Spring/Summer 2014 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Keeping Books

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •On the Gallows with Henry David

Fiction

• The Island in the Gorge of the Great River

  Matthew Neill Null

• Strange and Lovely

  Chantel Acevedo

• Granna

  Clare Beams

• The Ugly

  Delaney Nolan

• The Book of Vaso Čubrilović

  Vedran Husić

Nonfiction

• What Looks Like Mad Disorder: The Sarah Winchester House

• Dear Future Lover

  Ander Monson

• The Uses of Biography

  Ander Monson

• Imaginary Children

  Belle Boggs

• An Unpleasantness in Sherwood Forest

  John Hanson Mitchell

• Shedders

  Matthew Clark

Poem in a Landscape

• The Principal Beauty of At the Fishhouses

  Erica Dawson

Poetry

• Recess and the Speed of Sound

• •Xylotheque

  David Barber

• •Feat

  David Barber

• Muybridge’s Clouds

  Joshua Rivkin

• Concerns, After Flipping Through the Dictionary

  Dexter L. Booth

• The Couple on the Plane Flying from Western North Carolina

  Vievee Francis

• •There Is Music in My Head

  Vievee Francis

• The Shirt

  Margaree Little

• What Begins as a List of Things Lost to Him

  Margaree Little

• Remainder

  Margaree Little

• The Evacuation Sale

  Kristi Moos

• Hit

  Melissa Range

• Poem Without New Year’s Resolution

  Carrie Fountain

• The Story about the Birds Changes after the Baby Is Born

  Carrie Fountain

• The House on Fish Hatchery Road

  Keetje Kuipers

• An Early History of Surveillance

  Suzanne Roszak

Reclamation

• Of Exile and Anxiety

  Aimee Bender

• Insomnia

  Mikhail Iossel

The Strip

• Still Life

  Sean Knickerbocker