Volume 42, Number 1 — Spring 2012
In our Spring 2012 issue: yellow picnics, cartwheels in the garden, an epistolary nun, holy and other mothers, stories for geometricians, princessing in Rome, spectator chess in Russia, and binkies in America.
POEM
Maxine Chernoff: [without a listener]; [without a body]; [without coherence]; [without enchantment]
G.C. Waldrep: Siege; Reliquary; Agent Orant
Harriet Levin: Hang Up
Michael Judge: No One's in a Hurry; The Other Blackbird; Cartwheels
Michael McKimm: Post-Troubles Poet; Thirteen Ways of Looking at America
Sarah Rose Nordgren: 1917; Prion
Pimone Triplett: The End of Evolution; Closet Vision
Brandon Shimoda: Yellow Picnic; The Cedars of Lebanon; Yellow Picnic; Poems for the People
Brian Laidlaw: from TERRATACTIC (IX)
STORY
Katya Apekina: Maureen and Marjorie
J. Kevin Shushtari: The Sweet Dry Fruit of the Lotus Tree
V.S. Yanovsky (trans. Isabella Yanovsky): Double Nelson; Task and Realization; Ninety-Six in the Shade
Louis Jensen (trans. Lise Kildegaard): Five Square Stories
Josephine Rowe: The Vending Machine at the End of the World; Dixieland; The Taxidermist's Wife
Mehdi Tavana Okasi: Other Mothers, Other Sons
Nathan Hill: SuperAngel
ESSAY
Sabine Heinlein: A Portrait of the Writer as a Rabbit
Saskia Beudel: Ground Glass
Matthew Gavin Frank: Ritual, I Want My Blood to Be Used in a
Lorrin Anderson: "To die, that's nothing, but to grow old...": A Son's Remembrance
Allan Gurganus: What Makes Literature Immortal? Video
ARTWORK
Sandra Dyas: The Lost Nation Photographs
