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Mark Jude Poirier, “Mentor”
Alex K. Hughes, “A Rearing Pact”
Patrick Ryan, “You Need Not Be Present to Win”
Karin Lin-Greenberg, “Since Vincent Left”
Kristen Iskandrian, “The Family at the End of the World”
Brandon Williams, “Squatters”
Kirsten Vail Aguilar, “Anything in Bones”

ESSAYS

Jennifer M. Dean, “Sounding in Fog”
Daniel Groves, “Gossip: An Oral History”
Sarah K. Lenz, “The Belly of Desire”

POETRY

Rick Bursky, “I’m Now Prepared for the New Exuberance”
Chelsea Wagenaar, “The Spinning Place”
G.C. Waldrep, “My Ghost Fell against the Grove,” “Come to Your Garden, O Gardener”
Laurel Hunt, “You come back to me in 2017,” “Conversion”
Steven D. Schroeder, “Myths About the Death of the Frontier,” “Outside View of the Victory Festivities”
Elizabeth Scanlon, “Escapism,” “Waltzball,” “The Odds”
Adrian Blevins, “Little Elegy,” “Status Report”
Jennifer Givhan, “The Accusation”
Anne Barngrover, “If I Start Talking About It Now I Won’t Stop Hollering,” “Prudesville, USA”
John Repp, “Of Orlando, Letters of Credit & Glass Bottle-Making Machinery”
Monica Berlin, “Let the Day Make Its Own,” “Pressed Against These Days, & Against”
Bruce Bond, “Islands of the Arctic”
Giovanni Pascoli, “Plain and Hill” translated by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston
Sasha Pimentel, “Our First Year”
Emily Koehn, “Too Many”
Kathryn Nuernberger, “Poor Crow’s Got Too Much Fight To Live”
Jennifer Perrine, “The Students Have Asked Me to Be More Visibly Queer”
Martha Silano, “Spam Is Passing into Our Lives”
Lance Larsen, “Hurting the World at Different Speeds,” “The Wider You Tack, the Truer You Wander”
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, “Meditation for the Lost and Found”
Allison Pitinii Davis, “In the Back of the Innkeeper’s Mind, the Keyrack”
Ryan Mattern, “Found in Azimuth,” “The New Bed”
Kathleen Winter, “Queen Isabel on Watch Hill”
Toby Altman, “Theory of Tragedy”
Elizabeth Whittlesey, “Found Pioneer Letter”
Matt W. Miller, “High School Reunion”
John James, “Wunderkind”
Jehanne Dubrow, “From the Aberdeen Proving Ground”
Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Pill,” “Swan,”
Mark Wagenaar, “A Cairn of Fine Bones: A Plea”
Kasey Jueds, “A Separate Bird Each Time (Origami),” “The Hedge”
Matt Morton, “Loomings No Longer”

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David Harrison, The Glow Road, Oil on canvas. 36″ x 34″. Courtesy of William Baczek Fine Arts.

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Sean Bernard, “Maintaining Good Posture Towards Bethlehem”
Chris Drangle, “Nice Shot”
Chris Gavaler, “The First Week”
David Long, “Zebras”
Molly Reid, “The Permutations of A”
Shubha Sunder, “Jungleman”

ESSAYS

Steven Lee Beeber, “Half-Life”
Hafeez Lakhani, “The Argument”
Terrance Manning, Jr., “Leave Them Hurtin’ When You Leave”
Clint McCown, “Somewhere West of Truth or Consequences”

POETRY

Melissa Barrett, “Cross-Examination,” “My Life,” “Gravity & Graves”
Riley Bingham. “Narcissus”
D.M. Black, “Questions of Summer,” “The Pigeon”
Kai Carlson-Wee, “Local Mission”
MRB Chelko, “Vision Be”
Kjell Espmark, Excerpts from The Inner Space, translated by N.G.D. Malmqvist
Amber Galeo, “Hibernaculum,” “Kingdom”
John Gallaher, “So Who Here Really Thinks They’re All That Much Different Than They Were In High School”
Sarah Gambito, “My palate”
Sara Henning, “How I Learned I Had the Shine,” “My Life in Men”
L. S. Klatt, “Night Is Hapless Rabbit Is Lippy,” “The Snow Pyramid,” “PepsiCo”
L.S. McKee, “Parable of the Sleepwalker”
Rachel Mennies, “Halcyon Year One”
Wayne Miller, “Meeting the Board”
Scott Minar, “A Meeting on the Heights”
John A. Nieves, “Trap Town (Carcer),” “History as Addendum and Night Terror (Acquisitio),” “When the Tune Catches (Amissio)”
Eric Pankey, “Ghost Ship or Union of the Torus and the Sphere,” “Two Studies for a Parable,” “The Friction Between a String and Bow Calls Forth a Plaintive Hymn”
Kiki Petrosino, “Lament,” “I Married a Horseman”
Jon Pineda, “Spotlighting, Snug Harbor,” “Predators in an Abandoned Drive-In”
Jane Satterfield, “Malediction,” “Portuguese Man o’ War”
Raena Shirali, “Fishing with Broken Lure,” “[feet planted],” “cells:”
Karen Skolfield, “Rifle: verb, noun”
Georg Trakl, “On the Boy Elis,” translated by Scott Minar
Shelley Wong, “The Spring Forecast”

COVER ART

Shane Brown, The Glow Road

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D.J. Thielke, “Persons of Interest”
Erika Krouse, “Wounds of the Heart and Great Vessels”
Dennis James Sweeney, “DNR”
Sarah Kokernot, “Pleasure to Make Your Acquaintance”
Joseph O’Malley, “Ceci N’est Pas About You”
Carol Ghiglieri, “Field Trip”

CRAZYSHORTS!

Winner
Emily Pease, “Foods of the Bible”

Runners-Up
Landon Houle, “The Exterminator”
Caitlin Scarano, “Sick Day”
Lee Conell, “Matt’s Comics”

ESSAYS

Mark Beaver, “Benediction”
Genevieve Thurtle, “Catch and Release”
Lawrence Sutin, “Can We Choose Parts of Ourselves to  Change? Asked My Daughter Sarah”
Garnett Kilberg Cohen, “Coins”

POETRY

Sherod Santos, “How Long Did It Feel Like Burning,” “In White Youth,” “Lamplight Rises on Seated Figure”
Christopher Kempf, “Poem for the Giraffe Marius”
Alexandra Daley, “Survival Instinct,” “Manhattan”
Ann Keniston, “Residue,” “Amends,” “Injured Ode”
R. A. Villanueva, “Genesis 8:21”
Yang Mu, “Lectures” (“Jiangxue”), from the collection Changduan gexing, Taibei: Hongfang shudian 2013.
translated by N.G.D. Malmqvist
Jeffrey Pethybridge, From Found Poem Including History,an Essay on the Epic: “{as when time slows—dilates—},” “{as the tragedians would},” “{Poetry, before taking action, listens to the speechlessness of words},” “{Without abruption or relent, the state}”
J. P. Dancing Bear, “Creation”
T. J. McLemore, “Color Theory, San Angelo”
Rochelle Hurt, “Fourteen”
Felicia Zamora, selections from Quotient, “Gather”
Caylin Capra-Thomas, “Passage”
Laura Romeyn, “Woolgatherer”
Kevin McLellan, “Inside     Façade,” “The Sky     Cellar”
Keith Alexander, “The Land of Oohs and Ahhs”
Donald Platt, “Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List”
Emilia Phillips, “Apologia of the Shoulder Devil,” “Saudade in the City”
Richard Michelson, “Richard Michelson at the Old Bailey”
Jordan Stempleman, “Gym Brothels,” “Cope Don’t Mope”
Arielle Greenberg, “Scissor Series,” “Claim Song Moon, Abundance Moon, Cutting Moon,” “At Forty”
Rachel Richardson, “Double Aquarius”
Katharine Coles, “Self-Portrait with Nightfall” “Cento with Typo, from a Blog by Errol Morris,” “How We Sing”

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Laura Sharp Wilson, Four Medals

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William Black, “Wildcats”
Jane McCafferty, “You Could Say the Universe”
Caleb Leisure, “Cold Light”
Cote Smith, “You Were Here”
Jen Fawkes, “Come Back, Rita”
Julialicia Case, “The Internet Hates You”

ESSAYS

Deborah Cannarella, “On Longevity”
Naomi Kimbell, “Orphan Girl”
Camellia Freeman, “The End Is Not Yet”

POETRY

J. Camp Brown, “Cartography Is Not the Absence of War”
Beth Bachmann, “oil,” “copperhead,” “testimony,” “gilt leather”
Cori A. Winrock, “Dilorication Begins at the  Silk of a Wrist,” “The Way We Sleep”
Mary Jo Bang, “Studies in Neuroscience:  The Perpetual Moment,” “Scene I: A Hall in the Temple of Justice,” “In This Box”
Rachel Morgan, “Noctilucence,” “Virus V. Virologist”
M. A. Vizsolyi, “A Barber’s Eye,” “The Blue Infected Will”
Alberto Ríos, “Two Men,” “Charm String,” “Citizens of a Great Country”
Kathleen McGookey, “Monkey Island,” “Field Trip”
Jonathan Fink, “Bombs Fall Near a Zoo”
Trent Nutting, “Dreams of Lightness”
Rebecca Black, “Limantour”
Robert Wrigley, “Five Moose Night,” “Spring Burning,” “Accompaniment”
Kim Garcia, “the mystic crucifixion by Tintoretto”
Rebecca A. Spears, “Field Design”
Lesely Wheeler, “Toys Lost Under the Hedge Since November,” “Semicolons”
Kimberley Burwick, “Uncle Mengele”
Noah Falck, “Poem Excluding Equinox,” “Poem Excluding Metric System”
Sarah Crossland, “Abduction”
Kevin Simmonds, “Race Man,” “Valediction for the Dromedary”
Claire Sylvester Smith, “The Frank-Starling Curve of the Heart”
Jim Daniels, “Eight Mile Elegy,” “Free Upgrade”
Noel Crook, “Coyotes”
Kara van de Graaf, “Sonnet with a Wishbone in the Throat”
Camille T. Dungy, “Ars Poetica: Mercator Projection”
Benjamin S. Grossberg, “From Elegies,” “From Elegies”
Gina Franco, “Water in Water,” “The Animal Is Poor in the World”
Bryan Narendorf, “If We Must Be Symbolic, Let Us Also Be Frank”

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Dawn Hunter, Art Department

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Ben Fowlkes, “You’ll Apologize If You Have To”
Kristin Inciardi, “Sbalordito”
Courtney Sender, “The Laws That Divide the Day in Two”
Heather Monley, “Pan, Pan, and Pan”
Martin Cloutier, “Running the Room”
Christa Romanosky, “MHTYHR”

ESSAYS

Andrew Johnson, “Perhaps One Day This Will All Make Sense,” “Hypothetical Conversation,” “Tangled Up”
Mark Cox, “I Love You, Boy,” “Because I Said So,” “Above All Else”
Peter Selgin, “The Building”

POETRY

Jenny Xie, “Uneven”
Don Bogen, “Eye Song”
Terrance Hayes, “Self-Portrait as the Mind of a Camera”
Kit Frick, “Arroyo,” “Avalanche Wind”
Natasha Sajé, “Sluice  Pool  Turn,” “Vanessa Redgrave Marries Franco Nero after Forty Years”
Kevin Phan, “Glitter-Brained,” “Swarm”
Molly Brodak, “Asphyxiation”
Keith Ekiss, “Projection”
Esther Lee, “That Which Is Not Paper,” “The Nature of Surveys”
Kristin Bock, “My Father’s Paint-box”
Jamaal May, “The Spirit Names of Stolen Books,” “Against Against”
Anne Shaw, “Outage”
Brandon Krieg, “Havening”
Robert Fernandez, “Burn Pits”
C. J. Sage, “Melt”
Jennifer Perrine, “Patience | Wrath,” “The Blessed Girl, after Her Visions and Vows”
Ed Madden, “Thirst”
Doug Ramspeck, “Grass Alchemy,” “Bildungsroman”
H. L. Hix, “We don’t get to choose what we remember.”
Shara McCallum, “The Parable of Johncrow,” “The Parable of Shit and Flowers”
Tom Daley, “Aphorisms for Lapsed Catholics”
Heather Dubrow, “Skyscraper Plots: A Poem in the Georgic Tradition”
Caki Wilkinson, “Nepenthe,” “Suppositions for Skeptics”
Philip Metres, “When You Meet the Roma at the River,” “Dear Lattice of Peasant Ribs”
Davis McCombs, “Freshwater Drum”
Lisa Fay Coutley, “Cloud Experiment”
Kimberly Johnson, “Technique,” “Farthingale”
Rebecca Hazelton, “No Boundaries,” “Neverland,” “The Navigation of Objects in a Dark Room”

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Julyan Davis, “What makes you sleep so sound?”

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Kelly Magee, “Good Neighbor”
Jill Rosenberg, “The Logic of Imaginary Friends”
Dana Fitz Gale, “Jester”
John Matthew Fox, “Down on the Pitch”
Heidi Diehl, “Second Forest”

ESSAYS

Jesse Donaldson, “Notes from a Congregant”
Samantha Simpson, “Blood Type”
Richard Terrill, “Who Was Bill Evans?”

POETRY

Hadara Bar-Nadav, “Thumb”
Amy Woolard, “The Blueprint”
Robert Huotari, “The Tenure of the Premise,” “Small”
Michael Metivier, “Silos,” “Wing”
Jillian Weise, “Toy Train,” “To Forget Mark Dicklip”
Cate Lycurgus, “Love Poem with a Dropped Stitch,” “Resting State”
Shara Lessley, “In Jordan’s Northernmost Province,” “Fragment from al-Deir (The Monastery),” “The Explosive Expert’s Wife”
Jon Davis, “First Contact”
Ogaga Ifowodo, “Liberation Camp”
Bruce Beasley, “What Do You Think the Poet Is Trying to Say?”
Susan Laughter Meyers, “You Offer Apology,” “Anatomy of a Drowning,” “Dear E.”
L.S. Klatt, “Caterpillar”
Lindsey D. Alexander, “Saudades [Bottle Rocket]”
Matthew Hittinger, “Frost Pear,” “Caliper Owl Thistle Fork,” “The Sphinx * The Asterisk,” “Villa Lyric”
Gabriella R. Tallmadge, “Marriage An Animal Language”
Marc McKee, “What Isn’t Rubble,” “How Move the Boulder”
Raza Ali Hasan, “No King, No King of Kings”
Matthew Gwathmey, “[Modern Folktales] (III),” “[Modern Folktales] (VI)”
Catherine Pierce, “Winter, Mississippi”
Frannie Lindsay, “Upon Learning a Friend Is Now Terminal and Being Asked for Prayers”
Melina Draper, “Coda”
CJ Evans, “Inquiry into Vesper”
Danielle Cadena Deulen, “The Needle, The Thread”
Mark Svenvold, “To the Reader”

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Echo Eggebrecht, “Beginners”

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Michael Kardos, “Animals”
Katherine L. Hester, “The Snow Queen”
Allison Grace Myers, “Foreign”
Kate Petersen, “Sunday: A Song Cycle”
Wayne Harrison, “Backlash”

ESSAYS

Katharine Coles, “Reckless”
Douglas Whynott, “The Sugarhouse”
Elizabeth Kalman, “Sleep On, Slumbering Giant”

POETRY

Vincent Guerra, “The Stir of Your Avoided Life,” “Charm”
Alice Fulton, “Zampolit,” “Like Alice in Underland,” “Reckoning Frame”
Mary Biddinger, “Risk Management Memo: A Star Is Born”
Alex Lemon, “Making It”
Matthew Reed Corey, “Waiting for White Is the Same as Waiting for Grey”
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, “Delfonic,” “L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83,” “Worry the Rosemarry”
Nancy Eimers, “For Mary,” “Cloud Streets”
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, “A Song Called Slavering,” “A Song Called Drawknife”
Jenny Mueller, “Autumn Day”
Bruce Bond, “Widows of the Atacama Desert,” “Shame”
Tacey M. Atsitty, “Sonnet for My Wrist,” “Chafe”
John Gallaher, “In a Landscape: XXX,” “In a Landscape: XXXIV”
Erica Wright, “Lola and the Apocalypse”
Matt Zambito, “Thou Shalt Not ‘Star’ in an Infomercial” “Thou Shalt Not Break a Heart”
Heather Christle, “Disunion,” “Travel Plaza”
Jessica Garratt, “A Season,” “11/11/11”
Meighan L. Sharp, “Slope”
Gregory Donovan, “Besides,” ” The blue breath in the red branch”
Janet McNally, “Maggie Says There’s No Such Thing as Winter”
dawn lonsinger, “Ithaca Falls,” “The Body Is a Nest of Pins”

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Manning Williams, “Aunt Samantha”
Acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 24″

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Karen Munro, “Boat Party”
Amina Gautier, “Candidate”
Molly McNett, “The Baby Cage”
Karen Brown, “The Philter”
Nona Kennedy Carlson, “Shift”
Caitlin Horrocks, “Better Not Tell You Now”

ESSAYS

Peter Stine, “Two Essays”
Lia Purpura, “American Primitive”
Aaron Gwyn, “Parricide Blues”

POETRY

Lo Kwa Mei-en, “Man O’ War”
Edward Mayes, “Head, Eye, Ear, Tongue, Neck, Heart, Hand, Foot, Arm,”  “Mnemosynus,” “Ealuscerwen”
Mary Ann Samyn, “The Deer Doesn’t Go Looking for the Hunter,” “Little Muchness.”
Daniel Carter, “Went with Letters,” “Mere Spark and Echo”
Sarah Gridley, “Mirror, Plume by Plume,” “Casement”
Matthew Minicucci, “Quarter,” “Priam”
Sarah Giragosian, “The Mimic Octopus”
John A. Nieves, “Gaswork,” “Woodwork”
Ingela Strandberg, “I dreamt about Sam Shepard last night,” “I stand at the gas station” trans. by Göran Malmqvist
Travis Smith, “The Unthinkable Botanical Garden”
Katy Gunn, “Launching the Lingua Maria,” “Travelogue”
Eric Weinstein, “The Phantom Limbs Assemble Themselves Then Vanish,” “Landscape with Doomsday Device”
Kara Dorris, “Texas Gravity”
Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney, ”Till Death Do Us Part,” “A Travers Le Miroir”
Karen An-Hwei Lee, “Song Riddle: Fire,” “Song Riddle: Night-Blooming Saguaro”
John-Paul de Dadelsen, “The Bridges of Budapest” trans. by Marilyn Hacker
Traci Brimhall, “Atonement”
Deirdre O’Connor, “Relic”
Peter Jay Shippy, “Academy Fight Song”
Allison Hutchcraft, “Self Portrait as Lamb and Ear,” “Self Portrait as Foxhound”
Karin Gottshall, “Lesson,” “Forecast”
Scott Minar, “Revisiting Snow Man”
Avery Slater, “Jerome the Saint“
Lynne Potts, “Kentridge, Moon, Me,” “Non-Clinical Complications”
John Estes, “Bare Metal Install”
Monica Berlin, “[Back to this wind, up against it even, and the recognizable sky]” “[No apples on the apple tree this summer, and if there were]”
Wayne Miller, “Some Notes on Human Relations”

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Aggie Zed, Gossip.
Pastel, ink, and acrylic on paper. 26″ x 20″