CONTENTS editor’s note publishing is personal

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Poems betsy andrews from the bottom sam truitt two poems tomaž Šalamun five poems (trans. michael thomas taren) melissa broder three poems raphael rubinstein thirteen ways of looking at a blackboard broc rossell two poems montreux rotholtz two poems steven alvarez two poems kathleen ossip the do-over mike lala after cy twombly’s the fire that consumes

all before it and jonah bokaer’s performance “on vanishing,” during lee ufan’s retrospective at the guggenheim.

cement pond, l.l.c. country djs will never play this danniel schoonebeek nectarines angelo nikolopoulos obscenely yours michael joseph walsh scaffolding rebecca kosick three poems lou lamana “you cannot light a ghost on fire” mark bibbins the editors hannah brooks-motl two poems adam fitzgerald two poems daniel borzutzky what are the murmurs of

the rotten carcass economy?

kent leatham three poems mark levine three poems

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24 27 56 58 60 68

70 73 83 86 92 104 108 109 111 114

128 131 162