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2019

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviewsBlog

Fiction

Aren’t We All?
by Mauro Guidi-Signorelli
Son of a Dog
by Sándor Jászberényi
Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry
The Joker’s Smile Cannot Stop the World Turning
by Niall McArdle
Swordfished in Nantucket
by Terese Svoboda

Essays

Wonder
by Elizabeth Bachner
A Certain Convocation of Worms
by Scott Bartley
A Toast to the King of Bohemia
by Askold Melnyczuk
Yerevan on the Charles: An Homage to Diana Der-Hovanessian
by Askold Melnyczuk
Losing Stephen Dixon
by William Pierce
Seventeen Notes on Singing
by Clifford Thompson

Poetry

For Goya’s Public Ice Skaters of Spain
by David Blair
Notebook Fragments, 1952–1954
by André du Bouchet
Translated from the French by Eric Fishman
Leadership
by Richard Kenney
Muted
by Richard Kenney
Coronation
by Hailey Leithauser
“I’m lucky my parents were peasants”
by Oksana Lutsyshyna
Translated from the Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk and Oksana Lutsyshyna
Burial Day
by Sharon Olds

Conversations

Beyond the Cocktail-Party Version: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
by Yvonne Conza

Reviews

Moving Parts
by Jenna Le
The Outrageous Layers of Things: A Review of Marianne Boruch’s The Anti-Grief
by Emilia Phillips
The Philosophical Comedy of Adam Ehrlich Sachs
by Ben Roth

Blog

A Poet’s Quiz
by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Betwixt and Between: The Poet’s “Dream”and Social Imperatives
by Sydney Lea
Ghosts among the Trees
by Erica X Eisen
Homage to Former Teachers
by Anthony Varallo
Losing the Lifeblood of World Literature
by David Ball
Money, Deadlines, and Water
by Alice Mattison
On Translating Li Bai’s “Parting at Changgan”
by Kenneth DeWoskin and Rachel DeWoskin
Reading in the Dark
by Grace Singh Smith
Regarding Handke, Pound, D’Annunzio, and Company
by Kai Maristed
Revisiting Poems of Grief: On Ordinary Mourning
by Carrie Shipers
Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies (Part 1)
by James Arthur
Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies (Part 2)
by James Arthur
Someone to Love: How to Create a Convincing and Interesting Character
by Sheila Kohler
Struggling against Silence: Two Questions with David Hayden
by agnimag
Teaching the Short Story as a Living Form
by Caitlin Horrocks
The Accident of This River: After James Tate
by Carol Ann Davis
The Epic Tussle: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
by agnimag
The Moral Thing
by Bipin Aurora
The Night Mary Oliver Died, or Collateral Joy
by J. P. Grasser
The Writer’s Image
by Sven Birkerts
Unsolvable Mysteries
by Scott Nadelson
Voluntary Displacement: Two Questions with Lisa Chen
by agnimag
When Things Flip All the Way Around: Recognition and Reversal
by Bonnie Friedman
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