Volume 20 (2022)
Contents
Bree Daniels
Marcia Aldrich
Having Fun
Jack Anderson
Script for Home Video and Flashlight
Tom Andrews
Aphorisms
George Murray
Sharon Dolin
James Geary
James Lough
Irving Feldman
Kris Saknussemm
Holly Woodward
Joshua Edwards
Rick Rauch
Helen Ruggieri
Sara Levine
Dennis Saleh
Louis Phillips
In Whatever Mode
John Ashbery
Talking Cure
Cathleen Calbert
Thirty-six Ways of Looking at an Essay
Chris Arthur
First Dream of the High-Tension Line
Eula Biss
Aphorisms
Neil Carpathios
Untitled Prose Poem
Killarney Clary
The Amazing Sea Monkeys at Home, A Flash Biography
Joan Connor
The Playing Field
Guy Davenport
We Can Savor Nothing Pure
Danielle Deulen
Interview with Jean Seberg, Part VI
Stephanie Dickinson
Something to Do with Church
Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
Out for Christmas Trees
Margaret Barbour
Words
Eduardo Galeano
On Writing
Andrea Dworkin
Drowning Lessons
Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
The Lamps
Albert Goldbarth
21st Century Friend
Ray Gonzalez
Anywhere But Here
Rachel Hadas
Morgan Point
Colette Inez
Country Music
Bob Hicok
The Never-Completed Wish
Cynthia Hogue
A Passion According to Green
Mark Irwin
Dislocated States
Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Litany of the Danube Basin
Sandor Kanyadi translated by Paul Sohar
Cremation8
Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis
Candy Corn
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Tuberculosis Forces 21-Year-Old John Henry Holliday to LeaveHis Dental Practice in Georgia for the Drier Climate of Dallas,Texas, Where He Takes Up Gambling as a Full-Time Occupation, 1873
Jennifer L. Knox
Suicide Essay: Before the Deluge
Wayne Koestenbaum
Sound and Cerement
Nathaniel Mackey
Washington Heights
Phillip Lopate
Those Years
Martin McGovern
You Should Be Happy Because You Should
Eduardo Milán translated by Steven J. Stewart & Patrick Madden
The End of the World
Nancy Mairs
Letter from Argentina
Nancy K. Miller
Head in Flames
Lance Olsen
Saskatoons
Angela Pelster
Two Poems
Carl Phillips
The Gift that Destroyeth the Heart
Laurin Penland
Post Script
Jennifer Militello
Shattering: A Compendium
Lia Purpura
Aphorisms
Jim Richards
Vectors 3.1: Aphorisms and 123 Ten-Second Essays
James Richardson
Tender Girl
Lisa Samuels
I Have Written the Last Elegy
Patty Seyburn
Cloud Judgement
Tony Sanders
Blur
David Shields
Farfetched Has Boxes to Hide In
Katherine Soniat
In & Out/Out & In
Susan Terris
Tumblesauce
Elaine Terranova
Who Cares, the Tour Guide Just Makes It Up as She Goes Along
Nance Van Winckel
Remote Objects of Intense Devotion
Jean Valentine
What I Would Tell the Squirrels
Anthony Varallo
Mario Vargas Llosa interviewed by Lois Parkinson Zamora
The Bolt of Smoke While Listening to Marilyn Hacker Read Her Poems
Diane Wakoski
For
Daneen Waldrop
Kafka as Son, Irrevocably
Rosemarie Waldrop
Retrograde
Sarah White
Making It Palatable
Nicole Walker
Interview
Eleanor Wilner
In Praise of Thomas Chatterton
Charles Wright
Emerging Writers
Parasite Get Your
Stella Wong
True Country
Jean Theron
Town Ad
Grace Q. Song
Dream of Two Heads
Remi Seamon
"Eleemosynary"
Amy Sailer
What We Are
Cade Mason
Ventilator
Tate Lewis-Carroll
The Other Haunted Mansion
Stefan Karlsson
Featherbed Lane
Will Howard
from Enby
Ro Daniels
Permanent Teeth
Anna Chotlos
A/void
Cicily Bennion
Contributors’ Notes