Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2012

Steve Almond, Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto

Dwayne Betts, For the City that Nearly Broke Me [In Streets that Grieve Our Children Die]

Dwayne Betts, For the City that Nearly Broke Me [A List of Names For God]

Andrew D. Cohen, Searching for Benny Paret

Justin Lawrence Daugherty, A History of Loneliness in 23 Acts (of Love)

Isobel Dixon, Cure

Isobel Dixon, Speechlessness

Andrew Dupree, Come Back When You've Found My Heart

Tessa Fontaine, Choose Your Own Adventure: By Ship Into Water

Meredith K. Gray, Where Do You See This Going

Erin Greer, Tolstoy and Tahrir

Cynthia Guardado, The Madrid Conversations by Normando Hernàndez Gonzalez with Adam Braver and Molly Gessford

Christie Hodgen, Likes/Dislikes

Jessica Hollander, I Now Pronounce You

Scott Kaukonen, Body Bag

Dorianne Laux, Storm

Dorianne Laux, Seaside

Dorianne Laux, Disturbance

John Leegant, The Baghadi

Philip Levine, Lost and Found

Andrew Monson, The Exhibit will be so Marked (Treemix 12th" Remix with Fade-Out)

Katie Lynn Murphy, Camouflage

Alexis Nelson, On Love and Memory

Jacob Newberry, I Was Almost What You Needed

Joe Oestreich, The Mercy Kill

D.A. Powell, Lessons in Woodworking

Nicole Walker, Where the Tiny Things Are

Amber Smith Watson, Math Quiz: Relation and Ordered Pairs

Phillip B. Williams, Learning to Dance on an Upturned Bed

Ewa Hyrniewicz-Yarbrough, Hospital Accounts by Krystyna Lenkowska