cover of issue 8

ISSUE 8: SPRING 2012

Including Mary Ruefle, Donald Revell, H. L. Hix, Matthea Harvey, Tomaz Salamun, Matt Williamson, Carrie Fountain …

FEATURED WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DONALD REVELL
  • After Clare (p)
HANNAH ENSOR
  • I Cannot Be Consoled (p)
HEATHER CHRISTLE
  • More of Form is More of Content (p)
  • Taxonomy of That November (p)
SETH ABRAMSON
  • The Fire Door (p)
CHARLIE CLARK
  • ROY-G-BIV B/W (p)
JILL MCDONOUGH
  • Worth Living (p)
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK
  • Casket is an American Euphemism (p)
MONIKA RINCK, translated by NICHOLAS GRINDELL
  • Kraft Eines Rasters / By Dint of a Screen (p)
  • Himmelsharte / Heaven's Hardness (p)
JAMES GENDRON
  • [The Slow, Hot Antlers of my Blood] (p)
MARY BIDDINGER
  • Risk Management Memo: Position Available (p)
ERIN LYNDAL MARTIN
  • Colony Collapse: On James Cameron's "Drone Piano: For John Cage" (p)
KERRI WEBSTER
  • Postscript (p)
SAM ROSS
  • Bowers v. Hardwick (p)
CYNTHIA CRUZ
  • Taxonomy (p)
  • The Game is Over (p)
KATY DIDDEN
  • The Sycamore on Balance (p)
NICHOLAS GULIG
  • From The Book of Books (p)
KIKI PETROSINO
  • I Shall Absorb Whatever Comes my Way (p)
  • Crossing the Bridge (p)
SHANE MCCRAE
  • The Crowd Shouted and Hollered (p)
JULIE CARR
  • [Excerpt from a Memoir] (p)
BRIAN RUSSELL
  • Love and Later (p)
MICHAEL SCHMELTZER
  • Kite (p)
TOMAZ SALAMUN and MICHAEL THOMAS TAREN
  • Gherasim Luca (p)
  • [Choory Moory Down Town] (p)
SEAN BISHOP
  • Basho in Iowa (p)
  • Lake Bobby (p)
  • On Widows in the Old Days (p)
H. L. HIX
  • Toxic Waste Love Song (p)
  • Looped and Spooling Things (p)
  • Transfer Point (p)
RALPH ANGEL
  • Tested Here on Earth (p)
CARRIE FOUNTAIN
  • Surprise (p)
  • In the Distant Past (p)
LINDSAY MARIANNA WALKER
  • Nightingale (f)
CHLOE COOPER JONES
  • Safari (f)
DEJA EARLEY
  • Bikini (f)
MATT WILLIAMSON
  • Inverted Castle (f)
MARY RUEFLE
  • Twenty-Two Short Lectures (nf)
NICKY ARSCOTT
  • 2012 Art and Writing Collaboration Prize Winner: Repose (a&p)
SUSANNAH HOLLISTER
  • Anne Sexton, Identical Being: Images from the Harry Ransom Center (nf&a)
MATTHEA HARVEY
  • Freeze Frame (a)
Gregory Euclide
  • Cover Art for Issue 8:
  • What softened clipper's making left the plains barren and white (a)

STAFF

EDITOR
  • Anat Benzvi
MANAGING EDITOR
  • Patrick Ryan Frank
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
  • Greg Marshall
POETRY EDITOR
  • Carolina Ebeid
ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS
  • Chanel Clarke
  • Meg McKeon
  • Matt Moore
  • Claire Sylvester Smith
FICTION EDITORS
  • Jeff Bruemmer
  • Mary Miller
ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITOR
  • Kevin C. Powers
ART DIRECTOR
  • Bradley Harrison
MARKETING DIRECTOR
  • Ryan Bender-Murphy
EDITORIAL INTERN
  • Danielle Burgess
READERS
  • Hannah Alpert-Abrams
  • Christian Bancroft
  • Breanna Barrera
  • Katherine Charek Briggs
  • Sara Burwell
  • Kendra Fortmeyer
  • Logan Fry
  • Alen Hamza
  • Brad Kelly
  • Katie Logan
  • Corey Miller
  • Sarah Saltwick
  • Margaret Schafer
  • Katharine Stevenson
  • Laura Thain
FOUNDING EDITORS
  • Jessica Piazza
  • R. J. Lambert
  • James Capozzi
FOUNDING EDITORS
  • Jessica Piazza
  • R. J. Lambert
  • James Capozzi
EDITOR-AT-LARGE
  • Kurt Heinzelman