May 10th, 2013
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Contents
"Sensory Maps" by Kate McLean, Introduction by Amy Sande-Friedman
October 1st, 2012
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Cover design by Gabriele Wilson and Rodrigo Corral.
Contents
"The Common Statement" by Jennifer Acker
Poetry: A Selection of Contemporary South African Poetry
"Introduction" by Kelwyn Sole
"Why I Am Not an Engineer" by Robert Berold
"The Light" by Robert Berold
"Poet's Report to FIFA" by Angifi Proctor Dladla
"Today I Do Not Love My Country" by Ingrid de Kok
"Histoplasmosis: A Guide's Instructions at the Cave" by Ingrid de Kok
"Shards" by Ingrid de Kok
"Tin Roof" by Kelwyn Sole
"What the Sea Brings" by Kelwyn Sole
"Allahabad" by Ari Sitas
"A Message Comes In" by Yvette Christiansë
"The Secret Lives of Maps" by Yvette Christiansë
"Fernão the Gardener Has Premonitions" by Yvette Christiansë
"Photographing the Building is Forbidden Until the War is Over" by Karen Press
"Thank You Lee Smolin, Thank You Mr Leibniz" by Karen Press
"Farting Knees II: Talking to My Lover" by Makhosazana Xaba
"The Window" by Makhosazana Xaba
"Widowhood in the Dementia Ward" by Finuala Dowling
"Brief Fling in the Dementia Ward" by Finuala Dowling
"Odd One Out in the Dementia Ward" by Finuala Dowling
"How I knew It Wasn't Me" by Finuala Dowling
"He Pleaded Ignorance" by Kobus Moolman
"Hunger" by Kobus Moolman
"The Wrist" by Kobus Moolman
"If Only the Tswanas Could Dance" by Lesego Rampolokeng
"12 Anxieties for April 12th" by Liesl Jobson
"What I Should Have Worn at My Wedding" by Liesl Jobson
"This is the Sea" by Rustum Kozain
"Fog" by Rustum Kozain
"City" by Mxolisi Nyezwa
"San People" by Mxolisi Nyezwa
"New Country" by Mxolisi Nyezwa
"From Malikhanye" by Mxolisi Nyezwa
"My Intimate" by Gabeba Baderoon
"Axis and Revolution" by Gabeba Baderoon
"Remembering S-21, Cambodia" by Fiona Zerbst
"Volcanic" by Fiona Zerbst
"Enough of an Interruption" by Alan Finlay
"V.A Haunted House" by Khulile Nxumalo
"Suspension" by Malika Ndlovu
"Alive" by Malika Ndlovu
"Next Year I Want to Run the Comrades Marathon" by Vonani Bila
"Mandela at 91" by Vonani Bila
"The Body" by Haidee Kruger
"Writer" by Haidee Kruger
"The Other One" by Nadine Botha
"Portrait of Our Death" by Katharine Kilalea
"A Perfect Love" by Katharine Kilalea
"The Way Birds Stand" by Katharine Kilalea
"The Archivist" by Genna Gardini
Images
"Portraits of Land and Sea" by Amy Sande-Friedman, Bartow + Metzgar, and Peter Matthews
Fiction
"A Place in the Sun" by Jennifer Haigh
"Doleo Ergo Sum" by Robert Earle
"The Idea of Marcel" by Marie-Helene Bertino
"Escapement" by Sunetra Gupta
Essays
"The Poet in Rome: Richard Wilbur in Postwar Italy" by Robert Bagg
"The Land Up North" by Nicola Waldron
April 6th, 2012
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Contents
"The Common Statement" by Jennifer Acker
Poetry
"Pierre" by Ishion Hutchinson
"A Farther Shore" by Ishion Hutchinson
"Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter" by Angela Veronica Wong
"It Can Feel Amazing to Be Targeted By a Narcissist" by Angela Wong and Amy Lawless
"The Window" by Miguel-Angel Zapata (translated by Anthony Seidman)
"Borges" by Miguel-Angel Zapata (translated by Loren Goodman)
"My Parrot Has Died" by Miguel-Angel Zapata (translated by Loren Goodman)
"New Hampshire Spring" by Cynthia Hogue
"Altars and Flags" by Karen Chase
"Cleveland" by Avram Kline
"Alphabet of Scratches" by Norman Lock
"Alphabet of Torment" by Norman Lock
"Love Songs in Winter" by Tess Taylor
"Another Woman I Loved" by Curtis Bauer
"Salt" by Jane Satterfield
"Family of Strangers" by Jane Satterfield
"Girl Scouts Visit the FBI, circa 1975" by Jane Satterfield
"Meeting Julie Christie at the Flower Booth at the Sunday Ojai Farmers' Market, August 3, 2003" by Jock Doubleday
"Born Still" by Manohar Shetty
"Carried Forward" by Manohar Shetty
"Flying and You Know He's Not Coming Down" by Peter Jay Shippy
"Western Civilization" by Peter Jay Shippy
"Yesterday Will Be Better" by Peter Jay Shippy
"Occupation" by Emma Gorenberg
"May 5-The Dow Closes Down 8410" by Susan Briante
"May 17-The Dow Closes Up 10625" by Susan Briante
"October 29-The Dow Closes Down 11118" by Susan Briante
"In this Island" by Michael Joyce
"Excerpts from The King" by Ben Mazer
"At the Busy Intersection" by Victoria Redel
"Persephone" by Victoira Redel
"A Story with a Crack in It" by Denis Hirson
"An All But Empty Set" by Brad Leithauser
"From Dear Future Self" by Seth Perlow
"Swinging in the Attic" by Rachel Hadas
"The Reluctant Traveler" by Rachel Hadas
Images
"On and Off the Map" curated by Michael Kelly
Fiction
"Double Life" by Stephen O'Connor
"The Amazing Discovery and Natural History of Carlsbad Caverns" by Robin McLean
"The Stinker" by Gabriel Brownstein
"Boxwood" by Katherine Hill
Essays
"A Skimpy Primer on Skateboard Wheels" by Bret Anthony Johnston
"Tourist Snapshots" by Rolf Potts
"Dan McGuire" by Patrick Stine
