Spring 2016 Number 43
Featured Poet
Barbara Ras
- Where Justice and Whimsy Lead: An Interview with Barbara Ras, by Megan Sexton
- The Edible Heart: Obliteration and Awe in the Poetry of Barbara Ras, by Eric Smith
Winner of the Collins Prize
Brandon Courtney
Read Online
- Betty Adcock, Pastoral
- Chad Davidson, The Field, a Series of Low Buildings, a Distant Road
- William Logan, The Miracle
- Terese Svoboda, The Stickiness of Dust
- Greg Williamson, Maybe Time Meant to Tell Us
Contents
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Featured Poet
Barbara Ras
- Boarding
- Harvest
- Looking Homeward Dream
- Ringing
- To Fill Time
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Featured Essay
Kieran Quinlan
- Heaney at Halftime
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Poems
- Betty Adcock
- Evidence
- Pastoral
- L. S. Asekoff
- Merleau-Ponty Is a Bridge between the Mother & the Sea
- Vestibule
- Teragon
- John Bargowski
- Playboy Club Key
- Laura Lee Beasley
- Emma Darwin at Fifteen
- Tina Cane
- A Minor History of Photography
- Nocturne: Starting Right Now
- Michael Chitwood
- When He Came Back
- George David Clark
- Poltergeists
- Holly Virginia Clark
- Preparing Dinner
- Brandon Courtney
- Fuzzy Logic
- Theodicy
- The Lotus-Eater
- Chad Davidson
- Stuart Dischell
- Anonymous Cityscape with Interesting Clouds
- Another Picture of the Future
- Sean Thomas Dougherty
- My Youngest Daughter Brings Me Daisies and Bits of Plastic Trash
- Kerry James Evans
- On “Having Heart”
- Pajama Potluck
- J. Bruce Fuller
- The Penitent Magdalene
- Taryn Gilbert
- The Close of Summer
- Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
- A Full Shelf Also Hides Its Shame
- Debora Greger
- Postcards from the Tokaido Road
- My Late Mother Tours the Egyptian Wing
- The Dead
- Rob Griffith
- Saint Columba in Old Age
- Mea Maxima Culpa
- Richard Hague
- Elegy for Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below
- Barbara Hamby
- Discussing the Crucifixion with Jehovah’s Witnesses at the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House in Montgomery, Alabama
- Jeff Hardin
- No Sorrow in Sight
- Robert W. Hill
- Vespers
- Ron Houchin
- Perpetual Morning
- Mike James
- The Belt
- Rick Joines
- The Incorrupt Hand of the Saint
- David Kirby
- Work Song with Saint and Executioner
- L. S. Klatt
- Big Shot
- Alexis Levitin translating Salgado Maranhão
- Domain
- Temple
- The One Who Howls
- Orbit
- Cloud
- William Logan
- Spring Baring Arms
- The Miracle
- Corey Marks
- The Censor Works at Home in the Evening
- The Forest
- Rose McLarney
- Pastoral
- Mary Moore
- On the Nineteenth-Century Chinese Teapot
- What the Sand Says
- Charlotte Muzzi
- Skating
- Ricardo Pau-Llosa
- Bruges
- Neil Shepard
- Cézanne’s Atelier
- Rebecca A. Spears
- The Nature of Nature
- Traduttore, Traditore
- Kathryn Starbuck
- Savonarola’s Visions of Flames
- Why Are the Dog and I
- They Stopped
- Sitting Quietly in a Small Room
- Here at the OFH
- Terese Svoboda
- With This Spider I Do Thee Wed
- Indexia in the Dark
- The Stickiness of Dust
- Tara Tatum
- Order of Things
- Origin
- Laura Van Prooyen
- Rush of Pulse and Song
- Frances of the Pleiades
- Ashley Warner
- Monday Morning
- Sex Next Door
- Lunch Line
- Mike White
- Will
- Greg Williamson
- Maybe Time Meant to Tell Us
- Go Ask the Nurse
- Dominika Wrozynski
- I Will Still Visit
- Betty Adcock