Overton Loyd

Sir Noze Hisself

Joseph Kim

Superstar

Liza Wieland

Nightingale

2007 Indiana Review Fiction Prize Winner

Michelle Reed

Sometimes Canned Peas

T. Geronimo Johnson

Hold it Till it Hurts

Christina Yu

Variations on an Unknown Theme

Jeff Parker

Our Cause

Arielle Greenberg

The Hex

Sandy Longhorn

Having Been Begotten

Shanan Ballam

Red Riding Hood in the Forest

Red Riding Hood to Grandmother

Denise Duhamel

Break up

Jane Springer

The Bride Who Might Have Been

Susanna Childress

Mother as Opalescent Bottle

Stephanie Taylor

Unrequite

Olivia Clare

Doraₓ

Maureen Seaton

Fractal Pirates (Five Iterations)

Greg Bachar

Amsterdam, 1936

2007 Indiana Review ½ K Prize Winner

Orlando Ricardo Menes

Zafra

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Four Amulets for a Frightened Farmer

Diana Park

Black Tide

John Thomas

Ghost Pulp

William Wright

Hell

G. C. Waldrep

In Like Spirit of Saintliness

My Brezhnev Moment

Mark Halliday

Warren

Jynne Dilling Martin

Hymn for All Beasts

Beckian Fritz Goldberg

My Dream as the Beloved

Gary Soto

The Troubadour & the Troubadour’s Dog

Nicky Beer

Nature Film, Directed by Martin Scorsese

Ed Haworth Hoeppner

Stippling, Winter: Letter to a Tropical Mind

Lance Larsen

Why do you keep putting animals in your poems?

Abdel Shakur

Editor’s Note

Overton Loyd

Trombipulation Time

Diem Jones

Bop Gun Blues

Rump-Of-Steelskin’s Booty

Pedro Bell

Motherhood in Red, Black, & Green (1972)

Krista Franklin

Godfather

Thomas Sayers Ellis

I’m Payin Taxes, What Am I Buyin?

My Thang

Bewildered

What My Baby Needs is a Little More Loving

Noel W. Anderson

Blacktoun Citizen Speaks

Blacktoun Late Fo Sairomone (detail)

Scott Chernis

George Clinton

Terrance Hayes

Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadolipic Warning

Bullet Head

Patrick Rosal

Making Love to You the Night They Take Your Father to Prison

Despedida Con el Olor de Almendras

Throwing Down a Book of Poems I Run Toward an Open Window . . .

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Icarus Dreams of the Godfather

Aracelis Girmay

Orpheus, When Your Voice Is Dressed in Jackal

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Mad Dog 20/20

Tim Seibles

A Funky Meditation

Ed Pavlić

Icarus Three Things Teena Marie Has to Do with What Seems Like Vermont’s One and Only Blacktop Road

Jericho Brown

All That Crawls beneath Me

Overton Loyd

BounceMobile

Ronald P. “Stozo the Clown” Edwards

Chim Chim

Jackson Brown

The Water Cure by Percival Everett

Christopher Citro

I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These by Anthony Tognazzini

Luke Hankins

Riding Westward by Carl Phillips

Kristen Renzi

The Happiness Experiment by Lisa Fishman

Magdalena Sokolowski

Circadian by Joanna Klink

Ryan Teitman

Parts of the Mass by Catherine Imbriglio

Cate Whetzel

Embryos & Idiots by Larissa Szporluk