In this Issue

Table of Contents

My Son Asks for the Story about When We Were Birds

Joe Wilkins
pp. 1-2
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The Future

Kevin Prufer
pp. 3-5
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Night at the Fiestas

Kirstin Valdez Quade
pp. 6-23
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Humanity 101

Denise Duhamel
pp. 24-25
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Herring Cove

Malachi Black
p. 26
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One One Thousand

John Smolens
pp. 27-36
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Grief, and: Memory, and: Elegy, and: Fable

Shara McCallum
pp. 37-40
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Looking through the Entries in an Old Pocket Notebook, and: Take Another Look

Robert Gibb
pp. 41-44
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Appointment on the Bhagsu Road

Paula Closson Buck
pp. 45-51
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Sinbad the Sailor, and: Guide to Local Penitentiaries, and: The Cricket on My Pillow, and: In This Prison of Ours

Charles Simic
pp. 52-55
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Falling into Cape Clear Island

John Kinsella
p. 56
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Discovering Anna

Nick Neely
pp. 57-67
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Feast and Famine

Doug Ramspeck
pp. 68-69
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from My Sunshine Away

M. O. Walsh
pp. 70-80
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Hubert Blankenship

David Bottoms
p. 81
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The Nurse and the Lights, and: Father as Jellyfish

Sjohnna McCray
pp. 82-83
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Artist’s Statement: Parts Not Uptown

Oscar Creech
pp. 84-92
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Lunch Money, and: Dear Scabiosa

David Petruzelli
pp. 93-95
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Little Sails

Noah Warren
pp. 96-97
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The Electric Battlefield Map

Edward McPherson
pp. 98-106
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After This, Earth

Sarah Pemberton Strong
p. 107
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Every Danger Otherwise the Same, and: Jesus, Take the Wheel

Susan Blackwell Ramsey
pp. 108-111
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The Scent of Always: A Personal History, with Perfume

Alison Townsend
pp. 112-127
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Of Travels and Thinness, and: Eggs Benedict

Albert Goldbarth
pp. 128-130
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Wolf Moon

Ed Falco
p. 131
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Ax in the Face

John Biguenet
pp. 132-133
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The God of Stupidity

Jack Powers
pp. 134-135
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Feel Good

Stephen Dixon
pp. 136-142
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Translator’s Note

Nancy Naomi Carlson
p. 143
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Tours de chapelet pour Tombouctou

Abdourahman Waberi
pp. 144-146
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Rosary for Timbuktu

Abdourahman Waberi, Nancy Naomi Carlson
pp. 145-147
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Elegiac

Elisabeth Murawski
pp. 148-149
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Rh

Paula Carter
pp. 150-152
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Henry Beston at the Outermost House

Catherine Staples
pp. 153-154
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Mermaid Stops by True Value to Pick Up a Screwdriver

Nancy Carol Moody
pp. 155-156
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Our Lady of the Roses

Michael Knight
pp. 157-170
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Contributors

pp. v-x
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Editors’ Note

Jessica Faust, Emily Nemens
p. xi
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