Introduction / Bill Henderson
Human snowball / Davy Rothbart
Enlightenment / Natasha Trethewey
A full-service shelter / Amy Hempel
During a break from feeling / Mary Ruefle
Thirst / Taymiya R. Zaman
Blues in five/four, the violence in Chicago / Afaa Michael Weaver
What happens in hell / Charles Baxter
After suicide / Matt Rasmussen
Teen culture / Elizabeth Ellen
The healing power of the western oystercatcher / Howard Norman
Cranes, mafiosos and a Polaroid camera / Natalie Diaz
God of ducks / Tina Louise Blevins
The ultrasound / David Hornibrook
Lorry raja / Madhuri Vijay
From That once were beautiful children / Claudia Rankine
Late oracle sonnet / David St. John
Self-portrait with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong
Reliquaries / Paul Zimmer
Listening to Virginia / Jeffrey Harrison
Iconography / Ay̨se Papatya Bucak
Tallahatchie / Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Father of disorder / Jessica Wilbanks
Your body down in gold / Carl Phillips
The piece need not be built / Andrew Zolot
The monster: classifications and explanations / Susan Slaviero
Don't let them catch you / Molly Patterson
The separaton/retention / Kwame Dawes
Writing & publishing a memoir: what the hell have I done? / Andre Dubus III
A summer garden / Louise Glück
Things to think about / Scott Beal
The field museum / Roger Reeves
A portrait of the writer as a rabbit / Sabine Heinlein
There were such things / W.S. Di Piero
Likable / Deb Olin Unferth
The story / B.H. Fairchild
The lit cloud / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
The reader / Robert Coover
Islands / Yusef Komunyakaa
Confessions of a recovering environmentalist / Paul Kingsnorth
Ways to begin a poem / Rachel Rose
In Colorado my father scoured and stacked dishes / Eduardo C. Corral
Housebreaking / Sarah Frisch
W.C. Fields takes a walk / Paisley Rekdal
Out of date: the joys of obsolescence / Hal Crowther
My neighbor's body / Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Philanthropy / Suzanne Rivecca / Interrupting aubade ending in epiphany / Marcus Wicker
Painting the summer palace of the queen / Philip Kelly
Villon's epitaph (ballade of the hanged men) / François Villon
If the man took / Joanna Ruocco
All-American / David Hernandez
The waste land app / Tess Taylor
Akhmatova / Matthew Dickman
Cadiz, Missouri / Robert Long Foreman
Imagination / Sigrid Nunez
The earth itself / Timothy Donnelly
Love like that / Jude Nutter
The gentleman's library, a nowaday redux / Bill Cotter
Self-portrait as Superman (alternate take) / Jake Adam York.
