TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

Catherine Savage Brosman
Light Years

Dahlia Ravikovitch
Clockwork Doll
Translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize Winner

Jamshid Moshkani
Book of Fears 45
Translated by Niloufar Talebi
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize Winner

Wendy Cope
Probably

Rachel Hadas
Metamorphosis

Jorge Luis Borges
To the Coyote
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

X.J. Kennedy
A Preference Declared

Andrew Hudgins
Prayer Before Bed

Tony Barnstone
Frostbitten, with Ice Tears in His Eyelashes, Admiral Peary Staggers towards the Pole

Jean Kreiling
Subtext for Sam

Marilyn Taylor
Another Thing I Ought to be Doing

Herberto Helder
Untitled (If you stare the serpent in the eye)

Jeffrey Franklin
Advice to a Son Coming of Age

Toshiaki Komura
Crossing Luxembourg

Todd Davis
The Rhododendron

Arthur Brown
The Chinese Princess Tree

Priscilla Atkins
Squirrel

Lope de Vega
Human Rhymes
Translation by Robert Schechter

Horace
Book I, Satire II
Translation A.M. Juster

Vivian Shipley
Last Night

Rachel Hadas
The Long Hall

George Good
Cameos

Derek Economy
Greek School

Jeff Holt
The Choir

Rainer Marie Rilke
The Merry-Go-Round
Translation by Terese Coe

Jeannine Hall Gailey
Becoming the Villainess

Kate Slavens
Llandudno Beach, North Wales

John Savoie
Winter Night

Yvonne Higgins Leach
A Visit to the Memorial of USS Arizona

Jennifer Sweeny
The Bird Trapped in our Stairwell

James Doyle
He Takes Up Sky Diving at 88

Kim Bridgford
Margaret's Saga

David Salner
Easy For Me to Say

Michele Rosenthal
Turning the Tables

Kathleen Dale
Depth Perception

Dana Sonnenschein
The Nightmare Life

Timothy Juhl
The End of Em

William Doreski
Where Satan Emerged

Nina Corwin
When the Ladybugs Invade Chicago

Marilyn Taylor
Rondeau: Old Woman With Cat

Juan Ruiz
Herein He Discusses How, According to Nature, Men and Other Animals Crave the Company of Females
Translation by Julie Stoner

Nathaniel Lee Hansen
November Morning

Michael Denington
Handoff

Greg Girvan
Rite of Passage

Judith Montgomery
Speaking of Survival

Jason Schossler
Ink

Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Desolation—XX
Translation by Curtis Bauer

Marcus Jackson
Supper

Jack Barrack
Van Gogh, Lamplighter

Jeff Grinnell
The Moonlight Hitchhiker

William Jolliff
Milking the Dark

Andrey Gritsman
Reception

Nancy Tripp King
Soothing Music

Jack Cooper
The Proposal

Thea Gavin
Shredding Ecstasy

D.M. Ross
What She Might Do

 

FICTION

Bruce Reeves
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico

Debra Grubb
Ephemera

Gary Ponzo
The Escape Artist

Josiah McClellan
The Confession of Alvin J. Tompsen, Barber

B.J. Hollars
Amoxicallan

David Alan Goldstein
Just Not Good Enough

Paul Galvin
The Glue Trap

Roseanne Thong
The Long Spring

 

NON-FICTION

William Baer
An Interview with Alistair MacLeod

Cathy Capozzoli
End of Season

Janet Yoder
Basket Song

Jennifer Munro
Crystal Ball

 

REVIEWS

Carrie Jarrell
Recommendations

CONTRIBUTORS