2009
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
Watchers
Twenty Years Back
by Durjoy Ghosh
Knappenstrasse
Obituary
by Ihab Hassan
Sometimes She Wondered What Would Happen
The Boy
The First Days
Essays
Bits
Dinner with Strangers
by Greg Bottoms
Snooking
The Annoying Lacuna: One Unofficial History of the Oulipo
Aphorisms
Running My Mouth
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
The Wages of Sin Is Laughter
Creation
Kissing Wayne Newton
by Ellen Slezak
AWP Chicago: A Gamer’s Notes
Poetry
Biography I
We Caught Snakes
Drying Out
by James Arthur
Song of the Species
by James Arthur
At the Loose Noose
At Broad Channel
by Ryan Black
A Homecoming
by Daniel Bosch
My Dog Earl
by Daniel Bosch
Desert
What Are We Waiting For?
Andalucian Pastoral at the Grave of Ariel
by Kara Candito
Pete
Japanese Buffet
by Bruce Cohen
Unofficial Life
by Bruce Cohen
Letters from the Dead
by Peter Cooley
Care
In the School of Empty Hands
At 78, Maurita Discovers the Waterslide
by Gary Dop
“I scanned my photograph . . .”
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
“My mama asked after your death . . .”
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska
“The word apple doesn’t contain in it any truth”
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska
“This is the first line . . .”
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska
Nostalgia
A Year or More
Why Did the Kissing Start?
by Chris Forhan
After Lady with a Parasol
Quim-Quams
Narcissist’s Daughter
Emblem 107: On Love
Emblem 152: On Human Life
Plain Cotton Panties
by Adam Houle
Fat Man
The Limey
Aine and the Earl of Desmond
Servants
After Another Argument I’ve Come to Regret
Slow Burn
by Sydney Lea
Miss Zucchini Blossom
from Paradise, Attained by Touch
If I Am a Total Washout as a Lover (And I Am)
The Milk One
The Middle Way
Greatest Show on Earth
Birding the I-4 Corridor
by Mark McKain
Butterfly Count
by Mark McKain
Self-Portrait
Rules of the Game
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Homecoming
Phaedra
Owl and Flock
by Mark Rudman
American Liver Mush
by Ravi Shankar
Rough Translation of a Song Sung to Me in the Peloponnesus by a Laconian Shepherd near Mystra in 1970
18th Century Remains
by Tess Taylor
Tenderfoot
Misc. poem (ones)
Misc. poem (tree)
Instructional Ghazal
by David Welch
Pietas
by Philip White
On a Greek Vase
Sanatorium Juqueri
Reviews
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Lindisfarne
by Drew Johnson
What Is George Scialabba Good For?