Editor’s Foreword
by Christopher Kondrich
Editors’ Features
Andrea Applebee – The Marrow and the Harvest: Reflections on Allen Grossman’s Bitter Logic
Christopher Kondrich – The Poem Becomes a Spinning Map: An Interview with Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Christopher Kondrich – Against Our Vanishing: On the Loss of Allen Grossman
Stacey Waite – The Words Come Later: An Interview with Cynthia Hogue & Sylvain Gallais
TQ5 Poetry Contest
Notes from our judge, Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Winner
St. Inside & Not by Aaron Coleman
Runners Up
The Doppler Effect by Erin Rodoni
The Next Life by Mark Wagenaar
Finalists
A Minor History of FoodJennifer S. Cheng
Cartography
Laura Cesarco Eglin
Hike
Time & Space
Keith Leonard
Ode to the Unsayable
Osiris Ode
Ruth Madievsky
Box of Shadows
Shadowboxing
John Surowiecki
At the United Mine Workers Monument to the Victims of the Ludlow Massacre, Ludlow, Colorado
Scott Williamson
Lessons from the Commonwealth
Semi-Finalists
Joshua Bennett
Still Life with First Best Friend
Nancy Bevilaqua
I Dreamed a Young Man Coming Home (Dream Poem #3)
Chen Chen
Song with a Lyric from Allen Ginsberg
S. Marie Clay
Heaven Sinks Below the Snow
Crystal Condakes
Elegy for the Drowned
Ben Gunsberg
Rhapsody for the Children of the Midwest
sam sax
the boy detective’s wet dream
the boy detective undergoes corporeal punishment
The 10,000 Animals
Mollie Hosmer-Dillard
2014
Oil on canvas
35 x 45 inches
Prose
Elizabeth Breazeale
The Supernova of Irvin Edwards
Anna Cypra Oliver
Winter Woolens
Joanna Ruocco
Zeroscape
Paparazzi
Religious Conflict
Chapter One
Introductions to Chapter One, a New Prose Series by Eric Darton, Christopher Kondrich, & Bronwyn Mills
Michael Hawley
Introduction to Galla Placidia (Book One: The Sacred Mirror)
Chapter One: Noblissima Femina from Galla Placidia, a novel
Translations
Marta Aponte-Alsina (translated by Jeremy Osner)
Mr. Green
Trang The Hy (translated by Martha Collins & Nguyen Ba Chung)
Tooth Marks
Lottery Ticket and Pre-Planned Heavens
The Traveling Companion Named Hope
Hai Zi (translated by Ye Chun)
Thinking of a Past Life
Mute Back
Visual Artists