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Issue 15: winter/spring 2013

Fiction

  • Peter Cameron – After the Flood
  • Thomas Pierce – The Real Alan Gass
  • Paul Theroux – Another Necklace
  • Rebecca Scherm – Cockfighting: Or, Overcoming Adversity
  • Saptarishi Bandopadhyay – Small Fires
  • Vladislav Otroshenko (translated by Lisa Hayden) – The Languages of Nimrod’s Tower
  • Barbara Fried – The Half-Life of Nat Glickstein
  • Bennett Sims – The Balloon

Poetry

  • David Thacker – “And by money, we mean hope…”
  • Nancy Morejón (translated by Pamela Carmell) – Querencias (Homing Instincts)
  • Pamela Alexander – Duet, Thus Quoth
  • Les Murray – The Blame, I Wrote a Little Haiku
  • Ari Banias – Your Wild Domesticated Inner Life
  • Jennifer Liberts Weinberg – Together
  • Nathaniel Perry – from Bizarre
  • Philip Alvaré – Mambo Habana
  • Saara Myrene Raappana – Winter Correspondence
  • Susan Comninos – Sonnet for a Wart on My Hand
  • Charles Harper Webb – Friar Towhee
  • Moikom Zeqo (translated by Anastas Kapurani and Wayne Miller) – Parashikime Të Frikshme (Terrifying Predictions)
  • Rachel Linnea Brown – Catechism
  • John Morgan – Vision
  • Rebecca Lehmann – Father Time Has a Face Made of Late-Season Vegetables
  • Barbara Hamby – Ode to Augurs, Ogres, Acorns, and Two or Three Things That Have Been Eating at My Heart Like a Wolverine in a Time of Famine
  • Alice Friman – Tarnished
  • Stephen Kampa – Near the Threshold
  • Max Garland – Sciurus carolinesis, The Word We Used for It