Essays

• Of Shanties and Slavery   Dean Flower   

• My Ever New Delight: The Pleasures of Paradise Lost   Robert Crossley   
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Fiction

• Beijing   Sieren Damsgaard Ernst   
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Poetry

• Composed a Few Miles North of Los Angeles   Jake Young   
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• Advice to the Creator; Three Riddles   David Ives   
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• The Seekers; Strength to Change; Distance   Timothy Murphy   
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• Ambition   James Matthew Wilson   

• The Walking Stick   Patricia Hooper   

• The First Line Was the Last to be Written   Brian Culhane   

• Why Publish?; We Told You Lies   Rebecca Foust   

• Boxing with Sylvia Beach   Robert McDowell   

• Save the Date   Alfred Corn   

• Inwardness   Charles Baudelaire   
  Alfred Corn   

• The Stain   Tom Wayman   

• Looking On   Rachel Hadas   
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• Alternatives to This   Rafael Campo   

• Fear: The New Passion   Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke   
  Philip Ramp   

Chronicles

• Curious Conjunctions in Berlin   Elizabeth Lyon   
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• A Revolution in Progress   Erick Neher   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   
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Reviews

• The Strangest Story: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Ulysses S. Grant   Brooke Allen   
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• The Case of Meriwether Lewis: Suicide or Slander?   Susan Balée   

• Powell's Way   William H. Pritchard   

• The Pleasure in the Separate Pieces   Robert McDowell   

• The Place of Rest from All You Have Undergone   Bruce Whiteman   

• Two Citizens: The Life and Work of James Wright   Mark Jarman   

• “I am more myself in letters”: Sylvia Plath’s Correspondence   Meg Schoerke   
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• The News from Poems   Lorna Knowles Blake   
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Comment

• Stories from Sinai   Clinton Bailey   
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