From Book of Ruth by Robert Seydel, Siglio, 2011. Image courtesy
of Siglio and the artist.
Editor’s Foreword
by Christopher Kondrich
TQ6 Prose Contest
Notes from our judge, Joanna Howard
Winner
Finalists
Emma Bolden
Counting the Lovelies
Emily Choate
Stump Winter, Indian Summer
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
31 Favors
Spring Ulmer
A Swath of Poppies
Siamak Vossoughi
Hammer and Nail
Chapter One
James Lewelling
Introduction to James Lewelling by Bronwyn Mills
Chapter One of Innocence, a novel
Thomas Carney
Introduction to Milk of Amnesia
Chapter One of Milk of Amnesia, a novel
Translations
Marilyne Bertoncini (translated by Jan Owen)
November, from “The Plane Tree”
Julio Martinez Mesanza (translated by Don Bogen)
The Soldiers on the Bridge
Florencia Walfisch (translated by Alexis Almeida)
Selections from Sopa de Ajo y Mezcal
Editors’ Features
Kristina Marie Darling – Interview with John Gallaher
Kristina Marie Darling – Your Scholar: Tracking Emily Dickinson’s Ghost
Christopher Kondrich – Interview with Joanna Howard
Ming Di – A Conversation with Gregor Podlogar on Tomaž Šalamun
Wesley Rothman – Sustaining Art’s/Our Response, & Considering How We Make It
Eric Darton – Upstream from Subject-Object: Introductory Notes Towards a Dao of Writing
Bronwyn Mills – Science & the Elephant’s Child
Poetry
Stilled Summer
Tamiko Beyer
Park
We look more like each other than we look like ourselves
Notes for life as bridge
Laura Bylenok
Landscape with Uncertainty Principle
Subject
Adam Clay
Compost Hymn
Biography at the Speed of Light
Melissa Cundieff-Pexa
Nostalgia for the Absolute
Hoping Wherever You Are, You Are Not Watching
Portrait of the Ghost
Brian Francis
Origin Song
Birdchest or a Hunger Grown, A Custom
Under Siege
John Fry
as Eve, remembering Eden
Natalie Eilbert
Still Life with House on Fire
Bryan Narendorf
Achilles at Rest
Cecily Parks
The Last Garden
Blue Oat Grass Epithalamium
Jeffrey Perkins
Map of Atonement
Kiki Petrosino
Story
Afterlife
Ron Paul Salutsky
These Are My Days
Donna Stonecipher
Model City [1]
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Visual Artists