Poetry
Mary Quade | Bunnies | Jump | Clear As | Octopus | A Rhyme
Montreux Rotholtz | Mother (Ghost)
Bob Hicok | The substitute brings out his A game | Some experience required
Nikki-Lee Birdsey | Augustland | The Long Nineteenth Century
Susan Stewart | playground | gray squirrel
G.C. Waldrep | Cancer Poem | In Him Were Hidden All Our Tongues
Josh Kalscheur | Big Time Adult
Benjamin Aleshire | Motherhood
John Tripoulas | Black Bags
Justin Hyde | in my parents’ garage | 3:38 a.m. at the truck stop | you think you’ve seen everything
John Freeman | Coins | Paris (Bastille Day)
Margaret Ross | Stay
Fiction
Tess Gunty | Variables
Jillian Jackson | A Leo, Like Jackie O
Patrick Connelly | Harlan and Grace
Jed Phillip Cohen | Salad Days
Rachel Kadish | Letters Arrive from the Dead
Robin Hemley | Boondocks | Coconut
Essays
Wayne Koestenbaum | Punctuation
Micah Bateman | Son of Batman
Stephen Markley | LeBron James and the Infinite Melancholy
Molly Bashaw | Still Life on Leap Day
Christopher Bakken | The Four Way Test
Interview
Jeffrey J. Williams | Shakespeare and Scooby-Doo: An Interview with Terrance Hayes
Review
Cassandra Cleghorn | Michael Bazzett’s The Interrogation
Artwork
Joyce Tsai | Shelter after the Storm: The Work of Tameka J. Norris
