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Issue 29, May 2012
- Editors’ Prize Winner Laura Davenport
- Libby Burton
- Doug Ramspeck
- Jenny Xie
- Kyle McCord
- Brittany Cavallaro
- Paige Riehl
- Chris Perkowski
- Rochelle Hurt
- Andrew Terhune
- Gregory Pardlo
- Francine J. Harris
- Maggie Queeney
- Claudia Cortese
- H.K. Hummel
- Emileigh Barnes
- Editors’ Prize Winner Janet Hilliard-Osborn
- Jenny Hanning
- Meaghan Mulholland
- Kirk Wilson
- Jo Lloyd
- Book Reviews
Poetry
Prose
Interview: Jonterri Gadson interviews Gregory Pardlo
Cover Art: Damien Dawes
Issue 28, January 2012
- Tana Jean Welch
- Michael Martin Shea
- Rebecca Dunham
- Ross White
- Louisa Diodato
- Rachel Welty
- Paul Guest
- Jehanne Dubrow
- Mary Angelino
- Matthew J. Spireng
- Lauri Anderson
- Anthony Opal
- Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
- Keith Leonard
- Lydia Conklin
- Cleve Latham
- Nonfiction by Heather Kirn Lanier
- Pete Duval
- Kyle Mellenr
- Arna Bontemps Hemenway
- Book Reviews
Poetry
Prose
Interview: Celeste Lipkes Interviews Paul Guest
Cover Art: Damien Dawes
Issue 27, May 2011
- Hailey Leithauser
- Nadine Sabra Meyer
- Diane Seuss
- Angelo Nikolopoulos
- Bruce Snider
- Avery Slater
- John Poch
- David Wagoner
- Robert Murdock
- Avni Vyas
- J. Kevin Shushtari
- Byron Case
- Ashley Rose Davidson
- Molly Laich
- Jenn Hollmeyer
- Book Reviews
Poetry
Prose
Interview: Hannah Holtzman interviews Ann Beattie
Cover Art: Damien Dawes
Issue 26, January 2011
- Brittany Cavallaro
- Kathryn Farris
- Warren Joseph Fong
- Guy Jean
- Ilya Kaminsky
- Christopher Kondrich
- Sandra Meek
- Robert Murdock
- Christopher Phelps
- Allison Seay
- Anne Shaw
- G.C. Waldrep
- Pope Brock
- Steve De Jarnatt
- Sheena K. Fallon
- Katherine Jamieson
- Mary Jones
- Erica Plouffe Lazure
Poetry
Prose
Interview: John Casey
Lost Classic: Illustrations by Jorge Luis Borges
Cover Art: Damien Dawes
Issue 25, May 2010
- Josephine Yu
- Peter Balakian
- Claudia Serea
- Rachel Mennies
- J. Jason Mitchell
- Allen Edwin Butt
- Matthew D. McBride
- Adam Day
- Joseph J. Capista
- Marielle Prince
- Matthew Baker
- Allis Hammond
- H.E. Sappenfield
- Adam Wilson
- Brian Trapp
- Ingrid Satelmajer
Poetry
Prose
Interview: Temple Cone
Cover Art: Sarah Ferrick
Issue 24, January 2010
Excerpts:
- First pages of Melissa Yancy’s story “Miracle Girl Grows Up”
- First pages of Barrett Bowlin’s story “New Careers in Science”
- Adam Houle’s poem “What’s New For the Incunabulist”
- Bruce Smith’s poem “Devotion: Thirst Reduction”
- First pages of Lisa K. Buchanan’s piece, “Pandora Seeks Advice Online”
- Book Reviews
- Contributors
Lost Classic: The Poems of Breece D’J Pancake
Cover Art: Aimee Sicuro
Issue 23, May 2009
Excerpts:
- First pages of Jill Logan’s story “Phyllis with Wings”
- First pages of Peter Levine’s story “Gravel”
- First pages of Nahal Suzanne Jamir’s story “In The Middle of Many Mountains”
- First pages of Helen Phillips’s story “The Eyeballs of Cecile”
- Alice Notley’s poem “Diary Entry”
- Poems from Tao Lin
- Lindsay Turner’s poem “[today happens as an urgent letter]“
- Abby Kaupang’s poem “he who believes in you futures”
- Sam Witt’s poem “Frankenstein; or, The Presence Chamber”
- Angus A. Bennett’s “Muted with a Line from Someone Else’s Memory”
- Book Reviews
- Contributors
Lost Classic: A Letter from Katherine Anne Porter to Merle Armitage
Cover Art: Kendall Cox
Issue 22, January 2009
Excerpts:
- Barbara Hamby’s poem “Ode to Fire, Fastballs, and the Six Million Things I Don’t Get”
- Bob Hicok’s poem “In the mirror of a day before leaving”
- Sandy Longhorn’s poem “River Years”
- Carl Phillips’s poem “The Grass Not Being Flesh, Nor Flesh the Grass”
- Karen Rigby’s poem “Nightingale & Firebird”
- Excerpt from Ethan David Miller’s story “The House in St. Paul”
- Excerpt from Celeste Ng’s story “We Are Not Strangers”
- Excerpt from Matthew Ira Swaye’s story “Azaleas, et al…”
- Book Reviews and Contributors
Lost Classic: Allen Ginsberg’s Letters from India
Cover Art: Becca Durnin
Issue 21, May 2008
Excerpts:
- First pages of Maryse Meijer’s story “We Are Leaving Here Forever”
- Victoria Chang’s poem “Dear P.,”
- First page of Sam Witt’s poem “Imperfect Griever”
- Book Reviews and Contributors
Lost Classic: A deleted chapter from Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage
Cover Art: Tim Campbell
Issue 20, January 2008
Excerpts:
- First pages of Maryse Meijer’s story “Home”
- First pages of Colleen Hollister’s story “Kites”
- First pages of Urban Waite’s Story “Everywhere There is Water”
- Barbara Yien’s poem “An Explanation, of Sorts”
- Elisa Gabbert’s poem “Poem with No Answer”
- Alexandra van de Kamp’s poem “Dear A—,”
- John T. Casteen, IV’s poem “The Honey War”
Lost Classic: Flannery O’Connor on Wise Blood
Cover Art: Laura Lee Gulledge
Issue 19, May 2007
Excerpts:
- First pages of Hugh Merwin’s story “Think of Paramus”
- First pages of Jon Hickey’s story “Duck”
- Julie Ritter’s poem “26″
- Marianne Boruch’s poem “My heart, its breathing hole”
- Tung-Hui Hu’s poem “Year of Following People”
- 4 poems by Sarah Manguso
- Mary Ann Samyn’s poem “Make them howl or breathe fire.”
- Mary Szybist’s poem “The Troubadours etc.”
Lost Classic: A Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving
Cover Art: Alex Harrison
Issue 18, January 2007
Excerpts:
- First pages of C. Parker Staley’s story “A Giraffe’s Tongue”
- First pages of Benjamin Warner’s story “Daredevils”
- Nance Van Winckel’s poem “Fifth Sky”
- Herman Asarnow’s poem “Too Marvelous for Words”
- Lisa Russ Spaar’s poem “Cricket”
- Sam Taylor’s poem “Paper”
Lost Classic: William Faulkner & the People-to-People Project
Cover Art: HR Hegnauer
Issue 17, Spring / Summer 2006
Contest Winners:
Excerpts:
- Daniel A. Hoyt’s story “Maria”
- Dan Pope’s Story “Going Strange”
- Mike Dockins’ poem “Gettysburg, Gettysburg”
- Jean Esteve’s poem “If Then”
- John T. Casteen IV’s poem “Enormity”
Lost Classic: Letters From Elizabeth Bishop & Shelby Foote
Cover Art: Laura Lee Gulledge
Issue 16, Fall / Winter 2005
Excerpts:
- Megan Harlan’s story “Jungles of Colombia”
- Charles Haverty’s story “Nobody’s Here but Us Chickens”
- Cecily Iddings’ poem “Pet Disastrous”
- Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s poem “Still Life with all the Animals”
- Bradley Whitehurst’s poem”Hauling Water”
Lost Classic: Some Memories of Henri Matisse
Issue 15, Spring / Summer 2005
Excerpts:
- Eugene Dubnov’s story “After School”, translated by the author and John Heath-Stubbs
- Rebecc Givens’ poem “Greenhouse”
- David Groff’s poem “Her Grave”
- Bobby C. Rogers’ poem “Night Air”
- St. James Wood’s poem”Tehachapi”
- First pages of Therese Stanton’s short story “Reading and Writing in America”
- First pages of M. Glenn Taylor’s short story “This is How You Talk Electric”
Lost Classic: First pages of M. Glenn Taylor’s short story “This is How You Talk Electric”
Issue 14, Fall / Winter 2004
Excerpts:
- Mark Strand’s poem “Elevator”
- First pages of Kim Brook’s short story “Six Months of Darkness, Six Months of Light”
- Bryan Narendorf’s poem “Against the Terrible Death”
- Susan Thomas’ poem “Rue de Nevers “
- First pages of Xujun Eberlein’s short story “Watch the Thrill”
- First pages of Brian Weinberg’s short story “Topping Tobacco”
Author Interview: Edward P. Jones with J-L Deher-Lesaint
Issue 13, Spring / Summer 2004
Excerpts:
- Linor Goralik’s essay “A Real American Girl”
- First pages of Morgan McDermott’s short story “Lease”
- Danika Paige Myers’s poem “After the Open Heart”
- Dave Smith’s poems “Play” and “Oyster Beds”
- Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poem “Imagine your life as a silent movie”
- First pages of Edan Lepucki’s short story “Wunderkind”
Lost Classic: Ezra Pound, “PORK or possibly ‘the Bacon’”
Author Interview: Francine Prose with Gina Welch
Issue 12, Fall / Winter 2003
Excerpts:
- First pages of Kevin Wilson’s short story “The Shooting Man”
- Steve Gehrke’s poem “Inside the Dialysis Machine”
- John T. Casteen IV’s poem “Chording”
- Debra Nystrom’s poem “To the Wizard”
- First pages of Matthew Andrew Thomas’s short story “Excerpts from a Suppressed Guide to the Spring Street Nursing Home”
Lost Classic: Jean Passerat, “J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle”
Author Interview: Edmund White with J. L. Deher-Lesaint
Issue 11, Spring / Summer 2003
Excerpts:
- First pages of Shauna Seliy’s short story “This Girl”
- Donald Platt’s poem “Amazements”
- First pages of Aimee Phan’s short story”Motherland”
- Susan Wood’s poem”from The Decalogue (III)”
- Steve Langan’s poem “Coda”
Lost Classic: Walt Whitman, “Diary of cases seen …”
Author Interview: Alexander Chee with Kate Webber
Issue 10, Fall / Winter 2002
Excerpts:
- George Garrett’s poem “Fin de Siécle”
- First pages of Doreen Baingana’s short story “First Kiss”
- Brian Teare’s poem “Circa”
- First pages of Robert C.S. Downs’s short story “Seeing Verna”
- Melissa Kirsch’s poem “King Lear Considers What He’s Wrought”
Lost Classic: Mary Johnston, “Broomsedge House”
Author Interview: Amy Bloom with René Todd
Issue 9, Spring / Summer 2002
Excerpts:
- James Kimbrell’s poem “from Elegy for My Mother”
- First pages of Jonathan Liebson’s short story “After the Bolsheviks”
- David Roderick’s poem “Blue Colonial”
- First pages of Anne Burt’s short story “What Birds Want”
- David Young’s poems “Plato and the Fall” and “Petrarch…”"Plato and the Fall” and “Petrarch…”
Lost Classic: Rose Terri Cooke, “The Converting of Obed Saltus”
Author Interview: Claire Messud with René Todd
Book Reviews: Bullroarer: A Sequence, Austerlitz, Shadow of Heaven: Poems, A Short History of the Shadow, The Eyre Affair, Gold Indigoes

