Subtropics Issue 7 Cover
Issue 7: winter/spring 2009

Fiction

  • James MagruderTenochtitlan
  • Olga Slavnikova (translated by Marian Schwartz) – Substance
  • Peter CameronThe End of My Life in New York
  • Molly GilesGive Me That
  • Jarret RosenblattA Kind of Falling
  • Eva TalmadgeCaroline
  • Padgett PowellCry For Help From France

Poetry

  • Idra NoveyA History in Six Couplets
  • Kim GarciaAnd in the beginning was all the after, The City of Z
  • Alice FrimanMedea, Intent, Tybee Island
  • John AshImpossible, In Jean Dubuffet’s Crimson Landscape, Unasked For
  • Jehanne DubrowCouplets, Modeled on the Verse of a Yiddish Poet, Fragment From a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
  • Albert GoldbarthThe Ardent Desire, Doesn’t Mean We Understand, The Power of Less
  • Denise Duhamel & Sandy McIntosh – from “237 More Reasons to Have Sex”
  • Seth AbramsonThe Nigerian Metanarrative
  • George MannerPath of the Storm
  • Salgado Maranhão (translated by Alexis Levitin) – #4 from Terra chã (#4 from Flatlands), #6 from Terra chã (#6 from Flatlands)
  • Mark McKeeSome Names of Ships
  • Jim DanielsOne Word
  • Chad DavidsonControlled Burn
  • Benjamin PryorIf Making Love Were Thought, Up Near Balsam
  • Adam DayBadger in Mourning
  • Les MurrayLunar Eclipse, The Kiln Cavalry of Xian, Phone Canvass
  • TWIXTThree Poems
  • Deborah AgerThe Hours
  • Jordan DavisDo You Want To
  • Ada LimónBird Bound for a Good World
  • Timothy GreenWhat Passes for Optimism at MacArthur Park
  • Randall MannMonday, Translation
  • Gregory FraserHephaestus Calls My Brother Home
  • Andrea L. WatsonSkin
  • Roberto Juarroz (translated by Mary Crow) – Escamas de una pequeña sabiduria (Scales of a Little Wisdom)