ISSUE 16: Fall / Winter 2015

 

EDITOR
Odette Heideman

PUBLISHER
Willard Cook

MANAGING EDITOR
Samantha K. Smith

GUEST POETRY EDITOR
Ish Klein

EDITOR AT LARGE
Joel Hinman

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Christopher X. Shade


INTERVIEWS EDITOR
Adrienne Brock

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Martin Edmunds

COPY EDITOR / TYPOGRAPHER
Moss Turpan




POETRY

Rae Armantrout
Thorned

Czar Gutiérrez, translated by Nick Rattner and Marta del Pozo
a c t o n e h e o p e n e d h i s e y e s l i k e a n y m a n w h o v i o l e n t l y o p e n s a w i n d o w [Excerpt from fallofthetightropewalker]

M. Lysén
Involuntary
Generation Why
Not
Vogue

Trapeta B. Mayson
An Invitation to Travel
Letter To The Place Of My Birth

Kevin Killian
Ask Me Something Easy
Ask Me Something Easy
Ask Me Something Easy
Ask Me Something Easy
Ask Me Something Easy

Lewis Warsh
To The Penguin Boy
Next Of Kin
Agency Of The Letter

Arda Collins
173

Elaine Equi

Gust
Scenes From An Imaginary Childhood
Fasting
Ash, Ether
The Man Who Wouldn’t Fill Out A Form

Sergio Badilla Castillo, translated by Gilla Evans
Toikko pier
I - The abode of the stale gods

David Feinstein
Poem Lacking Independence
I Go With The Dark
Give It Up
How To Make a Shipwreck
Rothko Chapel

Dara Wier
The Dream







 
 

PROSE

Olga Zilberbourg
The Green Light of Dawn

George Matteson
An I for an I

Patricia Follert
Thank You for Making Today Beautiful [Excerpt]

Chantel Acevedo
The Execution Of The Guitar Interviewed by Adrienne Brock

Marvin Shackelford
This Mighty Cloud

Chris Vaughan
This William Morris [Excerpt]

Curt Saltzman
Felis Catus

Tiina Raevaara, translated by Hildi Hawkins
Matilda’s Death

Kai Maristed
Vigil

Jay Merill
Now Forager

Michael Chaney
Dead Squirrel
Ceci N’est Pas Une Dinner Date

Zhanna Slor
What Was Always Around

Jim White
Glossolalia

Don Cummings
Bent But Not Broken: A Penis Adventure [Excerpt]

Shasta Grant
Please Answer Yes Or No

Kevin Fuller
Hailey’s Comet

John Gower
Orange Moon
When This Winter is Finally Over

Gavin Howley
Why I Really Went to Jail

Lev Izraelit
The Negev