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Issue 7: winter/spring 2009

Fiction

  • James Magruder – Tenochtitlan
  • Olga Slavnikova (translated by Marian Schwartz) – Substance
  • Peter Cameron – The End of My Life in New York
  • Molly Giles – Give Me That
  • Jarret Rosenblatt – A Kind of Falling
  • Eva Talmadge – Caroline
  • Padgett Powell – Cry For Help From France

Poetry

  • Idra Novey – A History in Six Couplets
  • Kim Garcia – And in the beginning was all the after, The City of Z
  • Alice Friman – Medea, Intent, Tybee Island
  • John Ash – Impossible, In Jean Dubuffet’s Crimson Landscape, Unasked For
  • Jehanne Dubrow – Couplets, Modeled on the Verse of a Yiddish Poet, Fragment From a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
  • Albert Goldbarth – The Ardent Desire, Doesn’t Mean We Understand, The Power of Less
  • Denise Duhamel & Sandy McIntosh – from “237 More Reasons to Have Sex”
  • Seth Abramson – The Nigerian Metanarrative
  • George Manner – Path of the Storm
  • Salgado Maranhão (translated by Alexis Levitin) – #4 from Terra chã (#4 from Flatlands), #6 from Terra chã (#6 from Flatlands)
  • Mark McKee – Some Names of Ships
  • Jim Daniels – One Word
  • Chad Davidson – Controlled Burn
  • Benjamin Pryor – If Making Love Were Thought, Up Near Balsam
  • Adam Day – Badger in Mourning
  • Les Murray – Lunar Eclipse, The Kiln Cavalry of Xian, Phone Canvass
  • TWIXT – Three Poems
  • Deborah Ager – The Hours
  • Jordan Davis – Do You Want To
  • Ada Limón – Bird Bound for a Good World
  • Timothy Green – What Passes for Optimism at MacArthur Park
  • Randall Mann – Monday, Translation
  • Gregory Fraser – Hephaestus Calls My Brother Home
  • Andrea L. Watson – Skin
  • Roberto Juarroz (translated by Mary Crow) – Escamas de una pequeña sabiduria (Scales of a Little Wisdom)