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FICTION

CAITLIN HORROCKS
Start With This | 7

SAMAR FITZGERALD
You’re a Big Success | 45

SCOTT GARSON
The Goth of SecurityOne Field | 78

POETRY

HAINES EASON
Old Woman, One Porch Down | 10
Payphone | 12
Elk in Summer | 14

JASMINE V. BAILEY
Kingfisher | 17

TINA EGNOSKI
Explorations of the Gulf Stream with Notes on the Body Ill | 22

STEPHEN GERMIC
Miner’s Creek | 23

JOHN-MICHAEL BLOOMQUIST
Bright Star | 33
Preparing the Altar | 34

LINWOOD RUMNEY
Low Tide in the Penobscot Bay | 36

ANN RYAN
No Telling | 38

WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS
Orchards | 39
The African Violet | 40
The Helicopters | 41

ANDREA SCARPINO
After the Stroke, Poplar Trees | 42
Practice Runs | 43

RONALD WALLACE
Occlusion | 74
Memo to Myself Found in My Appointment Book | 76

THORPE MOECKEL
Terra Sutra | 77

SUSAN H. MAURER
Arte no es la vida. 1-31-08 | 95

NONFICTION

JUSTIN PERRY
The Quiet | 24

ART

APRIL DAI
Untitled | 6

MICHAEL ANDERSON
vacancy | 16

LACEY LAMBE
summertime | 20
Madame and Monsieur Dubious | 21

MICHAEL ANDERSON
untitled | 32

MICHAEL ANDERSON
early june peas | 44

LACEY LAMBE
Birthday for Rhino | 72
Harmony’s Garden | 73

MICHAEL ANDERSON
phone in motel lobby | 94

REVIEWS

BENJAMIN MILLER
Ziggurat by Peter Balakian | 128

Matthew Hotham | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

FICTION EDITORS

Phil Sandick & Lindsay Starck

ART EDITORS

Samantha Kiefer & Asia Morris

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Matthew Harvey

INTERNS: Emily Banks, Bhumi Dalia, Rebecca Hart, Arthur Iannacone, Sam Lemley, Monica Locker, Benjamin Miller, Johnathan Pattishall, and Heather Van Wallendael
FICTION READERS: Laura Bennett, Lee Norton, Sarah Parker, Jerrod Rosenbaum, Ted Scheinman, Ben Thompson, L. Lamar Wilson, and Nate Young
POETRY READERS: Rachel Kiel and Anna Levett