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2006

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviews

Fiction

Dog
by Anthony Caleshu
“A Life on Paper”
by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
Translated from the French by Annaliese Hoehling
Carnbeg-Japan®
by Ronald Frame
from The Iron Boys
by Thomas Frick
Woman Kills Leopard with Sickle
by Sam Miller
Walls
by Yannick Murphy
A Letter from Home
by E. C. Osondu
Jimmy Carter’s Eyes
by E. C. Osondu
Humpies
by Mattox Roesch
Juino
by D. E. Steward
The Barber Lover
by Padma Viswanathan

Essays

An Appreciation of Charles Bardes, M.D.
by Sven Birkerts
from Reading My Father
by Robert Gray
Bus
by Joe Hoover
What Gets Buried
by B. Johnson
My Brother, Floating
by Lance Larsen
Deal
by Dinah Lenney
A Sort of a Map
by Jacqueline Lyons
ante mortem
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
borrowed intimacy
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
dark room
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
don’t
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
dove sono
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
ED
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
enough music
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
heroic measures
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
perfect
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
pill
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
plenty of fluids
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
reading a patient
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
system support
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
At Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Alexandra Marshall
Mr. Dangerous and Mumtaz
by Liesl Schwabe
Chihuahua Desert Love Song
by Joni Tevis
Displeasures of Empire, or An American Werewolf in Finsbury Park
by J.M. Tyree

Poetry

Ghosts
by A. H. Afrasiabi
Translated from the Persian by Niloufar Talebi
“although the path”
by A. H. Afrasiabi
Translated from the Persian by Niloufar Talebi
(CIRCLE)
by Yuri Andrukhovych
Translated from the Ukrainian by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
(DUNGEONS)
by Yuri Andrukhovych
Translated from the Ukrainian by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
Tequila Country
by Rane Arroyo
Saint Cecilia, the Incorrupt
by Amanda Auchter
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
by Amanda Auchter
Mystery Ending With a Girl in a Field
by Beth Bachmann
Mystery of the Noise the Air Makes When Milled
by Beth Bachmann
Portrait Detail, with Pear
by Christopher Bakken
Fable of Flesh
by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Magnolia
by Rick Barot
Interrogation
by Paula Bohince
Naked
by Annie Boutelle
The Haunting of Archer Avenue
by Kristy Bowen
2027
by Anthony Caleshu
From a Childhood
by Bruce Cohen
What Is Left
by Nadia Herman Colburn
Euronymous
by Wyn Cooper
Consolamentum
by Carol Ann Davis
Reception
by Chard DeNiord
Near Mt. Lassen
by Keith Ekiss
Rattlesnake
by Keith Ekiss
Explanation Beginning With a River
by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Note from the Emperor
by Jeff Friedman
To the Sprinter
by Christine Garren
Non omnis moriar
by Zuzanna Ginczanka
Translated from the Polish by Nancy Kassell and Anita Safran
Ardennes
by Sarah Estes Graham
from The World Book: Volume T, Pg. 7974
by Dina Hardy
Everything to Measure
by Julia Hartwig
Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
Sentence 1
by Julia Hartwig
Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
Whenever I Meet
by Julia Hartwig
Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
The Letter I, that is, Small and Large
by Eva Hooker
The Mayo Clinic
by Eva Hooker
Forty Nights
by Kristina Jipson
Rest Stop
by Richard Jones
Insomnia at North
by Joan Kane
The Distance of Objects
by Hailey Leithauser
The Failure of Sodom
by Hailey Leithauser
Kinematics
by Alex Lemon
Glossolalia
by Sonja Livingston
The Waterwheel
by Antonio Machado
Translated from the Spanish by George Kalogeris and Gláucia Rezende
Taxim from the Café Amane
by Robin Magowan
K. B.: I am the Suspect
by Marcelijus Martinaitis
Translated from the Lithuanian by Laima Sruoginis
Some of the Unknown Dead
by Wesley McNair
A Summary of Roots
by Jennifer Militello
Honor the Ass
by Eugenio Montejo
Translated from the Spanish by Kirk Nesset
Homeless Man Washing His Foot in the Bathroom of a Bus Station
by Vivek Narayanan
Carpe Diem
by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Infusion
by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Cherry
by Kim Philley
The Red Tower
by Kim Philley
Once in an Insurance Company in Boston
by Carol Potter
All Her Songs
by Liam Rector
Accounting
by Joshua Rivkin
Lying Next to You in Bed, Reading Art History, I Come Across Fun Facts That Reflect on You, on Me
by Kathleen Rooney
To the One Who Arranges Floods
by Anna Ross
The Deer
by Judith Slater
Beneath the Waves
by Young Smith
Why Bother Resurrecting the Dead
by Jane Springer
Temptation
by Artur Szlosarek
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Anna Skucinska
Jakata Tales
by Sam Taylor
Stillwater
by Beth Thomas
Hanging Up
by Kristen Tracy
The Cyclone
by KC Trommer
Brought to Us By
by Nance Van Winckel
Flood
by Sarah Wolfson
Plans
by Theodore Worozbyt
Tuesday Marriage Death
by Theodore Worozbyt

Conversations

Finding Indirection: An Interview with David Rivard
by Jennifer S. Flescher
Zen and the Art of Poetry: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield
by Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler

Reviews

Lowell’s Curse
by Christopher Benfey
Peter Campion’s Other People
by Robert Pinsky
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