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POETRY
DAN BEACHY-QUICK Memory-Wax, Knowledge-Bird
PAISLEY REKDAL Leash / Horn of Plenty
JANET KAUFFMAN Another field / Decaying to more
CAROLINE M. MAR After the Pulse Orlando Shooting, My Wife Asks if We Can Eat at Chick-fil-A
JOSHUA KRYAH My Heavy Daughter
VICTORIA CHANG Obit—Memory / Obit—Music / Obit—Grief
TONY HOAGLAND Which Would You Prefer, a Story or an Explanation? / Maybe a Hero Is Crossing the Mountains
BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG My Daughter Would
KAI CARLSON-WEE Rail
LANDON GODFREY Blanket / Light
KRYSTYNA DABROWSKA Henry Moore
(trans. Mira Rosenthal)
GREG WRENN Tower
SARAH GRIDLEY Insofar
FICTION
MEGAN STAFFEL No One But Us
ERIC MCMILLAN Havoc
ROSALYN BERTOLINO The Doll Family
STEVEN HEIGHTON Expecting
NONFICTION
Performance Pieces
DAN O’BRIEN from The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
Testimonies
LOUISE ARONSON Necessary Violence
Explorations
STEFANY ANNE GOLBERG The Hour of the Wolf
Translations
PAUL BOURGET On Stendhal (Henri Beyle)
(trans. Nancy O’Connor)
Film
LAURA KOLBE My Own Private Stromboli
Literary Lives
BRUCE SNIDER Trouble and Consolation: Writing the Gay Rural
Rediscoveries
FRITZ KREISLER A Violinist at the Front
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CHASE TWICHELLSpaciousness / Ancient Questions
HUGH BEHM-STEINBERGAmerican Bushtits / Burrowing Owls / Yellow-Crowned Night Herons
HAI-DANG PHAN My Mother Says the Syrian Refugees Look Like Tourists
MARIANNE BORUCHThe Undoing / Once a Procession
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Afghan Girl
JAMES MCCORKLE History of Barbed Wire
JERZY FICOWSKIRevolt / My Attempted Travels
(trans. Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer)
CATHERINE PIERCEPoem for the Parlor
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BRUCE BEASLEY Sibboleth
GERI DORANBlack Marble
ANALICIA SOTELOThe Ariadne Year
CHESWAYO MPHANZALester Leaps In
GABRIELLE BATESAnniversary
LEILA CHATTIPortrait of the Illness as Nightmare
MAURA STANTONAllegory of Good Government
FICTION
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ISMET PRCICDesiccated
CASTLE FREEMAN JR. Enough of Billy
YOON CHOIThe Art of Losing
LAURA SPENCE-ASH Desire Lines
STEVE ALMONDThe Course of True Love
DAVID HERONRYWar Stories
NONFICTION
Testimonies
CLARENCE ORSI Take Stock
BARRETT SWANSONNotes from a Last Man
Investigations
HANNAH ARENDTThe Freedom to Be Free
Literary Lives
STEVEN G. KELLMAN Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian
Performance Pieces
BEN MILLERA Banquet of Lilacs: An Essay Enacted
Explorations
MAUD CASEYTo Be Undone: The Art of Mystery in Fiction
Rediscoveries
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUReport from Constantinople
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CAYLIN CAPRA-THOMAS Cassiopeia
DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA Philomath
SEAN SHEARER Brick
MARTHA SILANO When I began to dig
DORA MALECH As I gather
SARAH PAPE Turntable / In a Drowned Forest You Find Your Father
ADRIENNE SU Substitutions / That Almond Dessert
KAZIM ALI Origin Story
BRIAN TIERNEY Greystone Park
JAVIER ZAMORA Exiliados
JENNIFER MILITELLO Agape Feast
MATTHEW THORBURN An Annunciation / Gray Light on an Unmade Bed
PAUL GUEST I Remember
CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON Wild, I Said
EVELYN REYNOLDS He Eats Earth / The Pasture to the Cornerstone
FICTION
MICHAEL PARKER Stop ’n’ Go
MARY CLARK Many of the Men
PERRI KLASS The Relief Pitcher’s Mother
PETER LASALLE Conundrum: A Story About Reading
CELESTE MOHAMMED Six Months
NONFICTION
Testimonies
KIM McLARINEshu Finds Work
Literary Lives
ERIC WILSON No Document Is Alike
NATHANIEL G. NESMITH The Alchemy of Art: An Interview with Charles Johnson
Reflections
ANNE PIERSON WIESE Alterations by Elvera
Music
DYLAN HICKS Autumn Closing In
TRANSLATIONS
ALBERT CAMUS The Silences of Paris
trans. Ryan Bloom
REDISCOVERIES
THOMAS CARLYLE Reflections on Our Current Condition
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RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Allegory of Art
LINDA BIERDS The Hardy Tree
STANLEY PLUMLY Lost Then Found Photograph of My Parents
JULIE MARIE WADE Portrait of the Sister as Phantom Limb/ Portrait of Grief as Rocking Chair
HENRY KEARNEY, IV Shotgun Elegy
JAMES ALLEN HALL Irregular Plurals/ Elegy with Pyre, Match, and Father
JANE MEAD Selections from World of Made and Unmade
DAVID MURA A Late Elegy for Jimmy
CROSSING THROUGH THE PRESENT: GERMAN POETRY IN TRANSLATION
SARAH KIRSCH (trans. Anne Stokes) Winter
ANDREAS ALTMANN (trans. Birgit Bunzel Linder) angel story
DURS GRÜNBEIN (trans. Karen Leeder) Artichokes/ One of Many Moments
DANIELA DANZ (trans. Harry Roddy) Bee-Folk or the Good State/ And in the Beginning There Are Pictures
JAN WAGNER (trans. Iain Galbraith) Nicosia/ Hamburg-Berlin
ESTHER KINSKY (trans. Iain Galbraith) [Disturbed lands] PETER WATERHOUSE (trans. Iain Galbraith) Return of Ecstasy/ Doubts about Trams/ Zakid’s Delicatessen, Bremen
LUTZ SEILER (trans. Alexander Booth) homeward
ULJANA WOLF (trans. Sophie Seita) on classification in language, a feeble reader
CHRISTINE LAVANT (trans. David Chorlton) [Through one of the many yellow]/ [Old sleep] ULRIKE ALMUT SANDIG (trans. Karen Leeder) [lullaby for all] GÜNTER KUNERT (trans. Gerald Chapple) Historical Consciousness / Legacies
FICTION
CHELIKA YAPA Follow-Up
RON CARLSON Crooners
TAMAS DOBOZY Steyr Mannlicher
LEAH MCCORMACK Blameless
NONFICTION
Observations
LIA PURPURA All the Fierce Tethers
Literary Lives
MARIE LUISE KNOTT (trans. Margitt Lehbert) Intentionally Left Blank
Testimonies
DURS GRÜNBEIN (trans. Karen Leeder) Russians at the Gates
PETER CHILSON Welcome to Mali
Letters from Abroad
JOSEPH PEARSON Three German Cities
Performance Pieces
MARIUS VON MAYENBURG (trans. Maja Zade) Moving Target
Rediscoveries
WALTER BAGEHOT On the Metaphysical Basis of Toleration
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MARTHA COLLINSOut of Doors
BRIAN TEAREAfter a Long Illness
SAFIYA SINCLAIR Good Hair
BEN JACKSONTable Bay
BRUCE SNIDER They Will Not Eat the Bird of Paradise
MAXINE SCATESMy Wilderness
DEREK MONGExhausted, Renegade Elephant
RYAN TEITMANMargaret-Orthodox / Quakers
MARK NEELYAnimal / Automaton / Bruce’s Faith
COURTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTONStill Life with Young Black Woman’s Face Etched into a School Desk
WAYNE MILLEROn Progress
KARA VAN DE GRAAFLa Monstrua Vida
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KATE PETERSON After, Before
LESLIE BAZZETTThe Pretenders
BECKY HAGENSTON Rise
TYLER SAGELionel
ANNE RAEFFChinese Opera
BEN EISMANRight-Hearted
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MARY EBBOTTTell Me How It Hurts: An Intersection of Poetry and Pain in the Iliad
ROB HARDYDeceit only was forbidden: A Brief Literary Biography of Richard Henry Wilde
Provocations
NING KEN (trans. Thomas Moran) Writing in the Age of the Ultra-Unreal
Literary Lives
NATHANIEL G. NESMITHThe Life of a Playwright: An Interview with Steve Carter
Testimonies
ERIC SEVERNA Partial Inventory of Things That Didn’t Work
TRANSLATIONS
VIRGIL Aenid Book 7
(trans. Ian Ganassi)
REDISCOVERIES
JOHN KEATSTwo Prefaces to Endymion
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PHILIP METRES A Chronology of Roads
G. C. WALDREP Chipping Campden
YVES BONNEFOY (trans. Hoyt Rogers) Other Paintings
TRACI BRIMHALL Arctic Lullaby
JAMES HOCH Landscape Resembling My Mother Dying
OLIVER DE LA PAZ Striking a blow (left hand) / Striking a blow (right hand)
GEMMA GORGA (trans. Sharon Dolin) [It cracks and finally breaks] / [There’s a vague feeling of error in the air] / [My name is not the name of a flower].
BOB HICOK Sweet
MONICA YOUN Greenacre
CHRISTINE ROBBINSFunnel Where the Light Might Enter
DAVID WAGONER Thoreau and the Wild Grapes
MARIANE BORUCH Prehistory / Pieces of Old Cornice Among Trees and Random Trash
FICTION
MARTIN MONAHAN Reproduction
MARGUERITE W. SULLIVAN Figure with a Bowl of Fruit / Plein Air
ARLENE HEYMAN The Loves of Her Life
CHARLES HOLDEFER Big and Nasty
KATHLEEN WHEATON Glass Onion
CHRISTINE SNEED Older Sister
EUGENE MIRABELLI Oh, My Beautiful Alba
NONFICTION
Literary Criticism:
The Mind at the End of the Palm: Wallace Stevens Thinking
DAVID BAKER Feeling Thinking
LINDA GREGERSON The “Predicate of Substance”
CARL PHILLIPSThinking Versus Imagination
STANLEY PLUMLY Does Ripe Fruit Never Fall?
CAROL FROST The Poetic Imperative
Testimonies
BEN MILLER Gene Beenk’s Journey into Night
ALIA VOLZ Chasing Arrows
Film
TODD JAMES PIERCEWow, We’ve Got Something Here: Ward Kimball and the Making of Snow White
TRANSLATIONS
SUZANNE DRACIUS from The Dancing Other
(trans. Nancy Naomi Carolson, Catherine Maigret Kellogg, and Jamie Davis)
REDISCOVERIES
EDITH WHARTON Paris in Wartime: February, 1915
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LAUREN CAMP Winter of Tumult and Artifact
TOD MARSHALL Cranes
EDGAR KUNZ In the Supply Closet at Illing Middle
HAI-DANG PHAN Are Those F-16s?
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY A Mix Tape: The Hit Singularities
DIANE SEUSS Memento Mori
OWEN McLEOD Uroboros
GIOVANNI PASCOLI The Bagpipes
(trans. Taije Silverman and
Marina Della Putta Johnston)
SASHA PIMENTEL Orison
J. CAMP BROWN Catachresis / Mandolin in White Wood, Signing the Tag
LISA LEWIS Dry Hollows
FICTION
PENELOPE CRAY The Red Painter / Mountain / Real and True
EMMA DUFFY-COMPARONE The Devil’s Triangle
DAVID EBENBACH Eleven Girls
VINCENT POTURICA Dad’s House
MATEAL LOVAAS ISHIHARA Crossing Harvard Yard
RAV GREWAL-KÖK The Bolivian Navy
ANTONIO TABUCCHI Writer, It Must Be Late
(trans. Elizabeth Harris)
NONFICTION
Reflections
PHILIP F. GURA To The Curator of Birds
KATE LEBO The Unsealed Ear
Reports from Abroad
EMILY GEMINDER Phnom Penh 2012
LAURENCE DE LOOZE An Atheist in Rome
Literary Criticism
LISA MULLENNEAUX Hilda Morley: Lost on Black Mountain
Investigations
MICHAEL FALLON The Other Side of Silence
Rediscoveries
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Two Italian Portraits
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LUCIA PERILLO Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones
C. DALE YOUNG Partially Right
SAM SAX Will
TYLER MILLS Wilderness Road
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI She Ties My Bow Tie
KIM ADDONIZIO Thousands of Times Throughout the Day
FRANCINE CONLEY Sugar
LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER Birch in the Dark
ALEX DIMITROV Champagne
TIMOTHY LIU The Green Wall
W. S. DI PIERO The Family Circle
JOHN GALLAHER Addenda to Your Emergency Evacuation Plan
FICTION
CHRISTOPHER KNAPP Raised by Humans
GENEVIEVE PLUNKETT Something for a Young Woman
WAYNE MICHAEL WINFIELD One of These Days
CAITLIN HAYESA Pain Like That
MICHAEL DEAGLER You Know Where This Avenue Ends
MARY RECHNER Denouement
STEPHEN DIXONJust What Is Not
NONFICTION
Investigations
MUKUND BELLIAPPA A Natural History of Colonialism
Testimonies
PAULA SCHWARTZ Big Life, Little Death
Literary Lives
URSULA HEGI I’m Searching for a Home for Unwed Girls
MAXIMILIAN VOLOSHIN The Cherubina Affair, or Max and Lev Have a Duel
(translated by Alex Cigale)
Revaluations
ROBERT HAHN Heirs of the Great Carraway
Rediscoveries
JOHN MILTON EDWARDS The Business of Fiction
RAïSSA VENABLES Cover Artist
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JENNIFER CHANG The World
STEVEN CRAMER After Tomaž Šalamun
KEVIN PRUFER In the Wheat Field
C. K. WILLIAMS I Shot a Frog I Shot a Bird
NICK LANTZ No Illeagles Here / Balloon Animal
EMILIA PHILLIPS Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side
ERIN LYNCH The Tanner’s Bride
CATE MARVIN High School in Suzhou
WILLIAM LOGAN Spring All Too Often / Miracoli
JEHANNE DUBROW Reading Sappho in Pensacola
OCEAN VUONG To My Father / To My Unborn Son
DAISY FRIED Forcefeeding
ANDERS CARLSON-WEE Shoalwater
JOHN POCH Bedroom
Fiction
LORE SEGAL Noah’s Daughter
MARIO J. GONZALES Malditos
CAROLYN PAGE Marksberry Road
LISA TADDEO Forty-Two
J. T. PRICE Survival
BRENDAN McKENNEDY Front Men Are Forever
Literary Lives
ROB HARDY Naomi Mitchison, Peaceable Transgressor
Translations
LUIS S. KRAUSZ The Clocks
translated by Ana Fletcher
AUGUSTE LACAUSSADE A Suite of Poems
translated by John Kinsella
Reader’s Notebook
RACHEL HADAS That Little Room Which They Have Taken For Her
Testimonies
LORRAINE HANLON COMANOR In the Shadow of Parsenn
Investigations
ROGER STRITMATTER, MARK K. ANDERSON, AND ELLIOTT STONE Melville’s Billy Budd and the Disguises of Authorship
Explorations
JILL SISSON QUINN Big Night
Rediscoveries
HENRY REED STILES To Bundle or to Tarry
Cover Artist HELEN SHULMAN
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JENNIFER CHANG The World
STEVEN CRAMER After Tomaž Šalamun
KEVIN PRUFER In the Wheat Field
C. K. WILLIAMS I Shot a Frog I Shot a Bird
NICK LANTZ No Illeagles Here / Balloon Animal
EMILIA PHILLIPS Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side
ERIN LYNCH The Tanner’s Bride
CATE MARVIN High School in Suzhou
WILLIAM LOGAN Spring All Too Often / Miracoli
JEHANNE DUBROW Reading Sappho in Pensacola
OCEAN VUONG To My Father / To My Unborn Son
DAISY FRIED Forcefeeding
ANDERS CARLSON-WEE Shoalwater
JOHN POCH Bedroom
Fiction
LORE SEGAL Noah’s Daughter
MARIO J. GONZALES Malditos
CAROLYN PAGE Marksberry Road
LISA TADDEO Forty-Two
J. T. PRICE Survival
BRENDAN McKENNEDY Front Men Are Forever
Literary Lives
ROB HARDY Naomi Mitchison, Peaceable Transgressor
Translations
LUIS S. KRAUSZ The Clocks
translated by Ana Fletcher
AUGUSTE LACAUSSADE A Suite of Poems
translated by John Kinsella
Reader’s Notebook
RACHEL HADAS That Little Room Which They Have Taken For Her
Testimonies
LORRAINE HANLON COMANOR In the Shadow of Parsenn
Investigations
ROGER STRITMATTER, MARK K. ANDERSON, AND ELLIOTT STONE Melville’s Billy Budd and the Disguises of Authorship
Explorations
JILL SISSON QUINN Big Night
Rediscoveries
HENRY REED STILES To Bundle or to Tarry
Cover Artist HELEN SHULMAN
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BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY The Dragon
AGHA SHAHID ALI There Is No God But
G. C. WALDREP Their Faces Shall Be As Flames
PAISLEY REKDAL Birthday Poem
REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS The End of Life, a Secret
KHALED MATTAWA Borrowed Tongue
LAURA KASISCHKE Executioner as Muse
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI Boxers in the Key of M
CARL PHILLIPS Parable
JERICHO BROWN Prayer of the Backhanded
VICTORIA CHANG Yang Gui-Fei
DEBORA GREGER Head, Perhaps of an Angel
MATTHEW OLZMANN Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion
TOMAS Q. MORIN Red Herring
JORDAN DAVIS From the Twentieth Floor
DAVID YEZZI Woman Holding a Fox
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Redbud
JENNIFER GROTZ The Woodstove
GERI DORAN Tonight Is a Night Without Birds
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy
Fiction
KRISTIEN HEMMERECHTS Fairytale
translated by Margie Franzen & Sandra Boersma
PETER LASALLE He Was Beginning to Wonder
DENNIS MCFADDEN Little Brier
JONATHAN DURBIN Husbands
LENORE MYKA Mascots
CHRISTINE SNEED Clear Conscience
BROCK CLARKE Transported
Music
J. E. UHL The Prince of New Orleans Piano:
How James Booker Missed the Boat but Made the Parade
Investigations
ROBERT POGUE HARRISON The Riddle of Age
VINCENT CZYZ Collage and the Secret Adventures of Order
Testimonies
NATASHA LVOVICH Sister in Russian, Cousin in English
Observations
ELIZABETH O’BRIEN Naming Is a Sacred Act Because: A List
ALEXANDRIA PEARY Holes and Walls
Reports from American Places
RICHARD TILLINGHAST Eastward Bound, Across a Storied Landscape
Rediscoveries
BORIS SIDIS American Mental Epidemics
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DEBORA GREGER The Junk Store of Dreams / A Road Not Taken
MATTHEW THORBURN Like Hours of Rain on Piles of Brown Leaves
WESLEY ROTHMAN Throbbing in the Bush / Pledge
MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO Pulling the Moon / Rituals of Healing
ASH BOWEN Weather Vigil
MATTHEW LIPPMAN King Stuff
BOB HICOK Anti-terrorism
CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON West Cork
PATRICIA CLARK Artisan / Ecclesiastical
JANUARY GILL O’NEIL BRAVE / Mudlarking, Dead Horse Beach
JAMES HOCH Breathtaking
PETER COOLEY Why They Have to Be Called Aubades
APRIL OSSMANN When Your People Call My People to Arrange a Meeting
JOANNE DOMINIQUE DWYER Patron Saint of Embalmers
Fiction
STEPHEN DIXON That First Time
LOU MATHEWS Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
SEAN WARREN The Last Romantic
SANDS HALL Theim’s Wingéd Chariot
JESSICA LANGAN-PECK Either Way You’ll Know
Translations
GORAN PETROVIĆ From The Sixty-Nine Drawers
translated by Peter Agnone
Reader’s Notebook
JOHN R. NELSON Mr. Forbush and Mr. White
Testimonies
BEN MILLER Village Bakery
KATE LEBO The Loudproof Room
Film
JAMES NAREMORE The Cinema According to James Agee
Literary Lives
CARL PHILLIPS Beautiful Dreamer
Performance Pieces
SAVYON LIEBRECHT Freud’s Women: A One-Act Play
Rediscoveries
LUCIAN A Visit to the Island of Dreams
as rendered by A. J. Church
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ELIZABETH SPIRES House of String / Light Like Water
WILLIAM FARGASON Aquarium / Birthmark
TROY JOLLIMORE Critique of Judgment / The Apples
DAVID HERNANDEZ Dear Gun / Master Sommelier Blind-Tastes a Glass of Water
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON Braided Between the Broken
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK Caught / Ministry of Ostriches
ELIZABETH T. GRAY JR. Devi: The Goddess
CARL PHILLIPS Spring / By Force
RACHEL RICHARDSON Shearwater / Anemones
CAMPBELL MCGRATH Lux Australis
MELISSA STEIN Portrait of my family as a pack of cigarettes
Fiction
GLEN POURCIAU Stereopticon
RICARDO NUILA At the Bedside
LAURA LEE SMITH Unsafe at Any Speed
DAVID GUTERSON Feedback
POLLY ROSENWAIKE Tanglewood
STEVEN HEIGHTON Shared Room on Union
JUAN JOSÉ SAER Thursdays at La Giralda (translated by Steve Dolph)
Explorations
VALERIA LUISELLI Stuttering Cities (translated by Christina MacSweeney)
Reflections
JOSHUA HARMON The Itchy Glowbo Blues
KATHRYN KRAMER The Holy Grail
Reader’s Notebook
JEHANNE DUBROW Sharpened Light: On Larkin’s “Sad Steps”
Art
FRANCIS-NOËL THOMAS Rogier van der Weyden and James Ensor: Line and Its Deformation
Cultural History
RÜDIGER SAFRANSKI Wagner Overthrows the Gods (translated by Robert E. Goodwin)
Translations
ESTHER TUSQUETS Two Old Friends / Always the Sea (translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi)
Recollections
LARRY I. PALMER The Haircut
Rediscoveries
W.C. BROWNELL New York After Paris
Cover Artist RAÏSSA VENABLES
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STEPHEN DONADIO Editor’s Note
Poetry
DERRICK AUSTIN Okaloosa
TOMMYE BLOUNT What Are We Not For / The Black Umbrella
G. C. WALDREP What David Taught & Where He Taught It
PAISLEY REKDAL “When It Is Over It Will Be Over” / Saturdays at Reynolds Work Release
JOHN POCH Pomegranate Queen
JOHN KINSELLA The Bourbon Baudelaire: A Set of Variations
CATE MARVIN Memory in Plain English
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL The Two Times I Loved You Most on a Farm / Five Letters Returned to Sender
SARAH MURPHY The Chain
CHRISTOPHER BROOKHOUSE November
KARL KIRCHWEY Janiculum Staircase / Santa Cecilia
GARY FINCKE Calculations: A Love Poem
MARTHA RHODES Nothing Is the Thin Wall
JENNY JOHNSON In Full Velvet
MATTHEW NIENOW I Wear the Work Upon My Clothes
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER Centering
Fiction
CASTLE FREEMAN, JR. Who’s Stopping You?
LESLIE BAZZETT Studies in Composition
CHARLES BAXTER Sloth
NICK WOLVEN Found by Thee
YOUNG RADER Oido Beach
ANDREW TOUHY Visit to the Beach
Provocations
STEVEN POOLE The Favored Language of the Apparatchik: A Contemporary Sampler
JEFF STAIGER Kindle 451
Literary Lives
BARBARA HYAMS Reading Rilke with Denise Levertov
RICK BAROT The Image Factory
Observations
MERRITT MOSELEY Evening, All
Rediscoveries
HELEN KELLER The Dream World
The Russian Presence
Poetry
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Again I visited . . . (translated by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie)
ZINAIDA NIKOLAEVNA GIPPIUS Devillet (translated by Robert Chandler)
OSIP MANDELSTAM Poem No. 78 / Poem No. 129
(translated by Joan Aleshire) / He Who Had Found a Horseshoe (translated by Alex Cigale)
VLADIMIR NARBUT Séance / from the Cycle “Seventeenth” (translated by Alex Cigale)
MARINA TSVETAEVA Black as the pupil . . . (translated by Robert Chandler) / Where does such tenderness . . . (translated by Joan Aleshire) / from The Two (translated by Alyssa Dinega Gillespie)
SOFIA YAKOVLEVNA PARNOK They’ve cut a hole . . . / I pardon all your sins . . . (translated by Robert Chandler)
ANNA SEMYONOVNA PRISMANOVA The Jolt (translated by Boris Dralyuk)
ARSENY TARKOVSKY Saturday, June 21, 1941 / Ignatevsky Forest / Beautiful Day (translated by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev)
NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH ZABOLOTSKY Goodbye to Friends (translated by Robert Chandler)
OLGA SEDAKOVA The Feast / Old Women / Beads (translated by Stephanie Sandler)
LEV RUBINSTEIN Poet and Crowd (translated by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky)
ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA Let’s Go to Morocco / Trains (translated by Andrew Wachtel)
Fiction
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Three Scenes from Crime and Punishment (translated by Michael R. Katz)
ANTON CHEKHOV Verochka / Ionych (translated by Rosamund Bartlett)
TEFFI Lifeless Beast (translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler)
MIKHAIL SHISHKIN Nabokov’s Inkblot (translated by Mariya Bashkatova)
OLEG KASHIN Fardwor, Ruissa! A Fantastical Tale from Putin’s Russia (translated by Will Evans and Pasha Mrachek)
OLGA SLAVNIKOVA The Cherepanova Sisters (translated by Marian Schwartz)
Revaluations
ROBERT CHANDLER “To Overcome Evil”: Andrey Platonov and the Moscow Show Trials
Cultural History
PETER SAVODNIK Lee Harvey Oswald Arrives in the USSR
FRIDA VIGDOROVA The Trial of Joseph Brodsky (translated by Michael R. Katz)
DAVID EDGAR From Babel to Pentecost (And Back Again): The World After the Wall Came Down
Literary Lives
TOMAS VENCLOVA and ELLEN HINSEY Meetings with Anna Akhmatova
Film
P. ADAMS SITNEY Andrey Tarkovsky, Russian Experience, and the Poetry of Cinema
Provocations
EVE ADLER and VLADIMIR SHLYAKHOV Russian Slang, Circa 1995
Cover Artist SEAN THOMAS