Contents

FICTION

J.T. Barbarese The Vampire Colloquium
Robert Dow New River
William Hastings The North Border
Brigitte Leschhorn The Devil Has No Shadow
Ben Nickol Safe
Paul Ruffin The Drag Queen Meets the Southern Cross

NON-FICTION


John Barth Just a Minute
Jean McGarry A Life in Food
James Nolan The Garden of Eden
Anis Shivani The Strange Facination of House of Cards: What the Show Gets Right and What It Doesn't
SYMPOSIUM How does the artistry and quality of contemporary television (shows like The Wire, True Detective, etc.) compare to that of film?
Robert Zaller William Bronk and the Actual World

POETRY


Howard Altmann The Locked Piano
The State of Things
Alex Chernow museum of Broken lovers
(winner of the 2014 Poetry Contest) from before
it wouldn't be called longing if you only did it for a little while
Billy Collins Perspective
Application
Poem to the First Generation of People to Exist After the Death of the English Language
Henry Crawford It Does Kind of Burn. Goodbye.
Jake Crist When You Stare off into Space
Albert Goldbarth "I Love Him--That's That"
Eyes
Prosopagnosia
David Lehman That Old Feeling
Haiku for Stacey
Room Key
Richard Newman The Os after the Silence
Plane Full of Soldiers
Charles Simic The Night and the Cold
All Things in Precipitous Decline
The Holy Icon
The Missed Chance
G.C. Waldrep Ascension Day
Settlement Song