In this issue:

Editor's Turn
Maren V. Henry

 

Essay

David Bottoms
Thirst and the Writer's Sense of Consequence

 

Poems

Martin Achatz
Evolution
Sleeping with Grief

Katy Gilliam
Tomatoes

Haleh Hatami
Lost Karbala
Martyrs and Other Visionaries
Sandman
Sound Skeleton—A Dream

Jeff Lockwood
Dr. Sherman Two Elk's Death Dream Ft. Cobb, Okla., 1967
East of Bismarck
Silence

Miriam Sagan
Four Women
Equinox—Coltrane
Point of View

Ryan G. Van Cleave
The Pineapple, the Plate

Poetry Translations from the Chinese

Bai Juyi Poems Translated by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Assignment Under the Title "Departure at Ancient Grass Field"
Buying Flowers
Lament for Peony Flowers
Light Fur and Fat Horses
On Laozi
Poem II
Song of Collecting Lotus Seeds
To My Wife
White Cloud Spring

Wen Tingyun Poems Translated by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
To the Tune of "Beautiful Barbarians"
To the Tune of "Dreaming of the South Side of the River"
To the Tune of "The Water-Clock Sings at Night" (Poem I)
To the Tune of "The Water-Clock Sings at Night" (Poem 3)

 

Fiction

John Michael Cummings
The Best Mark of a Man

 

 

Reviews

Jeff Cebulski
Tests of Time by William Gass

Lesia Schnur
How to Publish and Promote Online by M.J. Rose and Angela Adair-Hoy

Amy G. Whitney
The Intimate Lives of Trees by Marguerite Bouvard and Karen Klein