WHEN LYING WAS IN VOGUE Even laughter was a lie. Even sadness. The way highways stretched beyond the next curve with their markers every tenth of a mile & their exit signs promising fuel & coffee, the possibility of a bed with its vague suggestion of desire. Nothing so tawdry. It was winter.…
TABLE OF CONTENT
POETRY
- Gerry LaFemina, WHEN LYING WAS IN VOGUE
- Mary Jo Bang, LIKE SOMEONE ASLEEP IN A CINEMA \ I AM ALREADY UP
- Rae Armantrout, FALSE STARTS
- Elisa Gabbert, I WANT TO WRITE A BOOK CALLED WAR DREAMS
- Taylor Micks, XENIA, BECAUSE WE MUST WELCOME
- Susan Gillis, A STORY
- Emmi Lebuffe & Simon Brown, SIX DURUSTI TRANSLATIONS
- Alexander Tkachuk, ESSAY ON MODERNITY
- Jane Munro, TOPICAL PIECE: NOVEMBER 18, 2014
- j tate barlow, RESCUE \ WHAT DO YOU CALL IT?
- Antony Di Nardo, FOOD COURT
- Crystal Hurdle, VETERINARIAN DR. BONDO
- Josh Stewart, THE PACIFIST \ STANDARD DISTRIBUTION
- Tess Liem, THE DAY BEFORE THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR
- John Kinsella, WHEELBARROW TRACKS BETWEEN HOUSE AND RED SHED \ POINT PERSON
- Bibhu Padhi, MID-APRIL AFTERNOON: LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN’S FÜR ELISE
- David Bradford, CUTE BEAR
- Zach Pearl, LEANING OVER \ THE LOWERING OF EARS
- David Eso, I REALIZE YOU MAY FEEL COMPELLED TO RESPOND
- Mary Lee Bragg, RANKED IN ORDER
- Bill Howell, KEEPING SECRETS
- JoAnn Balingit, LOVE SONG AS FIELD NOTES
- Jenny Wong, SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR JOURNALISTS
- John Vieira, DAWN
FROM THE VALLUM CHAPBOOK SERIES
- Bhanu Kapil, excerpt from ENTRE-BAN
INTERVIEW
- Lepota L. Cosmo, VERSED: THE RESILIENCE OF OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS – A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Rae Armantrout
REVIEWS
- Domenica Martinello, Review of Aisha Sasha John’s I HAVE TO LIVE
- Julie Mannell, AFTER-DINNER POETRY – A Review of Catriona Wright’s TABLE MANNERS
- Derek Webster, DEBUTANTE BALLER – A Review of John Creary’s ESCAPE FROM WRECK CITY
- Alan Reed, “a poem of objects that live by magic”: Erin Robinsong’s RAG COSMOLOGY
- Mark Grenon, Review of Molly Peacock’s THE ANALYST
- Megan Callahan, Review of Christine McNair’s CHARM
ART
- Benoît Paillé, VARIOUS WORKS
DIGITAL EXTRAS
REVIEWS
- Kian Vaziri-Tehrani, Review of Elana Wolff’s EVERYTHING REMINDS YOU OF SOMETHING ELSE