COVER ART
The Tribunal Series
“The Composer” (12” x 16″) | “The one who drinks too much” (12″ x 16″) | “The Vicar” (12″ x 16″) | “My Nosferatu” (12″ x 16″)
oil on canvas by John Kollig
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CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Justin Vicari “Hockney Retrospective, M.O.M.A.”
Julianna Baggott “Mary Cassatt, Going Blind, Crosses Her Room” “A Boyfriend from Years Ago Appears at the Reunion—Without His Emotions” “Ida Saxton McKinley, the First Lady, Seizes During a Dinner Party”
Robyn Anspach “How Jacob pinned the angel by touching her thigh”
Basil Cleveland “Churchgirls”
Gail Martin “The Moon Isn’t Strong Enough”
Stefi Weisburd “The Collector” “Eulogy”
Jesse Lee Kercheval “The Last Three Apples”
Kate Fetherston “Blind Spot” “Taking Measure”
J. Allyn Rosser “Not Stopping” “Right Moment, Wrong Soireé”
Jake Adam York “Midnight, Furnace, Wind” “George Wallace at the Crossroads” “Descendant”
David Bruzina “Self-Butcher and Cook” “The Hunter Calls Rabbits”
Kathryn Smith “Into the Hands of Robbers” “Falling Apart”
Robert Gregory “The Careful Days Are Here”
Marvin Bell “Thoughts During the Demolition Derby, Sandusky County Fair, Fremont, Ohio” “I Was Not Myself” “Stubby Sag Harbor Sonnet”
Mary Ruefle “A Poet’s Dictionary” “What Woman” “Cassandra”
Jackie White “Fable”
Tim Seibles “Douglass, a Last Letter”
George Looney “A Sad Man Makes of the Moon an Absolution”
Jonathan Johnson “Original Sin and Cover Tunes” “Brave Coast, No Wheels”
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FICTION
Melanie Westerberg “An Open Field”
Stephen Graham Jones “Faberge”
Amanda Boyden “Jack and Jill”
Randy DeVita “Up”
José Skinner “The Extra”
Howard Norman “Sidestroke”
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DRAMA
OyamO “Salome Muller the Slave”
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ESSAY
Mia Nussbaum “Of Possible Worlds I Slip Into and Breathe, O Drink, While Remaining in My One Life and Chair”
Orman Day “More Than Bread”
Christopher Merrill “Dismal Harmony”
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INTERVIEW
Peter Geye “An Interview with Howard Norman”
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REVIEW
Peter Patau U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds by Eileen Warburton
Anna Redsand Numele Tǎu / Your Name: Poeme / Poems by Dona Roşu
Billy Reynolds Vacationland by Ander Monson
Amanda Rachelle Warren Budget Travel through Space and Time by Albert Goldbarth
Vincent Reusch Ordination by Scott A. Kaukonen
Ann Przyzycki Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels and All the Errors by Giorgio Manganelli