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Demeter and Persephone in the Heartland,
Kenyon Review
, Fall.

C
AROLYN
M
ILLER

Arts and Science,
Missouri Review
, Fall.

D
AVID
M
ILLER

The Four Seasons Mini Almanac,
Wapsipinicon Almanac
, no. 19.

S
AM
J. M
ILLER

The Luke Letters,
Upstreet
, no. 8.

T
ONI
M
IROSEVICH

This Once Bright Thing,
Hayden’s Ferry Review
, no. 51.

D
EBRA
M
ONROE

Gray Area,
Guernica
, April 1.

A
MY
M
ONTICELLO

The Other Woman,
Iron Horse Literary Review
, vol. 14, no. 3.

D
INTY
W. M
OORE

Buried Alive,
Zone 3
, Fall.

C
OREY
M
ORRIS

Carp River,
Crab Orchard Review
, Summer/Fall.

S
ANDELL
M
ORSE

Hiding,
Ascent
, August 12.

 

S
COTT
N
ADELSON

I’m Your Man,
Iron Horse Literary Review
, vol. 14, no. 1.

A
LEXIS
N
ELSON

On Love and Memory,
Normal School
, Spring.

J
ACOB
N
EWBERRY

French Suite,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 17.

Summer,
Granta
, Winter.

R
OB
N
IXON

Baboon,
Sycamore Review
, Winter/Spring.

N
ANCY
N
ORDENSON

Prelude,
Lake Effect
, Spring.

 

M
ARK
O’C
ONNOR

Holy Ghosts,
Massachusetts Review
, Winter.

S
ARAH
A. O
DISHOO

Eat Me: Instructions from the Unseen,
Zone 3
, Spring.

A
RIKA
O
KRENT

Body Language,
Lapham’s Quarterly
, Spring.

B
RIAN
O
LIU

Friday the 13th,
Los Angeles Review
, Fall.

W. S
COTT
O
LSEN

Tag,
Tampa Review
, nos. 43 & 44.

R
ICHARD
O’M
ARA

Brothers,
Sewanee Review
, Summer.

M
ARK
O
PPENHEIMER

Who Needs Poetry?,
New York Times Magazine
, September 16.

P
ETER
O
RNER

Renters,
Fifth Wednesday
, Spring.

L
AUREN
C. O
STBERG

On Hair,
So to Speak
, Spring.

D
AVID
O
WEN

Scars,
The New Yorker
, March 19.

 

A
DRIANA
P
ARAMO

Oil Spills Remind Me of Him,
Compass Rose
, vol. 12.

A
LAN
M
ICHAEL
P
ARKER

Beach House as Nostalgia Museum,
The Believer
, November/December.

A
NN
P
ATCHETT

The Sense of an Ending,
Vogue
, September.

A
NDREW
P
AYTON

Family Medicine,
Bayou
, no. 57.

G
AIL
P
ECK

Child Waiting,
Apple Valley Review
, Spring.

J
EN
P
ERCY

The Guinea Pig Lady,
Ninth Letter
, Fall/Winter.

J
ENNIFER
P
ERCY

Bodies,
Witness
, Spring.

J
ED
P
ERL

Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics,
The Baffler
, no. 20.

A
NN
P
ETERS

The House on the Ledge,
Southwest Review
, vol. 97, no. 1.

H
ARRY
M
ARK
P
ETRAKIS

The Three Lost Men,
Notre Dame Review
, Summer/Fall.

D
AISY
P
ITKIN

An Algorithm,
Cutbank
, no. 77.

T
AYLOR
P
LIMPTON

My Father’s Voice,
TheNewYorker.com
, June 17.

E
ILEEN
P
OLLACK

Ranch House,
New England Review
, vol. 32, no. 4.

D
AWN
P
OTTER

Not Writing the Poem,
Sewanee Review
, Winter.

R
OLF
P
OTTS

Tourist Snapshots,
The Common
, no. 3.

R
OBERT
A
NDREW
P
OWELL

In the Writers’ Room,
Harper’s Magazine
, November.

K
RISTIN
P
REVALLET

Blood on the Illusion,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

F
RANCINE
P
ROSE

The Giving Tree,
Real Simple
, May.

C
ORINNE
P
URTILL

My Book Was a Bad Idea,
Salon.com
, June 27.

 

M
ARY
Q
UADE

Hatch,
Flyway
, vol. 14, no. 3, & vol. 15, no. 1.

B
ERNARD
Q
UETCHENBACH

The Woods Are Burning,
Ascent
, November 12.

K
IERAN
Q
UINLAN

Kirwan Street, in Memory,
New Hibernia Review
, Winter.

 

C
OLIN
R
AFFERTY

Notes Toward Building the Monument,
Witness
, Spring.

J
ESSICA
R
AIMI

Ballet School,
Antioch Review
, Winter.

C
ATHERINE
R
EID

Catch and Release,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

J
AMES
R
IOUX

Tattoos, Death Metal, Shaving, and Other Ironies,
Five Points
, vol. 14, no. 3.

C
INTHIA
R
ITCHIE

Running,
Sport Literate
, vol. 8, no. 1.

J
OHN
G. R
ODWAN
Jr.

Nice Things About Detroit,
American Interest
, May/June.

J
AMES
S
ILAS
R
OGERS

Outside Metaphor,
Ruminate
, no. 22.

D
AVID
R
OMPF

A Personal History of Staring,
Hotel Amerika
, Spring.

L
EE
A
NN
R
ORIPAUGH

Poem as Mirror Box: Mirror Neurons, Emotions, Phantom Limbs, and Poems of Loss and Elegy,
jubilat
, no. 21.

N
OELLE
R
OSE

A Heart for Knowing,
Anderbo
, n.d.

N
ATANIA
R
OSENFELD

Gravity,
Fifth Wednesday
, Spring.

A
LEX
R
OSS

Love on the March,
The New Yorker
, November 12.

D
AVY
R
OTHBART

Human Snowball,
Paris Review
, Summer.

S
TEVEN
D. R
UCKER

A Terminal Chord,
Upstreet
, no. 8.

P
ATRICK
R
YAN

Grand Mal,
Granta.com
, October.

 

S
COTT
R
USSELL
S
ANDERS

The Way of Imagination,
Georgia Review
, Summer.

T
ED
S
ANDERS

The Playroom: A Diagram,
Southern Review
, Summer.

R
EG
S
ANER

Married Grammar: The Deep Structure,
College Hill Review
, no. 8, Summer.

R
ALPH
J
AMES
S
AVARESE

River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

A
NNITA
S
AWYER

The Crazy One,
Bellevue Literary Review
, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring.

E
LIZABETH
S
CARBORO

No Man’s Land,
Bellevue Literary Review
, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall.

M
ELITA
S
CHAUM

Adam’s Curse,
Briar Cliff Review
, no. 24.

J
ILL
S
CHEPMANN

Our Country,
Parcel
, Fall.

B
RANDON
R. S
CHRAND

Esto Perpetua,
Ecotone
, Spring.

N
IKKI
S
CHULAK

On Not Seeing Whales,
Bellevue Literary Review
, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall.

G
RETA
S
CHULER

Empty Boxes,
Chattahoochee Review
, Spring.

S
TEVEN
S
CHWARTZ

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being There,
Massachusetts Review
, Spring.

A
MY
L
EE
S
COTT

Convergence,
Gulf Coast
, Summer/Fall.

A
NDREW
D. S
CRIMGEOUR

Handled with Care,
New York Times Book Review
, December 30.

D
AVID
S
EDARIS

Understanding Owls,
The New Yorker
, October 22.

L
ORE
S
EGAL

The Exes in My Life,
Antioch Review
, Spring.

D
ANIELE
S
EISS

My Mother’s Ashes,
Washington Post Magazine
, May 13.

P
ETER
S
ELGIN

The Kuhreihen Melody,
Missouri Review
, Spring.

L
ISA
S
HANNON

Blindfolds,
Anderbo
, n.d.

B
ILL
S
HERWONIT

The Last Nature Writer,
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
, Winter.

D
AVID
S
HIELDS

Saving My Life,
Little Star
, no. 3.

T. M. S
HINE

American Idle,
Washington Post Magazine
, July 15.

J
AN
S
HOEMAKER

Believer,
Make
, Winter.

J
UDITH
S
HULEVITZ

The Grayest Generation,
New Republic
, December 20.

K
EANE
S
HUM

My Short American Decade,
Iowa Review
, Winter.

L
AUREN
S
LATER

The Spotless Mind,
Elle
, September.

A
NNE
-M
ARIE
S
LAUGHTER

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,
The Atlantic
, July/August.

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