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Practicing His Signature — Michael Chitwood
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Piano Fire — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Almond Sweaterhead — Bill U’Ren
Fiction · v21n2, Fall 2022
Notes in the Margin — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Persistent Illusions — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Self-Portrait Using a Single Mirror — C. Dale Young
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Self-Portrait Without a Mirror — C. Dale Young
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Lucky Star — Kathy Fagan
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
The Harvest — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Our Daily Ration — Lauren Camp
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
A Bargain for a Boat — Dave Smith
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Developments — Dave Smith
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Reading Obituaries — Dave Smith
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Thomas B. Gay
Features · v20n1, Spring 2021
More Fun . . . — Daniel Groves
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Alla Through the Looking Glass — Oksana Maksymchuk
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Dutch — Amina Gautier
Fiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
Summit — Caroline McCoy
Fiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
Intention Tremor — Francesca Bell
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Museum — Fleda Brown
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Stump — Fleda Brown
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Thomas B. Gay
Features · v19n1, Spring 2020
Anthology: a collection of flowers — Joan Baranow
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
[Она беззаботна еще, она молода] — Sophia Parnok translation from Russian by Rainie Oet
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
[Our Passion’s still carefree, still young] — Sophia Parnok, translation from Russian by Rainie Oet
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Interior with Mickey Mantle — Ira Sadoff
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Ongoing — Jenny Xie
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
The Forgotten Lutz — Bruce Ducker
Fiction · v18n1, Spring 2019
To My Hips, Both Removed — Gail Martin
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
We are at a feast which doesn’t love us — Chris Haven
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
The Flavors of Despair — Sam Pereira
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Major Arcana: How My Father Got to Reno — Rob Shapiro
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Poem that Begins on a Staircase — Molly Spencer
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Would You Believe It? — Elvira Basevich
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Bird Study — Catherine MacDonald
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Sixty-Five — Dan O’Brien
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Sixty-Nine — Dan O’Brien
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Loose Page Found Inside a Notebook — Susan Elbe
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Of Time and North — Susan Elbe
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
While Falling to Sleep — Ed Falco
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Out and Back — Leah Falk
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Memory of Museum of Memory — Karrie Waarala
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Pushing toward the Canopy — Lesley Wheeler
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Review | Orexia by Lisa Russ Spaar — Kelly Cherry
Nonfiction · v16n2, Fall 2017
Hollywood Beach — Etkin Camoglu
Fiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
Poupée de cire, poupée de son — Monica Datta
Fiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
Cooper’s Hawk — Kathy Fagan
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Brief Sketch from There to Here — Mark Irwin
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Bard — Steven Ratiner
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Thomas B. Gay
Features · v16n1, Spring 2017
Planet of the Aged — Heather Altfeld
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Fable — Rodney Jones
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Making Ready — Rodney Jones
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Staying in Cold Springs — Rodney Jones
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Canis Familiarus — David Wojahn
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Sinatra: The Concert at Pompeii, 1991 — David Wojahn
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
So war das — Nicolas Born
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
That's How It Was — Nicolas Born
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Razor — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Seed — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Review | Quiet City, by Susan Aizenberg — Laura Van Prooyen
Nonfiction · v15n1, Spring 2016
Funeral — Carrie Brown
Fiction · v14n2, Fall 2015
Poem on My 60th Birthday — Chard deNiord
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Anniversary — Sam Pereira
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
[You stopped just short of the highest note.] — Ghalib
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
How to Survive — Sarah Barber
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Dear Bose-Einstein Condensate — Patrick Lawler
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Idiot’s Guide to Counting — Margo Taft Stever
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
winter landscape with newspaper & dog — Ken Taylor
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Stoney Creek — Emily Williamson
Fiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
The Fortunate — C. Dale Young
Fiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
Molting — Matthew Hotham
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
In Memoriam — Circe Maia
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Review | Headwaters: Poems, by Ellen Bryant Voigt — Susan Settlemyre Williams
Nonfiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
July at Rose Blumkin — Susan Aizenberg
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
La Strada — Larry Levis
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Treading — Karen Meadows
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
Hund’s Rule — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Leopard’s Mouth Is Dry And Cold Inside — Larry Levis
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Keats, Climbing — Andrew Allport
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Aging Poet — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
A Scene Not Made — Caki Wilkinson
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
The Art of Storytelling — Renée Branum
Features · v11n1, Spring 2012
Dumb Noise — Adrian Dorris
Fiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
Pillbox — Aurelie Sheehan
Fiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
Mister Sel — Steve Yarbrough
Fiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
Offhanded — Cynthia Hogue
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Twenty-nine — Donald Morrill
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
She Gets Drunk and Talks Too Much at Her 20th Reunion — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Body Double — Maggie Schwed
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Bourbon in a Cup — Dave Smith
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Skating Waitress at the Circle Drive-in — Dave Smith
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Thomas B. Gay — Introductions Reading Loop
Features · v10n1, Spring 2011
Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Post Card — Christopher Buckley
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
The Pedicure — Kate Daniels
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Psaume 33, Patrice de la Tour du Pin — Patrice de La Tour du Pin
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
from Notes du ravin — Philippe Jaccottet
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Meditation at Main Brook — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Moving Day — W. Todd Kaneko
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
House — Miriam O’Neal
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Thomas B. Gay — Introductions Reading Loop
Features · v9n1, Spring 2010
Rattlesnake Country — Airin Miller
Fiction · v8n2, Fall 2009
Imogen Cunningham’s “My Father At Sixty” — Paisley Rekdal
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Spencerian Hand — Wyatt Prunty
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Reviews of Making a Map of the River, by Thorpe Moeckel and In the Truth Room by Dana Roeser — Catherine MacDonald
Nonfiction · v8n1, Spring 2009
Thomas B. Gay — Introductions: A Reading Loop
Features · v8n1, Spring 2009
Fried Chicken — Lee Smith
Fiction · v7n2, Fall 2008
Unthinkable — Irene McKinney
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
When the Lights Go Down — Liam Callanan
Fiction · v7n1, Spring 2008
Not the Bathing Tank at Madras: A Romance — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Supermax — David Keplinger
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Homesick in Paradise — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Transcience — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
When to Stop — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Thomas B. Gay — Introductions: A Reading Loop
Features · v7n1, Spring 2008
Going Away Shoes — Jill McCorkle
Fiction · v6n2, Fall 2007
Advice to my Grandson — Ron Smith
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Future Tense — Charles Wright
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Six Poems — Charles Wright
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
In Praise of What is Missing — Charles Wright
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
The Gospel According to Somebody Else — Charles Wright
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Review of Without a Philosophy by Elizabeth Morganr — Susan S. Williams
Nonfiction · v6n2, Fall 2007
Basketball Is Not a Drug — Richard Jespers
Fiction · v6n1, Spring 2007
Mrs. Cannon Passes the Parthenon on Her Way Home from Work — Kathy Davis
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Escape from the Chengsin Mission — Henry Hart
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
The Quiet Transvestite in Spring — Dana Littlepage Smith
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Review: Five Terraces — Amy Unsworth
Nonfiction · v6n1, Spring 2007
Thomas B. Gay — Introductions: A Reading Loop
Features · v6n1, Spring 2007
Seersucker — Mark Yakich
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Adam and Eva — Anne Germanacos
Fiction · v5n1, Spring 2006
Wishing — R. T. Smith
Fiction · v5n1, Spring 2006
East Window, Moon — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
How Beautiful Thy Feet With Shoes — Janet Peery
Fiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
Still Life — Dave Lucas
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Epistle to Elsner on the Eve of his 34th Birthday — Karyna McGlynn
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
right now i remember the old — William E. Dudley
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
The Boomers Take the Field — Rodney Jones
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Will We? — Sarah Manguso
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
The Gazing Eye Falls through the World — Alexander Long
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
My Father and the Astros — Karen Maceira
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Philip Levine, March 16, 2005
Features · v3n2, Fall 2004
The Family, One Week Old — Joy Katz
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
Blaze — Peggy Shumaker (with Kesler Woodward)
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
Joyride — Chase Twichell
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
The Old King — Pam Durban
Nonfiction · v3n1, Spring 2004
Richard — Gerald Stern
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Hardheaded Weather — Cornelius Eady
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Tinnitus — B. H. Boston
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Legerdemain — Kevin Boyle
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Lines Composed Above the Occoquan River — Eric Pankey
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Still Missing the Jays — Stanley Plumly
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Swoon — Victoria Redel
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Disappearing Act — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
from In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner — Henry Taylor
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Blackbird Feature, Eleanor Ross Taylor, June 1, 2002 — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Features · v1n1, Spring 2002