Contents

Poetry
Francesca Abbate
    New At Things
    The Census Taker
John Carmichael
    Fortune Cookies
    Against Kübler-Ross
Georgiana Cohen
    Old Woman in a Housecoat
Michel Englebert
    Yakitori
Cathryn Essinger
    A Little Taoist Poem
    Wild Card
David Floyd
    The Cedar Bog, Stockton College
Jacqueline Garlitos
    The Tumor
Michael Gushue
    Do Not Cross
Michael Hettich
    White Birds
Nathan Jones
    The Queen Anne Chair a Jane Doe Suicide Kicks Away
   While Swinging
Caroline Knox
    Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
    Lost Cows
Jan Koenen
    A Coffee House in St Helena, California 77
    More Than I Knew How to Hope For
Laurie Lamon
    Pastoral
    Searching for a Photograph, I Hear my Ex-Husband’s Voice
Lorene Lamothe
    Museum of Natural History
Gregory Mahrer
    Quarry
Susan Marshall
    In the Small Auditorium
Tiffany Merriman
    She Won’t Say
Frank Montesonti
    Gratuitous Voice-Over at the End of a Film, Reflecting on the
    Tribulations of the Plot andComing Finally to an Epiphany
Steve Myers
    Camping at Hampton’s Farm, 1962
    Forty Crossings
David Nielsen
    After This Life
Molly Oberlin
    Mary Eats Strawberries
    It’s Not Mary’s Birthday
Bethany Schultz
    I Can’t Help It
    The Moons Where I Live
Michael Seltzer
    The Difference
Erin Sweeten
    Elegy for Perestroika
Megan Weireter
    Beach House, Thanksgiving Day
    Grant’s Poem
Holly Welker
    Proverbs
    Vertigo First Thing in the Morning
Susan Settlemyre Williams
    Woman Burying Something
    Philomel: An Ars Poetica

Poetry Contest Winner
Elizabeth McLagan
    Still Life with Oranges

Fiction
Michael Czyzniejewski
    En Synchro
Rachel Eve Moulton
    Hole
Anika Nelson
    What You Can’t See Before You
William Pierce
    Stay at Home
Amy Staehr
    The Road to Ifakara
Francine Witte
    Affair
    When There Was No More Water
H. E. Wright
    Stupid with Love
Kyoko Yoshida
    Mr. Volker

Creative Nonfiction
Janet Gates
    Temporary Things
Ihab Hassan
    Of Truthand Lying—A Kenotic Perspective
Mary Jane Nealon
    The Chalice Holds the Poem
Larry Starzec
    In this Neighborhood, of this Earth

Interviews
Beth Bretl and Jennifer Dworshack-Kinter
    Interview with Caroline Knox

Book Reviews
Paul Gleason
    Review of Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy
Phong Nguyen
    Review of Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Anis Shivani
    India Abroad: How Not to Alienate the Western Reader
   When Writing About the Indian Diaspora

Art
Timothy Bruce
    First Snow
Friedrich Kerksieck
    Postcard
    Envelope
Stephen McCabe
    Soy un Cuentista
Roger D. Patrick
    Backyards
    Storm
Darilyn Regina Rowan
    Untitled