“Fear of Waves,” Katherine Bradford (2015)
Editor’s Foreword
by Christopher Kondrich
TQ9 Poetry Prize
Judged by Tracy K. Smith
Winner
War Music by Andrew Deloss Eaton
Finalists
Lisa Alexander
Kids out the window
Rose Auslander
Dead Moon, Brooklyn
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Vase of Ashes
Lauren Mallett
Though that Bush Burned
Claire Schwartz
behind the mechitza
Raena Shirali
Diwali: New Moon
Cady Vishniac
How Nonviolence Protects the State
Mark Wagenaar
Elegy I Pray is Not an Elegy (The Wound)
Semi-Finalists
Elisa Díaz Castelo
This is Another Sex
Anna Claire Hodge
The Plan Was
Leah Claire Kaminski
Florida child speaks to hurricane seahorses
Carlene Kucharczyk
On Beholding the Beloved’s Rotting Body
Erin Radcliffe
The Death Terms of Cowboys (1)
Justin Phillip Reed
South Carolina is / shaped like a heart: / like a fist
TQ9 Prose Open Prize
Judged by Adam Johnson
Winner
Path of the Ground Birds by J.L. Cooper
Finalists
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Samantha Deal
Heroic Messenger / The Weight Between Your Shoulders
Semi-Finalists
Fiction
K.K. Fox
The Ones We Turned Into Queens
Marilyn Ogus Katz
Uncle Sol Comes to America
Non-Fiction
Iza Wojciechowska
For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People
Chapter One
Teresa Milbrodt
Introduction to “Willafred’s Body” by Bronwyn Mills
“Willafred’s Body,” Chapter One of Usual Girl Parts, a novel
Adriana Páramo
Introduction to Rina, My Indian Sister
Chapter One of Rina, My Indian Sister
Translations
Pura López Colomé (translated Dan Bellm)
Estuary
Five Silhouettes
Yosuke Tanaka (translated by Mitsuhiko Kubo)
A Café by the Sea
Kim Hyesoon (translated by Don Mee Choi)
Luna Eclipse — Day 12
Cemetery — Day 17
Johary Ravaloson (translated by Allison M. Charette)
The Enchanted Island from Ietsé’s Tears
Visual Artists
Each artist introduced & interviewed by Elaine Sexton
Editorial Features
Son of a Masked Man: An Interview with John Hadden by Eric Darton
I Would Never Say I’m Sorry in a Dream: Voice & Alterity In Three Recent Collaborative Texts by Kristina Marie Darling