FRONT MATTER

David H. Lynn Editor’s Notes
AndrÉ Bernard The Casual Reader

FICTION

M. M. M. Hayes Meantime, Quentin Ghlee
Deborah Schwartz The City and the Moon
Rahul Mehta Quarantine
Carolyn Buchanan The Road

NONFICTION

Brian Doyle No
Michelle Richmond A Life in Pods
Kate Maloy Winding Threads
Jeffrey Meyers Salter’s Gift
William Wenthe The Craft of Thought: The Sentence in Contemporary Poetry

POETRY

David Hernandez Mosul
Alex Lemon Patter to Mend
Doug Sanders And All the Bells Were Ringing
J. Allyn Rosser How Like the Heart the Thumb
Robert Olen Butler Intercourse
Jennifer Militello Personality State: Prophet; Personality State: Scavenger’s Daughter
Jennifer Chang River Pilgrims
Derek Mong Equivalents
Deanne Lundin What It Cost; How Tulips Invented Jazz
Joanna Goodman Beginning and Ending with Birdcall; Were This a Wish with a Plea; Hovering
Adam Day Gallows Portraits; Aubade

REVIEW

David Wojahn By Increments
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007.
By Albert Goldbarth
The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems. By Bruce Beasley.
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006. By Carl Phillips.
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006. By Ellen Bryant Voigt.