The 2010s

Volume 44.1 WINTER 2010

E S S A Y S
EMERY GEORGE     Sophie Scholl and Holderlin: Literary Politics and Martyrdomin the Third Reich
JOE KRAUS     Discovery. Invention. Creation.

F I C T I O N
JACOB M. APPEL     Pay As You Go
AMANDA BALES     A Measured Yield
ERIN LYNN COOK     Sticks and Stones

P O E T R Y
JULIANA GRAY     Rope   |   Suspicion
K. A. HAYS     To the Unpersoned God   |   Muskeg, Umbagog
ROALD HOFFMAN     The God's Face
LULJETA LLESHANAKU     When Love Begins To . . .   |   Small Town Funeral   |   The Smell of Milk   (translated by Henry Israeli and Shpresa Qatipi)
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI     Decampment
ELIZABETH REES     Taking a Bath   |   Upon Delivery   |   Looking at A Man in Sorrow with My Brother
DON RUSS     Andante Pensieroso: Pages from a Nineteenth-Century Edition of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavichord
LILIANA URSU     Poem with a White Feather and Two Streets   |   February with the Poet   (translated by the poet, Adam J. Sorkin, and Tess Gallagher)

R E V I E W S
JOHN GAMEL on Kathleen M. Brown's Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
JAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on John Reader's Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
LYNN HOGGARD on Margaret Topping's Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in A la recherche du temps perdu
JIM MURPHY on Diann Blakely's Cities of Flesh and the Dead
GREGORY H. WOLF on Thomas Bernhard's Frost

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Volume 44.2 SPRING 2010

E S S A Y S
BOB KUNZINGER     The Canon
RON TANNER Nana Gragg
TERRY W. THOMPSON Spencer Rex: The Oedipus Myth in Henry Jame’s “The Jolly Corner”

F I C T I O N
KATHY FLANN Leaving Reno
MICHAEL GILLS     The Death of Bonnie and Clyde
SHARON MAULDIN REYNOLDS     Walking Air

P O E T R Y
MICHAEL ANDREWS     Lykambes Has Promised Neobule
PRISCILLA ATKINS     Shards and Ellipses for Mina Loy (1882-1966)   |   Children in the First Snow, Paris
DIANN BLAKELY     Honeymoon Blues: Duet with Robert Johnson #19
GLADYS JUSTIN CARR     May Frost
MICHELLE DISLER     North Dakota
PATRICIA HOOPER     Spring Sequence
CHRISTIAN KNOELLER     Old Ink
DAN O'BRIEN     The Knot
PATRICIA WATERS     High Cotton   |   For Cy Tomboy: Blooming
TONI L. WILKES     Uncharted
THEODORE WOROZBYT     Like Something Almost Being Said

R E V I E W S
LUCAS CARPENTER on Miller Williams's Time and the Tilting Earth
FRANCESCA CAUCHI on Craig Hovey's Nietzsche and Theology
SPENCER DEW on John Capouya's Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture
JOHN PHILLIPS on Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus

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Volume 44.3 SUMMER 2010

E S S A Y S
FRANCESCA CAUCHI     The "Cadaverous Perfume of Schopenhauer" in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathurstra
CHRISTOPHER NORRIS     Living with Naturalism: Why Philosophy Finds It So Hard

F I C T I O N
BEVERLY BURCH    Easy
JOAN CUSACK HANDLER    The Flesh
MARK JACOBS    Loss Leader
VIC SIZEMORE    Hush Little Baby

P O E T R Y
PETER HUGGINS     Modern Torso of Aphrodite
JOHN MCKERMAN     It Took a Week to Recite Hamlet's Five Acts
KEVIN MCLELLAN     Fable for Eve   |   Son of a Gun
PETRARCA FRANCESCO     The Glove Sequence
BARBARA ROCKMAN     To the Poet Who Refuses His Song
CARRIE SHIPERS     Organ Failuer   |   Lazarus
HILARY SIDERIS     Trout   |   Pike
JOAN I. SIEGEL     Child Bride
DIANA WOODCOCK     Though Heavy with Despair

R E V I E W S
EMMA BOLDEN on Chris Forhan’s Black Leapt In
JAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on Susanne Freidberg's Fresh: A Perishable History
MARY DONNARUMMA SHARNICK on A. Manette Ansay's Good Things I Wish You
ANIS SHIVANI on Mark McGurl's The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

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Volume 44.4 FALL 2010

E S S A Y S
CHRIS ARTHUR     Chestnut
PAUL CRENSHAW     After the Ice

F I C T I O N
JILL BIRDSALL    Whisper Hill
LAURA GABEL-HARTMAN    The Tea Guy
MARK RAPACZ    The Rivermutts of Pig’s Eye

P O E T R Y
EMMA BOLDEN     The Liturgy of the Word, Question II: The Methods of Destroying and Curing Witchcraft
CATHERINE SAVAGE BROSMAN     Yeats and Maude Gonne, 1891
WILL CLEMENS     Suspects in the Death of Daisies
PAMELA DAVIS     In the Produce Department   |   Buried Thumb
SUSANNE KART     Life
JEN MCCLANAGHAN     An Apology for Some of the Ways the World Went Wrong
MAREN O. MITCHELL     Cataloging at Connermara, Spring 1986: Bookmania
SALLY MOLINI     Redshift Love
KATHRYN NUEMBERGER     In Praise of Attachment
PATRICIA POLAK     Some Irreparable Loss
KATHLEEN A. WAKEFIELD     Climbing out of Eden   |   Imagine a Great Tenderness
FREDERICK ZYDEK     My Father Says Grace   |   Going among the Flowers

R E V I E W S
N. S. BOONE on Rita Dove’s Sonata Mulattica
VANESSA GARCIA on Sherman Alexie's War Dances
MICHAEL HOMOLKA on Lynne Knight's Again
STEPHANIE E. LIBBON on Grete Weil's Aftershocks
DARREN J. N. MIDDLETON on Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter ed. by Kenneth L. Untiedt
YULIA TKIHONOVA on Victor Tupitsyn's The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia
KRISTEN TOBEY on Rodney Clapp's Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation

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Volume 45.1 WINTER 2011

E S S A Y S
GARY FINCKE     Self-Defense
CLAUDIO MAGRIS     Beyond this Infinity: Robert Musil

F I C T I O N
MATT BAKER    The Sunflower State
STAN LEE WERLIN    In the Summer of the Big Bass, Forever and Ever

P O E T R Y
JOHN HART     After Reading a Picture Book of Saints
ISHION HUTCHINSON     Walking with Atlas
ALEXANDER LIMANS     For the Restless Flycatcher   | On the Eve of My Father’s Second Book
MELISSA MORPHEW     This Blue Calculus   |   The Limit of Understanding
SANKAR ROY     A Swamp Tale
FAITH SHEARIN     Alligators
AVERY SLATER     Herr Friedrich at a Landscape
WARREN SLESINGER     The Door
TIM SUERMONDT     Bon Voyage

R E V I E W S
RICHARD E. AMACHER on Mary Hunter's Mozart’s Opera: A Companion
N. S. BOONE on Li-Young Lee's Behind My Eyes
ELIZABETH DODD on Chris Arthur's Words of the Grey Wind: Family and Epiphany in Ulster and Irish Elegies
TAWNYSHA GREENE on Adrian Blevins's Live from the Homesick Jamboree
SUZANNE LINDER on Christina Thompson's Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
NICHOLAS O. PAGAN on J. Hillis Miller's For Derrida

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Volume 45.2 SPRING 2011

E S S A Y S
ELIZABETH DODD     Megalithic North
BOB KUNZIGER     Walled In: A Four-week Thoreauvian Rehab

F I C T I O N
STEPHANIE COYNE DEGHETT    Old Dime's Last Show

P O E T R Y
JIM DANIELS     Dusk, July, Third Floor
GINNY MACKENZIE     The Artist's Skulls—Scotland
WILLIAM MILLER     Shock Therapy
ERROL MILLER     Go Tell Aunt Rhoda
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI     Inside the Skull
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA     Sarandapalus
D. L. STEIN     Rescuing Elizabeth   |   Sparrow and the Hawk
WILLIAM KELLEY WOOLFITT     May Apples
MABEL YU     Scientific American

R E V I E W S
CRAIG BARROW on Gladys Swan's The World of Carnival
JEREMY BILES on Patrick Ffrench's After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community   |   Reading Bataille Now, ed. by Shannon Winnubst   |   Allan Stoekl's Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability
EMMA BOLDEN on Jennifer Militello's Flinch of Song
RICK JOINES on Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
STEPHANIE E. LIBBON on Peter Steiner's The Clearing
FELIX MANUEL RODRIGUEZ on Ferdie Pacheco's Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
MYLES WEBER on Bruce Bawer's Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

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Volume 45.3 SUMMER 2011

E S S A Y S
MICHAEL REID BUSK     Olympics Eighties
PAULA CARTER     Communing with Strangers
MICHEAL COHEN     A Place to Read

F I C T I O N
TYRONE JAEGER    Mercy Comes Calling
GREG JOHNSON    A Tale of Two Biddies

P O E T R Y
ANTOINETTE CONSTABLE     To Green America
LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER     The Age of Reason
ALISON PELEGRIN     Blessings for a Nemesis
M. C. PENNINGTON     Pool Culture
JOHN J. RONAN     The Parlor   |   At the Panama Canal
SLOBODANKA STRAUSS     Intrauterine Memory

R E V I E W S
LOU F. CATON on Christopher J, Knight's Omissions Are Not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida
FRANCESCA CAUCHI on Laura Quinney's William Blake on Self and Soul
JAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on G. W. Bernard's Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions and Alison Weir's The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
RICK JOINES on Montaigne after Theory / Theory after Montaigne, ed. by Zahi Zalloua
ASHTON NICHOLS on Bongasu Tanla Kishani's A Basket of Kola Nuts
ROBERT SCHWARZ on Peter Heinegg's God: An Obituary

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Volume 45.4 FALL 2011

E S S A Y S
NEIL MATHISON     Twenty-two Ways to Lose and (Maybe) Regain Paradise
JOSH MCCALL     The Long Way Round
GORDON THOMPSON     Mangoes

F I C T I O N
RICHARD DOKEY    Harry Goes Home Again
MARK JACOBS    Accidental Sighting
D. J. THEILKE    The Corpse Game

P O E T R Y
RENEE EMERSON     Your Old Home   |   Milkweed
EMERY GEORGE     Preference
HORACE     Ode 2.14   |   Ode 1. 22   (translated by David Macey)
MARY MORRIS     Door to the Underworld   |   Lucy
R. T. SMITH     Pigeons, Pears, Hush
G. C. WALDREP     The Flowers in the Vase Remain Fresh   |   A Short History of Pain

R E V I E W S
N. S. BOONE on Robert Duncan's The H. D. Book
FRANCESCA CAUCHI on Daisy Hay's Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
JAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on Sissela Bok's Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
JOSEPH W. PEACOCK on Pat Conroy's My Reading Life
KRISTIN TOBEY on John Corrigan and Lynn S. Neal's Religious Intolerance in America: A Documentary History

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Volume 46.1 WINTER 2012

E S S A Y S
AARON GILBREATH     The Worried Life
BOB KUNZINGER     Baby on a Windshield
ALEX MOODY     Beaufort, 1983-1984

F I C T I O N
BIPIN AURORA    Ramchand
GERT JONKE    Awakening to the Great Sleep War (excerpt) (translated by Jean M. Snook)
PAUL NIZON    My Year of Love (excerpt) (translated by Jean M. Snook)
JOAN SPILMAN    Rising

P O E T R Y
TARA BRAY     New Day   |   To My Husband, the Poet
BILL BROWN    My Wife's Tattoo   |   New Year's Eve, 2010
JOHN F. BUCKLEY     Documented Immigrant
KELLY CRESSIO-MOELLER     Offerings
WILLIAM FORD     Crossing the Reed Sea
ELIZABETH W. JACKSON     Targets
JESSE NATHAN     The Angels
STEVEN REESE     Poem Written on the Back of an Envelope   |   Some Silences
DAVID STARKEY     Allegory of the Discovery of America

R E V I E W S
CELIA LISSET ALVAREZ on Jeannine Hall Gailey's She Returns to the Floating World
LUCAS CARPENTER on Victor Daly's Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts
JAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on Bernd Brunner's Moon: A Brief History
BERT HITCHCOCK on William Cobb's The Last Queen of the Gypsies
VIRGINIA M. KOUIDIS on Stachy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life
JEAN M. SNOOK on Edith Grossman's Why Translation Matters
SIMON STOW on Robert C. Pirro's The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship

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Volume 46.2 SPRING 2012

E S S A Y S
CHRIS ARTHUR     Zen’s Bull in the Tread of Memory
FRANCESCA CAUCHI     The Cash Nexus of Blood and Iron in William Blake’s The Four Zoas
CAROLINE SUTTON     Eclipsed

F I C T I O N
VANESSA BLAKESLEE    Malocchio
RHEEA MUKHERJEE    Help with Packing

P O E T R Y
ANONYMOUS     The Beginning (from The Popul VuhI) (translated by Michael Bazzett)
HORACE     Ode I.20 (translated by Matthew Landrum)
MARC HUDSON     Humboldt at Sea
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA     Balcony   |   Lola     (translated by Matthew Landrum)
RACHAEL LYON     Song of Sally Buchanan, 1798
DAVID MOOLTEN     Amelia Earhart, Nopala, Mexico, 1935
DON RUSS     The Persistence of Vision
MARIO WIRZ     Legend   |   Summer   |   Tram-Dream   |   Metamorphosis     (translated by Renate Latimer)

R E V I E W S
CRAIG BARROW on Cladys Swan's The Tiger's Eye: New and Selected Stories
MIRIAM BYRD on Jon D. Mikalson's Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy
EMERY E. GEORGE on Joseph P. Strelka's Dichter als Boten der Menschlichkeit: Literarische Leuchtturme im Chaos des Nebels unserer Zeit
JOHN PHILLIPS on Giulia Sissa's Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World

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Volume 46.3 SUMMER 2012

E S S A Y S
JULIAN HOFFMAN     An Accumulation of Light
CHRISTOPHER NORRIS     Further Thoughts: On the Extended Mind Hypothesis
MARTIN NOVAL     Turning Bears into Chipmunks: The Wild, the Violent, and the Destruction of the Earth

F I C T I O N
JENNIFER CRANFILL    The Last of the Small Town Girls
TONI GRAHAM     Ash

P O E T R Y
ACE BOGGESS     The Times
LISA HUFFAKER     His Hair
DANA KOSTER     Hummingbird Heart   |   Coyote
JACOB NEWBERRY     Paris Called: She Craves Me Wildly   |   Theology of Wasps
DAVID SALNER     Older Cousin to Young Melville   |   Milton   |   Just Like a Man

R E V I E W S
JAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on Nigel Warburton's A Little History of Philosophy
ANTHONY LIMAN on Atsushi Nakajima's The Moon over the Mountain
THOMAS PAVEL on Liliana Ursa's A Path to the Sea
MARY ANN RYGIEL on David Sehat's The Myth of American Religious Freedom

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Volume 46.4 FALL 2012

E S S A Y S
PATRICIA FOSTER     The Red Chair
TEDDY MACKER     The Tyranny of Inattention: On Education, Technology, and the Well-being of the world
MARIKI NAGAI     Imaginary Death

F I C T I O N
JUDITH DANCOFF    Terminus

P O E T R Y
CRAIG BEAVEN     Movies in Mid-air   |   People Drive By and Shout Insults while I'm Jogging
CATHERINE SAVAGE BROSMAN     In the Public Library
MELISSA DICKSON     Io to Isis, the Moratorium   |   The Phorcydes Recall Their Father Years after Medusa's Death   |   The Graeae Deny Nothing
GREG MOGLIA     Colic
CHAD PARMENTER     Aperature
WARREN SLESINGER     Fog
BILL SNYDER     Bolero   |   Caravaggio Abandons the Knife

R E V I E W S
N. S. BOONE on The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove
MARY ANN RYGIEL on John Edwards's Mary I: England's Catholic Queen
JONI TEVIS on Jenny Diski's What I Don't Know about Animals
JAMES H. WATKINS on Wayne Flynt's Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, A Memoir

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Volume 47.1 WINTER 2013

E S S A Y S
BERT CARDULLO     The Lyrics, the Feminine, and the Ideal: Williams’s The Glass Menagerie Revisited
KATE MEADS     Undone: Bessie Wallis of Baltimore

F I C T I O N
STEPHANIE COYNE DEGHETT     Last Train to Budapest
GREG JOHNSON    Hard Candy

P O E T R Y
ELIZABETH BRADFIELD     A Whaler's Homecoming   |   It Was Daylight
SUSAN COHEN     Every Minute Drove It Wilder
MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK     A Recipe
SUSANNE KORT     Zelda—1926
RHONDA LOTT     Velvet Divorce
PAUL MARTIN     Explaining the Urge
HILARY SIDERIS     Saffron |   Boneset
R. T. SMITH    Lizzie Keckley, 91
ANN STRUTHERS     Byron, Before Becoming a Hero
MITCHELL UNTCH     Blueprint

R E V I E W S
FRANCESCA CAUCHI on Denise Gigante's The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
DIANA CURTIS on Lydia R. Cooper's No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy
DAVID P. HANEY on Richard Capobianco's Engaging Heidegger
ALLEN MENDENHALL on Teaching Law and Literature, edited by Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank, and Matthew Anderson

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Volume 47.2 SPRING 2013

E S S A Y S
ROBERT HAHN    Becoming Unknown

F I C T I O N
LESTER GORAN     Cowboy Songs, 1905
SAM KATZ     Hello, My Brother
SUZANNE RICHARDSON     A Place for Strangers

P O E T R Y
JADA ACH     Subject: Inquiry
BRUCE BOND     Spaceship
JOE BUETER     At a Grave of Irrepressible Devotion with Means
CALLIMACHUS     Three Epigrams (Translated by Andrew Lear)
ABIGAIL CLOUD     Mad Scene
CARL CONOVER     Portrait |   Las Audience with the Fugitives
NANDINI DHAR     What's in a Name
JOHN A. MCDERMOTT     On First Hearing Flannery O'Connor Read "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
JANET MCNALLY     A Certain Kind of Light   |   Thessalonike Leaves the Water
MISSY-MARIE MONTGOMERY     AnneMarie's Bath
ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA     (. . .) (untitled) (Translated by Andrew Wachtel)
DEBORAH POPE     At the Other End of the Line
TORI SHARPE     Thermomenter

R E V I E W S
N. S. BOONE on Jorie Graham's Place: New Poems
BERT HITCHCOCK on Virginia Lynn Moylan's Zora Neal Hurston's Final Decade
M. P. JONES IV on Ashton Nichols's Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting
SARAH KENNEDY on Kathryn Schwarz's What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space
SARAH KENNEDY on Brian Boyd's Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets
MARY DONNARUMMA SHARNICK on Joan Cusack Handler's Confessions of Joan the Tall: A Memoir

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Volume 47.3 SUMMER 2013

E S S A Y S
JODY A. ZORGDRAGER    In the Wake

F I C T I O N
EZRA CARLSEN   We Are Vehicles in the End
JESSICA KINNISON    Drawbridge

P O E T R Y
COLLEEN ABEL     The Sleep Suite; The Expectant
RICHARD N. BENTLEY     New Child
CIARAN BERRY     4'33"
MARK JAY BREWIN, JR.     Donation Doctor's Visit
ROBIN CARSTENSEN     Stray
SHARON CHMIELARZ     A Strange Feeling
JOEY CONNELLY     The Day I Came Out to My Parents
WESTON CUTTER     Lives of the Revelers   |   x≠x
JULIE DANHO     When the First Father Dies   |   Cloud Gate, Chicago   |   For My Daughter on Her First Birthday
JEFFREY GALBRAITH     Record of Persons Whose Names Have Changed
GRAHAM HILLARD     Elemental
SUZANNE MARIE HOPCROFT     For Once, Carve a Home
AL MAGINNES     Naming the Lakes
JASON PRIMM     A Personal Catalogue of Birds
MATTHEW SIEGEL     [My Pills Doze until I Wake Them]   |   What World Are You in, Mother, when You Sleep
KAREN VAN DE GRAAF     Dictation
NIC WALKER     Standing outside the Caverns of Boerne, Texas

R E V I E W S
FRANCESCA CAUCHI on Eric G. Wilson's My Business Is to Create
MELISSA DICKSON on Sarah Kennedy's The Gold Thread
BILL DISKIN on Paola Corso's The Laundress Catches Her Breath
PAUL FLEMING on Friederich Hölderlin's Selected Poems
GRAHAM GOOD on Chris Arthur's On the Shoreline of Knowledge
JOHN PHILLIPS on Runar M. Thorsteinsson's Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality

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* Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2014

Volume 47.4 FALL 2013

E S S A Y S
JAMES BRAZIEL     The Ballad of JD*

F I C T I O N
CHRISTOPHER LINFORTH     The Persistence of Vision
JARED YATES SEXTON     Maggie
VIC SIZEMORE     Chamber Music

P O E T R Y
DEVON BRANCA     Game Length (Part Five)
SERGIO CODDOU     I Am a Hotel
TONI HANNER     The Widow
TOM HOLMES     The First Potter's Advice
SOPHIE KLAHR     At the Round House   |   Before Results
CLAY MATTHEWS     A Christmas Carol   |   Run, Jonah   |   Dadda
MARTHA SILANO     Saint Catherine of Siena   |   Appropriate Incongruities
JENNIFER K. SWEENEY     In the Winter before Everything   |   Vespertine
MOLLY TENENBAUM     This Poem Needs a Hummingbird
LISA WELLS     A Mind Like That   |   Winemaking
MAYA JEWELL ZELLER     What She Sees above Us
NIKKI ZIELINSKI     Tennessee   |   Fable XX. Chorus   |   Fable XXIII. La Llorona

R E V I E W S
AMANDA BRICKWELL BELLOWS on Jon Smith's Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
EMMA BOLDEN on Julianne Buchsbaum's The Apothecary's Heir
N. S. BOONE on Rae Armantrout's Just Saying
SARAH KENNEDY on David Madden's London Bridge in Plague and Fire
DORENE O'BRIEN on Ksenia Rychtycka's Crossing the Border
ROBIN SABINO on Emily Clark's The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

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* Selected for Best American Essays 2014

Cultural Memoir
Special issue edited by Patricia Foster

E S S A Y S
PATRICIA FOSTER     Introduction: The Cultural Memoir
BEVERLY BLASINGAME     The Train to Trebon
JERALD WALKER     How to Make a Slave*
INARA VERZEMNIEKS     Cesvaine
KATE BOLTON BONNICI     Bloodlines: A Personal History of Episiotomy
CHRISTOPHER MERRILL     Damascus as an Example
WILL JENNINGS     Moving in a Time of War
ANGELA JORDAN     Prophecy
HONOR MOORE     Cuba Mia
MARILYN ABILDSKOV     Bloom
JIM MCKEAN     So Much More
JAY LAMAR     Telling Secrets
ROBIN HEMLEY     The Writer across the Table

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* Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2015

Volume 48.1 WINTER 2014

E S S A Y S
MOLLY ANTOPOL     Conflict Resolution*
ANNITA SAWYER     Good Humor *

F I C T I O N
MARK JACOBS     Paint
MINDY FRIDDLE     Cowbird
AJAY VISHWANATHAN     The Keeper of Lamps

P O E T R Y
TODD BALAZIC     The Last Amphibian
LISA J. CIHLAR     Spells
MEG DAY     Portrait of My Selves at Twelve, as Pallbearers
RENEE EMERSON     We Figure We Can Get By   |   Rising
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK     Bloom
JOHN HOPPENTHALER     Checking for Ticks
PETER KLINE     Mirrorform   |   Mirrorform   |   Mirrorform
JAY NEBEL     Robert Frank: The Americans   |   Clouds
BRITTANY PERHAM     Keep You
DOUG RAMSPECK     Chronic Offerings
BRIAN SIMONEAU     My Daughter Gathers Rocks Wherever She Goes
CUTTER STREEBY     Passing the Bus Stop on Fifth
KMA SULLIVAN     Thrashing

R E V I E W S
JOHN PERRYMAN on Joseph S. Nye, Jr.'s Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
GRAHAM GOOD on Elizabeth Dodd's Horizon's Lens: My Time on the Turning World
TYRONE JAEGER on R. T. Smith's Sherburne: Stories
MICHELLE PEÑALOZA on Eugene Gloria's My Favorite Warlord

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Volume 48.2 SPRING 2014

E S S A Y
JACQUELINE DOYLE     Mary Magdalene's Tibia

F I C T I O N
JUDITH DANCOFF     Women Bathing: A Novella

P O E T R Y
GABRIELLE BATES     Disintegration
PHILIP BELCHER     Ode to the God of Dogs   |   Luminary
CARL CONOVER     Pastorale
JAMES DOYLE     The Evening Light
KATHLEEN HELEN     how now the snow
LES KAY     Home Front
VICTORIA KELLY     Heroes
ANGIE MACRI     Queen Wilhelmina, from Far Away
ROSE MCLARNEY     Eyes Lifted
JO PITKIN     Goldfinch   |   Waiting for an Airmail Letter
TIMOTHY SHEA     Belgium   |   Twigs
HAROLD WHIT WILLIAMS     Do This in Remembrance of Me
JEREMY WINDHAM     Land of Enchantment

REVIEWS
JOHN WELLS WARREN on Harold Bloom's The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
MELISSA DICKSON JACKSON on David Leeming's Medusa in the Mirror of Time
LUCAS CARPENTER on Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900

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* Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2016

Volume 48.3 SUMMER 2014

E S S A Y S
HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS     Dog and Wolf: The Time Between [essay as ideolocator]*
MATT MUILENBERG     The Rest of Us
ALISON STINE     The Apple Trees

F I C T I O N
NICHOLAS MAINIERI     Flint
HEATHER RYAN     Girl Emerges from Landscape

P O E T R Y
EVAN BEATY     Living in a Young Country: Seven Blue Ridge Panels
JENNIFER BOYDEN     First Penis   |   Lunar Year of the Explosion
GEORGE DAVID CLARK     Cradles
PATRICIA CLARK     Hardwoods
JOHN EBERSOLE     Dim Districts of Immersion
K. A. HAYS     But What Seems Fixed Slides Away   |   Mind in Flock, Mind Apart   |   Or Only Here, Brambling
DORIANNE LAUX     Piano with Children
MARTY MCCONNELL     the word of the day is "instigate"
LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER     Struck   |   Upton's Field
BRANDON RUSHTON     And then I am left to clean out your insides . . .
EMMA TÖRZS     A place so safe it can't be snapped
ADAM VINES     This Little Piggy
GINNY WIEHARDT     Seeking My Fortune on St. Andrew's Eve

R E V I E W S
JOHN CUSSEN on Catherine Chung's Forgotten Country, Krys Lee's Drifting House, and Don Lee's The Collective
MARY ANN RYGIEL on Brenda Wineapple's Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise: 1848-1877
MARY ANN RYGIEL on Jill Lepore's The Story of America: Essay on Origins and Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

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