Editor’s Foreword
Launch Notes
Editors’ Features
Dan Beachy-Quick – Introduction to Taryn Schwilling’s Poetry
Cassandra Cleghorn – Pairings: Poets and Painters in Mutual Usefulness
Eric Darton – Book of the World Courant
Elizabeth Eslami – Spikes & Rivers: The Work of Joe Wilkins
TJ Jarrett – An Interview with Gary McDowell
Jessamyn Smyth – Thinking in Light: the Art of Julius Lester
Jessamyn Smyth – Wise & Fierce Beauty: Maggie Smith’s The Well Speaks of its Own Poison
Stacey Waite – Thanks Be to Poetry: Values, Expressions, Gratitudes
Inaugural Poetry Contest
Meet our Inaugural Poetry Contest judge, Ilya Kaminsky
Winner
–Paraclete – The One Who Answers the Cry by Kristina Erny
Runners Up
–in the barely unbearable by Mark Conway
–You Are a Flash in This Young Night by Jaime Brunton
–Phonograph Mouth by Rebecca Keith
Honorable Mentions
–[How I Set Her Down] by Arra Ross
–Conversation With an Invisible Man by Jandy Nelson
Finalists
–Skittles for Trayvon: A Diminishing Suite In Verse by Lillian Bertram
–Der Bär by Katherine Hollander
–On the Brink by George Kalamaras
–Trusting the Senses by Benjamin Landry
–Life Without Furniture by Sharon McDermott
–The Postcard She Wanted to Get by Wendy Miles
–Stars That Never Touch the Sea by Paul Nemser
–Book of Hendrix by Cheryl Passanisi
–American Enfield by Wesley Rothman
–Abel, Almost Asleep in the Field by Mark Wagenaar
–Plums by Mariano Zaro
Poetry
–Soul
–Rodney Dangerfield’s Ex Writes Him a Letter
–Discussing “The Fish” Three Times in Four Hours
–Poem at the End of the School Year
–Two Weeks Later, the Dog Returns
–Uncle Phil’s Flight After Death
–It’s Not Like I’m Saying I Understand Everything
–The Man Singing Into His Cell Phone
–Things I Know About Labyrinths
–[I lean toward that shape, wishing to stroke]
–My Mother the Philosopher Considers Non Sequiturs by Gary McDowell
–Dead at My Age Dorothea Lange 70 Photographer
–A Man Goes West and Falls Off His Horse in the Desert
–Look for Raven Pairs Flying in a Pre-Mating Rutual
–At Little George’s House, the Christmas Lights Stayed Up All Year
–Bodies of Two Girls Found in the Woods
–Hive
–The Empire Stretches Its Dough
–A Final Study of the Anthropologist: Self Portrait
Translations
The Poetics of Translation: An Introduction by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Duo Duo (translated by Ming Di and Katie Farris)
Guy Jean (translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris)
Sarah Kirsch (translated by Abigail Wender and Hella Von Bonin)
–The Catfish, the Fish That Lives on the Bottom
Prose
–I’m Shaking It I’m Making It But the Woman in the Mirror Doesn’t Move At All
–excerpt from Miss Amadeo’s Notebook
Visual Art
–Branches Exist, Wind Lifting Them Exists