Poems
Gail Hoskins Gilberg, "Personal Effects"
Richard Kenefic, "A Day in the Workplace Spent Pondering Obsolescence"
Jean Owen, "Taos"
Bill Griffin, "To a Lost Poem"
Mark Taksa, "Don't Labor, Be Lucky"
Elizabeth Caffrey, "A Year-Round Spring"
Austin Hummell, "Heroin" and "Equus"
Marlys West, "The Opposite of Bomb is Etiquette"
E.R. Carlin, "The Myth of Syphilis" and "Vasectomy Interlude"
Marilyn Johnston, "Annnual Check Up"
Iris Litt, "GypsyGap"
Dan Gallik, "White Silk Gandoura Lined in Blue"
Jack Granath, "How Do You Say..."
Erren Kelly, "A Sin"
Virgil Suarez, "Jesus, The Disciples, & the End of the 'Deception Tour'"
Jesse Lee Kercheval, "There Are European Landscapes"
Leonard J. Cirino, "The Cricket"
Rawdon Tomlinson, "Indeh"
Natalie Peeterse, "Restoration"
Bill Sweeney, "The Administrative Assistant"
Judith Chalmer, "For My Mother on Becoming a Citizen"
Eric Trethewey, "Purity"
John N. Miller, "Ballad of Ponce de Leon in Florida"
David Brendan Hopes, "In A Summer of Almost Too Much Light" and "The Critic in Love"
Edward Butscher, "Who's Afraid of Mad Bad Emily?"
Helen Ruggieri, "The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time"
Dylan Willougby, "Inner Working"
Charles Valle, "On a Theory of Boxes"
Louis Gallo, "Green Lollipop"
Michael Todd Bowden, "Keeper"
R.A. Lopez, "June 17th Chorus"

Reviews
Donald Platt's "Cloud Atlas," reviewed by Henry Hughes

John Poch reviews five books of poetry:
James Tate's "Memoir of the Hawk"
Nick Flynn's "Some Ether"
Ted Genoways's "Bullroarer"
Jorie Graham's "Never"
and Ben Doyle's "Radio, Radio"

Gabriel Gudding's "A Defense of Poetry," reviewed by Willard Greenwood

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