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Issue # 1
A cross-section of small press publications from France, guest edited by Norma Cole
Issue # 2
German poetry, guest edited by Rosmarie Waldrop
Issue # 3
Mexican poetry, guest edited by Jen Hofer
Issue # 4
Japanese poetry, guest edited by Sawako Nakayasu
Issue # 5
Moroccan poetry, guest edited by Guy Bennett and Jalal El Hakmaoui
>>Issue # 6
Brazilian poetry, guest edited by Ray Bianchi
Issue # 7
Italian poetry, guest edited by Jennifer Scappettone
kari edwards (1954-2006), given the news

Editor's Note

Feature guest edited by Raymond L. Bianchi with translations by Odile Cisneros, Claudio Daniel, Cyana Leahy, James Mulholland, Claudia Roque Pinto, Akira Nishura, Steve Butterman, Idra Novey, Virna Texeira & Raymond L. Bianchi

Introduction by Raymond L. Bianchi
"Novos Olhos sobre a Poesia: Brazilian Poetry Journals of the 21st Century" by Odile Cisneros

Angelica Freitas, love (collage)
Claudia Roque Pinto, Untitled
Fabrico Carpinjar, Box of Shoes
Laura Erber, Untitled
Marcos Siscar, Two Poems
Régis Bonvicino, Eight Poems
Paulo Henriques Britto, Two Poems
Glauco Mattoso, Sonetos
Matias Mariani, Notes of Some Things in São Paulo
Claudio Daniel, from Figuras Metalicas
Virna Texeira, Two Poems
Sérgio Medieros, Catarata: The Absurd Paranaeses
Josely Vianna Baptista, Two Poems
Affonso Avila, Agelasto
Laís Corrêia de Araújo, Two Poems
Dora Ribero, Two Poems
Maria Esther Maciel, Favorite Words
Wilson Bueno, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Augusto de Campos, Bestiary


Poetry, edited by E. Tracy Grinnell & Paul Foster Johnson

Rob Halpern, from Disaster Lyrics
kari edwards, obedience 30-38
Sandra Miller, from Chora
Drew Kunz, from Stage
Bruce Covey, In the fine grain of this hour
Christina Mengert, Suffer a Witch to Live
Edric Mesmer, Three Poems
Carrie Etter, Three Poems
Marcello Frixione (translated by Joel Calahan & Joshua Adams), stations
Virginie Poitrasson (translated by Mathilde Simian & Virginie Poitrasson), from Shaded Series
Robert Fernandez, from Ornithomancy
Werner Dürrson (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), Bone Saw: Little Poetics of Translation
Juliana Leslie, Two Poems
Pontius Silas, First Battle of Thyreae
Devon Wootten, Methodology
Denise Nico Leto, Dice
Michael Slosek, Two Poems
gabrielle jesiolowski, Three Poems
Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Poem
Michael Farrell, Two Poems
Steffi Drewes, Figure/Ground
Evelyn Ibarra, Three Poems
Max Winter, Essay on Ritual
Shira Dentz, A Thin Green Line
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Two Poems
Rodney Koeneke, Neo Adapts Badly
G.C. Waldrep, Ten Poems
Elizabeth Robinson, Three Poems
Albert Flynn DeSilver, from (a)chiasmus
Erika Howsare, Three Poems
Nico Vassilakis, Trowel: The Body Casket
Beth Bretl, Casualty
Rob Cook, Three Work Poems
Matt Turner, Six Poems
Sasha Steensen & Gordon Hadfield, from Correspondence
Brandon Shimoda, from the Alps
Trey Sager, The Brahmin's Divorce
Martha Oatis, tramá/nticos
Julie Doxsee, To Be Opened After My Death


Notes/Essays/Reviews, edited by Mark Tardi

Editor's Note

Kacper Bartczak, Not By Wonderment Alone: John Ashbery's Influence on Bohdan Zadura
Jen Tynes, Two Reviews
Gabriel Gudding, Literary Narcissism and The Manufacture of Scandal
Raymond L. Bianchi, Meteoric Flowers by Elizabeth Willis
Devon Wootten, Practice, Restraint by Laura Sims
Pontius Silas, It's Raining Axolotls and Vinegarroons: Simone Muench's Lampblack & Ash
Rodney Koeneke, Three Micro-Reviews

Contributors Notes

Cover Art

Rachel Bers & E. Tracy Grinnell, Untitled