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Little America — Jessi Phillips
Fiction · v21n3, Spring 2023
Zuihitsu of Los Angeles in Conversation with David Hockney — Heidi Seaborn
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The Offices of Grief — Caitlin Wilson
Poetry · v21n3, Spring 2023
The New Poem — Colby Cotton
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
It Is 6 p.m. on the 2 Train Downtown — Arhm Choi Wild
Poetry · v21n1, Spring 2022
Wynwood Black — Gea Haff
Fiction · v20n2, Fall 2021
Somerville Avenue — Wyn Cooper
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Follow the Pen (随笔) — Alan Fang
Poetry · v20n2, Fall 2021
Managing Remotely: Blackbird in Pandemic — Hayley Graffunder
Features · v20n1, Spring 2021
Suspicious Activity — Oksana Maksymchuk
Poetry · v19n2, Fall 2020
Dutch — Amina Gautier
Fiction · v19n1, Spring 2020
Untitled (When time settles) — Ralph Angel
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Fish — Larry Levis
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
For Colored Kids Building Up Their Bones — Amber McBride
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On — Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Bystanders — Kathleen Winter
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Great Road — Annie Woodford
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season — Jenny Xie
Poetry · v18n2, Fall 2019
Maisie — Rowland Kenny
Gallery · v18n2, Fall 2019
Goodbye, Piccadilly — Ryan Black
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
October is a Fine and Dangerous Season in America — Zach Hester
Poetry · v18n1, Spring 2019
Confiscation — Anne Noonan
Nonfiction · v17n2, Fall 2018
A Riot — James Leech
Fiction · v17n1, Spring 2018
Memory and Language — James Leech
Features · v17n1, Spring 2018
Here, Beauties — Lee Conell
Fiction · v16n2, Fall 2017
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Delicatessen — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
Poem for the Speakeasy — Catherine Pierce
Poetry · v16n2, Fall 2017
“VMFA Artist Talk: LeRoy Henderson,” This Is My Proof
Gallery · v16n2, Fall 2017
Poupée de cire, poupée de son — Monica Datta
Fiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
Cant — Colin Orr
Fiction · v16n1, Spring 2017
London Song — Diana Arterian
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Where the Cancer Center’s New Wing Will Be — Debra Nystrom
Poetry · v16n1, Spring 2017
Risky Business — Colin Orr
Features · v16n1, Spring 2017
The one drag show in town is closing — Anne Barngrove
Poetry · v15n2, Fall 2016
It Felt Like I Knew You — George Ferrandi
Gallery · v15n2, Fall 2016
Și, deodată, în bărulețul trupului tău, răstorn masa — Daniel Bănulescu
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Then Suddenly, in the Little Bar of Your Body, I Overturn the Table — Daniel Bănulescu
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Hiding in a Well in the Northtown Yard — Kai Carlson-Wee
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Mr. Darcy (Cars surround us) — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Distance — Julie Danho
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Detroit Boxtrain Wood Finisher — Christopher Emery
Poetry · v15n1, Spring 2016
Not Far Underground — Keith Ekiss
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
o(vers)ight — Vanessa Couto Johnson
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Nightshift as a Waitress: When the Regular Arrives — Carly Joy Miller
Poetry · v14n2, Fall 2015
Sound Wall — Benjamin Goldberg
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Waiting for the Diverted Trolley at 40th & Market St. — Gentris L. Jointe
Poetry · v14n1, Spring 2015
Writing Through the Body — Anders Carlson-Wee
Features · v14n1, Spring 2015
A Delicate Balance — Taylor Altman
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Parking FAQ — David Hernandez
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Elevator — Lindsay Tigue
Poetry · v13n2, Fall 2014
Jersey Shore — Kimberly N. Frank
Fiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
Stations — J.M. Tyree
Fiction · v13n1, Spring 2014
Why Not Malachite for Resurrection — Jen Hirt
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Huge Piece of Building — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
The City — Dan Rosenberg
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Of Current — F. Daniel Rzicznek
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Reckoner — Ryan Walsh
Poetry · v13n1, Spring 2014
Charles Sheeler
Gallery · v13n1, Spring 2014
Manhatta Suite Introduction
Gallery · v13n1, Spring 2014
“Manhatta,” Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
Gallery · v13n1, Spring 2014
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #346: ‘The Banks Have Begun to Contract’ — Sandra Beasley
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
Portraits of a Former Lover — Dana Crum
Poetry · v12n1, Spring 2013
Ramadan Nocturne — Tarfia Faizullah
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Nursery Rhyme from Another Century — Katherine Larson
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Public Art — Matthew Zapruder
Poetry · v11n2, Fall 2012
Kicks — Mike Antosia
Fiction · v11n1, Spring 2012
from The Serialist — David Gordon
Fiction · v11n1, Spring 2012
Vampires of Queens — David Gordon
Fiction · v11n1, Spring 2012
variations of this luminous hour, metro station — O. Ayes
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Some Dead Magic — Mary Biddinger
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
A Coin-Operated Paramour and a Half — Mary Biddinger
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Essence and Justification — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Where Humans Live Roaches — Andrew Kozma
Poetry · v11n1, Spring 2012
Berlin-Ljubljana-Tokyo — Aleš Šteger
Nonfiction · v11n1, Spring 2012
When Are You Coming Home? — Bryn Chancellor
Fiction · v10n2, Fall 2011
Levis at Laurel and China II & Street Art, Blackbird
Features · v10n2, Fall 2011
Infinidelity — Chris Leo
Fiction · v10n1, Spring 2011
Elegy as a Shopping List — Victoria Chang
Poetry · v10n1, Spring 2011
September — Peter Campion
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
Postcard: Cape May — David Dodd Lee
Poetry · v9n2, Fall 2010
As if in the Sleep of the Other — Peter Campion
Nonfiction · v9n2, Fall 2010
Subway Song, Interrupted — Sherman Alexie
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
In a Time of Excess and Hopeless Transport — Jennifer H. Fortin
Poetry · v8n2, Fall 2009
The Common Swallow, David Caudle — The Common Swallow, David Caudle
Gallery · v8n2, Fall 2009
Rimbaud’s Kraken — Nicky Beer
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
My City — Heather June Gibbons
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Harold Street Eclogue — Joshua Rivkin
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Patina: A Triptych — Metta Sáma
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
View from the Headlands — Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Poetry · v8n1, Spring 2009
Walking Houseproud — Terri Witek
Poetry · v7n2, Fall 2008
Levis Remembered Found Portraits, Blackbird
Gallery · v7n2, Fall 2008
Returning — Abraham Burickson
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Nocturne with Choreography for Departure — Lynda Hull
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
The Window — Lynda Hull
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
The Rough Guide to Romantic Comedy — James Thomas Miller
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Drug Department — Joshua Poteat
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
This New City — Elizabeth Scanlon
Poetry · v7n1, Spring 2008
Red-headed Blueswoman — Elizabeth Alexander
Nonfiction · v7n1, Spring 2008
Illinois, Scene One — Terry Gibson
Gallery · v7n1, Spring 2008
Illinois, Scene Two — Terry Gibson
Gallery · v7n1, Spring 2008
Friday Afternoons on Bus Number 51 — Sruthi Thekkiam
Fiction · v6n2, Fall 2007
Vita Nuova — Joshua Weiner
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Weegee: Coney Island Beach After Midnight — Joshua Weiner
Poetry · v6n2, Fall 2007
Spare — Carolyn Guinzio
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
Males Often Have Brilliant Colors — Laura Van Prooyen
Poetry · v5n2, Fall 2006
You — Sandra Beasley
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Are you expressing a desire to know me? — Sarah Vap
Poetry · v5n1, Spring 2006
Still Life — Dave Lucas
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Epistle to Elsner on the Eve of his 34th Birthday — Karyna McGlynn
Poetry · v4n2, Fall 2005
Blood Feathers — Robert Krut
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Homage to Tom Andrews — Matthew Thorburn
Poetry · v4n1, Spring 2005
Flood — Brian Barker
Poetry · v3n2, Fall 2004
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits — Wendy Ewald
Gallery · v3n2, Fall 2004
We Are the Renters — Beth Ann Fennelly
Poetry · v3n1, Spring 2004
The Genie of the Station: John Newman's Skyrider — Elizabeth King, Carlton Newton
Gallery · v3n1, Spring 2004
Blackbird Feature, Wesley Gibson, from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival — Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Wesley Gibson, September 1, 2004
Features · v3n1, Spring 2004
L'Heure Bleue — Susan Aizenberg
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Uptown Blues — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
'Taint What You Do — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Blues in the Night — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Well, All Right Then — T. R. Hummer
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
The Space — Larry Levis
Poetry · v2n2, Fall 2003
Grief Bird — Cornelius Eady
Poetry · v2n1, Spring 2003
Polar Arms — Leon Rooke
Fiction · v1n2, Fall 2002
Circumstantial — Lynn Emanuel
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Noir Food — Lynn Emanuel
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Single Girl. One Room Flat. — Lynn Emanuel
Poetry · v1n2, Fall 2002
Bell's Tavern — Larry Levis
Nonfiction · v1n2, Fall 2002
On the Bus — Manuel Martinez
Fiction · v1n1, Spring 2002