Table of Contents

POETRY

• Mary Oliver
  • On the Beach
  • Heart Poem
  • Visiting the Graveyard
  • Red
• Philip Levine
  • Above it All
  • Islands
  • Old World
  • Close to Home
  • Not Worth the Wait
• Debra Nystrom
  • Picture Window: Blizzard
  • My Mother Never Told Me
  • Smoke-break Behind the Treatment Center
• Kim Addonizio
  • The Body is the House, and
  • Easeful Death
• Elizabeth Spires
  • Last Poems and Lost Poems
• Josephine Jacobsen
  • Natural
  • Obscurity
  • Purgatory is Nearer in November
  • Recruit, on the Hill
• Erinn Batykefer
  • Two Yellow Leaves
• Nathasha Trethewey
  • On Captivity  
• Mark Irwin
  • Mother
• Rumi
  • Four Translations by Coleman Barks
• Laurence Lieberman
  • Relics of the Bonfire
• Coleman Barks
  • The Sound Made by Snapping the Fingers
• Debora Lidov
  • Kierkegaard’s Pantoum
• Robert Wrigley
  • Best Intentions

FICTION

• Alice Hoffman / Monday Girl
• Karen Finley / From George & Martha
• Melanie Rae Thon / Niña Pérdida: Love Song for Iris
• Anne Panning / Tidal Wave Wedding
• Viet Dinh / Substitutes

ESSAYS

• Sidney Burris / Pym, M., and Me
• Edward Hirsch / To a Nightingale
• Erik Fraser Storlie / With All My Heart: Notes on a Friendship with James Wright

INTERVIEWS

•  Mattew Roudané /An Interview with Karen Finley
•  Pearl Amelia McHaney / An Interview with Natasha Trethewey

PORTFOLIO

• Masao Yamamoto / Photographs