2010
Online Exclusives
Contents
Essays
Hatless
My Father, the Good Bull
by Nin Andrews
Te Fuiste Sin Siquiera Despedirte
by Mark Dow
The Thickness of Soup or Hair
by Mark Dow
On Selfishness
by Sarah Gorham
Flight Jacket
by Dinah Lenney
Miss Schaffzin is a Tall, Thin, Casually Groomed White Female in No Distress
Lokshen Kugel
by Alisa Wolf
Poetry
A Correction
from Monograph
by Simeon Berry
Lenox Aubade
Milkweed
Course in General Linguistics
The Noodle Maker’s Shop
What Depresses Me
In Ordinary Time
from The World
Left
Brother Geometry
by Kevin Ducey
Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank
Theory of Perfection
Breakup
by Faye George
The Swept Stoop
by Faye George
from Le Repos, dans la suite des jours
Translated from the French by Rosanna Warren
Harvest
two poems from Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
On Bitching
Lonely Planet
Everything I’m About to Tell You Actually Happened
Bundesland Bavaria
by Evan Jones
Cavafy in Liverpool
by Evan Jones
Epiphany
Masculine/Feminine
Study for Love’s Body
Winter Poet
by Sydney Lea
The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears
Elegy for a Poet Whose Books I Didn’t Think Were Worth Re-reading, Not Until Now
by Timothy Liu
Graph Paper
by Roy Mash
Self-Portrait as the Y-Axis
by Roy Mash
Words in Dreams
Niagara
The Book of Dissolution
Provision
How to Eat a Lobster
Hotel Orpheus
by Jason Myers
Ihuatzio, Mexico
from Vivienne’s Recovery
Banana Boat
Next Minute
Echo
The Humpbacks—Neither Nor
by Hoyt Rogers
The Luthier
Brouhaha
by Jason Sommer
Twenty-Two
What They Made from Its Bones
Perennial
One Day the Will
Food, Prizes, Tours, Plastic Surgery
First Contact
by Greg Wrenn
Prayer at Ojai
by Greg Wrenn
Conversations
The Prayer of Attention: A Conversation with Yahia Lababidi
by Alex Stein
Reviews
Killer Landscape
From Dark to Light: The Poems of Pavel Šrut
Locked Doors and Dungeons
“I am Happiest, Here, Now!”: Arthur Sze’s Poetry of Witness: The Ginkgo Light
by Dana Levin
Frank and the Sinyaya Bluza
Poet of Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, 1941–2008
“Shard. Shard. Shard.”: Mary Ann Samyn and the Fractured Meditative Lyric
The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction
Editor’s Note
The Visual Language of Victor Ekpuk
Fiction
Knocking Tommy’s Hustle
A Picture From Ireland
The Harbinger
by Toni Kan
Like God on a Sunday Morning
Sethunya Is Our Bride
by Wame Molefhe
In Parenthesis
by Maik Nwosu
The Banana Eater