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2017

Online Exclusives

Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryReviewsBlog

Fiction

Catch & Release: An Apology
by Tori Malcangio
The Story of Ö
by Bronwyn Mills
The Problem at Hand
by Alan Rossi
The Bad Photographer
by Juan Villoro
Translated from the Spanish by Jorge Luis Flores Hernández
from Declarations and Observations: Prose Suite
by Angela Woodward
Donut Man
by David E. Yee

Essays

And Who Can Say It Will Not?
by Marilyn Abildskov
Daisies: An Observation
by Leslie Brody
In Memoriam Bohdan Boychuk, 1927–2017
by Askold Melnyczuk
Breakup Tips
by Amanda Niehaus
Taking My Turn at Seventy-Eight
by Kathryn Starbuck
from Sister Zero
by Nance Van Winckel

Poetry

Glossolalia
by Ciaran Berry
Twister
by Ciaran Berry
Obit [“Control. . . .”]
by Victoria Chang
Obit [“Optimism. . . .”]
by Victoria Chang
Hartford Circus Fire (Post-Elegy for Light)
by Caroline Chavatel
Womandream
by Caroline Chavatel
Departure
by Richard Hoffman
Hurricane
by Richard Hoffman
O
by Richard Hoffman
Horses Explain Things to Me
by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
[The mown field]
by Federico García Lorca
Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Arvio
Bells for the Dead
by Federico García Lorca
Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Arvio
Popcorn
by Sandra McPherson
Where I Came From
by Mark Melnicove
Having Forgotten to Put Out Fresh Towels, I Run Naked and Wet to the Bedroom
by Jason Tandon
I Looked Up to See
by Jason Tandon
The Country Western Poem
by Jeffrey Thomson

Reviews

Light of the Interpersonal: Sophie Klahr’s Meet Me Here At Dawn
by Brandon Amico

Blog

A Thousand Kisses Deep: On Rereading Virginia Woolf
by Ioanna Carlsen
Accidents of Bread in Cheese: Trump at Table
by David Gewanter
Against “Unlikeable”: On the Occasion of What Happened
by Courtney Sender
At 74, I Whistle
by Sydney Lea
Between a Book and its Cover: Room for Conversation
by David Ebenbach
Blogging, Tweeting, Networking, and their Virtual Discontents
by Stephen Kessler
Build Strangers, Bomb Walls
by John Poch
Clowns
by Rick Bursky
Coogee to Bronte Walk
by Judy Rowley
Dances Danced on Country Roads
by Sven Birkerts
Don’t Get Hysterical, Get Historical—and Mythical
by Rachel Hadas
Failing at Great Length: What I’ve Learned from Writing Bad Novels
by David Ebenbach
Fear, Love, or Both: A Question with Megan Harlan
by agnimag
Getting a Book Wrong by Getting it Right
by David Ebenbach
I Use My Demons as Fuel to Write: A Question with Qais Akbar Omar
by agnimag
Idling on the Highway
by Kelly Cherry
In and Out of Books: Kinds of Poetic Knowledge
by Rachel Hadas
Into and Through the Ellipses
by Marjorie Sandor
It’s Just Us Talking Here: Coleridge’s Conversation Poems
by Mike White
Laurentiis, Hankla, and Topal: Three Extraordinary Books of Poetry
by Kelly Cherry
Lorca the Marginal on the Marginal
by Matthew Landrum
Love and Androids: Questions for Julianna Baggott
by agnimag
Mirrors
by Rick Bursky
My Heroes Haven’t Always Been Real
by Andres Rojas
October Light
by Christopher Benfey
On Running a Democracy Without Reading
by Kelly Cherry
On the Desire for Future Biographers
by Joshua Gidding
Peddling a Poetry Chapbook
by Joan Michelson
Poetry Is Dissent
by Richard Hoffman
Ranting Like Chekhov
by Scott Nadelson
Reader Response Theory? A Participatory Review of Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick and Amazon’s I Love Dick
by Emily Stone
Reflections on Beauty and Writing: Two Questions with Chad Davidson
by agnimag
Rely, Rely
by J. P. Grasser
Repetition as Conjuring, as Litany, as Prayer
by Cecilia Llompart
Revisitations: Two Questions with Dilruba Ahmed
by agnimag
Save the NEA: One Poet’s Story of How the Arts Build Community
by Patricia Traxler
Small Grenades: Writing and Politics
by Sydney Lea
Survivor’s Guilt
by Sheila Kohler
The Mouse That Scored
by Megan Marshall
The Person Principle: Writing Mental Illness
by David Ebenbach
The Pistol Sign Pointed Right at Me
by Peter LaSalle
The Reader’s Quest for Authenticity
by Samn Stockwell
The Way It Went
by Nance Van Winckel
The ‘Alienating’ Art of the Camera: Questions with Karl Kirchwey
by agnimag
Things Ayurvedic Doctors Have Told Me
by Shahnaz Habib
Trying to Make Sense of an Absence: A Question with Evanthia Bromiley
by agnimag
Visitations
by Lee Upton
Wait For It
by Carolyn Guinzio
What Really Happened? Making Life Into Literature
by Alisa Wolf
Writing to Speak to the Dead
by Radhiyah Ayobami
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