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Fiction/Poetry Sampler
Fiction
A Season of Regret
by James Lee Burke
The Worst You Ever Feel
by Rebecca Makkai
Spiderman Summer
by Laura Brodie
House Tour
by Lee Smith
The Jap Room
by Pam Durban
Poetry
Storyville Diary
by Natasha Trethewey
History Lesson
by Claudia Emerson
Grant's Twain, Twain's Egypt
by Jeff Hoffman
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium
by Richard Foerster
Hayden's Skull
by Rita Dove
Birches
by Alice Friman
First Woods
by David Bottoms
Red Bird
by Mary Oliver
First Bible
by William Olsen
Jim Shows Me Twelve Jesuses
by Heather Kirn
Divination
by Sydney Lea
Essays
I Shot a Man in Corleone...
by David Kirby
On Rejection
by Bret Anthony Johnston
The Blue Hour Before Sunrise
by Kimberly Verhines
Ugly
by Joyce Davis
The Bone Road
by Brandon R. Schrand
Interviews
An Interview with Claudia Emerson
by Sarah Kennedy
Atlantic Flyway to Whirl Is King: An Interview with Brendan Galvin
by Thomas Reiter
Book Reviews
David Wojahn's Interrogation Palace
reviewed by Christopher Matthews
Charles Wright's Buffalo Yoga
reviewed by Sarah Kennedy
Editor's Note
O Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow
. . . by R. T. Smith
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