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Issue 29, May 2012

Poetry

• 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

Prose

• Editors’ Prize Winner Janet Hilliard-Osborn
• Jenny Hanning
• Meaghan Mulholland
• Kirk Wilson
• Jo Lloyd

Interview: Jonterri Gadson interviews Gregory Pardlo

• Book Reviews

Cover Art: Damien Dawes

Issue 28, January 2012

Poetry

• 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

Prose

• Lydia Conklin
• Cleve Latham
• Nonfiction by Heather Kirn Lanier
• Pete Duval
• Kyle Mellenr
• Arna Bontemps Hemenway

Interview: Celeste Lipkes Interviews Paul Guest

• Book Reviews

Cover Art: Damien Dawes

Issue 27, May 2011

Poetry

• Hailey Leithauser
• Nadine Sabra Meyer
• Diane Seuss
• Angelo Nikolopoulos
• Bruce Snider
• Avery Slater
• John Poch
• David Wagoner
• Robert Murdock
• Avni Vyas

Prose

• J. Kevin Shushtari
• Byron Case
• Ashley Rose Davidson
• Molly Laich
• Jenn Hollmeyer

Interview: Hannah Holtzman interviews Ann Beattie

• Book Reviews

Cover Art: Damien Dawes

Issue 26, January 2011

Poetry

• 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

Prose

• Pope Brock
• Steve De Jarnatt
• Sheena K. Fallon
• Katherine Jamieson
• Mary Jones
• Erica Plouffe Lazure

Interview: John Casey
Lost Classic: Illustrations by Jorge Luis Borges
Cover Art: Damien Dawes

Issue 25, May 2010

Poetry

• Josephine Yu
• Peter Balakian
• Claudia Serea
• Rachel Mennies
• J. Jason Mitchell
• Allen Edwin Butt
• Matthew D. McBride
• Adam Day
• Joseph J. Capista
• Marielle Prince

Prose

• Matthew Baker
• Allis Hammond
• H.E. Sappenfield
• Adam Wilson
• Brian Trapp
• Ingrid Satelmajer

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:

• Cinderella She Was Not (excerpt) by Bob Thurber
• Okie Monarchs by John Domini

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