CONTRIBUTORS ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME

(p) poetry; (f) fiction; (nf) nonfiction; (a) art

The number in parentheses denotes the issue.

Featured works are denoted in yellow and link to their respective issues.

A

KRISTIN AARDSMA:
  • [Move far as a redshift galaxy with ornamental] (5) p
SETH ABRAMSON
  • The Fire Door (8) p
CARL ADAMSHICK:
  • Anthem (6) p
ADONIS TRANSLATED BY KHALED MATTAWA:
  • from "This is My Name" (6) p
STEVE ALMOND:
  • Heart Radical: The Strange, True Flight of Airships (2) nf
RALPH ANGEL
  • Tested Here on Earth (8) p
MATT ANSERELLO:
  • Impossible Performance Piece #8 (5) p
CRAIG ARNOLD:
  • from Couple from Hell (1) p
NICKY ARSCOTT:
  • Illustrations to ‘The Confessions of Juan Hernando Cruz y Vera, Later’ (3) a
  • 2012 Art and Writing Collaboration Prize Winner: Repose (8) a&p
ADAM ATKINSON:
  • The Costumed Smokestack (5) p
  • A Cast of a Smokestack (5) p
  • Town History (5) p
AMANDA AUCHTER:

B

CLINT BACLAWSKI:
  • Eye in the Sky (3) a
JOSIAH BANCROFT:
  • Birthday Boy (3) p
  • Bird Strike at Bancroft International (3) p
MARY JO BANG:
  • Her in the Eye of the Hurricane (4) p
  • Time to be Tamed (4) p
JOE BARNES:
  • A Walking Tour of W.H. Auden’s Face (3) p
SARAH BARTLETT:
  • Caged (4) p
GRACE BAUER:
  • A Little Like Dorothy (2) p
EVAN BEATY:
  • Safari (4) p
JOSHUA BECKMAN:
  • [In Colorado, in Oregon, upon] (5) p
  • [Red, the want, the body, slowly] (5) p
  • [Gold lesson like a pearl whose vocation] (5) p
AIMEE BENDER:
  • A Conversation with Aimee Bender and George Saunders (2) nf
SEAN BEAUDOIN:
  • It Was Modeling School (3) f
  • from ‘Requiem, Mass.’ (3) f
NICKY BEER:
  • Stumphumper (2) p
  • Stumphumper (3) p
DENNIS J. BERNSTEIN:
  • Dinner with Cronkite (6) p
MICHAEL BERRYHILL:
LILLIAN BERTRAM:
  • Incident (4) p
  • This Is Not A Sing-Along (4) p
MARK BIBBINS:
  • Almost as Good as What We Destroyed (6) p
  • Loyalty or Sleep (6) p
MARY BIDDINGER
  • Risk Management Memo: Position Available (8) p
CAROLINE BIRD:
  • The Golden Kids (5) p
SARAH BIRD:
  • from Weightless: A Morality Tale (1) f
SEAN BISHOP
  • Basho in Iowa (8) p
  • Lake Bobby (8) p
  • On Widows in the Old Days (8) p
SARAH BLACKMAN:
  • Weather (2) f
  • Brides (2) f
SU BLACKWELL:
  • Magnolia Tree (4) a
  • The Old House (4) a
  • The Quiet American (4) a
SCOTT BLACKWOOD:
  • Film Footage of the Smallest Gestures (4) f
ELAINE BLEAKNEY:
  • Astoria (6) p
AHIMSA TIMOTEO BODHRÁN:
  • Honig (3) p
GEORGE BOORUJY:
ANA BOZICEVIC-BOWLING:
  • Retired Opera Singer Mouths a Friend’s Name Through a Fever (4) p
CORAL BRACHO:
  • Turbulenta su fluida calma (3) p
JOHN BRADLEY:
  • For T’ao Ch’ien, Home Again Among Gardens and Fields (1) p
  • For T’ao Ch’ien, Drinking Wine Once Again (1) p
BRIAN BROWN:
  • Cover Art for Issue 6 (6) a
JENNY BROWNE:
  • The Multiple States of Matter (5) p
BRADLEY W. BUCHANAN:
  • The Feral Child (3) p
  • Spilled Milk (3) p
MICHAEL BURKARD:
  • Under One Small Fear (1) p
C.M. BURROUGHS:
  • For the Circus of I (6) p
  • Glory Box (3) p
  • & Glory (3) p

C

TERESA CADER:
  • Oasis (1) p
JULIE CARR
  • [Excerpt from a Memoir] (8) p
CYRUS CASSELLS:
  • The Ruins in Total Eclipse (2) p
BRITTANY CAVALLARO:
  • The Virgin Disambiguates (5) p
HAYAN CHARARA:
  • You (3) p
MIKE CHASAR:
  • Accounting for Crassus (1) p
HEATHER CHRISTLE
  • More of Form is More of Content (8) p
  • Taxonomy of That November (8) p
OLIVIA CLARE:
  • Reverence is not Idle, I did not Stand Stunned (4) p
CHARLIE CLARK
ADAM CLAY:
  • from As Complete As a Thought Can Be (5) p
BILLY COLLINS:
  • The Student (2) p
  • Carpe Diem (3) p
GREGORY CORSO
  • Special Feature: Drawings from the Harry Ransom Center (6) a
ELIZABETH CRANE:
  • Fear of a Terrible Wife (5) f
LAURA CRONK:
  • Poem at Six Months Postpartum (6) p
CYNTHIA CRUZ
  • Taxonomy (8) p
  • The Game is Over (8) p
E.E. CUMMINGS:
  • Harry Ransom Center Feature (5) a
MICHAEL CZYZNIEJEWSKI:
  • pleurisy (2) f

D

PHILIP DACEY:
  • Badlands Love (1) p
  • Nude with Asparagus (1) p
JIM DANIELS:
  • Pollywogville at Nineteen (4) p
KYLE DARGAN:
  • Quagmire (1) p
MAHMOUD DARWISH:
  • Feature: Poetry (3) p
CHAD DAVIDSON:
  • A Russian Moment (3) p
DAVID M. DELEON:
  • What Will I Do Without? (6) p
CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE:
KATY DIDDEN
  • The Sycamore on Balance (8) p
SHARON DOLIN:
  • At the Reception, 1963 (3) p
NORMAN DUBIE:
  • Curfew (1) p
  • The Ocean (1) p
JOHN DUFRESNE:
  • from ‘Requiem, Mass.’ (2) f
DENISE DUHAMEL:
  • Photo Op (2) p
  • CAT 4 (2) p
  • Olive Oyl and Popeye (A Family Dynamics Poem) (2) p
  • American Express, 2006 (4) p
STEPHEN DUNN:
  • How to Write a Dream Poem (2) p

E

DEJA EARLEY
  • Bikini (8) f
CARLOS EDMUNDO DE ORY:
  • Feature: Poems (2) p
ERIC EKSTRAND:
  • from "The Match of Flowers Record" (6) p
KARL ELDER:
  • A Short History of History (1) p
  • On the Long-Ago Death of John Lennon (1) p
MATTHEW ELLIOTT:
  • Hollow Bones (6) f
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS:
  • Song On (3) p
JEFF ENCKE:
  • From Most Wanted: Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Tai (3) p
  • From Most Wanted: Hani Abd Al-Latif Tilfah Al-Tiktirti (3) p
HANNAH ENSOR
  • I Cannot Be Consoled (8) p
ELIZABETH ESLAMI:
  • Inheritance (4) f
JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM:
  • Avian Omens (4) p

F

NOAH FALCK:
  • Confessions Inside a Pickup Line (2) p
ELYSE FENTON:
  • The War Bride Waits (4) p
JONATHAN FINK:
  • Hades and the Agony of Spring (3) p
ALLEN C. FISCHER:
  • City of Windows (2) p
  • What is Felt (2) p
CARRIE FOUNTAIN
  • Surprise (8) p
  • In the Distant Past (8) p
MARYL JO FOX:
  • Marker (2) f
DAVID FRANCIS:
  • Proper Destruction (3) p
MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK:
  • Zodiac (2) p
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK
EMILY KENDAL FREY:
  • Caged (4) p

G

P.J. GALLO:
  • Field Notes on the Atlantic Menhaden (6) p
  • Hello (6) p
  • Fermata (6) p
FORREST GANDER (TRANS.):
  • Its fluid calm, turbulent (3) p
RICHARD GARCIA:
  • The Persistence of Objects (3) p
JAMES GENDRON
  • [The Slow, Hot Antlers of my Blood] (8) p
NOAH GERSHMAN:
  • The Enthusiast (4) p
EUGENE GLORIA:
  • Bilbao, Spain (2) p
JESSE GRAVES:
  • His Confession (3) p
ERYN GREEN:
  • Tent Poles (3) p
EAMON GRENNAN:
CAROL GUESS:
  • Shove (2) p
  • The Belltown Angel (2) p
  • Dodge and Burn (2) p
NICHOLAS GULIG
  • From The Book of Books (8) p

H

MARILYN HACKER:
  • Letter to Mimi Khalvati (1) p
MARIAN HADDAD:
  • Correction (3) p
KRISTIN HATCH:
  • Siblings (6) p
SHRODE HARGIS:
  • Gait of the Feathers (3) p
JAMES HARMS:
  • Known You Were Loved (2) p
JEFFREY MICHEAL HARP:
  • Annointed (4) a
  • Untitled (Floating) (4) a
  • The Yawning (4) a
  • This Luscious Transmutation (4) a
ZACHARY HARRIS:
  • An Appreciation. (6) p
MATTHEA HARVEY
  • Freeze Frame (8) a
YONA HARVEY:
  • Mother, Love (5) p
DAVID HAWKINS:
  • from "Dark Adaptations" (6) p
TERRANCE HAYES:
K.A. HAYS:
KRISTI HEAD:
  • Saving Space (3) a
GEOFFREY HEEREN:
  • The Crow Proposes (6) p
ARNA BONTEMPS HEMENWAY:
  • Behind the Mountains are More Mountains (5) f
DAVID HERNANDEZ:
  • Snowman (3) p
BOB HICOK:
  • My Iron Age (2) p
H. L. HIX:
  • A: (2) p
    • Toxic Waste Love Song (8) p
  • Looped and Spooling Things (8) p
  • Transfer Point (8) p
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
  • Special Feature: Drawings from the Harry Ransom Center (6) a
SUSANNAH HOLLISTER
  • Anne Sexton, Identical Being: Images from the Harry Ransom Center (8) nf&a
JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN:
  • Funeral, Mineral, Vegetable (2) p
  • Fugue (3) p
  • Prayer (3) p

I

J

PHILIP JENKS:
  • Dear Doppelganger- (6) p
  • Dear Depression- (6) p
  • Dear Alcoholic Dad- (6) p
SHANE JOAQUIN JIMENEZ:
  • The Two Empresses of Mexico (4) f
SANDRA JOHNSON:
  • Procrastination Transfiguration (2) a
CHLOE COOPER JONES
  • Safari (8) f
FADY JOUDAH:
  • Hand (6) p
  • Proposal (3) p
  • Atlas (3) p
  • Mahmoud Darwish Feature: Poetry (trans.) (3) p

K

EITAN KADOSH:
  • Muppet Howl (3) p
MARILYN KALLET:
  • Tell Yourself (2) p
THOMAS KANE:
  • How to: An Apology (3) p
  • After Untitled/(Maple Street) (3) p
HARRY KARDON:
  • Theys Idols (6) p
LUKE KENNARD:
  • Grapefruit (4) p
  • Variations on Tears (4) p
  • Gravedigger: The Movie (4) p
ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER:
  • Same As It Was When You Left (6) f
BILL KNOTT:
  • The Silo (1) p
  • Smatches (1) p
LAURA KOCHMAN:
  • Lucy (6) p
NOELLE KOCOT:
  • On Becoming a Person (5) p
  • Fourth of July (5) p
  • Love Story (5) p

L

ANTHONY LACAVARO:
  • Running Numbers (1) p
  • Babel (The Road) (1) p
GERRY LAFEMINA:
  • Infatuation (1) p
LANCE LARSEN:
  • On Mourning (2) p
  • Geographical (2) p
DORIANNE LAUX:
  • Starling (2) p
  • The Birthday Party (2) p
RACHEL LAVIN:
  • La Encueratriz (2) a
D.H. LAWRENCE
  • Special Feature: Drawings from the Harry Ransom Center (6) a
DAVID LEHMAN:
  • Lost Weekend (6) p
ALEX LEMON:
  • Senso Commune (3) p
BEN LERNER:
  • Liquid Crystal Display (1) p
FRANNIE LINDSAY:
  • Pet (3) p
THOMAS DAVID LISK:
  • The Memory of Desire (1) f
TIMOTHY LIU:
  • Romance (3) p
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD:
  • The Wild and the Shot-silk Skins (5) p
JOANNE LOWERY:
  • Envy of Birds (2) p

M

CARRINGTON MACDUFFIE:
  • Reversal of Order (2) p
AL MAGINNES:
  • Evacuation and Display (2) p
DAVID MANNING:
  • Return Me to the Dirt, My Lord My God (6) f
MAURICE MANNING:
  • The Haul and What You’re Pulling Still (1) p
  • A Ringer Washer on the Porch (4) p
  • Ars Poetica Shaggy and Brown (4) p
ERIN LYNDAL MARTIN
  • Colony Collapse: On James Cameron's "Drone Piano: For John Cage" (8) p
MARK M. MARTIN:
  • Pain (2) p
  • Human Love (2) p
KHALED MATTAWA:
  • Adolescence of Burnt Hands (1) p
  • Early Adulthood (1) p
CLAY MATTHEWS:
  • Sonnet Terrorized by Another Sad Song (3) p
DAVID MCCOMBS:
  • Fossil Fuel (2) p
SHANE MCCRAE
  • The Crowd Shouted and Hollered (8) p
JILL MCDONOUGH
  • Worth Living (8) p
GARY L. MCDOWELL:
  • All Stones are Broken Stones (2) p
PATRICK MCGRATH:
  • from Trauma (3) f
ERIC MCHENRY:
  • HyperMart (1) p
MICHAEL MCGRIFF:
  • Above the Earth (6) p
  • Alone in Hell's Canyon (6) p
  • When Manny Thompson Made Good on a Loan from My Father (6) p
MARC MCKEE:
  • Everything and a Kite (1) p
TYLER MEIER:
  • Lovesong from a Lifeboat (5) p
HELENA MESA:
  • Notes on a Saint: Deirdre, Brigid of Munster d. 570 (3) p
PHILIP METRES:
  • Two States (Graduation Day, 2005) (3) p
RON MOHRING:
  • Anne’s Lace (4) p
  • Throwing Nothing Away (4) p
ANDER MONSON:
  • The Sudden Possibility of Nakedness (1) f
  • Get Started (1) f
ROBERT MORGAN:
  • Burning Spring (1) p
  • Apple Howling (1) p
JOSH MORISON:
  • splice if you have to, just get it screened (5) p
EMMANUEL MOSES:
  • Old Conversations (1) p
THYLIAS MOSS:
  • The Culture of Glass (1) p
SIMONE MUENCH AND PHILIP JENKS:
  • Dear Doppelganger- (6) p
  • Dear Depression- (6) p
  • Dear Alcoholic Dad- (6) p
PAUL MULDOON:
  • narcissus Batt at the Belfast Bank (1) p
NAMI MUN:
  • Club Orchid (5) f

N

ANDREW NAJBERG:
  • The Last Note (3) p
EMMA NEALE:
  • Colin, from Relative Strangers (4) f
JENNIFER NEVILLE:
  • The Feel of Water (1) f
JOCKUM NORDSTRÖM:
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE:
  • The Frogs Did Not Forget (3) p

O

GINA OCHSNER:
  • A Song for a Day (4) f
RUAIRIADH O’CONNELL
  • Words Relative to Pictures Relative to Words: Three Artists Respond to a Poem by David Lehman (6) a
TIM O’CONNELL:
  • Letter #12: Never Sent, Never Received (2) p
  • City of Air (2) p
BRIAN OLIU:
  • This is Where I'd Begin (6) f
BEN OLSEN:
  • Baxter Lecture Hell (2) a
ALEXIS ORGERA:
  • The Marriage at Cana (4) p
ANDREW OSBORN:
  • Taxidermy (1) p
  • Addendum (1) p
JOHN OTTEY:
  • Labor Day (6) f

P

JULIEN PACAUD:
ERIC PANKEY:
  • Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale (1) p
  • Late April a Little North of Charlottesville (1) p
PHILIP PARDI:
  • Yearning for God in the Absence of God, Yearning for Beauty in the Midst of Such Beauty (2) p
SHERRE PARIS:
  • perfectly fine outside the game (1) a
MICHAEL PARKER:
  • Interview with Mark Richard (5) nf
  • Surplus (5) nf
WILLIAM PEACOCK:
  • The Confessions of Juan Hernando Cruz y Vera, Liar (3) f
BRYAN PENBERTHY:
  • Lovetown (2) p
  • Goodbyetown (2) p
EMILY PÉREZ:
  • The People Under Your Couch (2) p
XAVIER PERÚ:
  • Bourbon Street Back Alley (1) a
  • The Tap (1) a
  • El Paso (1) a
SARAH PERRIER:
  • Poor Bete Noire (5) p
  • The Apprenticeship (5) p
ALLAN PETERSON :
  • Imperative (3) p
KIKI PETROSINO
  • I Shall Absorb Whatever Comes my Way (8) p
  • Crossing the Bridge (8) p
ROGER PFINGSTON:
JOSHUA POTEAT:
  • From J.G. Heck’s 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science: Illustrating (3) p
  • From J.G. Heck’s 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science: Illustrating that objects on earth can throw shadows into space (3) p
ISMET PRCIC:
  • The Man Called Meat (5) f

Q

ALEX QUINLAN:
  • In the Ladder of Perception, the First Love is Love-Of-Vision (5) p

R

LAWRENCE RAAB:
  • The Uninvited (2) p
BARBARA RAS:
  • Pursuit (1) p
RON RASH:
  • The Barn-Fox (1) p
NICHOLAS READING:
  • Stick and Jab (3) p
  • Sam’s Meaning (3) p
JAMES REED:
  • Mr. Tesla’s Thunder (3)
DONALD REVELL
  • After Clare (8) p
MARK RICHARD:
  • Interview with Michael Parker (5) nf
KAREN RIGBY:
  • Maps We Have Produced in Technicolor (5) p
MONIKA RINCK, translated by NICHOLAS GRINDELL
  • Kraft Eines Rasters / By Dint of a Screen (8) p
  • Himmelsharte / Heaven's Hardness (8) p
MATTHEW ROHRER:
  • The Green Zone (5) p
ANNE MARIE ROONEY:
  • Life on the mean (5) p
LUKE ROLFES:
  • Fish on the Lake's Floor (6) f
SAM ROSS
  • Bowers v. Hardwick (8) p
MARY RUEFLE
  • Twenty-Two Short Lectures (8) nf
BRIAN RUSSELL
  • Love and Later (8) p
F. DANIEL RZICZNEK:
  • Tinnitus (3) p

S

TOMAZ SALAMUN and MICHAEL THOMAS TAREN
  • Gherasim Luca (8) p
  • [Choory Moory Down Town] (8) p
MARY ANN SAMYN:
  • Draw a little bird. (1) p
  • Draw something secret. Then cut it out and hide it. (1) p
GEORGE SAUNDERS:
  • A Conversation with Aimee Bender and George Saunders (2) nf
ZACH SAVICH:
  • Port Angeles (5) p
  • Set Up (5) p
ANDREA SCARPINO:
  • White Folks’ Kitchen (4) p
MICHAEL SCHMELTZER
  • Kite (8) p
ZACHARY SCHOMBURG:
  • A Horrible Flood of Lava (4) p
  • Love is When You Build a Boat From All the Eyelashes in the Ocean (4) p
  • Landscape (Lava) (4) p
STEVEN D. SCHROEDER:
  • Deathmatch Mode (2) p
MAUREEN SEATON:
  • CAT 4 (2) p
  • Olive Oyl and Popeye (A Family Dynamics Poem) (2) p
DAVID SEWELL:
  • Now We're Really Living (5) p
  • Now We're Really Living (5) p
JAMIE SHARPE:
  • THE ENGAGEMENT (6) f
DEEMA K. SHEHABI:
  • Khadijah (3) p
BRANDON SHIMODA:
  • A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle [No. twenty two] (5) p
  • A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle (5) p
  • A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle WONDERLAND, ME (5) p
BARRY WADE SIMMS:
  • The Pond Below Our House (4) f
ARTHUR SMITH:
  • Endanger (2) p
OLIVER SMITH
  • Words Relative to Pictures Relative to Words: Three Artists Respond to a Poem by David Lehman (6) a
TRACY K. SMITH:
  • When Zappa Crashes My Family Reunion (1) p
  • Sci-Fi (1) p
ALLISON SOMMERS:
  • Into Exile (4) a
  • Treats (4) a
  • I Will Be a Home for You (4) a
  • The Woodsman’s House (4) a
MARY AUSTIN SPEAKER:
  • The Champion (2) p
ANDREW STALLINGS:
  • Something Rich and Strange (1) p
LEIGH STEIN:
  • As Soon As You Meet Someone You Know the Reason You Will Leave Them (4) p
  • Keeping the Minotaur at Bay (4) p
ABBY STEWART:
  • Words for Everything Else (4) f
STEVEN J. STEWART (TRANS.):
  • Carlos Edmundo de Ory Feature: Poems (2) p
MATTHEW STUART:
  • Vaya Con Dios (5) f
MATHIAS SVALINA:
  • Everything is American (5) p
  • Destruction Myth (5) p
TERESE SVOBODA:
  • Tags (1) f
LUKE SYKORA:
  • Poem (3) p
MICHAEL SZCZERBAN:
  • Many Turkeys, Impressively Arrayed (6) p
LARISSA SZPORLUK:

T

RETSU TAKAHASHI:
JAMES TATE:
  • The New Horses (3) p
SAM TAYLOR:
  • Next (2) p
  • Background (2) p
  • Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude (2) p
CLARA TERNE
  • Words Relative to Pictures Relative to Words: Three Artists Respond to a Poem by David Lehman (6) a
CODY TODD:
  • Ophelia dans le noir (4) p
COLM TÓIBÍN:
  • A Dance to the Music of Time: Anthony Powell and the British Tradition (3) nf
ROBERT TRAVIESO:
  • Yes Ned, Wes Said (5) f
RHETT ISEMAN TRULL:
  • Talking All Day to the Dead (4) p

U

UNIBROW:

V

HELENA MARÍA VIRAMONTES:
  • The Start of Going Bad (1) f

W

DAVID WAGONER:
  • The Old Men (1) p
G.C. WALDREP:
  • Hibernaculum (6) p
LINDSAY MARIANNA WALKER
  • Nightingale (8) f
JOSHUA A. WARE:
  • [11 January 2007] (4) p
  • [08 April 2007] (4) p
CHARLES HARPER WEBB:
KERRI WEBSTER
  • Postscript (8) p
ELLEN WEHLE:
  • Girlhood Diptych (3) p
MARLYS WEST:
  • The Wet Mouth of Sky (1) p
PHIL WEST:
  • Proposal on the Lake in Central Park (2) p
BETSY WHEELER:
W. VANDOREN WHEELER:
  • Preservation (6) p
DARA WIER:
  • No Story (5) p
C. K. WILLIAMS:
  • Miniature Poodle (1) p
LISA WILLIAMS:
  • A Waterfall (2) p
MATT WILLIAMSON
  • Inverted Castle (8) f
CHRISTIAN A. WINN:
  • False History (6) f
FRANZ WRIGHT:

X

Y

JOHN YAU:
  • Tuz (1) p
MATTHEW YEAGER:
  • Tuxedo (4) p
C. DALE YOUNG:
  • The Ether Dome (1) p
DEAN YOUNG:

Z

MATTHEW ZAPRUDER:
  • After Reading Tu Fu, I Emerge from a Cloud of Falseness (4) p
  • Automated Regret Machine (4) p
  • Together Yet Also Apart (4) p