Ben McLaughlin, “00:40 A Night With Beyonce,” from “Anyone Awake?” (2012)
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Poetry, Compassion, and the Archive: A Conversation with Millicent Borges Accardi,” curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Magical Thinking: A Conversation with Michal Martone,” curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘I keep finding poetry outside its ordinary territories’: A Conversation with Japanese poet Yasuhiro Yotsumoto,” curated by Ming Di
“Empathy and Perspective: A Conversation with Kathy Flann,” curated by Elizabeth Gentry
“Feeling Good, or Anything, Again: On Poetry and the Affective Turn,” by Virginia Konchan
“Lines Flecked with Gold and Scarlet: An Experiment in Color,” introduced by Lisa Olstein
Editors’ Selections
Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton – “Congested”
Introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Ashley M. Jones – “What Flew Out of Aunt Hester’s Scream” and “To a Black Man Popping a Wheelie On Interstate 59 on 4th Of July Weekend”
Introduced by Chris Campanioni
Murat Nemet-Nejat – an excerpt from Animals of Dawn
Introduced by Bronwyn Mills
D.A. Powell – “Against Officialise: On Solmaz Sharif’s Look”
Introduced by Shane McCrae
Toby Martinez de la Rivas – Seven Poems
Introduced by Shane McCrae
Lesley Trites – “How to Be a Widow”
Introduced by Virginia Konchan
Poetry
Scott Chalupa – “Gnossienne #1”
Kate Colby – “Air Lock”
Maia Dolphin-Krute – “Natural History”
Jennifer Givhan – “Failure The Mother of _____” and “Daughter Page Ripped from the Symbol Sourcebook”
John Fenlon Hogan – “WHEREFROM FALLS THE ARCHITECTURES I AM”
Peter LaBerge – “Effigy”
Florence Lenaers – “The pebbles in my pocket”
Julia B. Levine – “Ordinary Psalm with Violent Interruptions” and “Ordinary Psalm with Expulsion”
Sandy Longhorn – “I, Rampant on a Field of Azure”
Matthew Minicucci – “Gravity” and “Midnight Special”
Bill Neumire – “Abstract Therapy in the Natural World”
John Okrent – “To a Tiny Mary Carved in Basswood”
Martin Ott – “Drift” and “Double Talk”
Eric Pankey – “The Side Effects of Mimicry” and “Between Solon and Cedar Rapids on Highway One 1984”
Douglas Piccinnini – “Afterlife”
Michael Robins – “Crumbs Fit Such Little Mouths”
Alison Rollins – “Skinning Ghosts Alive”
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer – “Outside the gates of the Jewish cemetery,”
Prose
María Isabel Alvarez – “In Memory of Us”
Jeff Becker – “Faux Leather Futon, Priced to Sell”
TR Brady – “A Pulse is a Pulse Until”
Karla Kelsey – from The Budapest Notebooks
Kathryn Nuernberger – Brief Interviews With the Romantic Past: Trinkets, Why the Dauphin Won’t Consummate the Marriage, and Pantoum for Tilly Matthews
Amy Jo Trier-Walker – “Dear Pocket,”
Translation
Of Death. Minimal Odes “VI” and “IX” by Hilda Hilst, Translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin
“Water and Carbon,” Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Ani Gjika
“Nine Suppositions” and “Three Aces,” Felipe Benitez Reyes, translated by Anna Rosenwong
“the incredible world of machines” and “galaxy café unlimited,” José Eugenio Sanchez, translated by Anna Rosenwong
“the grotto,” “to the north,” and “the invisible man,” Zhu Zhu, translated by Dong Li
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Maureen Alsop – “Witness”
Elizabeth J. Colen – “The Nature of Daylight”
Lorene Delany-Ullman & Jody Servon – “Saved: Objects of the Dead”
Keetje Kuipers – “Hollow Haunts”
Sebastian Matthews – From The Life & Times of American Crow
Sam Taylor – “The Word in the (Moving) World”
Visual Artists: 3 Art Portfolios
Each artist introduced & interviewed by Elaine Sexton