2016
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
Jury Duty
Seam Ripper
by Kathryn Hill
The 250 Foreigner Game
by Charles Lowe
The Child Runs Away
Bestiary
Essays
Sibboleth
Angels and Demons: Aphorisms
Pinays
One Hundred Years of Solitude, or The Importance of a Story
Poetry
Soft Hunting
Barbie Chang Should Have Seen
After
by Andrea Cohen
Establishing Shot
by Andrea Cohen
Everything
by Andrea Cohen
Pain and Suffering
by Andrea Cohen
Smoke Signals
by Andrea Cohen
“This Nameless, Miraculous Crime”: On Form, Philosophy, and Disobedience in Kara Candito’s Poetry
And a Red Mouth
The Coin Purse
Lethe
by Tanya Grae
Mating Season
by Tanya Grae
Lyric Language and Trauma
by Ani Kazarian
Ode to the Dying Moth
by Andrew Kozma
Ode to the Molting Cicada
by Andrew Kozma
from Or Beauty
by Alex Lemon
Say Forty-Eight Years Have Passed
by Jim Moore
The Problem
by Jim Moore
At First
Signed Out
“I’ve Been Awhile Away”: The Poetry of Melissa Green
by David Rivard
Dedication
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
by sam sax
Centralia
With J., Discussing Grammar in the Anarchist Coffee Shop, West Philadelphia
I Fell Asleep among the Horses
First Boyfriend
Reviews
Zero K: Ars Longa, Ex Machina
by Woody Lewis
Reverb
A Stranger at Home: Paula Bohince Translates Umberto Saba
Almost Not
An Leabharlann
by Brian Doyle
Askold Melnyczuk: An Auto-Interview about SMEDLEY’S Secret Guide to World Literature
Bang Bang Pretty Pretty: On Adults, Stories About Kids, and Writing “The Deuce”
Books as Bibles
Collision Launches Us: A Question With Heather Abel and Malerie Willens
by agnimag
Designing Time: The Idea of Plot in the Lyric Essay
by Tyler Mills
Emerson Whistling
Every Subject Chooses Its Author
Feeding Grounds
Feeling Uneasy Always Gets My Attention: A Question with Susan McCallum-Smith
by agnimag
Fusion: What Goes Into the Creative Act?
Homage to Giacometti
How Do You Translate “Italy”?
If you killed it, was it really your darling?
Inspiration: Waltzing with Twain
by Phong Nguyen
Is Poetry True or False?
by Ben Purkert
Literary Lagos
by E. C. Osondu
Living the Process of Dying
by Kelly Cherry
Losing My Self in Myriad Things
Lyric and Lyric
Mirror, Mirror
Mural Speaks!
by Ben Miller
No Soap, Poetry
On Poetry: The Stall
On Rainer Maria Rilke, William Gass, Stumbling Across My Younger Self, and the Pleasures and Perils of Translating Poetry
by Kai Maristed
On Translation: John and Bogdana Carpenter Translate Julia Hartwig
On Translation: Todd Portnowitz Translates Pierluigi Cappello
One Surmise Leads to Another: On “Some Postures to the Rock”
by Sydney Lea
Pages
by Laura Kolbe
Persona Poetry, My Batman Mask, and (Maybe) Me
Personal Essay as Homage: Rubin’s Deli, 1928-2016
by Alisa Wolf
Shimmering Moments: An Interview with Jayne Benjulian
by agnimag
Sleeping Like Other People (or, Writing with Others)
Stanislavski in the Ghetto
Test Your Writerly Skills!
by Lee Upton
The Business of Observing the World: Annemarie Schwarzenbach in 1940
The Difficulty of the Story
The Epigraph Conversation: A Question With Valerie Duff, Robert Nazarene, and Johan Huybrechts
by agnimag
The Legible Element: On Hopkins, Surfers and the Selves of Waves
The Role of Place in Creating Suspense
The Theory of Montage
The Ultimate and Decisive “Is Poetry Dead?” Article!
The Violence of Style, and the Impossible Pedagogies
Use Your Words: The Political Power of Literature
Via Dolorosa
What, Then, Is a Poem?
by Kelly Cherry
Why I Write Essays
“Blood & Water”: Poets Writing Nonfiction
by Kelle Groom
“Unexpected Vistas”: Rimas Uzgiris Translates Judita Vaičiūnaitė