Summer 2025
Vol. 68, No. 2
Fiction
Jessica Hollander: “An Occasional Shriek Cannot Be Avoided”
Monica Pareschi, translated by Anne Milano Appel: “The Seagulls”
Elizabeth Bryant: “The Scientist”
Shannon Frost Greenstein: “If It’s Not Breaking the Fourth Wall, It’s Just Sparkling Second Person”
Helena Pantsis: “The Ten-Year Itch”
Poetry
Joshua McKinney: “Dwell”
Sy Hoahwah: “Thrive”
Fady Joudah: “Lizard Shovel Pose”
Khadijah Queen: “Amphitheater of the Three Gauls”
Edward Carter: “Blvd de Sébastopol”
Pedro Poitevin: “Chapecoense”
Sterling Davis: “Corydon”
Jonny Teklit: “Curse the Mediterranean, My Enemy”
Geoffrey Brock: “The Old Mirage”
Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Leslie Monsour: “The Ultimate Riddle”
Dana Gioia: “Two Songs from a Children’s Opera”
George Franklin: “Not All That Far from Lincoln Center”
Bhartrihari, translated by Louis Hunt: “from Shatakatraya”
David Lehman: “Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?”; “Mahler’s Jubilation”
Robert Selby: “from Among the Ruins”
Ashley Sojin Kim: “Housewarming”
Erin O’Luanaigh: “His Girl Friday”; “Comedy of Remarriage”; “For Frances Gumm”
Matthew Stewart: “Pronouns”
Jenna Le: “A Kind of Creed”; “Autobiographia Literaria”
Daniel Patrick Sheehan: “The Poet Revisits His Bird Poems”
David Livewell: “Her Imaginary Friend”
Aiman Tahir Khan: “Remembrance”
Donald Mace Williams: “Unbraced”; “From an Airplane at Night”
Jane Greer: “Packed Carefully Away”
Austin Allen: “Pieces for Yoko Ono”
Rowan Ricardo Phillips: “from Gold”
Bhisham Bherwani: “Mannahatta”
Alex Mouw: “From a Tombstone”
M.I. Devine: “Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz)”
David Moolten: “Flush”
Gregory Calabro: “from Aspects of David”
Maryann Corbett: “An Exit”
Richard O’Brien: “John Clare Reaches the Pacific”; “The Wheel”
Alfredo Antonio Arevalo: “10 O’clock News”
Aaron Belz: “The Argument”
J.D. Smith: “Special for You, Boss”
Ye Chun: “Bullets”
Criticism
Morten Høi Jensen: “In the Margins of Time: James Agee and Weldon Kees”
Interview
Ron Padgett, by Stasha Cole: “By Brain and Gut”
