FICTION
Cash or Trade by Jodi Angel
Sandstorms by Kristen-Paige Madonia
The Rocks by Kelly Luce
Pain by Michelle Seaton
POETRY
On the Art of Patience (Winner of the 2008 Wabash Prize for Poetry) by Jim Tilley
Noodle Shop Sestina (Finalist) by Nancy Terasaki
Stack Sex (Finalist) by Christopher Kempf
Waxing Gibbous Moon by Wendy Barker
On Not Being in Bangladesh by D.R. James
Easy for a God by Jen McClanaghan
Generic Princess Book by Martha Greenwald
Sustainable Living by Jessica Love
The Infidelity of Songbirds by Sean Prentiss
The Mechanism of Pleasure by KC Trommer
Angolans Approach United Camp at Dukwi by Seth Abramson
The Passion by Rasma Haidri
From Professor X: 93 by Anne Timberlake
Developing Story: God Is Not Dead by Tony Peyser
Letters From Donaldson, S.C. by Jonathan Rice
ESSAYS
Self-Portrait at 27 by Kathleen Rooney
Memory & Hive by Dan Beachy-Quick
INTERVIEWS
Born Into the Packing: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski
Breakouts and Breakthroughs: An Interview with Lan Samantha Chang
ARTWORK
Black and White Drawings Throughout the Issue: Kyle Reed
Front Cover: Kyle Reed, Chrip Chirp
Back Cover: Kyle Reed, Pin-up Bunny
BOOK REVIEWS
Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, & Paul Buhle’s A People’s History of American Empire
Paul Guest’s My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
Nam Le’s The Boat
Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence
Kathleen Kent’s The Heretic’s Daughter
Daneen Wardrop’s The Odds of Being
Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
