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Spring 2019, Vols. 34, 2 & 3
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Fiction
Poetry
Joanna Klink: On Kingdoms
Carter Smith: Having and Time
Non-fiction
Fall 2018, Vol. 34, 1
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Fiction
Weike Wang: Hair
Poetry
Hanif Abdurraqib: How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This, How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This
Elizabeth Tornes: Bijou Come Back as a Wolf, In Memory of Biidwebiisaaban (The Sound of Rain Coming)
Non-fiction
Introduction to Issue 100
Chana Kim: Looking for the House
Craft Interview: Jane Smiley
Spring 2018, Vol. 33, 2 & 3
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Fiction
Sommer Schafer: My Little Pet
Poetry
Marta Balcewicz: Godzilla
Elizabeth Hoover: Listening, Facts and Little White Lies, How to Draw a Room (winner of the 2017 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets)
Morgan Parker: Great America
Non-fiction
Kirtan Nautiyal: We Are Scientists
Craft Interview: Nathan Englander
Robbie Maakestad: A Most Fragile Organ
Fall 2017, Vol. 33, 1
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Fiction
Colin Fleming: Sugar Huddle Redux
Poetry
Benjamin S. Grossberg: In Media Res, Whose Eyes Dart Contagious Fires
Owen McLeod: Triceratops ♥ You, Dream Kitchen
Natalie Scenters-Zapico: Border Crossing Simulation
Non-fiction
Christine Spillson: Watching a Fall
Symposium: Campus Protests and Free Speech
(Jim Craig, Megan Giddings, Ena Selimovic, Andrew Weinstein, Robert Zaller)
Spring 2017, Vol. 32, 2 & 3
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Fiction
David Naimon: Acceptance Speech
Poetry
Joanna Klink: Crossland, The Dusks
Ellen Doré Watson: Life Boats
Non-fiction
Matthew Vollmer: Cult Hymn
Symposium: Did Bob Dylan deserve to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(Brigitte Leschhorn, Adrian Matejka, Katie Moulton, Anis Shivani, Andrew Weinstein, Robert Zaller)
Fall 2016, Vol. 32, 1
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Poetry
Zeina Hashem Beck: Fi Yom Wi Leila, Majnun
Diana M. Chien: Some Little Dry Bodies, Rats, River
Non-fiction
George Choundas: Dead Now
John Paul Rollert: A Snuff Film at Harvard
Spring 2016, Vol. 31, 2 & 3
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Fiction
Phong Nguyen: Senior Paper: On Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Rosa Guttierez
Poetry
Elizabeth McLagan: Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea
William Trowbridge: You and Your Shadow
Non-fiction
Sarah Grigg: Medicine Wings
Symposium: In the next three decades, what do you think will be the greatest challenge facing literary publishing, and how might it be met?
(Kevin Larimer, Frank Wilson, Jane Friedman, Donna Shear, Emily Louise Smith, Kazim Ali, Gary Houston, Elizabeth McKenzie, Syed Afzal Haider, Ellen Hathaway)
Fall 2015, Vol. 31, 1
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Fiction
Meron Hadero: Mekonnen aka Mack aka Huey Freakin' Newton
Courtney Sender: The Disappearance of J. Frank Donaldson
Poetry
Jari Chevalier: The Tick and the Unified Field
James Lineberger: Hadjis
Non-fiction
Christopher Citro: An Elephant Walks into a McDonalds
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Spring 2015, Vol. 30, 2 & 3
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Fiction
J. T. Barbarese: The Vampire Colloquium
Brigitte Leschhorn: The Devil Has No Shadow
Poetry
Billy Collins: Perspective, Application, Poem to the First Generation of People to Exist After the Death of the English Language
Non-fiction
Symposium: TV vs. Film
(John Dalton, Rex Baird, Shanie Latham, Jeremy Kaufman, Michael Nye, Michael Yang, Nicole Clark, Paul Grimstad)
Fall 2014, Vol. 30, 1
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Fiction
Terrance Manning, Jr.: Andretti in the El Camino
Poetry
Jehanne Dubrow: House of the Small Dictatorship
Non-fiction
Josip Novakovich: Two Number One
Spring 2014, Vol. 29, 3
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Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates, High-Crime Area
Poetry
Christopher Robley: Second Honeymoon, Displacing Keeps the Thing, Cause and Effect, Plus the Music of Miles Davis' Second Great Quartet
Wendy J. Herbert: Before the Bonfire
Non-fiction
Geoffrey Bent: Falling Out of Love with Vertigo
Fall 2013, Vol. 29, 1 & 2
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Fiction
B. A. Newmark, Be Strong, Be Brave
Patrick Nathan, To Francine Mavencamp of Tallahassee, FL
Poetry
Gerald Stern: Daisy, Home, At Last
Daniel Bourne: Another Dream on the Border of the Old and New World
Spring 2013, Vol. 28, 3
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Fiction
Segun Afolabi: Halimah
Poetry
Jordan Pemberton: Route 1490 to 1489 to 1484, The things that invade the house, Things Gone
Non-Fiction
James Nolan: Sixty-Eight
Fall 2012, Vol. 28, 1 & 2
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Fiction
Michael Nye: A Fully Imagined World
Poetry
Charles Harper Webb: House Hunting, Explanations
Non-fiction
Frank Wilson: Time Crystals
Spring 2012, Vol. 27, 3
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Fiction
Stephen Dixon: The Dead
Julia Elliot: Shooting the Horses
Poetry
Brian Simoneau: At a Horeshoe Bend in the Rogue, Untitled
Andrew Hudgins: Johnny
Fall 2011, Vol. 27, 1 & 2
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Fiction
Tatjana Soli: The War Tourist
Non-Fiction
Anis Shivani: Interview with Ken Auletta
Poetry
Claudia Emerson: Half-Life: Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Dial Variations