Sally Harless

The Inevitable Awkward Moose Encounter

Mattox Roesch

Burn the House Down

Amanda Rea

Trentino

Christopher McIlroy

Pillar of Fire, Lake of Fire

Vincent Precht

Clippings

Andrew Lewis Conn

Button Holes (excerpt)

Adam Peterson

The Way Back

Patrick Crerand

Letters from a Midwestern Superhero

Rae Paris

The Girl Who Ate Her Own Skin

Anna Journey

The Foot Wing of Carolina’s Artificial Limb Factory

Tania Runyan

The Goldfish Pond

Adam Day

Braunvieh

Abandoned House

H.E. Sayeh

The Art of Stepping Through Time

Black and White

(Translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi)

Karyna McGlynn

Diamondback Rattler

Kelsie D. Gray

The Wild Feast

David Wagoner

The Ends of My Fingers

Jacqueline Lyons

My Life in Québec

2007 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner

Jonas Lerman

The New Year

Luisa A. Igloria

Intimacy Deserves a Closer Look

Gaylord Brewer

Dead Metaphor #12: Fidelity

Dead Metaphor #13: the Number Thirteen

Barbara Hamby

Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris

Sally Dawidoff

Daydream

Catherine Wing

Dance, Misery!

Tom Scat at the Kit Kat Club

Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

Object Lesson: Horses

Petites Curie

Maggie Smith

An Island in the Movies

Vanishing Point

Natalie Sears

Nunavut

Sy Hoahwah

NDN Way

Barbara Yien

New Practical Chinese Reader

Oliver Rice

Accosted in His Very Habitat

Ross Gay

Within Two Weeks . . .

Some Instructions on Black Masculinity . . .

Paisley Rekdal

Armor on Display

Jennifer Militello

Antidote with Symptoms

Antidote with Attempts at Diagnosis

Andrew Grace

Letter Sent in a Fish

Letter Sent Back on a Crane’s Heel

Hai Zi

Autumn

End of August

Poem for the Last Night and the First Day

(Translated by Ye Chun)

Killarney Clary

“Milk-Glass Doll . . .”

“She Dropped Out of Order . . .”

Vona Groarke

Aubade

David Kirby

“Your Most Sincere Friend & Humble Servant, Sandwich”

Miles Waggener

Creosote

Ryan Van Meter

Lake Effect

Chad Anderson

Newsworld by Todd James Pierce

Jackson Brown

A Garden Amid Fires by Gladys Swan

Roxana Cazan

The Jinn and Other Poems by Amira El-Zein

Morgan Fritz

The American Way by John Ridley

Sharon McGrill

What Becomes You by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz

Hannah Faith Notess

Murmur by Lauren Mullen

Nathaniel Perry

Gates of the Sun by Elias Khoury

Megan Savage

The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani

Cate Whetzel

For Love of Common Words by Steve Scafidi