ISSUE ELEVEN
Money Makes the World
POETRY
KATIE NAUGHTON
Debt Ritual: Nantucket
Debt Ritual: Congeal
JOSÉ EDMUNDO OCAMPO REYES
Self-Portrait as Derivatives Trader
ERIN HOOVER
The Hedge Fund Manager’s First Wife
EMILY CARR
If No One Is Guilty Then Everyone Is
Guilty
Taking Inventory
BETHANY SCHULTZ HURST
Bird Singing or Whatever
TIMOTHY DONNELLY
This Is the Assemblage
A Page from the Weather
SHANE MCCRAE
Academic
A Wolf’s Skin Stretched Across a Drum
PETER COOLEY
A Litany in Time of Plague
RACHELLE TOARMINO
Sucker
HOLLY KARAPETKOVA
Klepto
High Hat
WENDY GUERRA
Possible Similes
(translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
and Esperanza Hope Snyder)
MONICA BERLIN
Exhibition objects they’re called, because I
guess
MATTHEW LIPPMAN
The Pathology of Currency
RYAN BOLLENBACH
Out of Pocket
DOMINIQUE BÉCHARD
Withdrawal
Waiting for the Trumpets
JACOB SUNDERLIN
A Listening
The Late Show
ANTHONY HAWLEY
Empire Vampire Slide Shuffle
HADARA BAR-NADAV
What Do You Do for a Living?
HENRIETTA GOODMAN
The Petroleum Club
SUPRITHA RAJAN
On Making a Child
JULIA COHEN
Baby Foam
MARIO DÁVALOS
Daylight
Say Cottonwoods
NICK FLYNN
Aztec
JOHN GALLAHER
Death Arrives on a Pale Horse
GENYA TUROVSKAYA
Seriousness, An Opera
BENJAMIN PALOFF
Of Anger and Choler
MICHAEL WATERS
Morning Song
ROBERT FERNANDEZ
The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 dir.
Sergei Parajanov
Rush, 1991 dir. Lili Fini Zanuck
DANIEL POPPICK
Ten Words
RAVITTE KENTWORTZ
Chant to Instill Flower Scent in a Poem
Giving Up Sorrow
RANDALL POTTS
Self-Portrait
JIM DANIELS
I lived in squalor
GEMMA COOPER-NOVACK
The Marriages: The ghoul
JENNIFER MILITELLO
Vivisection
VIRGINIA KONCHAN
Carousel
Vita Nova
GINGER KO
House Text
LISA ALLEN ORTIZ
I Am Not a Robot
Judith Beheading Holofernes
GREGORY DJANIKIAN
Gray Days
JOEL BROUWER
College Days
So-Called Vernacular Architecture
NICOLE STOCKBURGER
Frame
NOAH FALCK
North Dayton
JOHN JAMES
Into the Green
The Problem of the Real
GENEVIEVE KAPLAN
Everything Suddenly Felt Enthusiastic
SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY
Fugue of Four Suicides
HANAE JONAS
Apparent Threshold
Delinquents
ISAAC GEORGE LAURITSEN
Humans
CHRISTOPHER SPAIDE
I’m Not Dying, You’re Dying
“Everything We Hand You Is 100%
Compostable”
BRIAN HENRY
Remainder
Residue
Final Word
EMILY SPENCER
Human Resources
Erasure of AK-47
KEVIN CRAFT
Only If You’re Feeling Better
JOSÉ A. ALCÁNTARA
Arboreal
Black Holes
4'33"
BENNET BERGMAN
Time Magazine, October 2015
Housekeeping
SALLIE FULLERTON
Foil
MATTHEW TUCKNER
The Future, with Figurative Language
BRIAN BARKER
Children’s Story
JEANINE WALKER
Criminal
DAN CHELOTTI
Suburb
MATTHEW THORBURN
Which Way Now
MARY OTIS
In Praise of Anxious Souls
Absolution
ELEANOR STANFORD
Beloved, you said come to me
How I Thought About My Body [Driving
north through rain, I watched the
Schuylkill]
HARMONY HOLIDAY
Child Star Dreams of Becoming an Artist
Down in the Valley
Heart Coherence
TONY MANCUS
Latening
CASS GARISON
Broken Prophecy on Reduplication
Another Freight Passes the Puget Sound
DANNIEL SCHOONEBEEK
Brinksmanship
PAIGE TAGGART
Voyeur
JOSEPH O. LEGASPI
Hammerhead
Mouths
MAYA SALAMEH
Morpheme Building
ROSS WHITE
The Old Gods
ERNEST HILBERT
Salvaging
My Autocorrect Always Changes Poems
to Problems
MIKE SAMRA
The Minimart
An Assassin Appears
ANDREW COLLARD
Wartime, Rally’s Drive-In
MICHAEL METIVIER
Bonne Fête
CHELSEA HARLAN
The Fleece
PETER MISHLER
Ubi Sunt
DAVID KIRBY
The Hours
COREY VAN LANDINGHAM
Reader, I
SARA ELKAMEL
On a Film Set in the Heart of the City
DANIEL RUIZ
Double Bacon
Complicit in the Clangor
NAT SUFRIN
Nausea
MAYA PINDYCK
Notes on Pears
PETER LEIGHT
Split
I Am Not a Canoe
FICTION
TOM QUACH
Goodbye, Little Saigon
ED PARK
Easter Promenade
MATTHEW M. CARIELLO
One Hundred Conversations with David
Ignatow
JOSH BELL
The Regenerating Boy
EMILY GIANGIULIO
How to Center
NONFICTION
ADAM GOLASKI
San Francisco Essay
SARAH ANNE STRICKLEY
The Visiting Writer
MARY QUADE
In Harmony with Nature
LAURA GILL
What’s Left
JENNIFER TSENG
Portrait of a Multiracial Child
ALBERT ABONADO
Lullaby
FILM
J. M. TYREE
Ways of Looking at Vertigo
INTERVIEW
HARMONY HOLIDAY in conversation with SANDRA SIMONDS