issue 5 (2009)

JOSHUA BECKMAN
[In Colorado, in Oregon, upon] (p)
[Red, the want, the body, slowly] (p)
[Gold lesson like a pearl whose vocation] (p)

CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE
Beat the Ranger (p)
Wintry Mix (p)

ANNE MARIE ROONEY
Life on the mean (p)

NOELLE KOCOT
On Becoming a Person (p)
Fourth of July (p)
Love Story (p)

CAROLINE BIRD
The Golden Kids (p)

ZACH SAVICH
Port Angeles (p)
Set Up (p)

TYLER MEIER
Lovesong from a Lifeboat (p)

BRANDON SHIMODA
A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle [No. twenty two] (p)
A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle (p)
A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle WONDERLAND, ME (p)

K.A. HAYS
To a Sea Worm (p)
No More Cluster Fly, No Fall Warbler (p)

JOSH MORISON
splice if you have to, just get it screened(p)

ALEX QUINLAN
In the Ladder of Perception, the First Love is Love-Of-Vision (p)

PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
The Wild and the Shot-silk Skins (p)

JENNY BROWNE
The Multiple States of Matter (p)

DAVID SEWELL
Now We're Really Living (p)
Now We're Really Living (p)

MATT ANSERELLO
Impossible Performance Piece #8 (p)

MATTHEW ROHRER
The Green Zone (p)

KAREN RIGBY
Maps We Have Produced in Technicolour (p)

DARA WIER
No Story (p)

KRISTIN AARDSMA
[Move far as a redshift galaxy with ornamental (p)

BRITTANY CAVALLARO
The Virgin Disambiguates(p)

SARAH PERRIER
Poor Bete Noire (p)
The Apprenticeship (p)

ADAM ATKINSON
The Costumed Smokestack (p)
A Cast of a Smokestack (p)
Town History (p)

YONA HARVEY
Mother, Love (p)

ADAM CLAY
from "As Complete as a Thought Can Be" (p)

MATHIAS SVALINA
Everything is American (p)
Destruction Myth (p)

MICHAEL PARKER
Surplus (nf)

ELIZABETH CRANE
Fear of a Terrible Wife(f)

ISMET PRCIC
The Man Called Meat (f)

MATTHEW STUART
Vaya Con Dios (f)

NAMI MUN
Club Orchid (f)

ROBERT TRAVIESO
Yes Ned, Wes Said (f)

ARNA BONTEMPS HEMENWAY
Behind the Moutains are More Mountains (f)

KIERSTEN ESSENPREIS
Cover Art for Issue 5 (a)


SPECIAL FEATURES

E.E. CUMMINGS
Special insert from the Harry Ransom Center (a)

MICHAEL PARKER AND MARK RICHARD
Interview