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Book - 2012

Essay -- "Time and Distance Overcome" by Eula Biss -- "Risotto alla Milanese" by Elena Bossi (translated by Cristina Piatti) -- "Aperture" by Danielle Cadena Deulen -- "A Feeling in Your Head" by Lance Larsen -- "Alter Ego" -- "Stairs" by Amy Leach -- "The Ground Floor" by Yiyun Li -- "D/Altered" by James McKean -- "Swingin'" by Maggie McKnight -- "SUV vs. Bike, SUV Wins" by Steve McNutt -- "Discovery" by Ryan Van Meter -- "Dragon Slayers" by Jerald Walker -- Poem -- "Ariadne Explains Why She's Mixed Up with A Boy Like Theseus" by Anne Babson -- "Five Villanelles" by Jim Barnes -- "Dande...lion" by Malachi Black -- "Watermelons" by Leslie Chang -- "Inamorato: A Triolet" by Sharon Dolin -- "True Illusion" by Alex Epstein (translated by Becka Mara McKay) -- "Shorn" by Bob Hicok -- "only waitress at the truck-stop who never uses the cash register" by Justin Hyde -- "Letter to Rilke" by Jeanne LeVasseur -- "Letter from a Mental Hospital"-- "Class Reunion" by Kim Lozano -- "When He Took Me Out with His People" -- "I Wanted to Be an Angel" -- "I Have Passed Too Many Years Among Cool Designing Beings" by Anthony Madrid -- "World War III" by Fred Muratori -- "Valentine" -- "Valentine" by Kiki Petrosino -- "Black on White: A Found Poem" by Todd James Pierce -- "Nonetheless" by Donald Platt -- "The Word for ‘Yeo’" by Heeduk Ra (translated by Won-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill) -- "Damages"; "See, If You Can" by Ruby Rahman (translated by Carolyne Wright with Syed Manzoorul Islam and the author) -- "Moro or Congrí" by Jorge Sánchez From Ten Miscellaneous Spring Day Poems by Zhu Shuzhen (translated by Emily Goedde) -- "Bamboo Poem" by Dave Snyder -- "Weight Training" by Emily Van Kley -- "For My Father and His Mother" by Mary Jane White -- "Y"; "When You Come to Lethe" by John Witte -- "This dream the world is having about itself…" by Carolyne Wright -- "Contemporary Meskwaki Social Dance Songs" by Ray A. Young Bear -- Story -- "Helen of Sparta" by Jacob M. Appel -- "Knock Knock" by Brock Clarke -- "The Fish Shop Owner's Wife" by Mathilde Walter Clark (translated by John W. Clark and the author) -- "In the Event of Emergency" by Amina Gautier -- "Other Mothers, Other Sons" by Mehdi Tavana Okasi -- "Shelter" by Susan Perabo more