Contents

FICTION

Colin Fleming Sega Man
Daniel Grandbois The Table
The Play
Act
Knapsack
Sisters
William Hastings When the Smoke Runs to the Sky
Emily Howorth The Sintering
John Matthias Westmont and the Bear
Michael Nye A Fully Imagined World
Joyce Carol Oates Anniversary

NON-FICTION


Geoffrey Bent The Virtuoso
Jean McGarry and William Black What's the Story Behind the Story?
Anis Shivani Creative Writing is Therapy, Even if the Pedagogues Won't Admit It
Frank Wilson Time Crystals
Robert Zaller In the Hall of German Memory: Kiefer, Sebald, and the Road from Auschwitz

POETRY


Billy Collins Elusive
After the Funeral
Albert Goldbarth Silences
Dub
Of the Generality
Daniel Hoffman The Key
A Casualty, 1946
Miriam Kotzin The Beauty of Xioahe
The First Ghazal of the Zombie Bride
The First Ghazal of the Backyard Bride
Wayne Miller Two Consumers in Rowboats
Report from the Provinces
Lloyd Schwartz Two Plays
Matt Sumpter Late-Night Viewing
Charles Harper Webb House Hunting
Explanations