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POETRY

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Vol. XXXI No. 2 (Summer 2018)

  • Aaron Beasley, mmxviii
  • Mallory Imler Powell, Destruction As The Cause / Of Coming Into Being
  • Natalie Byers, Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate
  • Tess LeBlanc, Green Door
  • Andrea Scarpino, January Cold
  • Brad Trumpfheller, Reconstructions
  • Amanda Hurtado, selections from Post

Vol. XXXI No. 1 (Spring 2018)

  • Terese Svoboda, All Roads Lead Away
  • Adam Day, Enzu Seaglass
  • Nina Puro, Executive Action
  • Christopher Kondrich, Inunacknowledgeddetentionwithout
  • Adam Day, Paramita
  • Virginia Konchan, Zeitgeist

Vol. XXX No. 3 (Winter 2017)

Vol. XXX.2 No. 2 (Summer 2017)

  • Tristan Tzara, Clever March Dance
  • Shireen Madon, Ipanema
  • Nikki Wallschlaeger, Just Because We’re Scared Doesn’t Mean We’re Wrong*
  • Nikki Wallschlaeger, Lonely In a Fundamental Way
  • Nikki Wallschlaeger, Prayer Sonnet
  • Jeff Alessandrelli, Raonelstam
  • Tristan Tzara, The Lion Tamer Remembers
  • Leah Claire Kaminski, Visitation, Ashfield
  • Tristan Tzara, White-Looking Countryside

Vol. XXX.1 No. 1 (Spring 2017)

  • Shane McCrae, Black Codes
  • G.C. Waldrep, Epitaphion
  • Sara Henning, Fathers and Sons
  • Shane McCrae, Jefferson Davis the Adoptive Father of the Mulatto Jim Limber Dreams the Freedom of the Negro Will One Day Be His Freedom
  • Candice Reffe, My Life Shrinks to the Size of a Midge
  • Karolina Zapal, Office Part One & Two
  • Cory Hutchinson-Reuss, Soundings
  • Sara Henning, The End of the Unified Field
  • Sara Henning, The First Murmuration
  • G.C. Waldrep, Who Would We Love if Not for Ghosts

Vol. XXIX No. 3 (Winter 2016)

  • Felicia Zamora, O for passage
  • Jasmine Dreame Wagner, A Vivid White Space
  • Matthew Mahaney, from The Mapmaker Fables
  • Aditi Machado, Il y a un futur. Le futur passe.
  • Felicia Zamora, In middle with other
  • Aditi Machado, Meniscus
  • Matthew Mahaney, Music Exposure
  • Felicia Zamora, Peel-back
  • Matthew Mahaney, Small Senses
  • Shayla Lawson, Strawberry Swing
  • Cristiana Baik, Winter Solstice

Vol. XXIX No. 1 (Spring 2016)

  • Megan Snyder-Camp, Folklore
  • Lisa Rosenberg, from Flight
  • Sumita Chakraborty, Hound
  • Sarah Crossland, La Mancha, Afterwards
  • Megan Snyder-Camp, Ozette
  • Sandra Meek, Still Life with Scenic Drive: Strix varia georgica (Southern Barred Owl), Bikers, and Boar Hunters
  • José Hernández Díaz, The Circus
  • Karyna McGlynn, The Devil Chains Me to the Microphone
  • Elizabeth Onusko, The Possibility of Refusing All Else
  • José Hernández Díaz, The Winter
  • Taisia Kitaiskaia, Time Is a Bride

Vol. XXVIII No. 3 (Winter 2015)

  • Sarah Janczak, Confession
  • Ed Bok Lee, I Felt Bad
  • Yanara Friedland, Languedoc
  • Yanara Friedland, Lourdes
  • Lynne Potts, Twelve Clocks Dance the Sea
  • Lynne Potts, What’s Real and a Rabbit
  • Matt Schumacher, why they drink deep (reprise)

Vol. XXVIII No. 2 (Summer 2015)

  • Kathleen S. Johnston, A practical assignment
  • Virginia Konchan, Anodyne
  • Derek Gromadzki, Escapement
  • Aimée Baker, Go, Roam
  • Francisco Urondo, Goodbyes
  • Lia Greenwell, Montauk, NY
  • Christopher Citro, Nerve Endings Like Strawberry Runners
  • Cody Ernst, Unstuck

Vol. XXVIII No. 1 (Spring 2015) | Trans/lation

  • Robin Kozak, Jacaranda
  • Geoffrey Babbitt, None: Homoeoteleutonic, Scribal Error Transcription of Revelations 7
  • Arthur Rimbaud, Seven-Year-Old Poets

Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014)

  • Aubrey Ryan, A Spell Which Makes Use of Goat Shit
  • Colleen O'Brien, Bridge
  • Jonathan Johnson, Cascades
  • Jonathan Johnson, Glenelg, First Night
  • Neil De la Flor, It’s on Repeat
  • Colleen O'Brien, Saturn
  • Ryan Van Winkle, The Heart
  • Peter Marcus, The Origami of Waking
  • Neil De la Flor, The Wolf
  • Diane Seuss, Warhol’s Shadows

Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

  • Rebecca Lindenberg, Aphorism (Sometimes the best)
  • Rebecca Lindenberg, Aphorism (There may be)
  • Joyelle McSweeney, Chase Bank: Pentacles for Spring
  • Charles Bernstein, Errata
  • Jaswinder Bolina, Letter to a Drone Pilot
  • Michael Rutherglen, Ping
  • Charles Bernstein, Riddle
  • Jaswinder Bolina, Self–portrait as a Gene Sequence
  • Rebecca Lindenberg, September
  • Michael Rutherglen, Summer in Symmetry
  • Jaswinder Bolina, Texting the Beloved
  • Michael Rutherglen, Whalefall

Vol. XXVII No. 1 (Spring 2014) | Ghosts

  • Peter Covino, from Armies in the Blood
  • Nate Pritts, Ghost Officer
  • Kathryn Cowles, Glossary
  • Nate Pritts, It Was Just Thinking
  • Kathryn Cowles, Stopper

Vol. XXVI No. 2 (Summer 2013)

  • Alicia Mountain, (I began to see)
  • Alicia Mountain, (The most elegant way to win)
  • Celia Bland, For My Daughter in Fear That She Will Become My Son
  • Michael Rutherglen, Foreigner
  • Dylan Pasture, Grim Hallway
  • Ted Meyer, His Father the Lawyer His Mother the Nun
  • Lucas Rivera, The Hall
  • Lucas Rivera, The Sky is Overcast
  • Eleanor Stanford, Tropicália
  • Blas Falconer, Use Your Words

Vol. XXVI No. 1 (Spring 2013) | Redemption

  • Tom Daley, After a Stroke, My Mother Addresses the Lord While Watching Footage of the Aftermath of the Earthquake in Haiti
  • Anne Barngrover, Driving down from Georgia and the Doors Are Painted Blue
  • Barbara Tomash, Lives
  • Jennifer Duffield White, On Confluence
  • Andrew Pryor, Postcard: New Year’s Eve

Vol. XXV No. 3 (Fall 2012)

  • Andrew Wessels, Ötesi          ::          What Follows, The Rest
  • Dawn Tefft, Etc. and More About Fists
  • Dawn Tefft, Groceries. Beer. Liquor. Lottery.
  • Kent Shaw, How a Country Can Lay Claim To Having People
  • Kent Shaw, How I Would Describe the Anatomy of a Heron
  • Andrew Wessels, Ilkbahar          ::          First Spring
  • Andrew Wessels, Sonbahar         ::         Last Spring, Fall
  • Jaclyn Dwyer, The Cavendish Is Nearing Extinction
  • Kent Shaw, The Valuations of Certain Family Values
  • Dawn Tefft, This Is Not Attica
  • Andrew Wessels, Var         ::         Existent
  • Andrew Wessels, Yok         ::         Not Existent

Vol. XXV No. 2 (Summer 2012)

  • Christopher Kondrich, from Contrapuntal
  • Anne Marie Rooney, Entry: open sky
  • Anne Marie Rooney, Entry: open word
  • Allison Campbell, Humanisticism
  • Cameron Witbeck, Kenn Peterson Shares his Dream with the Michigan Dogman
  • Allison Campbell, Loneliness
  • Bruce Cohen, Sour Candy
  • Cameron Witbeck, The Michigan Dogman Mourns His Father
  • Cameron Witbeck, The Michigan Dogman Watches His Wife Sleep
  • Allison Campbell, You

Vol. XXV No. 1 (Spring 2012) | Disaster

  • Rachel Mennies, Amidah for Teenage Girls
  • Josh Kalscheur, Explanation
  • Hugh Fox, Here I Am
  • Sharon Dolin, Kafka’s Hands
  • Holly Wren Spaulding, Not the Blue Walls Blackening, Then the Ghostly Curtains
  • Weston Cutter, Rent the Elements
  • Sarah Blake, The Fallible Face

Vol. XXIV No. 3 (Fall 2011)

  • Kevin McLellan, 18 instances of overlooking descriptors
  • Paul Otremba, From the Provinces
  • Amy Newlove Schroeder, I Abandon Poetry Altogether
  • Amy Newlove Schroeder, Strait
  • Jennifer Kronovet, With the Boy, Cemetery
  • Jennifer Kronovet, With the Boy, in the House
  • Jennifer Kronovet, With the Boy, Inside the Idea
  • Jennifer Kronovet, With the Boy, System

Vol. XXIV No. 2 (Summer 2011)

  • Molly Brodak, Black Barn
  • Molly Brodak, Lobby
  • Molly Brodak, The Flood
  • Jon Thompson, The Unregenerate, Who Once Wanted to be Redeemed (Chinatown)
  • Jon Thompson, To Feel the Wholeness of the World (Cool Hand Luke)
  • Adam Strauss, To Joseph Addison Who I’ve Barely Read
  • William Burke, We Are Entitled to Love Poor People
  • William Burke, We Travel Like Other People
  • Adam Strauss, Wingspan
  • Martha Collins, [white paper #38]

Vol. XXIV No. 1 (Spring 2011) | Blurring Borders

  • Brenda Coultas, from The Tatters
  • Solmaz Sharif, Drone
  • Emmy Hunter, In the Moment of Sun
  • Karen An-hwei Lee, Prayer for Equinoctial Green
  • Nicholas Samaras, The Abduction of Even Language

Vol. XXIII (2010) | Captured: Writing About Film and Photography

  • Srikanth Reddy, from Voyager, Book One
  • Luljeta Lleshanaku, After the Evening Movie
  • Dawn Tefft, Clutching a Pole in Norway
  • Cynthia Arrieu-King, Deer of Los Angeles
  • Bryan D. Dietrich, Eden, Fonda, Welch, Dickinson, Wagner
  • Patricia Lockwood, Hereafter but Not in Hell, the Poet Thinks of the Week He Went without Drinking, and Reflects on the Several-Splendored Tortures of Our Lord
  • Gretchen Steele Pratt, The Secret Kingdom of the Swifts
  • Eduardo C. Corral, To a Jornalero Cleaning Out My Neighbor’s Garage

Vol. XXII (2009) | Dismissing Africa

  • Emmanuel Sigauke, A House for Mother
  • Carolyn Hembree, Eyecandy at Fifteen
  • Stacy Kidd, Fast, But Mined with a Motion, a Drift
  • Yahya Frederickson, Letters from Kogi
  • Kelle Groom, Oh don’t
  • Thomas Reiter, Sweet Tree, Sweet Tree

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