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IN THIS ISSUE

A Note from the Poetry Editor

Poetry
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY  The Dragon
AGHA SHAHID ALI  There Is No God But
G. C. WALDREP  Their Faces Shall Be As Flames
PAISLEY REKDAL  Birthday Poem
REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS  The End of Life, a Secret
KHALED MATTAWA  Borrowed Tongue
LAURA KASISCHKE   Executioner as Muse
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI  Boxers in the Key of M
CARL PHILLIPS  Parable
JERICHO BROWN  Prayer of the Backhanded
VICTORIA CHANG  Yang Gui-Fei
DEBORA GREGER  Head, Perhaps of an Angel
MATTHEW OLZMANN  Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion
TOMAS Q. MORIN  Red Herring
JORDAN DAVIS  From the Twentieth Floor
DAVID YEZZI Woman Holding a Fox
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT  Redbud
JENNIFER GROTZ  The Woodstove
GERI DORAN  Tonight Is a Night Without Birds
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy

Fiction
KRISTIEN HEMMERECHTS  Fairytale
  translated by Margie Franzen & Sandra Boersma
PETER LASALLE  He Was Beginning to Wonder
DENNIS MCFADDEN Little Brier
JONATHAN DURBIN  Husbands
LENORE MYKA  Mascots
CHRISTINE SNEED  Clear Conscience
BROCK CLARKE  Transported

Music
J. E. UHL  The Prince of New Orleans Piano:
How James Booker Missed the Boat but Made the Parade

Investigations
ROBERT POGUE HARRISON  The Riddle of Age
VINCENT CZYZ  Collage and the Secret Adventures of Order

Testimonies
NATASHA LVOVICH Sister in Russian, Cousin in English

Observations
ELIZABETH O’BRIEN  Naming Is a Sacred Act Because: A List
ALEXANDRIA PEARY Holes and Walls

Reports from American Places
RICHARD TILLINGHAST  Eastward Bound, Across a Storied Landscape

Rediscoveries
BORIS SIDIS  American Mental Epidemics

Contributors’ Notes