36.1 | FALL/WINTER 2009
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Kate Lorenz MANAGING EDITOR: Jenny Gropp Hess
FICTION EDITOR: Christopher Hellwig NONFICTION EDITOR: Andy Johnson
POETRY EDITOR: M. Ann Hull DESIGN EDITOR: Justin Runge
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Ward Bedsole, Emily Conner, Megan Fink, Stephen Gropp Hess, Heather Humann, Andy Johnson, Kirsten Jorgenson, Danny Letz, Amanda Stevens, Josh Tucker, Danie Vollenwider
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Eric Carpenter, Matt Dischinger, Ashley Gorham, Melissa Hull, Heather Humann, L. Bellee Jones, Caitlin Lovely, CD Mitchell, Daniela Olszewska, Nick Pincumbe, Katie Shinkle, Josh Tucker
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Ward Bedsole, Eric Carpenter, Ashley Gorham, Kirsten Jorgenson, L. Bellee Jones, Michael Marberry, Brian Morrison, Daniela Olszewska, Laurence Ross, Justin Runge, Danie Vollenweider
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Ward Bedsole, Ashley Gorham, Danny Letz, Daniela Olszewska, Danie Vollenweider
FICTION
James Grinwis: Village 30 Abacus Rump | Future 2 | Future 3
Allis Hammond: Tuesday’s Child
Chloé Cooper Jones: What Can Be Learned
Anthony Luebbert: I wore a cummerbund, just in case
Peter Markus: What This All Used to Be, or Where Now All We See Are Trees
NONFICTION
Jehanne Dubrow: The Lieutenant’s Wife
Janice Lee: A Man Who Is a Red Tree
POETRY
Jaswinder Bolina: Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accolade
Claire Donato: Foreplay Heart
Leah Falk: Slow readers
Kristin Hatch: sometimes my arms bend back
Austin LaGrone: Twelve-Step
Jeremy Pataky: A Brief History of Landing Here
Andrew Zawacki: Glassscape
FEATURE
Aimee Bender: Viewer, Violator
Abigail Cloud: Snapped Key Demon
Mary Caponegro: A Visit to the Ark of Lambeth, or The Borametz
Shira Dentz: Seams
Lily Hoang: from Invisible Women
Joanna Klink: Early Night, Askew | Junkyard
Norman Lock: from Alphabets of Desire & Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary Colophons
Sabrina Orah Mark: Birthday | Where Babies Come From
Paisley Rekdal: An Enemy
ART
Paho Mann: Medicine Cabinet, Albuquerque, 2000 (cover)
Graphic Writing
Jesse Jacobs: Oh, What a Cruel God We’ve Got
CHAPBOOK
K.A. Hays: Some Monolith