Spring/Summer 2018 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Letters to a Friend

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

• •From a letter to Pat Parker

  Audre Lorde

Out of Place

• •Montaigne in the Age of Trump

  David Gessner

Fiction

• •When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

  Chaitali Sen

• •The Clown of Rome

  Ben Stroud

• •The Fortune Years of Nathan Cook

  Renee Simms

• •Make No Sound to Wake

  Bojan Louis

Nonfiction

• •Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

  Jane Wong

• •Wind

  Rachel Z. Arndt

• •A House in Karachi

  Rafia Zakaria

• •Witness Tree

  Cameron Dezen Hammon

Poetry

• •Coywolf

  Katie Hartsock

• •Question from a Bowl of Beans

  Adam Vines

• •Nursling

  Andy Young

• •Bats after the Hurricane

  Andy Young

• •You Get a Free Shadow along with Me

  Sandra McPherson

• •Little Girl Buried in a Keg of Rum

  Gretchen Steele Pratt

• •Essays on Idleness

  Trey Moody

• •Bird Woman, 1910

  Dolores Hayden

• •Crewelwork

  Maximiliane Donicht

• •Petronia petronia jyekundensis / Rock Sparrow /  Steinsperling [collected September 4 1935]

  Jan Verberkmoes

• •Hirundo daurica tibetana / Red-Rumped Swallow /  Rötelschwalbe [collected June 10 1935]

  Jan Verberkmoes

• •Hornet’s Nest

  Catherine Carter

Poem in a Landscape

• •Brute Blood

  Anna Maria Hong

• •Leda and the Swan

  William Butler Yeats

The Strip

• •Don’t Hate the Playas . . . Hate the Games!!

  Keith Knight

Reclamation

• •Ending on the Right Note

  Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Girl Who Raised Pigeons

  Edward P. Jones

Map

• •Ringing the Changes

  Stephanie Strickland

Art

• •On Eavesdropping

  Adrienne Elise Tarver

Back Matter

• •Notes and Recent Awards

• •Credits