Cynthia Struloeff: The Sugar Shell

Elizabeth Spires: A Grave; White Room

Floyd Skloot: Heat Wave; Soft Flame

Charles Freeland: The Idea of Two

Douglas Goetsch: No Homo; Sister

Joanna Klink: Open Land

Donald Hall: To Eagle Pond

Jane Kenyon: American Triptych

Jonis Agee: The Altitudes of Dream

John Kinsella: A Journey Prayer; Crop Duster Jerk-off: a poetry of abuse; Some: an ode to the partitive article

Katrina Vandenberg: Entertaining Your Father in the Netherlands; Remembering Him Dying

Joe Cislo: Detroit, 1976

Jerry Harp: Life Together; Dawn

Nami Mun: On the Bus

Terese Svoboda: Rite Anthropologique

Gretchen E. Henderson: Las Vueltas

Matthew Rohrer: The President's Dream

Kathleen Flenniken: To Ease My Mind

Andrew Michael Roberts: Otherness

Chase Twichell: A Lamb By Its Ma; No One's Mother

David Hernandez: The Goldfish

Yiyun Li: The Ground Floor

Albert Goldbarth: Where the Membrane Is Thinnest

Lisa Gluskin: Spelling Test

Sonja James: Monday at the Zoo

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Suddenly in Grace

Joe Amato: Just Produce: A Meditation on Time & Materials, Past & Present

Shimon Adaf: Small Confession; Ending

Brit Bildoen: [ ]; But There Are Such Days; The Giant Has Hidden His Heart

Denisa Comanescu: Return from Exile

Leopoldo Brizuela: One Ona; Red Moon

Gabor Szanto: The Funeral

Maggie Smith: Button

David Ray: Berryman's Father

Walter Griffin: Blue Horses; The Tomato

Mark Walters: Piggies

Jerry Harp: Simic's Surrealist Metaphysics: A Review of Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late and New Poems

cover artwork by Joseph Patrick