Description
The Spring 2016 issue, guest edited by Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro, features poetry and prose by Sharon Olds, Katherine Damm, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Ramona Asubel. Cover art by Mark Strand.
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Editor's Introduction
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Editor's Corner
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Editor Profile
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Editor's Shelf
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Fiction
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Grow Animals
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In a Better Place
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Walk Like a Man
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Emergency Maneuvers
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Social Eros and the Methods of the Baroque
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The Obscening of Engine Kreuter
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The Middlegame
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Look 2 Essay
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The Promised Land and Its Discontents: The Fiction of Joshua Cohen
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Poetry
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Solar Plexus
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Two-Minute Film of the Last Tasmanian Tiger
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Friends
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Another Life (Hawthornden, Midlothian)
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Augusting
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Black Center
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Grudge
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Raccoon
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First Encounter
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Cento for the Night I Said, “I Love You”
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The Conductor
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Three Days Flu No Shower
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My Mother Addresses Everyone in the World
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Note to Self
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That Year
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Feet
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Astyanax
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Love in Vain
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Poliomyelitis
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Body Knowledge
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The Diarist
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Static, Frequency
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Ode to the Glans
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Uptown Saturday Night
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We Have Reasons for Wanting to Mend the Known World
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For My Daughter
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Night Café
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Confessional
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The Poetry-Body
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The Red Umbrella
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Exchange
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Yardsticks
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To Have Light
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Things That Break
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Waiting Room
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Falling
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The A Man
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Thermopylae
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The Worst is Still to Come
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Historical
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Psalm for Riding a Plane
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Shank
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The Singer
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Meadow
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Banks of a Canal
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The Arctic Vortex at Snooks Pond, 2014
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Super Moon
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Vanilla Cupcake Complaint
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First Poem
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The Day with Both of Them
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Canasta
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Wellfleet, Off-Season
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Blowjob
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Blue Skies, Nothing But Blue Skies
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Apocrypha of the Original Apple
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Self-Portrait As Mango
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The Architect
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Frequently Asked Questions: 7
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The Lives of My Friends
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Shooting Dogs
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Babushkas
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How It Was
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A Wild Tom Turkey
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To Wait and Not Yearn for the Waiting to End
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For My Teacher on His Ninetieth Birthday
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Dry Season at the End of the Empire
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Story for Children in Which:
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Lyric and Narrative Time at Café Loup
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Plagued by Coleridge
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Giant Snowballs
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Stalled in Traffic
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Stolen Horses
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Diurnal
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Postscripts