#57

"Button Typewriter" cover art by Marilyn Stablein.
Nonfiction |
Poetry |
Fiction |
Graphics |
Claire Blechman - Derrida, Interrupted Carolyn Cooke - Carmen Delzell - Moving Away Brandel France de Bravo - I’ll Make Room Simki Ghebremichael - |
Albert Abonado - Monkeys on the Hood Clayton Adams - Bar-le-Duc Heather Anastasiu - The Body Dynamic Nin Andrews - How to Write an MFA Poem How to Write an Artistic Statement for a Grant Application How to Become a Famous Poet How I Became Our Lady of the Orgasm Saadia Ali Aschemann - Below Zero JoAnn Balingit - My Life as the Fugitive, Tijuana Mary Bargteil - An Elegy in Word Problems The Authorized Artifacts of Lilith Laurel Bastian - Callipygian Appetites Jeffrey Bean - The Dead Arrive Jill Beauchesne - A Tale of the Makara Maria Bennett - four metaphors for the body Clifford Bernier - Linda Blaskey - Claire Blotter - Elegy for Dan Brady - From “Sonnets to E—” Elissa Braff - Synthology Steven Breyak - What I Learned in Bill Knott’s Poetry Workshop Phillip Calderwood - H Michael Casey - diction, Alex Chertok - Katharine Coles - Antoinette Constable - Reading His Letter Robert Cooperman - Claudia Cortese - Nina Corwin - Chameleon Man Flips History While Penning a Switch Bill Costley - BYRD fiddles in purgatory Kelly Coveny - Barbara Crooker - All Saints Jim Daniels - Spinning Donuts in the Universal City Mall Parking Lot … Kristina Marie Darling - Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel John Davis - Dear John Letters Barbara DeCesare - Accidents Grotesque Liz Dolan - The Russian Émigré’s Book Store Philip Dozal - Garcia Lorca’s Coffee Lounge Doug Draime - Zoot Sims Crying Softly Gabe Durham - Craft Hut Moira Egan - Kristina England - Blair Ewing - For My Father Borderau Sarene Friedman - Cupcake Molly Gaudry - Bug, Car, Man: A Triptych Velveteen Is to love an imperative infinitive? A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings Megan Giller - Someday, When I Meet You in a Foreign City Kimberly Grey - Mnemonic of the Invented Man Mnemonic for the Reconstruction of Memory Michael Gushue - The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Explained Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bling Teeth Jeff Hardin - Compelled David M. Harris - Nowan Hasm - Stickingjagged Edgers Chris Haven - How Nuclear Fusion Works Kathleen Hellen - You’re Nothing If I Don’t Believe David Hernandez - Alison Hicks - Tu Me Manques Le Hinton - God’s Immaculate Memory Fire in the Night Jean C. Howard - The Visit Colette Inez - Windlust Fred Joiner - half note Solidarity Don Judson - the secret of the world is the beautiful room you die in Anne Keefe - Stephen Kessler - Sonny Rollins at Zellerbach Danil Kharms - Trunk Alan King - My Barber Will’s Case Study of the Flintstones Benjamin C. Krause - Jasper Owen Interview Sarah Layden - Monkeys Ponder What Could Have Been A. Loudermilk - Lisp Adrian C. Louis - Horse Academy Professional Development Plan K. E. MacMillan - Periodicals of Grief Anthony Madrid - We Stephen Malin - Aoife Mannix - The Last Show: A No Beginning Nicobar Scare Devil Joyce Mansour - Four Poems [intro + tr. by Bill Wolak] Invite Me The Blind Intrigues The Amazon Peter Marcus - Crabs in Recife Hugh Martin - Home From Iraq, Eating Dinner Frank Matagrano - Self-Portrait with Facebook Steve McClain - The Colombian Prayers: Poemstories Assembled from the Green Year City Sjohnna Bruce McCray - Burning Down Suburbia, An Ode to Bob Ross Night Sweats Alex McRae - The Kiss Mark Melnicove - Michael Monroe - Nancy Carol Moody - Stephen Moran - Annie Mary Morris - Have The Wind Whispers Mary, a Namesake Kristine Ong Muslim - Abandoned Dwellings Tim Myers - Trilobite James Norcliffe - The flying saucer is a breast Jay Pabarue - trip, We take a desperate Maria Padhila - Top Ten from the Bottom Shelley Puhak - Kim Roberts - Ronald Simon Rubin - Tomaz Salamun - Zinacantan [tr. Michael Thomas Taren] Sarah Sarai - Sami Schalk - Eric Paul Shaffer - Michael Shorb - Elegy for the Aral Sea Barry Silesky - A Line Edgar Gabriel Silex - Nothing Joan Stepp Smith - Patricia Smith - Because One Way to Run from It Rob Spiegel - Carlie St. George - Why Princess Leia Never Became a Jedi ... Marilyn Stablein - Dry Humping on Stage Kurt Steinwand - Physics D. E. Steward - Syndetic Oneiros Marc Swan - Mexico DF Adam Tessier - It’s a Shame about Ray Eames Samantha Erin Tetangco - Upon Viewing Man Ray’s "Noir et Blanche" Meg Thompson - Question for My Nurse Practitioner Jim Tolan - Corpus Poetae Billie Travelini - Upon Reading Rene Descartes … Everything I Know About Religion I Learned From My Breasts Anatomy of a Frog Meredith Trede - James Valvis - The Pause Mimi Vaquer - On the Discovery of the Wild through the Drawings of Small Children Dan Vera - Nabokov Visits the Smithsonian Lago de mil ojos Kim Vollmer-Lawson w/Jenny Badman - Ways to Appear a Reliable Source Avni Vyas - Dear Floozy Ronald Wallace - In the Winter Kitchen Pamela Murray Winters - Guitarslinger Bill Wolak - Impossible Tenses You Who Taught Me Tenderness |
Forrest Aguirre - Gepetto Roberta Allen - Signs Secrets Stephanie Allen - Life and Times Alexander V. Bach - Ye Ol’fashioned Olfactory Jill Birdsall - Sea Monkeys Jamie Brown - How do you Get to the Sixties? Rae Bryant - A Pop-Modern Genesis Tom Carson - from Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter Kim Chinquee - I Got Shot Doodle Chasers Wildcat Mountain She Had Legs Stillbirth Susann Cokal - Perfect, for You Charles Conley - Data Beth Couture - The Disappearing Children Ramola D - Adulthood JenMarie Davis - from The Science Concerned Katrina Denza - The View Is Like Something from Seurat Glenn Deutsch - The Closing Meghan Dombrink-Green - Bog Janice Eidus - There Is a War Saskia Fischer - The Ship of Sheep Thaisa Frank - Enchantment Scott Garson - Certain Things I Might Have Done in 1998 Alessandra Gelmi - Diary Entry Twigs James Grady - Demolition Derby Myronn Hardy - Pluto Jessica Hollander - Ultimate Makeover: Zombie Edition Suzanne Marie Hopcroft - March Julie Innis - Metallurgy Robert Kloss - How the Old Man Trained His Assassins Bettina Lanyi - Chocolate Bust Nathan Leslie - In Different Rooms Peter Tieryas Liu - The Buddha of Many Parts Ben Loory - The Swimming Pool Jonathan Mack - The Extinction of Stories Cynthia Newberry Martin - Mackenzie Susan McCarty - Corridors Lindsay Merbaum - Solitude Corey Mesler - Monster Janet Mitchell - Scenes From a Funeral David Mohrmann - Monster Teresa Burns Murphy - Clare Marie Myers - Susan Smith Nash - M. E. Parker - The Man Inside Her Meg Pokrass - The Party So Much to Tell Zena Polin - Warm Ice, Meredith Pond - On a Dark Desert Highway Wena Poon - Extract from The Biophilia Omnibus Pilar Quintana - from “Collectors of Weird Screws” [tr. by Joel Streicker] Michelle Reale - Timbal Doug Rice - A Prayer for One Sentence Ethel Rohan - Sorry Gabriela Romeri - HYPNOS 101 Ann K. Ryles - How My Heart Spoke and I Heard the Voice of Pain ... Kris Saknussemm - Letters from Old Girlfriends Robert Scotellaro - Lynda Sexson - Eye of a White Rabbit Elisabeth Sheffield - i live in a hole Marcia Slatkin - Gifts Curtis Smith - Silent Katherine Smith - Phantom Amber Sparks - The Woman Across the Water Wore the Shape of Love Dawn Sperber - Wind in a Ring Box Daniel Stolar - Lee A. Tonouchi - Sex and the Holy City Roz Kuehn Unruh - Suburban Window (from “Various States of Undress”) Judy Viertel - Becoming Steadily Denser Elizabeth Warren - Last Year’s Model Paula Whyman - Bess Winter - Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds |
Frontispiece: Matthew Kirkpatrick - Light without 2 collages: C. Albert - 2 collages - Bill Wolak |