Issue 22
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief: Airie Dekidjiev
Executive Editor: Nick Schaffzin
Fiction Editors: Berit B. H. Anderson & Sandra Riley
Poetry Editors: Scott Hightower & Mark Wunderlich
Nonfiction Editors: Melissa Clark & Jonathan Simon
Managing Editors: Cara Haycak
Production Manager: James J. Uebbing
Circulation: Jerome Copulsky
Advertising: Siobhan Reagan
Editorial Board: Mary Jo Bang, Read Blinn, Diana C. Burnham, Natalie Byfield David J Castro, Cooper Darnell, Meghan Daum, Trayce Diskin, Emilie Dyer, Alex Faiz, Sylvia Foley, James Gould, Dierdre Hoare, Stephen Leeds, Petra E. Lewis, Cortright McMeel, Stephen Massimilla, Marshall Meyers, Emmy Perez, Susan Perry, Caitlin O’Neil, Brooke Smuts, James Stubenrauch, Kimberly Taylor, Minica De La Torre, John Voiklis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
Bradford Morrow/ How the Horned Toad Lost His Horns
Joyce Carol Oates/ Fever
Anne Carson/ Autobiography of Red
Tristan Davies/ Baby
Alicia Munoz-Carrasco/ La Loca
Bill Merklee/ A Note
Lara Stapleton/ Coup
Sarah Schulman/ My Young Years
Poetry
Rachel Hadas/ The Wolf in the Bed & Problems of Summer
Sophie Cabot Black/ August & November
Yusef Komunyakaa/ Five Points & The Price of Blood
Amy Gerstler/ Mixed Messages
Phyllis Janowitz/ Nowhere
Michael Klein/ Dream: The House
Peter Daniels/ River
Deborah Brass/ The U.S. & Traveling Alone
Guillaume Apollinaire/ The Brazier (Translation)
Maureen Seaton/ An Unofficial Interpretation of Pieter Aertsen’s “A Butcher Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms on the Flight to Egypt,” c. 1550
Karl Tierney/ Jinx
Claudia Keelan/ The Body You Love May Be Your Own
Gonzalos Rojas/ Numen (Translation) & Four Epigrams (Translation)
Nonfiction
Dr. Noam Chomsky/ The Clinton Doctrine: World Orders—Old and New A lecture at The Village Gate
Dr. Jared Diamond/ Bach, God and the Jungle
Connie Bruck/ Interview
Bill McKibben/ Interview