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The Lake in Winter — Michael Chitwood
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Stringed Instrument Collection — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Zephyr — Jesse Lee Kercheval
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
Blood Moon — Corey Van Landingham
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The Drain — Jonathan Weinert
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
‘The Eye Is the First Circle’ — Jim Whiteside
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The Offices of Grief — Caitlin Wilson
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
‘we are each other’s atmosphere’ — Katherine Cooper
Gallery · v21n3, Spring 2023
we are each other’s atmosphere Audio Transcript — George Ferrandi
Gallery · v21n3, Spring 2023
Swing — Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Persistent Illusions — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Some Things Are Not Hypothetical — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
The Whywolf — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v21n2, Fall 2022
Connections — Aaron Baker
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Blackbird — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Self-Portrait as Yard Boy — Caleb Braun
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Existence — Colby Cotton
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
The New Poem — Colby Cotton
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Triptych — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Hillwood — Mark Jarman
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Odore di fieno — Antonia Pozzi
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Odor of Hay — Antonia Pozzi, translation from Italian by Amy Newman
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Putting a Letter in the Mailbox — Inge Pedersen, translation from Danish by Marilyn Nelson
Fiction · v20n2, Fall 2021
Our Daily Ration — Lauren Camp
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Echinopsis pachanoi — Lauren Camp
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Field — Tomaž Šalamun, translation from Slovene by Brian Henry
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Solo in Guadalajara: A Lament — Raphael Dagold
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Hone — Carolyn Guinzio
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
the junkyard galaxy knocks — Irène P. Mathieu
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
Poles — Uche Ogbuji
Poetry · v20n1, Spring 2021
The Singularity Keeps to Himself — David Campos
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Diptych with Window View & Hiroshige Print — Patricia Clark
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Suspicious Activity — Oksana Maksymchuk
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Raven — Nima Yushij, translation from Persian by Kaveh Bassiri
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Dutch — Amina Gautier
Fiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
The Humming — James Tate
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Hemåt — Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Homeward — Tomas Tranströmer, translation from Swedish by Patty Crane
Poetry · v19n1, Spring 2020
Under the North — Robert Froese
Fiction · v18n2, Fall 2019
Untitled (Against the slope) — Ralph Angel
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Untitled (I stared at the glint) — Ralph Angel
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Untitled (When time settles) — Ralph Angel
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Hitchhiking at Nineteen — Adam Chiles
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
By You — Erin Lambert Hartman
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Whiteout — L.A. Johnson
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Coupling — Julio Monteiro, translation from Italian by Donald Stang, Helen Wickes
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
‘Swan Lake’ with Dostoevsky — Svetlana Turetskaya
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Ongoing — Jenny Xie
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season — Jenny Xie
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
These Are the Insects — Charlie Clark
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Face Blindness — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Sites of Exchange — Joey Kingsley
Features · v18n1, Spring 2019
Planet Nine — Brandon Amico
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Carry On — Chris Haven
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Distortion — Sandra Marchetti
Poetry · v17n2, Fall 2018
Former Marys — Lauren Barbato
Fiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
10 Bela Road — Sonal Kohli
Fiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
Searching This City’s Thrift Stores for Mirrors — Z.G. Tomaszewski
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
[Влітку], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Orange in a Schoolbag — Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Alan Zhukovski
Poetry · v17n1, Spring 2018
Review | Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash — Matthew Phipps
Nonfiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
The Ritual — Sonal Kohli
Features · v17n1, Spring 2018
The Art of Composition — Fleda Brown
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Loose Page Found Inside a Notebook — Susan Elbe
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
While Falling to Sleep — Ed Falco
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Stopping at a Gas Station on the Third Day of Driving Across the Country — Chloe Honum
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
The Morning After — Karrie Waarala
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
[Влітку], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Orange in a Schoolbag — Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Alan Zhukovski
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Bruised Forest — Dana Crum
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Mascots — Brendan Galvin
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Soap — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Abandoned Shacks in North Carolina — Rob Shapiro
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Review | Cities I've Never Lived In by Sara Majka — Amanda Goemmer
Nonfiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
The Best Library in the World — Graham Hillard
Features · v16n1, Spring 2017
Sincerity — William Logan
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Surfaces — Margo Taft Stever
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
Hypatia — Chelsea Woodard
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
It Felt Like I Knew You — George Ferrandi
Gallery · v15n2, Fall 2016
Where the Feeling Deserts Us — Kai Carlson-Wee
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Hiding in a Well in the Northtown Yard — Kai Carlson-Wee
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Novitiate — Ramola D
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Fat — Erin McGraw
Fiction · v14n2, Fall 2015
[Edith Södergran, also holding the leash] — Talvikki Ansel
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Buttons — Ruth Madievsky
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Après le Déluge, or How to Return 1 — Peter Makuck
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Fear of Stones and Air — Darren Morris
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
What Light Does — Patty Paine
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Two Weeks — Lisa Russ Spaar
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Equal, Always Equal, to the Inexpressible — Stephen Haven
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
The Other Side — Gentris L. Jointe
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Weird Prayers — Rosalie Moffett
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
It’s Like This — Diane Seuss
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Wolves Grovel at the Gate of an Abandoned Fourteenth-Century Hermitage — Spencer Hanvik
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
The Villain & the Helpless One — Kyla Sterling
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Elevator — Lindsay Tigue
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
My Pet Baby — Sarah Trudgeon
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Get Up, You Abyss — Kyle Valenta
Nonfiction · v13n2, Fall 2014
Stations — J.M. Tyree
Fiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
Your Virtue Unswerving, But Miles from Any Mark — Melissa Barrett
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Without Like or As — Matthew Hotham
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Huge Piece of Building — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
A Horrible Shock — Circe Maia
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Una horrible impresión — Circe Maia
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
I’ll Make Dinner Tonight — Meg McKeon
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Revenge of the Love Song of the Boy Parachutist — Liam O’Brien
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Misanthropic — Ron Wallace
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Sleep — John W. Evans
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Note Left for My Former Self — Michael McGriff
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
[So long on Tantrum now] — Michael C. Peterson
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
My Head a Pine Cabinet with Female Cardinal Ascending — Rebekah Remington
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Little Invocation — Rebekah Remington
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
[New days are like the changing of water.] — Maya Sarishvili
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
[ახალი დღეები წყლის გამოცვლასავითაა.] — Maya Sarishvili
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Haibun for the Grantham Station Platform — Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
Poetry · v12n2, Fall 2013
Love in the Time of Revolution — Dexter L. Booth
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
To a Girl Named Siberia — Ellen Caswell
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
III. To Have & To Hold — Corey Van Landingham
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
Once — Juliana Gray
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Sappho — T.R. Hummer
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Walking the Dog — Richard Jackson
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Such Insomnia and the Shape — Katherine Larson
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Plains — Larry Levis
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
The Zoo — Larry Levis
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Sun Bear — Matthew Zapruder
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Aging Poet — Eleanor Ross Taylor
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Tender — Daneen Wardrop
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Down and Out — Caki Wilkinson
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Hibernaculum — Caki Wilkinson
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Windows and Walls — Will Schutt
Features · v11n1, Spring 2012
from “Dear Sara Jane” — Victor Lodato
Fiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
“I Reject All Likeness . . . ” — John Allman
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
What They Tell You — Lilah Hegnauer
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-Afternoon Swim — David Keplinger
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
The Quiet Girls — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
Some Things You Know Exactly — Yu Shibuya
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
from "Dear Sara Jane," Victor Lodato — Victor Lodato
Gallery · v10n1, Spring 2011
Without Anesthesia, Aleš Debeljak — Brian Henry
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Seeing — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Concentrations — Philip Gross
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
The Angel of Death Knocks at the Door — Henry Hart
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Mating Chain — Kelli Anne Noftle
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Meanwhile — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Sixteen Poems — Liana Quill
Poetry · v9n1, Spring 2010
Silence, Reader, Melody S. Gee — Tracking the Muse
Features · v9n1, Spring 2010
Rattlesnake Country — Airin Miller
Fiction · v8n2, Fall 2009
Antidote to the Chaos of Imagination — Christopher Burawa
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Natural Bridge — Leah Dunham
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Near Sleep in a Smoky Room — Danielle Hanson
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Light or Dark Speech — William Olsen
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Abiquiú — Maureen Seaton
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Nightlife — Sofia M. Starnes
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
Planetarium (One Adult Admission) — Julie Funderburk
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Night Ship to Ceuta — Philip Levine
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
The Upstairs Notebook — Erika Meitner
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Patina: A Triptych — Metta Sáma
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Motel 1 — Allison Titus
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Motel 2 — Allison Titus
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
An Ice Age — Jonathan Weinert
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Walking Houseproud — Terri Witek
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Season of Miracles — Constance Adler
Nonfiction · v7n2, Fall 2008
Ghost Dog — Molly Giles
Fiction · v7n1, Spring 2008
The Minotaur Speaks — Sandra Beasley
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Hunger — Bruce Bond
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Practice Rooms — Claudia Emerson
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Audio: The Philosopher — Ryo Yamaguchi
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Going Away Shoes — Jill McCorkle
Fiction · v6n2, Fall 2007
Ventriloquist on an Off Day, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc — Gibson Fay-Leblanc
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Telescope Psalm — Paula Cisewski
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Three A.M. — Kathy Davis
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Ficus — Twilight Greenaway
Poetry · v6n1, Spring 2007
Walls — Peter Orner
Fiction · v5n2, Fall 2006
Study/Leaves — Leonard Gontarek
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Study/Moon — Leonard Gontarek
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Arc — David Dodd Lee
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Some Grass along a Ditch Bank — Larry Levis
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Dispatch From the Outpost — Sandy Longhorn
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Winter Psalm — Sandy Longhorn
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Anybody? — Alan Shapiro
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Adam and Eva — Anne Germanacos
Fiction · v5n1, Spring 2006
Estuary — Jennifer Chang
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Field Guide to the Night Sky — Jennifer Chang
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
East Window, Moon — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Paper — Lorene Lamothe
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Domesticity — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds — Dan Albergotti
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Juliet and Dark — Nancy Taylor Everett
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Redwood — Douglas Goetsch
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Sanctuary in the Dome City — Emily Watson
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Landscape Returning — Jody Rambo
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
At the Terminal — Bryn Chancellor
Fiction · v3n2, Fall 2004
No Diga Mas Que Lo Que No Diga — Danielle Hanson
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Sleepy — Hugh Steinberg
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Firewalk — Cathryn Hankla
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
Images from the Kingdom of Things — Charles Wright
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
My Things — Patricia Wagner
Fiction · v2n2, Fall 2003
Blues in the Night — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Requiem — Allan Peterson
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Key West | Act Three: East — Dan O'Brien
Gallery · v2n2, Fall 2003
How to Keep Busy While Your Fiancé Climbs Mount Everest — Becky Hagenston
Fiction · v2n1, Spring 2003
The Shower Wall — Julia Johnson
Fiction · v2n1, Spring 2003
No Haiku — B. H. Boston
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Tinnitus — B. H. Boston
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Learning to Use the Stick — Leigh Anne Couch
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Circumstantial — Lynn Emanuel
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Single Girl. One Room Flat. — Lynn Emanuel
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Letter from the Ground Floor — Richard McCann
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Dedication — Jane Satterfield
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
The Hayfield Chandelier — Steve Scafidi
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Miniature Man — Carrie Brown
Fiction · v1n1, Spring 2002
Drifting Boat — Margaret Gibson
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
The Other Side — Rachel Hadas
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002
Night-Blooming Jasmine — Peggy Shumaker
Poetry · v1n1, Spring 2002