Introduction / Bill Henderson
The river nemunas / Anthony Doerr
Turning yourself into a work of art / Stephen Dunn
Frost Mountain picnic massacre / Seth Fried
The opening / Philip Schultz
Double happiness / Mary-Beth Hughes
The case for free will / Patty Seyburn
Munro country / Cheryl Strayed
Labrador tea / Arthur Sze
I am myself three selves at least / Jennifer K. Sweeney
The cousins / Charles Baxter
The decision / Timothy Liu
Lores of last unicorns / Jen Hirt
The eviction / Rodney Jones
Analphabet / Martin Moran
Lord god bird / Colin Cheney
Steal small / Caitlin Horrocks
The bees of Deir Kifa / Michael Collier
My father's hats / Jeffrey Hammond
Capriccio in E minor for blowfly and strings / Paul Muldoon
Memories of the decadence / Hari Kunzru
To the furies who visited me in the basement of Duane Reade / Sharon Dolin
Children are the only ones who blush / Joe Meno
Rome / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
On coming back as a buzzard / Lia Purpura
Model prison model / Terrance Hayes
The dark rides / Chase Twichell
Remembering Samuel Beckett / Barney Rosset
A slip of paper / Louise Glück
Hither & yon / L.S. Asekoff
Freaky beasts: revelations of a one-time body builder / William Giraldi
They say / Laura Kasischke
Sheep may safely graze / Jess Row
A dead man in Nashville / Amanda Rea
The problem of water / Emily Toder
A wall in Naples and nothing more / Philip Levine
Sontag's rules / Sigrid Nunez
Blackstone / C.K. Williams
Things we'll need for the coming difficulties / Valerie Vogrin
Light or dark speech / William Olsen
The watermark / Susan McCallum-Smith
Stagflation / Joanna Fuhrman
Two midnights in a jug / Marc Watkins
Here, now: Eckhart Tolle takes the stage / Adam M. Bright
The caul of inshallah / Mohja Kahf
Understanding the new genuine Negro hero / Thomas Sayers Ellis
Indoor municipal pool / Alan Shapiro
Final dispositions / Linda McCullough Moor
Freedom of speech / Lucie Brock-Broido
How we thought about toys / Nancy Eimers
Landscape with arson / Jennifer Grotz
Three Buddhist tales / Marilyn Chin
Talismanic / David Wojahn
Dido refuses to speak / Linda Gregerson
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