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Contents

an interview with Dennis Cooley

poetry by Dennis Cooley
lispt
he engages in some heavy breathing
why do you ask
open
hygiene lesson
he resembles paraffin
she tries to save him

an interview with Nathan Dueck

poetry by Nathan Dueck
excerpt from king's(mère)
of nathan
second-last son of the psalmist
& ashibag, a shunamite maiden

an interview with Medbh McGuckian

poetry by Medbh McGuckian
venus and the rain
the blue she brings with her
the deadest deaths are the best

poetry by Christoff engbrecht
into the quiet violet
snow

poetry by Lorri Neilsen Glenn
signal hill, nl

poetry by Yvonne Blomer
my father sings me a welsh lullabye
codiad yr hedydd—the rising of the lark

poetry by Ariel Gordon
wrought substance
the savoy suite: sprays of birds

photography by Margaret Malloch Zielinski
isobel gunn

poetry by Dawn Marie Kresan
interiors
confinement
still-birth

poetry by Oana Avasilichioaei
secatå

poetry by Antony Di Nardo
horatio to hamlet

poetry by Harmony Ho
the old lady's daughter

poetry by John Grey
head poem

poetry by Catherine Moss
pomegranate, older than the apple
sunnyside greenhouses, calgary
past the vernal equinox

poetry by George Ellenbogen
drizzle of faces: tour group approaching auschwitz
daydream—interrogation, 1937
by the execution wall the villagers say

poetry by Marvin Francis
sitting with my uncle
moving day

poetry by Sachiko Murakami
diana: queen of hearts
pomegranate

review by Donna M. Hill
bloody jack by Dennis Cooley