Table of Contents

POETRY

• Marilyn Hacker / Calligraphies VIII
• Golan Haji / Before me
  • To Akkad Nizam ad-Din 
  • To my youngest sister 
• Samira Negrouche / Coffee, no sugar
• Katie Pryor / My First Period 
  • Marriage is a Room Full of  Windows 
• Erika Brumett / What My Father Couldn’t Answer 
• K.H. van Berkum / I Leave Home 
• Billy Collins / The Symphony Orchestra of San Miguel de Allende 
• Nick Norwood / In a Deer Stand with My Daughter
  • Cellphone Image
• Catherine Pierce / Strategies for Mothers in the Age of  This Age  
• David Kirby / The Domestic Life 
  • Poking Stuff with Sticks  
• Rebecca Rainof / Spring  
• Ron Smith / “He Loved the World He Fought to Save”  
• David Baker / Waiting for News  
  • Gather  
• Christopher Collins / 7 North, VA Main  

FICTION

• Alice Hoffman / The Cure  
• Maxim Loskutoff / We’re in This Together You Know, God  
• Pamela Painter / Hitchhikers: Here’s How It Went  
• Christina Wood Martinez / The Waves  

ESSAYS

• Pam Durban / Homemade  
• Sadie Hoagland / Here, Then Gone  
• Chad Davidson / On Relics  

INTERVIEW

• Andrea Carter Brown / An Interview with Marilyn Hacker  

PORTFOLIO

• Nancy Marshall / Pier Louise  

SPECIAL FEATURE: HOT ROCKS #9

• Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez / Introduction
• Ernest Suarez / An Interview with Rosanna Warren  
• Rosanna Warren / Shelf  
  • Louis XIV 
• Ernest Suarez / An Interview with Gabriel Warren  
• Gabriel Warren / The End of Modernism, and Why I want to Go to Antartica 
• Chiara Scully / Retrospect  
  • Copake Falls  
  • Nocturne 
• Noah Warren / Visit 
  • Trash Day 
• Sofia Warren / Drawings  
• William Bedford Clark / Time, Eternity, and Memory: Warrenesque Variations of Augustinian Themes  
• VictorStandberg / Adventures in Selfhood: Robert Penn Warren’s Portraits of the Artist 
• Mary Cuff / Sniffing the Dead Rat: Robert Penn Warren’s Reading of Herman Melville