Subtropics Issue 11/12 Cover
Issue 11/12: winter/spring 2011

Fiction

  • Edna O’BrienInner Cowboy
  • Lauren GroffEyewall
  • John WeirKatherine Mansfield

Nonfiction

  • Erik ReeceRemembering Guy Davenport

Poetry

  • Knuts Skujenieks (translated by Bitite Vinklers) – The Seed is Knocking, The Sky Cuckoos
  • Idra NoveyMeanwhile the Watermelon Seed
  • Geri DoranThe Habit
  • Marosa di Giorgio (translated by Adam Gianelli) – Her skirt was filled with roses…, One of the eggs that mother set out…
  • Gabriel FriedThe Children Are Reading, Abecedary
  • Jon LoomisThe Babysitters
  • James LasdunLullabye, Woodpile
  • J. T. BarbareseHaloes, Why
  • Travis MossottiTrivial Pursuit, Getting Arrested
  • Jeffrey ThomsonJokes
  • Christopher CheneyLimb Darkening
  • Maryann CorbettGrim
  • Erin MurphyDear Fringe, Dear Winged
  • Jennifer JabailyRoman Woman, Discovered at Max Gate, Little Goose
  • David WelchA Praise of Maps
  • Benjamin VogtA Geologist’s Love
  • Murathan Mungan (translated by Deniz Perin) – Mehmet
  • Alan Michael ParkerA Fable for Our Anniversary
  • Russ KeslerDeath and Variations
  • Amit MajmudarJanuary’s Janizaries Marching West
  • Amorak HueyAfter-Hours Club
  • Dan RosenbergLove Song in a Fit of Gin
  • Elizabeth LangemakYour Laugh
  • Kyle DarganReverence in the Atomic Age
  • Lucia PerilloAutothalamium, The HappyLite, To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall
  • Lillian-Yvonne BertramActivation Energy, Hungry Like Red
  • Corey GinsbergA Follow-up Poem to Sex with my Ex
  • Michael LoughranDrift, Drawings
  • Paul Violi – from I.D., or Stolen Identities
  • Brian NicoletEpistle (7/9/09)
  • Eunice Odio (translated by Keith Ekiss and Sonia P. Ticas) – Suite of the Illuminated Ballerina
  • David NoltaLecture on Italian Painting, What She Is Thinking
  • Bruce McCraeInto a Bar
  • Dawn Lonsingerzoo sonnet
  • Pablo MedinaBack in the Day, Eight Ablutions
  • G. C. WaldrepDiscrete Series: Apiary
  • Miguel MurphyCreosote
  • Alexandra TeagueWidowed
  • Jay HoplerO, the Sadness Immaculate, Meditation
  • Les MurrayThe Inner Hands, High Rise
  • D. A. PowellHomesickness
  • Tanya Shcherbina (translated by J. Kates) – In the Italian restaurant…, Paris
  • Rosa Alice Branco (translated by Alexis Levitin) – Feast of Laughter
  • Kathleen Rooney RobinsonUnderstands as He Stands at North Point & Fillmore
  • Billy CollinsDelivery
  • Karen HolmbergFirst Word
  • Mark IrwinOn Sunday, Sometimes
  • José Martí (translated by Melissa Garcia) – Two Homelands
  • Eduardo Chirinos (translated by G. J. Racz) – Poet’s Street
  • Eric PankeyNineteen Essays
  • Randall MannLarkin Street, India
  • Mark WagenaarChiropractic (Bootblacks & Light Bulbs)
  • Doug RamspeckField Guide in Snow
  • David Harris EbenbachThe sparrows gather nearby…, A fall:
  • Nico AlvaradoAfter Lu Yu (I), After Lu Yu (II), Tropic
  • Joe HaldemanAt the Gainesville, Florida, VA Hospital
  • Brent NewsomPfc. Mason Buxton Wets a Hook
  • Geoffrey BrockConfluence
  • Steve BradburyIchetucknee Springs, “the Blue Hour” at Blue Hole—to Carl Furlow, in Memoriam