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Lucia Anna and Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce — Jennifer Franklin
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Archipelago — Carolina Hotchandani
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Your Body in Transit from Ice to Fire — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The Storm — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The End of the Life of Giorgione da Castelfranco, Venetian Painter — Corey Van Landingham
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
‘Bed’ — Jim Whiteside
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Sharp — Jesse Lee Kercheval
Nonfiction · v21n3, Spring 2023
Adonais — Michael Lavers
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Checklist — C. Dale Young
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Sound of My Unhearing — Dara T. Mathis
Nonfiction · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Recipe for Making Blood — Bruce Kilstein
Fiction · v21n1, Spring 2022
Sick Fox — Mark Jarman
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Irinotecan — Whittney Jones
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Pleuropulmonary Blastoma — Whittney Jones
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Review by Tim Seibles | “The Glass Globe” by Margaret Gibson — Tim Seibles
Nonfiction · v21n1, Spring 2022
Deluge — Leila Chatti
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare — Leila Chatti
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
My Friend Tells Me I’ve Got to Stop Letting My Enemies Live Rent Free in My Head — torrin a. greathouse
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Packing the Car — Leah Tieger
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Leila Chatti — Brandon Young
Nonfiction · v20n2, Fall 2021
A Conversation with Artist and Author Joan Gaustad — Joan Gaustad
Features · v20n2, Fall 2021
Matter — Carolyn Guinzio
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Plank — Carolyn Guinzio
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Panoramas — Frances Richey
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Managing Remotely: Blackbird in Pandemic — Hayley Graffunder
Features · v20n1, Spring 2021
Scar 26 — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Godforsaken: Of Death and Dafforfils — Hal Crowther
Nonfiction · v19n2, Fall 2020
The Long Way Home — Jesse Lee Kercheval
Nonfiction · v19n2, Fall 2020
Sinkholes — Brooke Bullman
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
Picnic, with Geese — Fleda Brown
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Stump — Fleda Brown
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
June — Jennifer Franklin
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Från Vintern 1947 — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
From Winter 1947 — Tomas Tranströmer, translation from Swedish by Patty Crane
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
1918 Suite Coda: That Night Another Change
Gallery · v19n1, Spring 2020
Leviathan: A Charnel Ship — E.W. Gibson
Gallery · v19n1, Spring 2020
Pandemic Slide Show
Gallery · v19n1, Spring 2020
“The Great ‘Movie Jag,’” Photoplay
Gallery · v19n1, Spring 2020
“If You Must Smoke While Wearing Your Influenza Mask, Popular Science”
Gallery · v19n1, Spring 2020
Peripheries — Kathryn Haemmerle
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars — Darren Morris
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Orvieto — Ron Smith
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men — Annie Woodford
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium — Maya Jewell Zeller
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Darkness at Dawn: The Campus in Crisis — Hal Crowther
Nonfiction · v18n2, Fall 2019
1918 Suite “Enough of Us Still and Brave Enough” 1918 Suite
Gallery · v18n2, Fall 2019
Voices of 1918 Program Notes — Kenneth Langer
Gallery · v18n2, Fall 2019
Voices of 1918 by Kenneth Langer & Ellen Bryant Voigt — Kenneth Langer
Gallery · v18n2, Fall 2019
Thrown In: The Doctor — Newton MacTavish
Gallery · v18n2, Fall 2019
The Codfish — Pertinax
Gallery · v18n2, Fall 2019
Neutral Bodies — Ciera Burch
Fiction · v18n1, Spring 2019
To My Hips, Both Removed — Gail Martin
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
All Must — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Review by Dana Calhoun | “The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce” — Dana Calhoun
Nonfiction · v18n1, Spring 2019
Haven't I Been Sweet to You — Debra Nystrom
Nonfiction · v18n1, Spring 2019
1918 Suite “What Was Not His to Keep”
Gallery · v18n1, Spring 2019
1918 Suite | from “Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad” by Ethel Anderson — 1918 Suite | Ethel Anderson
Gallery · v18n1, Spring 2019
from “Some Reflections: Growing Out of the Recent Epidemic of Influenza that Afflicted Our City” — Francis J. Grimké
Gallery · v18n1, Spring 2019
1918 Suite | Richmond Planet, “Much Trouble Here”
Gallery · v18n1, Spring 2019
1918 Suite | Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Director Levy is Taken to Task by Flannagan”
Gallery · v18n1, Spring 2019
1918 Suite | Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Grippe Crisis is Reached; Should Ebb From Now On”
Gallery · v18n1, Spring 2019
Distress Cries of a Cottontail Rabbit — Wynne Hungerford
Fiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
Molly McCully Brown
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us — Molly McCully Brown, Susannah Nevison
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Breast Cancer — Kate Daniels
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Poem in Which My Husband Deploys and Our Baby and I Move Back In with My Parents — Kate Gaskin
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
We are at a feast which doesn’t love us — Chris Haven
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
All day, one room: me, and the cherubim . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Dear Mat, For the red scarf I'm much obliged . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
How we survived: we locked the doors . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
from Kyrie — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
This is the double bed where she'd been born . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Thought at first that grief had brought him down . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Review | Circadian, by Chelsey Clammer, — Katherine Mooney Brooks
Nonfiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
Setting Truth to Music — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Nonfiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
“Everywhere in the Kingdom” 1918 Suite
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
“A Masked Parade” 1918 Suite Time Capsule
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
A Reading from Kyrie — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
His First Case: from Chapter XVIII—When the Epidemic Struck the Village — W.E. Anthony
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
"Gerzat: Chapter XII—The Spanish Influenza" — W.E. Anthony
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
Live Oak — Kate Reed Petty
Fiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
A Love Letter to My Panic — Hala Alyan
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Rapunzel, with Contrast — Michelle Boisseau
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
OBIT (Hope) — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Biophilia — Catherine MacDonald
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Elegy with Barred Owl — Catherine MacDonald
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Catherine MacDonald — Catherine MacDonald
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
A Note on the Art in the Oncologist’s Office — Catherine MacDonald
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Sixty-Nine — Dan O’Brien
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Liver of Sulfur — Iain Haley Pollock
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Review | Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee — Chelsea Gillenwater
Nonfiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
Until There Is Nothing Else to Tell — Catherine MacDonald
Nonfiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
Paradise — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Poem after the Equinox, 2015 — Lisa Coffman
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Why I Love the Fiddle — Lisa Coffman
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Why I Love the Fiddle — Lisa Coffman
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
God asked me, like he asked Job, Can you loosen Orion’s belt? — Erica Dawson
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Helen Keller at the Rodeo — Virginia Konchan
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Nude in Front of the Garden — Ken Weitzman
Gallery · v16n2, Fall 2017
Playwright’s Notes — Ken Weitzman
Gallery · v16n2, Fall 2017
Hollywood Beach — Etkin Camoglu
Fiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
Crossing Mourning Kill — Andy Fogle
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Amor Fati — Jennifer Franklin
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Where the Cancer Center’s New Wing Will Be — Debra Nystrom
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Bard — Steven Ratiner
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
So It Goes — Steven Ratiner
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Derivation Devotional — Martha Silano
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
The Language of the Heart — E.L. Tremblay
Nonfiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
Elevating the Art: Claudia Emerson’s Treeshop — Lauren Miner
Gallery · v16n1, Spring 2017
A Knowledge of Crisis — Heidi Vornbrock Roosa
Features · v16n1, Spring 2017
The Seven Ravens — Becky Hagenston
Fiction · v15n2, Fall 2016
God or No God — Dilruba Ahmed
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Concerning Pan — David Wohan
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Rabies — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Thrift Shop — John Allman
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
[“On foot”] — Talvikki Ansel
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
[A lens of cloud, a sighting around a sheet] — Talvikki Ansel
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Not Far Underground — Keith Ekiss
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
The Wind Wears a Red Leaf — Lisa Russ Spaar
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Moon Blind — Catherine Staples
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Loxley — Duffie Taylor
Fiction · v14n1, Spring 2015
Planting — Laura Kolbe
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Six Explanations for Migraine — Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Pathogen: Gestation of an Idea — Michelle E. Iwen
Features · v14n1, Spring 2015
Examination — Celeste Lipkes
Features · v14n1, Spring 2015
Thirteen — David Hernandez
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Paul’s Daughter — Laura Sobbott Ross
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Composer’s Notes: Hearing Voices — Jonathan Berger
Gallery · v13n2, Fall 2014
Dan O’Brien, Visitations Introduction — Dan O’Brien
Gallery · v13n2, Fall 2014
Librettist’s Notes — Dan O’Brien
Gallery · v13n2, Fall 2014
Theotokia — Dan O’Brien
Gallery · v13n2, Fall 2014
“Theotokia Performance Video” — Dan O’Brien
Gallery · v13n2, Fall 2014
Epcot Center, August ’88 — Douglas Silver
Fiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
And Here It Seems the Author Died — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Idiopathic Aura — Tom Condon
Gallery · v13n1, Spring 2014
Idiopathic Aura: Artist’s Introduction — Tom Condon
Gallery · v13n1, Spring 2014
Caroline Wright: On Tom Condon’s Idiopathic Aura — Tom Condon
Gallery · v13n1, Spring 2014
After and Before — Douglas Silver
Features · v13n1, Spring 2014
July at Rose Blumkin — Susan Aizenberg
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Vectors — Wyn Cooper
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Sleep — John W. Evans
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
My Head a Pine Cabinet with Female Cardinal Ascending — Rebekah Remington
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Cleveland — Mary Medlin
Fiction · v11n2, Fall 2012
Patience — Elizabeth Weld
Fiction · v11n2, Fall 2012
Professor Slaughter’s Cell in the Land of Luz — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito — Tarfia Faizullah
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Broken Cup by Margaret Gibson — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Thrombosis — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Doctors Say It’s Tinnitus — Brianna Noll
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
The Nervous System Speaks — Saara Myrene Raappana
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Welcome to Paradise — Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Hospital Visit — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Out of Pain — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Review | Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, by Sandra Beasley — Katelyn Kiley
Nonfiction · v11n1, Spring 2012
Death Panel — Belle Boggs
Fiction · v10n2, Fall 2011
The Replacement Wife — Clifford Garstang
Fiction · v10n2, Fall 2011
Tetanus, Amy Beeder — Amy Beeder | Blackbird v11n1
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Review | Mathilda Savitch, by Victor Lodato — Avery Beckendorf
Nonfiction · v10n2, Fall 2011
Pete — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Fluff — Cynthia Hogue
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Offhanded — Cynthia Hogue
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Cancer Party — Nicola Mason
Fiction · v9n2, Fall 2010
Diagnostics — Mathias Svalina
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
To Sustain Distress — Mathias Svalina
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Winter Stars — Mathias Svalina
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Hawking in Zero-G — Stefi Weisburd
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre viii — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre xv — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre xviii — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
A Reading by Michele Young-Stone, Blackbird — Michele Young–Stone
Features · v9n2, Fall 2010
From Grace to Goshen — Drew Blanchard
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Meditation at Main Brook — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Letter from Gozo — Kathleen Graber
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
This Is the Brain, W.Todd Kaneko — W. Todd Kaneko
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
The Withholding — Jamie Quatro
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Sixteen Poems — Liana Quill
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
The Electrician’s Mate, 1954 — Lesley Wheeler
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Deaf Spots — Sarah Vap
Nonfiction · v9n1, Spring 2010
Doppler — Leah Dunham
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
February Jinks, Rodney Nelson translating Ron Winkler — Rodney Nelson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Disabled Odyssey — Shirley Stephenson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Practice — Shirley Stephenson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Tidal Volume — Shirley Stephenson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Dark Ages — Katrina Vandenberg
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Catalog Note: Article of Venusian Handicraft — Nicky Beer
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
spring's confessional poem — Diane Seuss
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them — Jean Valentine
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Post-Op — Henry Hart
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Protection Cord — Irene McKinney
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Review of Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker — Michele Poulos
Nonfiction · v7n2, Fall 2008
Review of Michelangelo’s Seizure by Steve Gehrke, Susan S. Williams — Susan Settlemyre Williams
Nonfiction · v7n1, Spring 2008
Going Away Shoes — Jill McCorkle
Fiction · v6n2, Fall 2007
Condor — Louie Skipper
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Until We Go To Sleep — Anne Germanacos
Fiction · v6n1, Spring 2007
Basketball Is Not a Drug — Richard Jespers
Fiction · v6n1, Spring 2007
Review: Sufficient Grace — Michele Poulos
Nonfiction · v6n1, Spring 2007
Exploiting My Own Material, Richard Jespers — Introductions: A Reading Loop
Features · v6n1, Spring 2007
The Guest — Ahmad Saidullah
Fiction · v5n2, Fall 2006
With a Leaf in Her Fist — Susan Elbe
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Opening the Hive — Anne Haines
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Skateboarder — Alan Shapiro
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
The Incentive of the Maggot — Ron Slate
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Wishing — R. T. Smith
Fiction · v5n1, Spring 2006
She Falls Asleep in Strange Places — Sandra Beasley
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
The Bridge — Dana Cann
Fiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
Juliet and Heaven — Nancy Taylor Everett
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Three Go to the Zoo — Lesley Jenike
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
National Poetry Month — Christine Stewart
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
After Bad News — Marian Crotty
Nonfiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
During Fever — F. Daniel Rzicznek
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Tank — Rachel Jamison Webster
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Review | The World in Repair: Steve Gehrke's The Pyramids of Malpighi — Anna Journey
Nonfiction · v4n1, Spring 2005
A Ford in a River — Charles Rose
Fiction · v3n2, Fall 2004
Alzheimer's — Sean Nevin
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Kus-Sun-Ar — Peggy Shumaker (with Kesler Woodward)
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
Here Is the Church — Marlys West
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
OCD — Erica Dawson
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Placebo — Erica Dawson
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Baby Won't You Please Come Home — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
The Insomnia of Hildegard of Bingen — Lisa Russ Spaar
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Lung — John Allman
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
The Scenery of Farewell (and Hello Again) — Joshua Poteat
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Blackbird Feature, Virginia Holman, from Rescuing Patty Hearst — Blackbird Feature, Susan Garrett, Review | Rescuing Patty Hearst, by Virginia Holman
Features · v2n1, Spring 2003
Tinnitus — B. H. Boston
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Critical Care — Corrinne Clegg Hales
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Letter from the Ground Floor — Richard McCann
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
The Earth is not Quiet — John Rybicki
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Monologues from Songs from Bedlam — Douglas Jones
Gallery · v1n2, Fall 2002
The Potatoes, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson — Marilyn Nelson
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Clockwork Prayer: An Illness — Elizabeth King
Nonfiction · v1n1, Spring 2002