Fall 2011 | 61.2
FICTION
NAHAL S. JAMIR
In Perfect English | 7
JAMES GORDEN BENNET
Entanglement | 18
AARON GWYN
Sweet Relief | 74
POETRY
ANGIE MACRI
Abide | 12
CHRIS DUNSMORE | 14
Reality Orientation
I Couldn’t Tell What Happened
AMORAK HUEY | 30
The Men at the Block Party
The Globe of Death Motorcyclist Faces His Worst Spheres
The Letter X Imagines His Funeral
Precautions Against Altitude Sickness
JOE GALLAGHER | 63
Delta of Lost Hippos
Unsmoothly
CLAIRE WAHMANHOLM | 67
Postcard from the Great Wall
Family Portrait: Red Square
North
STEPHANIE E. SCHLAIFER | 88
From the Old Northwest
Swath
Native Plants and Animals
MAMIE MORGAN | 96
Them, Hardly
Her Ninth Wintering
Flocking
CONTEST
FIRST PLACE: JAMES MCFATTER
American Desire | 42
RUNNER UP: MATTHEW VOLLMER
epitaph #26 | 44
RUNNER UP: COURTNEY SENDER
Lift | 46
HONORABLE MENTION: AARON KROL
Conditions | 47
HONORABLE MENTION: CAROLINE YOUNG
Catastrophila | 48
INTERVIEW
AMY HEMPEL
The Poem Lust I Still Have | 51
ART
JUSTIN RAMSEY
The Ugly Swan Up Above It All | 6
Super Nova Siren | 11
Exclamation Station | 17
Contemplation Station | 66
Channeling | 103
JENNIFER D. ANDERSON
Seven Engrams | 34
KUDU-LAH
Five Critters | 57
DARIC GILL
Comparison | 73
REVIEWS
JASMINE V. BAILEY
Devotions by Bruce Smith | 104
Matthew Hotham | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
FICTION EDITORS
Lindsay Starck & Phil Sandick
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Sam Bednarchik
NON-FICTION EDITORS
Nick Anderman
COVER DESIGN
Philip McFee
POETRY EDITORS
Lee Nortan &
WEB EDITOR
Ted Sheinman
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Bhumi Dalia, Heather Van Wallendael & Noah Katz
INTERNS: Shannon Beamon, Kristen Chang, Scott Davis, Hannah Dockery, Mandy Eidson, Kelsey Foster, Megan Harley, Jordan Hopson, Kristen Johnson, Alice Martin, Ben Miller, Livia Nelson, Peyton Riley, Kevin Rothenberg, Liana Roux, Rachel Shope, Grace Smith, Brittany Spruill, Nathan Vial and William Wright
FICTION READERS: Laura Bennett, Kelsey Foster, Alice Martin, Livia Nelson, Madeline Raskulinecz, Jerrod Rosenbaum, Ben Thompson, Zachary, L. Lamar Wilson, and Nate Young
POETRY READERS: Katy Bowler, Melissa Golding, and Rachel Kiel
NON-FICTION READERS: Emily Banks, Kristen Chang, Mandy Eidson, Jonathan Pattishall, and Brittany Spurill