COVER
Maria Kalman
EDITOR
Odette Heideman
PUBLISHER
Willard Cook
MANAGING EDITOR
Moss Turpan
GUEST EDITOR
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Joel Hinman
SENIOR EDITOR
Christopher X. Shade
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Elizabeth England
DESIGN
Moss Turpan
COPYEDITORS
Melanie Fleishman, Moss Turpan
Martha Rhodes
Three Poems from The Thin Wall
Abigail Wender
Family History (Raw Translation)
Anne Champion
Graveyard of Numbers
Rico Frederick
Carolina Smoke Stacks
heymom
Christian Anton Gerard
A Knife’s Signature In His Alcoholic Palms
Defense of Poetry VI; Or Alcoholic Expected Home
Defense of Poetry X; Or Prayer in Recover
Alana Levinson-Labrosse
The Lie
The Song
Rob Cook
A Night in the Decline of Newspaper Personals
Interior Cities, Interior Futures
J.J. Penna
Schism
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Gynophobia: Fear of Women
Wei Huan, translated by Liang Yujing
Bones
Sonia Johanson
Birthday
Kristina Marie Darling
Night Ferry: A Love Story
James Berger
Someone Else Might Like This
Henry Sussman
Morning Fog
Patricia Smith
Incendiary Art: Birmingham, 1963
Requiem
Karin Schalm
Courage
Tom Paine
Every Morning I Close My Eyes
Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel
The Cello
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Limits of Language
Lee Sharkey
The City
New Burnings Atop Old Burnings
Writer’s Process: Imagining “The City”
Peter Schireson
Afterlife
Mason Bolton
Making of Battle Scars
Judith Small
From Same Water Flowing
Zakia Henderson-Brown
What Kind of Omen Am I
Lydia Davis
Letter to the Father
Marriage Moment of Annoyance #5
Your Music Selection of the Day
Wedding
Liz Appel
Tracks
Martha Rhodes
Last Minute Travellers
Susannah B. Mintz
White Matter
Anja Brencic
A Riteless Passage
Katherine Koller
The Exchange
Kelley Morris
The Favor
Kristina Moriconi
In My Daughter’s Absence
Jenny A. Burkholder
The Turn
Ruth Serven
A Message
Writer’s Process
P. Edward Mast
Obituary Online
Dorothy Spears
Labor Day Weekend
Stefani Farris
Together We Shall Go Until We Die
Riccardo Savini
For a Cup of Cesanese
Lydia Conklin
Come On, Come Here, Talk to Me
Writer’s Process
Peter Vilbig
Who Are the Qualts?
Sylvie Bertrand
One of Them
Micheal Reynolds, interviewed by Odette Heideman
Natalia Ginsburg
Natural History
Siba Kumar Das
Ben Woolfitt: Artists of the Ineffable
Akiko Hirai
Essays and Ceramic Work
(Photos by Christopher Baker)
Lindsey Griffin
There’s Always Someone to Love
Finn Janning
To Become a Killer
Weber Mack
Break / Water
Writer’s Process
K. Poplowski
Of Course
Parveen Keynejad
Ignored
Brandon Patterson
On the Shore of the Wide World
Writer’s Process
