Volume 51, Issue 1

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Jim Hicks

Alfred Kazin and Norman Podhoretz,
portraits by Jules Chametzky

Psalm of Leah, a poem by Diane Gilliam

My Soul, a poem by John Allman

Shadows on Jeweled Glass, a story by Juan José Saer,
translated by Jim Hicks

Spreading Ash, a poem by Sandra Meek

Ex-Wives, a poem by Ira Sadoff

Saffron, an essay by Robert Kostuck

Comida tipica, a story by Mei Li Ooi

From Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie,
a poem by Joshua Harmon

The Atheists Club, a story by Philip Kobylarz

Jackpot, a story by Kelly Luce

Minnie Driver, a story by Amy Weingartner

Crazy in Love (Women and Shoes),
an essay by Cynthia Lewis

Dinner Party, a story by Sarah French

What I learned in Art School, a
n essay by Joy Manesiotis

Melinda Interviews, a poem by Mike Michaels

Mother’s Bartok, a poem by Frannie Lindsay

Building, an essay by Michelle Disler

Insulatus, an essay by Zachary Watterson

Your People’s Ways, a story by Jane E. Martin

Polaroids of Tom, an essay by Burlee Vang

A Kingdom Comes, a story by Nance Van Winckel

Waiting for Solomon, a story by Susi Wyss

Everything and Nowhere: A Quest for Tango
in Buenos Aires, an essay by Paige Boncher

The Approximate Placement of the Sun,
a story by Lauren Foss Goodman

Little Stick, a poem by Anne Marie Macari

Time and Language: The Trials of a Philosophical Tourist,
an essay by Frederic Will

Pantoum of the Brothel of Ruin,
a poem by Patrick Donnelly

The Nutcracker’s Overbite, a story by Peter Moore

A Man from the Lord, a poem by Kirun Kapur

Beer, a poem by Lee Upton