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
Horrible Things May Be True













