Poetry
JENNIFER GROTZ    The Ocracoke Ponies /   The Jetty /   The Cigarette /   The Pearl
VALERIE WOHLFELD    Pears /   Hawk
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI    Epistle from Her Daughter Yet to Be Consummated Back East(with a Line from Robert Altman) /    Boxers in the Key of M /    Sweet Rest Church of Christ (Holiness)
HUGH COYLE    House of Representatives
D. A. POWELL    scenes from the trip we didn’t take to the antarctic
KEVIN YOUNG    from Book of Hours /    Book Rate
JEFF MOCK    The Goddess of Dreaming
TODD BOSS    A Man Stares into the Same Painting Day after Day /    The Painters Are Gone, but the Paintings
RACHEL HADAS    Adhesive /    Strong Medicine
JORDAN DAVIS    A Million Random Digits /   No One’s Going to Tell You What to Do
MARK RUDMAN    “Who Is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?”

Fiction
FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN     from Hyperion, or The Hermit in Greece (translated by Ross Benjamin)
KEITH LEE MORRIS    The Presidential Suite
MICHAEL COFFEY    Trespasses
ABIGAIL ULMAN    Chagall’s Wife
JOSHUA HARMON    The Passion of Asa Fitch
ARNOST LUSTIG    The Night Before (translated by G. S. Evans)

Literary Criticism
JAMES LONGENBACH   Line and Syntax

Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY   December Gold

Literary Lives
ALDOUS HUXLEY   A Gathering of Letters, 1915–63

Reader’s Notebook
RONALD A. SHARP   Romanticism and the Zone of Friendship

Art
REBECCA PURDUM   Making Paintings

Reconnections
CHARLES CROS, PAUL VERLAINE, CATHERINE POZZI, PAUL ELUARD   Four Dream Poems
(translated by John Kinsella)

Rediscoveries
THOMAS WENTWORHT HIGGINSON   The Greek Goddesses

Cover Art by Rebecca Purdum

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