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ART
Cover [mixed media] • Alexander Perry
14 [digital illustration] • Andrea Varley
22 [digital montage] • Ravi O’Reilly
27 [digital montage] • Molly Huber
40 [digital montage] • Ashleigh Ford
FICTION
14 Into The Woods • A. H. Wald
22 Indian Night • Adrian Cole
27 American Child • Manjula Menon
40 The House at Maple Corner • Ronald Frame
NONFICTION
45 The Twelve Steps to Paying the Bills • Daniel Stolar
52 Past Perfect: War and the Mistakes of History • Vince Gotera
POETRY
3 Polio Water in 1955 • Jeanne Emmons
4 Poem for My Extra Nipple • Patrick Rosal
4 Tanning • Mariette Landry
5 Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation • Natalie Diaz
5 Josiah • Dilruba Ahmed
6 Dragonfly on Blue Agave • Amanda Auchter
6 The Routine After Forty • Jacqueline Berger
7 Cleaning the Octopus • Arlene Distler
7 Coming Back for the Horses • Stephen Larson
8 Writing the Light • Michael Lauchlan
8 Vigils • Jenifer Browne Lawrence
9 After she said, “You can work around me” / somehow he knew • Jeffrey Ethan Lee
10 one girl’s winter • Jasmine Paul
11 Unpacking • Pamela Porter
11 Triassic Escarpment • Margaret Rabb
12 Self-Portrait with Trampoline • Susan Rich
12 Sitting Backward, We Move Unstoppably Forward • Helen Klein Ross
13 Orbweaver • Victoria Sloan
13 Striptease • Wyatt Townley
16 Eyebrow Wings• Jan Priddy
19 Ghazal: The Footbridge Over the Someş • Steve Wilson
20 In the Cemetery of the Poor Clares, Castello Aragonese, Ischia, in Italy • Stephen Gibson
20 Tattoos • W. T. Pfefferle
21 Drums in Oslo • Steve Benson
21 Letters of the Book of Kells • Maureen Tolman Flannery
26 A Hundred Things • Emily E. Bright
26 Handicap • Malcolm Alexander
31 Kokeshi • Sharie McCune
35 The Current • Karin Gottshall
36 An Old Street • Vern Rutsala
36 The Dragons of America • Dick Allen
37 Meditations on a Ball Bearing • Brandi Homan
37 Flying Over Chicago • William Kloefkorn
38 Dinosaurs • John Randolph Carter
38 Thirty Miles West of Chicago • Lyn Lifshin
38 Saturdays With My Father at The Museum of Natural History • Robert McNamara
39 At Puerto Peñasco • Keith Ekiss
39 A Creature of Habit • Louis Daniel Brodsky
41 Mother’s Cadillac • Ronald F. Smits
41 Studly • Michael Casey
42 Courtney Love • Robert L. Penick
42 Green Island: Australia, 1986 • Michael Spence
42 North Out of Oregon for Graywolf, 1980s • Kim Stafford
43 Day at the Pond Without Geese • Jeff Gundy
44 House Wiring • John Bensko
44 Backwater Blues (1965) • David C. Meyer
REVIEWS
48 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
MISCELLANY
49 Contributors