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Of Flowers and Sorrows — Zoë Gadegbeku
Fiction · v21n3, Spring 2023
Wild Sweet Pea — Fleda Brown
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Lucia Anna and Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce — Jennifer Franklin
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Xylophone — Jesse Lee Kercheval
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Your Body in Transit from Ice to Fire — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
‘Cimex lectularius Linnaeus’ — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
V: Phaëthon (the Boy) Tangles in Moira’s Net — Nonnus of Panopolis, translation from Homeric Greek by Denise Low
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
XII: Zeus (Re-) Orders The Firmament — Nonnus of Panopolis, translation from Homeric Greek by Denise Low
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The Dragon — Steve Scafidi
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
At the Prado — Heidi Seaborn
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
My Father’s Voice — Jonathan Weinert
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Rob Barnard and Julian Stair: Inner Lives/Cinerary Jars — Howard Risatti
Gallery · v21n3, Spring 2023
Claudia Emerson
Features · v21n3, Spring 2023
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop
Features · v21n3, Spring 2023
Thomas B. Gay
Features · v21n3, Spring 2023
“A Correspondence with Corey Van Landingham” — Corey Van Landingham
Features · v21n3, Spring 2023
Playing Dead — Brian Brodeur
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Adonais — Michael Lavers
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Apollo Considers the Humans — Michael Lavers
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Song for a Severed Head — Michael Lavers
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Elegy for Poe with the Music of a Carnival Inside It — Larry Levis
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
When I die, I will see the lining of the world — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
The true meaning, ready to be decoded — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
What never added up will add up — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
And if there is no lining to the world — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Make no sense following each other — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
And on this earth there is nothing except this earth — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Some Things Are Not Hypothetical — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Checklist — C. Dale Young
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Review by Colin Bailes | “Still Life” by Jay Hopler — Colin Bailes
Nonfiction · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Forever Queen: Good-bye to All That — Hal Crowther
Nonfiction · v21n2, Fall 2022
R.U.R. Act Epilogue
Gallery · v21n2, Fall 2022
A Haunted Poem in a Haunted City — Gregory Donovan
Features · v21n2, Fall 2022
Larry Levis
Features · v21n2, Fall 2022
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
Features · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Recipe for Making Blood — Bruce Kilstein
Fiction · v21n1, Spring 2022
Cougar Flat — Aaron Baker
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Blackbird — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Sea — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
The Afterlife — Adam Chiles
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Elegy — Katharine Coles
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
The Visit — David Huddle
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
June (I dug the hole and the dog watched) — Nathaniel Perry
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Antonia Pozzi
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Ars Poetica — Arhm Choi Wild
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Review by Tim Seibles | “The Glass Globe” by Margaret Gibson — Tim Seibles
Nonfiction · v21n1, Spring 2022
Revisiting ‘Stagecoach’ — Bernard Martin
Gallery · v21n1, Spring 2022
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop — Claudia Emerson
Features · v21n1, Spring 2022
Margaret Gibson Reading Loop — Margaret Gibson
Features · v21n1, Spring 2022
Thomas B. Gay
Features · v21n1, Spring 2022
The Theoktistria — Barbara Duffey
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
When the Heart Bursts — Tomaž Šalamun, translation from Slovene by Brian Henry
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Pasolini — Tomaž Šalamun, translation from Slovene by Brian Henry
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Umbrella in a Bathtub — Tomaž Šalamun, translation from Slovene by Brian Henry
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Transubstantiation at the Aquatic Life Research Center — Heather Sellers
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Elegy for Us Both — Pablo Piñero Stillmann
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Deathbed Dream with Extinction List — Claire Wahmanholm
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Incarnate — John Sibley Williams
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Seeing Through the Wren as a Lens — Gregory Donovan
Features · v20n2, Fall 2021
Levis Remembered Reading Loop | Blackbird v20n2 — Larry Levis
Features · v20n2, Fall 2021
Cache Creek Bridge at Flood Stage — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Ordinary Psalm in the Days of Awe — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Ordinary Psalm Troubled by Truth and Lies — Julia B. Levine
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
On Stillness — Sarah Rose Nordgren
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Panoramas — Frances Richey
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Reading Obituaries — Dave Smith
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Claudia Emerson
Gallery · v20n1, Spring 2021
Wesley Gibson
Gallery · v20n1, Spring 2021
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop — Claudia Emerson
Features · v20n1, Spring 2021
Reasons to Write — Stephen O’Donnell
Features · v20n1, Spring 2021
Scar 22 — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Scar 26 — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
For His Wife — Ilya Kaminsky
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Watch the Lame Beast Turn — G.C. Waldrep
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
mind’s ear — Daneen Wardrop
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Godforsaken: Of Death and Dafforfils — Hal Crowther
Nonfiction · v19n2, Fall 2020
Levis Remembered Reading Loop | Blackbird v19n2 — Larry Levis
Features · v19n2, Fall 2020
“Remembering Eleanor Ross Taylor at One Hundred” — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Features · v19n2, Fall 2020
From this blue born — Carol Ann Davis
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Still Life with Gold — Jennifer Franklin
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Inheritance of Fire — Jaimee Hills
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of Russian Roulette — Robert Lynn
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
As Cheer Passed by a Death Bed — William Olsen
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Shaken, as of Things That Are Made — William Olsen
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Svarta Bergen — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
The Black Mountains — Tomas Tranströmer, translation from Swedish by Patty Crane
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Death in the Reeds — Matthew Wimberley
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Смерть бела — Anzhelina Polonskaya, translation from Russian by Andrew Wachtel
Nonfiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
Death is White — Anzhelina Polonskaya, translation from Russian by Andrew Wachtel
Nonfiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
The Deep Hold — Leslie Shiel
Nonfiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
The One Left — E.V. Lucas
Gallery · v19n1, Spring 2020
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Introduction and Table of Contents — Claudia Emerson
Features · v19n1, Spring 2020
Going to Your Funeral in a Vee-Eight Ford — Ash Bowen
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Elijah Fed by Ravens — Kristina Erny
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Elijah and the Widow — Kristina Erny
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Pain Is Never Done — Henry Israeli
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Daumier, ‘Man on a Rope’ — William Logan
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars — Darren Morris
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Reading Bruno Schulz on Rosh Hashanah — Rachel Neve-Midbar
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Orvieto — Ron Smith
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Burn after Reading, or Ghostwriting — Kelly Cherry
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Lost in Translation — Kelly Cherry
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Face Blindness — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
A Letter to the Sacred Ibis — Christopher Emery
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Anniversary in the Lookout Tower — Henry Hart
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
77.15 Kelvin — Stephen Haven
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Barnum at the Grave of Charles “Tom Thumb” Stratton — Michael Hurley
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Razones — Idea Vilariño
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Reasons — Idea Vilariño, translation from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
All Must — Edward Mayes
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
While hunting mummies at the British Museum — Erin Rodoni
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Review by Dana Calhoun | “The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce” — Dana Calhoun
Nonfiction · v18n1, Spring 2019
Reincarnation at the Wallingford Animal Shelter — Caitlin Fitzpatrick
Fiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
Distress Cries of a Cottontail Rabbit — Wynne Hungerford
Fiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
Between Floors: Love and Other Blood-Related Diseases — Melinda M. White
Fiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
Planet Nine — Brandon Amico
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Grave by the Lake — Taneum Bambrick
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Testimony — Brandon Courtney
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Rethinking the Burning of Books — Kate Daniels
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Fressenstille — Kristina Faust
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Tara’s Suit — Lauren Michele Jackson
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Asteroseismology — Sara Eliza Johnson
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Lazarus — Sara Eliza Johnson
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Wormhole — Sara Eliza Johnson
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Approaching Afterlife — Sam Pereira
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Apology — Allan Peterson
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
Introduction & Table of Contents — Jacqueline Goldfinger
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
“The Arsonists” Jaqueline Goldfinger — Jacqueline Goldfinger
Gallery · v17n2, Fall 2018
Live Oak — Kate Reed Petty
Fiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
Death at the Lakeshore — Roy Bentley
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
OBIT (Hope) — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
The Mirror Never Lies — Negar Emrani
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
A Mirror Never Lies — Negar Emrani
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
The Braided Stream — Nancy Reddy
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
What I Want Your Voice to Do — Jessie van Eerden
Nonfiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
Paradise — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Poem after the Equinox, 2015 — Lisa Coffman
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
The Nine Solitary Plasters of a Comedy — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
The Machine's Guide to Grief — Leah Falk
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Out and Back — Leah Falk
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
States and Instructions for the Universal Machine — Leah Falk
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Warn the Young Ones — Jennifer Givhan
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Mirrorform: The Living Dead — Peter Kline
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
In 1967 — Larry Levis
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Fukushima Winter — Miguel Murphy
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Hamlet — Miguel Murphy
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
The Weeknight Showing — Ryo Yamaguchi
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Review | Fish in Exile, by Vi Khi Nao — Emily Block
Nonfiction · v16n2, Fall 2017
Manuscript: "In 1967" by Larry Levis — Larry Levis
Gallery · v16n2, Fall 2017
Three Plays: Introduction & Table of Contents by Ken Weitzman — Ken Weitzman
Gallery · v16n2, Fall 2017
Mountaineer — Ken Weitzman
Gallery · v16n2, Fall 2017
Levis Remembered
Features · v16n2, Fall 2017
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o? — Gregory Donovan
Features · v16n2, Fall 2017
20th Annual Levis Reading Prize
Features · v16n2, Fall 2017
At a Stranger’s Funeral — Zoe Gadegbeku
Fiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
In Which St. Irene, Born Penelope, Is Spared by Beasts of Water, Earth and Sky — Sara Biggs Chaney
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
i know who you are — Dana Crum
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Crossing Mourning Kill — Andy Fogle
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Amor Fati — Jennifer Franklin
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Continuing the Story — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Door — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Consort (Carriage & Miscarriage) — Kathryn Merwin
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Licking Light — Vi Khi Nao
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Where the Cancer Center’s New Wing Will Be — Debra Nystrom
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Seasons Change Before We’re Ready — Debra Nystrom
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
So It Goes — Steven Ratiner
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Schubert (with the volume turned up) — Steven Ratiner
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Claudia Emerson: Elegy After Elegy — Andrew Hudgins
Nonfiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
from The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam — Paisley Rekdal
Nonfiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
Unequivocal Painting: The Watercolors of Javier Tapia — Jorge Miguel Benitez
Gallery · v16n1, Spring 2017
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop Introduction — Claudia Emerson
Features · v16n1, Spring 2017
“AWP Memorial Panel and Reading: Remembering Claudia Emerson” — Claudia Emerson
Features · v16n1, Spring 2017
Transport — Betty Adcock
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Planet of the Aged — Heather Altfeld
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Sally’s Daughter, a Young Poet, Explores the Idea of Dad — Jenny Irish
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
The Portal of the Years — Rodney Jones
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Body Bags — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Karen Greenlee — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Manifesto — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Epitaph on a Stone — Rickey Laurentiis
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It — Larry Levis
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Instinctive Drowning Response — David Moolten
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Last. Child. Last. Child. — Sofia Starnes
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Going Places — David St. John
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
The Abandoned Hour — G.C. Waldrep
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
The Lame Take the Prey — G.C. Waldrep
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
St. Winifred’s Well (2) — G.C. Waldrep
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Absolute Rhythm — David Wojahn
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Sinatra: The Concert at Pompeii, 1991 — David Wojahn
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
The Cardinal — Chelsea Woodard
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
All the Grand Deaths — Tobias Wray
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
What Someone Was Supposed to Swing: Secularizing the Spiritual in Larry Levis’s The Darkening Trapeze — Matt Donovan
Nonfiction · v15n2, Fall 2016
Safety Scissors — Beth Ann Fennelly
Nonfiction · v15n2, Fall 2016
Bluebeard’s Closet — Anna Journey
Nonfiction · v15n2, Fall 2016
Review | Grief & Other Animals, by Patty Paine — Laura Van Prooyen
Nonfiction · v15n2, Fall 2016
A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet by Michele Poulos
Gallery · v15n2, Fall 2016
Larry Levis
Gallery · v15n2, Fall 2016
AWP Panel, The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems of Larry Levis
Features · v15n2, Fall 2016
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
Features · v15n2, Fall 2016
Before It Gets Dark — Gregory Donovan
Features · v15n2, Fall 2016
19th Annual Levis Reading Prize
Features · v15n2, Fall 2016
Seed — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Epistle — Joseph Fasano
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Ink-Stone Box — Henry Hart
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
The Disappearing Threshold: Claudia Emerson and the Poetry of Mourning — Allison Seay
Nonfiction · v15n1, Spring 2016
Shadow — Emily Leithauser
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
[Shadow, you’ll travel to what waits ahead] — Simone Muench, Dean Rader
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
The Wind Wears a Red Leaf — Lisa Russ Spaar
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Feeding the Hounds — Catherine Staples
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
1996 Handley Library Reading — Larry Levis
Features · v14n2, Fall 2015
In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing — Jenny Browne
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Death Mask — Sarah Crossland
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Heaven — C.L. O’Dell
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
I Saw Everything — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Influenced — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Vivisecting — Jeff Whitney
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
from Dear Herculine — Aaron Apps
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
from Dear Herculine — Aaron Apps
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
afterlife — Beth Bachmann
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
restriction — Beth Bachmann
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Horoscope — Michelle Chan Brown
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Department of Aerial Photography — Joshua Poteat
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Everyone Here Is a Tourist — Melissa Barrett
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Harvest — Rodney Gomez
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Huge Piece of Building — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Hypothesis: An Interview — Tyler Mills
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Ghost Hour Gospel — Mark Wagenaar
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
After and Before — Douglas Silver
Features · v13n1, Spring 2014
Dream Cargo — Sidney Burris
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Some Men — John Hoppenthaler
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Passing — John Hoppenthaler
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
God Is Always Seventeen — Larry Levis
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
La Strada — Larry Levis
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It — Larry Levis
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Aberration — Christopher Munde
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
[Something of occupation] — Michael C. Peterson
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
[So long on Tantrum now] — Michael C. Peterson
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Elegy 2 — Iliana Rocha
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Is there still a Betty in this new life? — Diane Seuss
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
We fear the undulant — Diane Seuss
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
The Tree of Forgetting — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
White Dwarves — Dexter L. Booth
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
Irene Virga Salafia — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
Archaic Archaic Torso of the Sun God Apollo as a Star Apple, an Oil Lamp, a Broken Mirror — Stanley Plumly
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
After the Tzeltal — Stanley Plumly
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
Russian Mysticism — Dillon Droege
Fiction · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Meteor Shower — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Adornment on an Ancient Tomb in Tibet — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Gall Themselves, and Gash — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Another Horizontal Lyric — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Thrombosis — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Urn Burial — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Prayer — Richard Jackson
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Oranges in Uganda — Katherine Larson
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Girl Who Was A Victim Of The Flood — Larry Levis
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Leopard’s Mouth Is Dry And Cold Inside — Larry Levis
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Tomb of the Scipios — Ron Smith
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Col. Othniel Sweet’s Mysteries of Nature, #14 (auto-combustion) — R.T. Smith
Fiction · v11n1, Spring 2012
Chronos — Andrew Allport
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Keats, Climbing — Andrew Allport
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Sarcophagus — Andrew Allport
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Further Possible Answers to Prayer — Scott Cairns
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Brief Father, — Mark Irwin
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Where Humans Live Roaches — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Elegy with Lake Effect — Saara Myrene Raappana
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Welcome to Paradise — Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
The Fruit Leaves The Tree — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Graveside Blessing — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Hospital Visit — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Light Elegy — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Bend as Would a God — Phillip B. Williams
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
A Man Writes ‘Human’ and is Not Punished — Phillip B. Williams
Features · v11n1, Spring 2012
Extinct, Amy Beeder — Amy Beeder | Blackbird v11n1
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Tetanus, Amy Beeder — Amy Beeder | Blackbird v11n1
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Matins — Malachi Black
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Gram Parsons — Charlie Clark
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Florida Funeral — Erica Dawson
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Suicide Cascades, Joy Katz
Poetry · v10n2, Fall 2011
Review | If You Have Ghosts, by John Pursley III — Ross Losapio
Nonfiction · v10n2, Fall 2011
Review | What Is Owed the Dead, by R.H.W. Dillard — Randy Marshall
Nonfiction · v10n2, Fall 2011
Pillbox — Aurelie Sheehan
Fiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
but for us they — Abraham Burickson
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
The Lovely Theresa — Jennifer Chang
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Elegy as a Shopping List — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
From July ‘90, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane — Patty Crane
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Haiku Poems, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane — Patty Crane
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Silence, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane — Patty Crane
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Midwinter, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane — Patty Crane
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
A Sketch from 1844, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane — Patty Crane
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
The Quotations of Bone — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
The Hat Called Sky: — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
The Quotations of Meat — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
At the Tomb of Naiads — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
The Dressmaker’s Daughter — Susan Elbe
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Cook Takes Stock after the Ice Road Fails — Adam Houle
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-Medieval Writing Desk — David Keplinger
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Nights with Almanzo, Days — Maggie Schwed
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Passing Through — Maggie Schwed
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Counting Things — Yu Shibuya
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Tagore Variations 6 — Jeremy Spohr
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Tagore Variations 3 — Jeremy Spohr
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Från Juli 90 — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Haikudikter — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Tystnad — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Midvinter — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
En Skiss Från 1844 — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Good Evening, Beautiful Deep: on The Sorrow Gondola — David Wojahn
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Review of Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems, by Beckian Fritz Goldberg — Randy Marshall
Nonfiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
Review of Ghost Lights by Keith Montesano — Emilia Phillips
Nonfiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
A Reading by Philip Levine, Blackbird, Blackbird — Philip Levine
Features · v10n1, Spring 2011
Couch — Rachel Maizes
Fiction · v9n2, Fall 2010
Cancer Party — Nicola Mason
Fiction · v9n2, Fall 2010
from “For the Lost Cathedral,” 13 — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Brez Anestezije, Aleš Debeljak | translation by Brian Henry — Aleš Debeljak
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Landing — Nava EtShalom
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Without Anesthesia, Aleš Debeljak — Brian Henry
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex — Larry Levis
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Admissions — Jeannine Savard
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Spring Intervention — Jeannine Savard
Poetry · 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
Instructions for Dematerializing — Cori A. Winrock
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre i — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre vi — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre viii — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre xiii — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Ochre xxiii — David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Something of Us to Prove Our Afterlife: Notes on "Ochre", David Wojahn
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
A Reading by Philip Levine, Blackbird — Philip Levine
Features · v9n2, Fall 2010
A Reading David St. John, Blackbird — David St. John
Features · v9n2, Fall 2010
The End of the Game — Zachary Mason
Fiction · v9n1, Spring 2010
Son — Drew Blanchard
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
After Lorca — Carol Ann Davis
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Secure the Shadow — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Equilibrium — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Seeing — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Letter from Gozo — Kathleen Graber
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Dust — James Hoch
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
The Nietzsche Horse — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Meanwhile — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Whim of the Minute — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
The Withholding — Jamie Quatro
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
In the Fields of Asphodel, Evening — Sara Quinn Rivara
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
All Souls Crossing — Catherine Staples
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
The Dead Man, 1958 — Lesley Wheeler
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
hart crane after a heart-to-heart — Desmond Kon Yishǒu-Zhetian
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Condolence for the Blind Mori — Christopher Burawa
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Twenty Line Sonnet — Peter Cooley
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
The Singing — Katie Ford
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
the dead worm their way through glacial till — Sandy Longhorn
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Abiquiú — Maureen Seaton
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Disabled Odyssey — Shirley Stephenson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Tidal Volume — Shirley Stephenson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
“I” — Gerald Stern
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
And Ever — Jake Adam York
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Review of Colosseum by Katie Ford — Shanley Jacobs
Nonfiction · v8n2, Fall 2009
The Common Swallow, David Caudle — The Common Swallow, David Caudle
Gallery · v8n2, Fall 2009
Levis Remembered Reading Loop Introduction , Blackbird — Larry Levis
Features · v8n2, Fall 2009
Levis Remembered, Blackbird — Larry Levis
Features · v8n2, Fall 2009
Tales from the Dark Hotel — Ann Fisher-Wirth
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Elegy: I Pass by the Erotic Bakery — Anna Journey
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Within Five Miles of Home — Rita Mae Reese
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
what is it darling, that draws you to me? it's probably insipid — Diane Seuss
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Review of Undiscovered Country, by Lin Enger — Jesse Ulmer
Nonfiction · v8n1, Spring 2009
Charlie Chaplin Dug Up & Ransomed: A Prayer — Matt Donovan
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Living on Burrowed Time — Patrick Lawler
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand — Larry Levis
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Past Lives — Irene McKinney
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Protection Cord — Irene McKinney
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Unthinkable — Irene McKinney
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Response to, "Why Don't You Write about Something Happy?" — Bruce Weigl
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
An Ice Age — Jonathan Weinert
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Larry Levis—The Poet & His Prose — Christopher Buckley
Nonfiction · v7n2, Fall 2008
Review of Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker — Michele Poulos
Nonfiction · v7n2, Fall 2008
Larry Levis Remembered, Blackbird — Larry Levis
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Larry Levis Remembered Reading Loop Introduction, Blackbird — Larry Levis
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Carol Houck Smith Obituary, W.W. Norton & Company, Blackbird
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire, Blackbird
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire, Blackbird
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire, Blackbird
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Carol Houck Smith , Blackbird
Features · v7n2, Fall 2008
Cantor, Frege & Gödel: — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Not the Bathing Tank at Madras: A Romance — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Behind the Old Soldiers’ Hospital — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Fragment 26 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet — Jehanne Dubrow
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Ancestor, Tomaž Šalamun | translator Brian Henry — Tomaž Šalamun
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Homesick in Paradise — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Lawrence at the Etruscan Tombs — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
R.J. — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Transcience — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Slipknot: Starlight — Fritz Ward
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Audio: The Philosopher — Ryo Yamaguchi
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Review of City of Regret by Andrew Kozma — Sandra Beasley
Nonfiction · v7n1, Spring 2008
Review of Michelangelo’s Seizure by Steve Gehrke, Susan S. Williams — Susan Settlemyre Williams
Nonfiction · v7n1, Spring 2008
Postmortem Examination on the Body of Clifford Baxter — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Ventriloquist on the Moor, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc — Gibson Fay-Leblanc
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Say You Waved: A Dream Song Cycle — Beth Ann Fennelly
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Problems with Windows — James Hoch
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Elegy in Late Spring — Timothy O’Keefe
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
The Present — Austin Segrest
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Condor — Louie Skipper
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Future Tense — 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
Tomorrow — Charles Wright
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
The 30-Kilometer Walk — Court Merrigan
Fiction · v6n1, Spring 2007
Drowning — Paula Bohince
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Tyros’ World Tour — Paula Cisewski
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Eligible — Catherine Daly
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
June 1910, Susquehanna Valley — Adam Day
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Three Fluid Graces — Jeff Baker
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Polar Explorer #2 — Elizabeth Bradfield
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Meanwhile Under the Shade Palms — Robin Ekiss
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
In the City of Light — Larry Levis
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Noah Studies — Bryan Penberthy
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Ennui — Sylvia Plath
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Edward Curtis' "Good Lance: Oglala" — Paisley Rekdal
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Louisiana's Swamps — Rachel Richardson
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Anybody? — Alan Shapiro
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
The Incentive of the Maggot — Ron Slate
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Funeral Direction — Mark Yakich
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Review: Lie Awake Lake, by Beckian Fritz Goldberg — Craig Beaven
Nonfiction · v5n2, Fall 2006
You — Sandra Beasley
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Afterword — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Canto — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Correlative — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Courage — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Ten Poems from What Is Owed the Dead — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Exile — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Exile 2 — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Light — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Requiem — R. H. W. Dillard
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
East Window, Moon — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Right Over Left — Terri Witek
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
The Bridge — Dana Cann
Fiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
The Interview — Cary Holladay
Fiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
How Beautiful Thy Feet With Shoes — Janet Peery
Fiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
American Landscape Painting — Craig Beaven
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Usually My Dreams Mean Nothing — Elinor Benedict
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Tableau — Rebecca Dunham
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Caravaggio’s The Death of the Virgin — Steve Gehrke
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Three Go to the Zoo — Lesley Jenike
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Disposing of the Body — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Of Course — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Self Knowledge — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Florida Ghazals — Spencer Reece
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Red Elegy — Peter Jay Shippy
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
The World as L. Found It — Tom Andrews
Nonfiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
After Bad News — Marian Crotty
Nonfiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
“In All Them Time Henry Could Not Make Good”: Reintroducing John Berryman — David Wojahn
Nonfiction · v4n2, Fall 2005
Richard Carylon | Selected Work — Richard Carlyon
Gallery · v4n2, Fall 2005
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction — Levis Remembered
Features · v4n2, Fall 2005
right now i remember the old — William E. Dudley
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
A Glittering — Sarah Manguso
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Will We? — Sarah Manguso
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Luna Moth — Cecily Parks
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
During Fever — F. Daniel Rzicznek
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Buzzards — Ravi Shankar
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Homage to Tom Andrews — Matthew Thorburn
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
Afterthoughts by the Director, volume of smoke — Clay McLeod Chapman
Gallery · v4n1, Spring 2005
Introduction, volume of smoke — Clay McLeod Chapman
Gallery · v4n1, Spring 2005
volume of smoke — Clay McLeod Chapman
Gallery · v4n1, Spring 2005
Jiang Qing — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Those Graves in Rome — Larry Levis
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Poem Ending With a Hotel on Fire — Larry Levis
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Two Poems by Larry Levis — Larry Levis
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Alzheimer's — Sean Nevin
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
The Feeder, 9 — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Bunk Richardson — Jake Adam York
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Consolation — Jake Adam York
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
To Recover the Poet: Larry Levis's Elegy, The Selected Levis, and The Gazer Within — Edward Byrne
Nonfiction · v3n2, Fall 2004
A Conversation with Philip Levine — Philip Levine
Nonfiction · v3n2, Fall 2004
Review | Search Party: Collected Poems, by William Matthews — David Wojahn
Nonfiction · v3n2, Fall 2004
Blackbird Feature, Seventh Annual Levis Prize Reading, November 15, 2004
Features · v3n2, Fall 2004
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction — Levis Remembered
Features · v3n2, Fall 2004
Here Is the Church — Marlys West
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
The Plunder House — C. Dale Young
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
OCD — Erica Dawson
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, Epilogue — Norman Dubie
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Baby Won't You Please Come Home — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
The Lonesome Road — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
What the Dead Deserved — Melissa Koosmann
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
The Space — Larry Levis
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Two Poems by Larry Levis — Larry Levis
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
From Underneath — Kathleen Peirce
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Requiem — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
May 30 — Gerald Stern
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Hardheaded Weather — Cornelius Eady
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Pitching Horseshoes — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Mummy on the Doorstep — Christine Boyka Kluge
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
The Shortest Distance — Erin Lambert
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
On Faith — Erin Lambert
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Afterlife — Gary Leising
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Self Portrait as a Mourning Dove — Joshua Poteat
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
The Scenery of Farewell (and Hello Again) — Joshua Poteat
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Noir — A. E. Stallings
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Legerdemain — Kevin Boyle
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Luna Moth — Leigh Anne Couch
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Book of the Body — Rodney Jack
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Book of Hours — Richard McCann
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Still Missing the Jays — Stanley Plumly
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
The Sublime — Steve Scafidi
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
This is the Age of Beautiful Death — John Dufresne
Fiction · v1n1, Spring 2002
Dollar Bill — Michael Chitwood
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Mirage — John Hoppenthaler
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Canzone — Mark Jarman
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Murk — David St. John
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Disappearing Act — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Clockwork Prayer: For Whose Sake? — Elizabeth King
Nonfiction · v1n1, Spring 2002
Clockwork Prayer: Epilogue — Elizabeth King
Nonfiction · v1n1, Spring 2002