quiet design, the pieces we selected highlight subjects as wide ranging as terrorism, religious fidelity, children in distress, the ambiguities of motherly devotion, and a founding father's early sexual exploits. If a single theme can be said to unite them all, it is the search for identity in increasingly fractured spaces."
» Karen Kevorkian - "Put Down That Heavy Kettle," "The One-Windowed Room"
» Marina Colasanti - "Afternoon in an Empty House" (translated by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey)
» Jerry Williams - "Love and Oncology"
» Sally Ball - "For Doctor Joshua Sonett," "Eight- to Twelve-Hour Surgery"
» Lesley Wheeler - "Horror Stories"
» Ngo Tu Lap - "Darkness" (translated by Martha Collins)
» Lia Purpura - "from King Baby"
» Dana Levin - "Sun Sutra"
» Ko Un - "An Outcry"
(translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach)
» Emmy Hunter - "The Moment of Exchange," "Continually Approaching Mount Fuji," "Bangkok"
» Dawn Tefft - "In the House of the House of Miniatures"
» Aaron Bannister - "Position," "Crabs"
» Eric Pankey - "Trace," "Blackbirds, Crows, Grackles, and Ravens"
» Eduardo Chirinos - "Poet's House" (translated by G.J. Racz)
» Linda Nemec Foster - "Tableaux: Poland"
» Shmuel HaNagid - "Prayer on the Battlefield," "In the Cup Are My Portions"
» Lee Felice Pinkas - "Constitution"
» Reginald Shepherd - "And This She Knows," "Narcissus Before the Rain"
» Christina Hutchins - "Die Rote Jacke," "From the Hold"
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