Through a Glass Darkly; Untimeliness, poems
Laurence Goldstein
The 17-Year-Old Locust; The God of Variables Laments; Neither/Nor; Yesteryear; The Goddess of Quotas Laments, poems
Yusef Komunyakaa
Paragraphs from a Day-Book, poem
Marilyn Hacker
Second Retreat: Knife-Sharpening at Vajrapani, poem
Peter Dale Scott
Interior: The Kill, poem
Carl Phillips
Dogs, poem
Marcus Cafagña
Shibusa, story
Mary Yukari Waters
Tusk, story
Anupa Anjali Srinivasan
Events Leading to the Conception of Solomon, the Wise Child, poem
Dannie Abse
Married Love, poem
Mark Rudman
Stalky the Clown, story
Ira Sadoff
Sweet, story
Edward Falco
Speed Bump, story
Stephen Dixon
Crawfordsville Confidential, poem
G. E. Murray
A Door; Geraniums, poems
Ann Townsend
Language of Departure; Rochester, poems
Peter Cooley
To a Friend Who Concedes Nothing; Home; The Lesson, poems
Paul Breslin
Sculpture; Fire-Eater, poems
Charles Rafferty
Teatro Natura, poem
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
The Woman Who Wanted to be Loved, poem
Jayanta Mahapatra
Hypatia; In No Mood, poem
Rachel Levine
Bloodknots, story
Ami Sands Brodoff
Summer Party, story
Patricia Lear
Thin End of the Wedge, story
William Lychack
Radical Neck, poem
Bob Hicok
Last Things; Moths, poems
Robert Cording
The Woman with Gravitas; Claims of the Past; The Unlived; The Bodily Beautiful; Eulogy for a Private Man; Two Sketches of Solitude, poems
Fred Drings
The Impossibility of Language, poem
Beth Ann Fennelly
The Butter Knife God; The God of Pepper; No Fool, the God of Salt, poems
Alan Michael Parker
Dusk; Resurrection, poems
Daniel Halpern
The Nest, poem
Tom Wayman
Figures on a Human Scale, poem
Timothy Liu
Hatred; The Turn of the Century, poems
Wisława Szymborska
translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak and Marek Lugowski
Children of the Holocaust, essay
Gabriel Motola
Shubshi-meshre-Shakkan, poem
Adapted-Rendered by David Ferry
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