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Issue 13: winter 2012

Fiction

  • Maggie ShipsteadIn the Olympic Village
  • Emmett ShepardTwo Down
  • Timothy CookChampagne Suburban
  • James MagruderVery Lambert Strether
  • Allegra GoodmanSheba
  • Paul Willems (translated by Edward Gauvin) – Cherepish
  • Amy HempelThe Doll Tornado

Nonfiction

  • Anis ShivaniWhat Should Be the Function of Criticism Today?

Poetry

  • Joanna PearsonThe Body as a Condensed History of Commerce
  • Bruce BondThe Enlightenment
  • Todd BossBroke
  • A. E. StallingsAutumn Pruning
  • David HuddleLinguistics 101, Beautiful Aunt
  • Cai Qijiao (translated by Edward Morin, Fang Dao, and Dennis Ding) – A Few Thoughts
  • Jim DanielsForgetting the Names of Dinosaurs
  • Karyna McGlynnI tried to write the truth, but it made me miserable, Ouvrir
  • Caki WilkinsonOuttakes, Wynona’s Dead Friend Nancy
  • Hailey LeithauserVeritas Interruptus
  • Elton GlaserMad in Manhattan
  • Rafael Alberti (translated by Carolyn Tipton) – Retornos Del Amor En Una Azotea (Love Returns Up on the Roof)
  • Jill OsierGuadalquivir
  • Jay Baron NicorvoWish for Mortgage, Taste Glue
  • Vicente Aleixandre (translated by Stephen Kessler) – Esperas (You Wait)
  • Anne Marie RooneyStaging Sonnet, Lake Sonnet
  • Patrick Ryan FrankLas Manos de Juan Perón