“Toilette” by Hayv Kahraman
Editor’s Foreword
by Christopher Kondrich
TQ7 Poetry Prize
Judged by Brenda Hillman
Winner
Chorus of Omissions by Willa Carroll
Runners-Up
Acknowledgments by Jan-Henry Gray
American Boomer by Curtis Derrick
Finalists
Ruth Baumann
Headless Reunion Song
The Inbetween
Ryan Black
The Rise of the Colored Empires
P. Scott Cunningham
A Story About a Marriage
John James
April, Andromeda
Torschlusspanik (Already the Sun)
Semi-Finalists
Carolee Bennett
On not shield young minds from the dark
Guillermo M. Cancio-Bello
Vacation in San Francisco
S. Marie Clay
The Salem Witch Trials Cont.
Kate Hanson Foster
Crow Funeral
Portfolio: Pilgrimage Voyage & Return
Prose
BJ Atwood-Fukuda
The Longest Journey
Farnaz Fatemi
The Color of the Bricks
M.J. Fievre
The Exchange Program, an excerpt from A Sky the Color of Chaos
Yanara Friedland
From Pilgrimage: Das Bild verwaister Welten
Amanda Mitchell
a dissection of the heart in which something has gone wrong:
Chapter One
Ercan Kesal
Introduction to Ercan Kesal by Bronwyn Mills
Chapter One of Fairy Soda, a novel
Denise Milstein
Introduction to The Map Tracer
Chapter One of The Map Tracer, a novel
Translations
Leslie Kaplan (translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap)
Selections from Excess – The Factory
Fourth Circle
Fifth Circle
Gennady Katsov (translated by Alex Cigale)
To One Born in Crimea
For the 25th Anniversary of My Arrival in America
Circe Maia (translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval)
Possession
Charles Baudelaire (translated by Lola Haskins)
The Journey (I, III, IV, V, VI, VII)
The Soup and the Clouds
Visual Artists
Each artist introduced & interviewed by Elaine Sexton
Hayv Kahraman
Editorial Features
Pilgrim’s Reprise: On the Gift of Self-Possession by Andrea Applebee
To Experience Myself as Foreign: An Interview with Eva Heisler by Kristina Marie Darling
Silhouette with Her Arm Raised: A Conversation Between Ariel Francisco & Christopher Kondrich