Ro Lohin, The Red Wheelbarrow I (homage to William Carlos Williams ) 14 x 18” oil on canvas, 2015.
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“There Is No Way Out of Here: Trauma and Transformation” – by Andrea Applebee
“Writing Outside the Academy: A Discussion” – curated by Emma Bolden
“Shapelessness in Indictus by Natalie Eilbert” – by Victoria Chang
“‘The place where all of these fields and interests converge’: A Conversation with Mary Jo Bang and a Folio of New Poems” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘This goes back to vision’: A Conversation with Joshua Edwards of Canarium Books” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Cities Built from Poems: Poetry of Place” – curated & introduced by Jesse Lee Kercheval
“‘The Story May as Well Begin Here’: Meadow Slasher” – by Virginia Konchan
“‘Each time the light changed’: A Micro(inter)view with Jennifer Chang” – Curated by Lisa Olstein
“‘And it’s all just another story about how life could be’: Kate Greenstreet’s The End of Something” – by Elizabeth Robinson
“‘It’s an effort to map my own self’: A Conversation with Asiya Waddud and a Folio of Poems” – curated by Henk Rossouw
“Training for Life: An Interview with Lauren Haldeman” – conducted by Zach Savich
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
“You Will, Indeed, Always Be the Same Person After Vacation” by Shauna Barbosa
Curated & introduced by dawn lonsinger
“Head in the Floor” by Kate Folk
Curated & introduced by Megan Levad
From COMPANY by Emily Hunt
Curated & introduced by Henk Rossouw
From On Certainty by Karla Kelsey
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
“When in my days I called” and “They put their mouths up to the heavens...” by Todd Melicker
Curated & introduced by Elizabeth Robinson
“Word Blindness” by Rachel Moritz
Curated & introduced by Elizabeth Robinson
“Things as They Are” by Kylan Rice
Curated & introduced by Zach Savich
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & interviewed by Elaine Sexton
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Katy Didden – from The Lava on Iceland
Naoko Fujimito – A Folio of Graphic Poems
Lauren Haldeman – Poetry Comic: “Sault Ste. Marie”
Sonja Johanson – A Folio of Erasures: “Aubade,” “Shooting Star,” & “Unmasking”
Tyler Mills – from Afterimage: Disaster Lyric
Sarah J. Sloat – Visual Poems: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin & Stephen King Erasures
Dale Trumbore – “How to Go On”: Poems by Barbara Crooker, Laura Foley, & Amy Fleury Set to Music
Translation
Bhartrihari – “[Half the night passes],” “[My friend],” “[Take a skull],” & “[The dog]” – translated by Andrew Schelling
Grzegorz Białkowski – “Entering the Earth” and “A Guide” – translated by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
Michael Ende – “The Jester’s Fairy-tale” – translated by Elisabeth Kinsey
Fina Garcia Marruz – “Lights Like Poets” & “The Bend” – translated by Katherine M. Hedeen & Janet McAdams
Vincent Ravalec – “Contemporary Art Is Internationally Appealing” – translated by Wendeline Hardenberg
Georges Rose – “in the sky left by clouds” & “in the aquarium” – translated by Bryan Flavin
Wang Wei and Pei Di – “Scholar Tree Path” and “Deer Enclosure” – translated by Dan Veach
Poetry
Steve Bellin-Oka – “Invocation”
Mary Biddinger – “Heaven and Dirt”
Michelle Bitting – “Red Orpheus,” “Nearer,” & “The Tao that can be Named is not the Tao but Love”
Sarah Bloom – “Every Green Thing I Have Given”
Thea Brown – “Industrial Architect” & “The Weather”
Kristin Case – “Now Devouring (After Thoreau)” & “Late Work”
Margaret Cipriano – “Splendor” & “Death Mythos”
Gillian Cummings – “Faint Stars of Dread” & “To Limn a Limbed Thing”
Dana Curtis – “Circumnavigation,” “Temple of Lies,” “Viva Chthonia,” “City of Ghosts,” & “Touch Me Not”
John De Stefano – from The Visible Remains
Cassie Donish – “A Surface of Needles”
Isabel Duarte-Gray – “The Sawmill”
Denise Duhamel – “Flowers at Work”
Susanne Dyckman – from Omen: “With a black-handled knife cut three pieces of earth” & “Sprinkle the mattress with salt”
Alana Folsom – “A Guide to Cages”
Rebecca Hazelton – “Personal Affect,” “Between Petals,” “Useful Tragedy,” “Little Virus,” & “Glazed Case”
Lisa Hiton – “Portrait in a Jewelry Box” & “The Dwelling Place”
Catherine Imbriglio – from [Numeracy]: “(Null hypothesis) hypothesis,” “Under moonweight” & “As for the moon in its younger years”
Chelsea Jennings – “Half-Bloomed Peony”
Jennifer Key – “The Murder” and “Winter Solstice”
Karyna McGlynn – “Ode to Bed-Wetting” & “I Thought No One Would Ever Love Me”
T.J. McLemore – “Ghost Particle”
Matt W. Miller – “Third Day, Friday, May 1, 1992″
Jenny Molberg – “Love Song of the Demogorgon”
Alycia Pirmohamed – “When the Wolves Appear”
Stephanie Strickland – “Green Balloon Blown against the Corner on the Roof Tar in the Rain” and “Keeping Company With You: Coma”
Terese Svoboda – “If Chosen, I Think”
Christopher Warner – “Belief” and “Supplication”
Prose
Hala Alyan – “Everyone Removes the Thorn”
Alle C. Hall – “Let Me Feel For You”
Lesley Jenike – “The Birthmark”
Kate Middleton – “Portrait (Elegiac)”
Jennifer Militello – “On Time”
Catherine Pierce – “All Asteroids Are Called Minor Planets Though Some Are Only a Few Feet in Diameter”
Sara Veglahn – from The Monsters
Julie Marie Wade – “Pittsburgh Was My Minneapolis: An Essay in Episodes”