Spring/Summer 2017 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Fidelity to Fact

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •Largeness and Light

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Blood

  Halina Duraj

• The Descent

  Ron Rash

• •Another Life Initiative

  Nick Fuller Googins

• The Whitest Girl

  Brenda Peynado

• Outside Is the Ocean

  Matthew Lansburgh

• A Beautiful Song, Very Melancholy and Very Old

  Bess Winter

Nonfiction

• Metamorph

  Anya Groner

• I Want to Feel Close to You When I Read

  Jennifer Tseng

• Revisiting a Journal Taken to Mount Talol/Pooksaus/Tahoma/Tacobeh/Tacoma/Rainier

  Linda Russo

• •Garni-Geghard

  Naira Kuzmich

Poetry

• Boys

  Chad Abushanab

• Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms

  A. H. Jerriod Avant

• Trail

  Heidi Lynn Staples

• Marginalia

  Susan Blackwell Ramsey

• Late Afternoon at the Junction Rodeo

  John Poch

• Midwest

  Mary Cresswell

• When Will the Leaves

  John Rybicki

• •The Purse Thieves

  Tommye Blount

• As the Wolves Gather

  Marilyn Nelson

• I am convinced now that more than anything we want to live forever.

  Sandra Marchetti

• Coy Worm

  Hailey Leithauser

• Saint Worm

  Hailey Leithauser

• On Caterpillars

  Regan Huff

• Still Life with Avalanche

  Nikki Zielinski

• Photograph: Alice Allgood Cooper on Her Wedding Trip*

  Alicia Wright

• Cotton Block*

  Alicia Wright

• First Eclogue*

  Alicia Wright

The Strip

• Doggamut

  Martha Park

Reclamation

• Required Reading: Kiki DeLancey’s “A Good Six-Two”

  Yiyun Li

• A Good Six-Two

  Kiki DeLancey

Poem in a Landscape

• The Rocks Took Charge

  Linda Hogan

• from Las Piedras del Cielo

  Pablo Neruda & James Nolan

Three Maps

• Map of Anguilla, BWI. Handed to Alexis Pauline Gumbs by Jeremiah Gumbs.

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs

• True Courses: Starting from Sayre

  Pat Valdata

• Conjuring, Willing, Napping

  Dahlia Elsayed

Cover Art

• Creatures of the Order Anura

  Kelsey Oseid

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits