Cover Art: Donald E. King
Front: Taos Backyard, 22’’x 30’’,
Gouache
Back: Abandoned Store, 7’’x 7’’,
Watercolor; Casa De Bruja, 7’’x
7’’, Gouache
POETRY
Becky Cooper—How the Body Learns to Float | The Science of Naming, an Apology |
The Stairway to the Stairs
Edward Bartok- Baratta—Shoes I Haven’t Worn | July Has the Most Murders
Myronn Hardy—Madagascar Notebook #2
Linda Bierds—Organmeister: Hasse after Marienkirche | The Last Castrato
Alexander Long—Noise
Mihai Ursachi—Sensorium Mysticum
Robert Grunst—Bottie Bowling
Joseph Campana—12:00am | 4:32pm
Lisa Yanover—Guide for the Perplexed
Sarah Messer—Look, | Starting with that Time
Sandra Miller—Katya Kapovich, Poetesse
Christopher Janke—Nocturne
Karen Kevorkian—The Body
Peter Markus—Our Father’s Shed, Where Our Father Keeps His Tools, The Rusty
Buckets & Muddy Shovels, The Nuts & Bolts & Nails & Screws,
Bottles Half Filled With Whiskey | Our Father Who Walks on Water Comes Home
With Two Buckets of Fish
Laura E. Howard—Full Measure Rest, A Fugue | Tiny Glasses Full of Gin
Vandana Khanna—Hence, Monsoon | On the Edge of Delhi
Bob Hicok—Memento | My affair with a hat | Skin | Morning, three years into the
job
NONFICTION
Becky Bradway—Confirmation
FICTION
Patricia Cumbie—Where People Like Us Live
Courtney Angela Brkie—Remains
Liz Beasley—Curve Ball
Sari Wilson—Daily Commerce
C. Abe Gaustad—Depth of Mirrors
SYMPOSIUM ON POEM VS. SONG
Campbell McGrath—Grievous Angel
Mary Ruefle—I have a friend…
Mark Halliday—Me and Bruce
David Wojahn—Death Watch Music
Martin Walls—“If I ventured in the slipstream…”
Betsy Sholl—Splish-Splash
Bill Olsen—Flying Shoes
Gerard Morrison—Adios: An Interview with Townes Van Zandt
Managing Editor: Shanda Hansma Blue
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Symposium Contributing Editor: Bill Olsen
Fiction Editors: Lisa Lishman and Libbie Searcy
Poetry Editors: Richard Foss, Beth Martinelli, and Lydia (Jade) Melvin
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Amy Stewart