FICTION

Allison Amend
A Private, Vulgar Thing

Joan Connor
And I, Isolde

Bret Lott
Gesture

ESSAYS

Judith Ortiz Cofer
Her Kind: A Fable for Our Times
In Search of My Mentor’s Gardens

Janice Eidus
Class Barbie

Winston Fuller
To Press One’s Eye Against the Body of the World

Dinty W. Moore
By My Own Hands

INTERVIEW

John Hoppenthaler
So Let it be Like Rain: An Interview with Jen Valentine

TRANSLATION

Carolyn Wright & Mohommad Nural Huda translate Nasima Sultana
I Was Asleep, I Was Alone
I’ll Go Away and I Won’t Say a Thing
Promise
To My Promise-Bound Childhood

BOOK REVIEW

John Drexel
Something Lucid Surrounded by Something Mysterious

FEATURED ARTIST

Juergen Strunck
Eight Prints

STAFF