Country and City 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •This Bright Diorama

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

• •Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward

  Gwendolyn Brooks

Out of Place

• •The Death of the Shack

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Open Season

  Nathan Poole

• A Willow and the Moon

  Paul Yoon

• •¡Hablamos!

  Blake Sanz

• Miss McElroy

  Bret Anthony Johnston

• A House of Her Own

  Maggie Shen King

Nonfiction

• Entry Cove

  Lia Purpura

• •Fountain Girls

  Samantha Tucker

• Postcards from Below the Bug Line

  Michael Martone

• An Uncertain Sound

  Nell Boeschenstein

Poetry

• •To His Soul

  Amit Majmudar

• The Fencing Shoe

  Amit Majmudar

• The Turin Horse

  Amit Majmudar

• Elemental

  Amit Majmudar

• Viridescent

  Raymond McDaniel

• Descender

  Raymond McDaniel

• Some Days Landlocked Doesn’t Mean Water

  Monica Berlin

• A Spectacular Reformation of Their Old Ways

  Miriam Bird Greenberg

• Wednesday Morning and Customers Want Me to Draw Out the Valley

  Seanse Lynch Ducken

• Lenox Square

  Matthew Buckley Smith

• •Yonder, A Rental

  Anna Maria Hong

• Hum

  Abigail Beckel

• •Beta vulgaris

  H. R. Webster

• At a Party on a Colonist Car Across Canada

  Chelsea Dingman

• Shades Creek, Panther Sighting

  Austin Segrest

• Goose Gospel

  Austin Segrest

• Charmed

  Artress Bethany White

• The Eel in the Raritan Canal

  Martha Silano

• The Buck

  Anthony Carelli

• The Ghost Kid Speaks

  Erin Elizabeth Smith

• Smallest Possible Impact

  Jane Satterfield

• Out of Our Farm’s Odd Family of Birds

  Chad Parmenter

The Strip

• Kayla Sees the Lowcountry

  Kayla E.

Map

• •Mystic Island

  Brian Hayes

Art

• •Prints and a Conversation

  Andrew Blanchard & Emily Louise Smith

Reclamation

• Hermine: An Animal Life

  Maria Beig & Jaimy Gordon

Poem in a Landscape

• The Lyric City

  Wayne Miller

• Reading Plato

  Rick Barot

• Panopticon

  Brenda Shaughnessy

Back Matter

• Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits