Issue 27—Winter/Spring 2011

POETRY

PATRICK CULLITON

from My Book Report on the Afterlife

STEVEN D. SCHROEDER

Epilogue for Monsters

M. R. B. Chelko

The Porch

MILOSZ BIEDRZYCKI

Perhaps

TIMOTHY DONNELLY

Lycopodium Obscurum

ALLISON POWER

Middlemarch

STEPHEN KNAUTH

July
Visiting My Father

KEVIN HIGGINS

Tidings

BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG

The Space Traveler and Boston

NAOMI FOYLE

The Second Reserve Goalkeeper on the USA Women’s Football Team goes Awol in Shanghai

CATE PEEBLES

Goodnight

ALVIN PANG

Song (for P)
The Future of Nostalgia

SARAH HYMAS

The Sound of Melanin

SANDEEP PARMAR

The Saltonstall Family

ANDREW DURBIN

Volte-Face

JEFF BAKER

Jacksonville

DAVID STARKEY

Every Thing Good Is on the Highway

D. A. POWELL

Chicken

JAMES CIHLAR

Nora Prentiss

NADXIELI NIETO HALL

Do Not Erect Any Buildings

JULIA GUEZ

Self-Portrait as New Moon

ELIZABETH WILLIS

Triptik

PAUL LEGAULT

Saturday Night
Free Twenty Dollar Bill

JOHN RANDOLPH CARTER

Unicycle

GRACIE LEAVITT

Rough for

GEOFFREY BABBITT

Ad Matutinas de Sancto Spiritu, from a French Book of Hours, ca. 1500

NATE PRITTS

A Weirder Tomorrow

DEBORAH LANDAU

from Someone

JOSE ARAGUZ

Wild Flight

ASHUR ETWEBI

A Hymn from the Seventh Century B.C.

UCHE UMEZURIKE

The Language of Mortars

ANDREW SAGE

Saltaire

DAVID KIRBY

A Fall from a Great Height
Horrible Things May Be True

SINAN ANTOON

Phosphorus

SAADI YOUSSEF

Still Life

ALBERT ABONADO

Brother Octopus

KAREN RIGBY

In the lizard-dark, no fire in the orchard

ADAM FITZGERALD

Phattafacia Stupenda

FIRAS SULAIMAN

A Man in the Depths of Night

FICTION

STEPHANIE AUSTIN

And So On, When Tripled

CHRISTOPHER KLOEBLE

In the Eye

ADAM WILSON

We Close Our Eyes

MAURICE KILWEIN GUEVARA

Mandala in Riobamba

FRANZ KNUPFER

Broken Homes

ANDREA HIRATA

Dry Season

ERIC BARNES

Powdered Milk

PORTFOLIO

CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL

Drawings