2017
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
Catch & Release: An Apology
The Story of Ö
The Problem at Hand
by Alan Rossi
from Declarations and Observations: Prose Suite
Donut Man
by David E. Yee
Essays
And Who Can Say It Will Not?
Daisies: An Observation
by Leslie Brody
In Memoriam Bohdan Boychuk, 1927–2017
Breakup Tips
Taking My Turn at Seventy-Eight
from Sister Zero
Poetry
Glossolalia
by Ciaran Berry
Twister
by Ciaran Berry
Obit [“Control. . . .”]
Obit [“Optimism. . . .”]
Hartford Circus Fire (Post-Elegy for Light)
Womandream
Departure
Hurricane
O
Horses Explain Things to Me
Popcorn
Where I Came From
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
Reviews
Light of the Interpersonal: Sophie Klahr’s Meet Me Here At Dawn
Reverb
A Thousand Kisses Deep: On Rereading Virginia Woolf
Accidents of Bread in Cheese: Trump at Table
Against “Unlikeable”: On the Occasion of What Happened
At 74, I Whistle
by Sydney Lea
Between a Book and its Cover: Room for Conversation
Blogging, Tweeting, Networking, and their Virtual Discontents
Build Strangers, Bomb Walls
by John Poch
Clowns
by Rick Bursky
Coogee to Bronte Walk
by Judy Rowley
Dances Danced on Country Roads
Don’t Get Hysterical, Get Historical—and Mythical
by Rachel Hadas
Failing at Great Length: What I’ve Learned from Writing Bad Novels
Fear, Love, or Both: A Question with Megan Harlan
by agnimag
Getting a Book Wrong by Getting it Right
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
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
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
On Running a Democracy Without Reading
by Kelly Cherry
On the Desire for Future Biographers
Peddling a Poetry Chapbook
Poetry Is Dissent
Ranting Like Chekhov
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
Repetition as Conjuring, as Litany, as Prayer
Revisitations: Two Questions with Dilruba Ahmed
by agnimag
Save the NEA: One Poet’s Story of How the Arts Build Community
Small Grenades: Writing and Politics
by Sydney Lea
Survivor’s Guilt
The Mouse That Scored
The Person Principle: Writing Mental Illness
The Pistol Sign Pointed Right at Me
The Reader’s Quest for Authenticity
The Way It Went
The ‘Alienating’ Art of the Camera: Questions with Karl Kirchwey
by agnimag
Things Ayurvedic Doctors Have Told Me
Trying to Make Sense of an Absence: A Question with Evanthia Bromiley
by agnimag
Visitations
by Lee Upton
Wait For It
What Really Happened? Making Life Into Literature
by Alisa Wolf
Writing to Speak to the Dead