Issue 6 Table of Contents

Masthead

Executive Editor – Sheryl St. Germain

Editor-in-Cheif – Christy Diulus

Senior Editors – Heather McNaugher, Aubrey Hirsch, Randall Silvia, Kathy Ayres

Managing Editors – Amy Uhrich, Jolynn Baldwin

Associate Editors – Sarah Ansani, Liz Ashe, Christine Belt, Nathaniel Fuller, Heather Gustine, Bernadette James, Joshua Manuel, Catherine Stevens-Davis, John Venturella

Interns – Alecia Dean, Brittany Goncar

Assistant Editors – Maryam Abdul-Qawiyy, Nina Dainty, Katie Forrest, Sarah Grubb, Amy Holwerda, Kevin Kaiser, Emily Mendel, Samuel Morgan, Teresa Petro-Micchelli, Sara Ries, Kayci Russell, Ryan Russell, Kelly Scarff, Susan Stringfellow

Cover Art – “Pine Fragrance” by Naoko Matsubara

Cover Design – Krista Terpack

Design – Leslie Karon-Oswalt

Contest Winners

  • Isaac Anderson – Regarding the Water

  • Anne Corbitt – The Apartment

  • Susan Finch – Self-Arrest

  • Yelizaveta P. Renfro – Planting Trees

  • Meghan Cadwallader – Yield

  • Suzanne Roberts – Poultry Stall

  • Julie Porter – Giant Cabbage ContestCreative Nonfiction

  • Melanie Sevcenko – An Open Letter to Mr. Barack Obama

Poetry

  • Astrid Cabral – Calamidade; Calamity; Rio Paralítico; Paralytic River; Piscinas; Pools; Acimabaixo; Above Below

  • Matthew Gavin Frank – Jo'burg Flytrap; Another Cleopatra

  • Derek G. Handley – Petting Dolphins in Iraq

  • Samuel Hazo – Signs of Life in a Sundown City

  • Liberty Heise – Drobak; Aland; Amsterdam

  • Athena Kashyap – Crossing Black Water; Coming Down the Mountain

  • Lidia Kosk – Las zastygl; The Forest Settles

  • Peter Ludwin – Apollo in the Time of John Wesley Harding; Return to the Kevarna Meduza

  • Melanie Stoff Maier – Bingen Am Rhine

  • Salgando Maranhão – Terra Chã #5; from Flatlands #5; Terra Chã #7; from Flatlands #7; Terra Chã #8; from Flatlands #8

  • Marsha Matthews – Secrets of the Sisala

  • David Murphy – Teeth & Bone; Poem for the Man Committing Suicide in the Streets of Kabul

  • Perry S. Nicholas – Aristoteli

  • Suzanne Roberts – Jungle Lodge; At the Café; Madrugada; Almost Somewhere

  • Alejandro Saravia – Improvisation III

  • Claudia Serea – Real Good Cabbage; Tuesday Night; Fata Morgana

  • Avery Slater – August Rice Paddies

  • Mark Terrill – Yes I Did

  • Liliana Ursu – Requiem for a Wasp; Eating Grapes in February; Telescope Trained on Monticello and Apold

  • Fiction

  • Lala al-Atrash – Excerpt from November Desires

  • Tony Donnelly – Missing Child

  • Derek Green – Member of Highest Standing

Interview

  • Laila al-Atrash

  • Astrid Cabral

  • Peter Cole

  • Derek Green

  • Robert Hass

  • Samuel Hazo

  • Alexis Levitin

  • Claudia Rankine

  • Naomi Shihab Nye