Fiction
Michael P. Kardos  Mediation  “He had presented a choice, but there had been no decision to make.” Stacy M. Tintocalis  The Tiki King  Dad has figured it out: “Burbank isn’t even Apple-Pie America anymore.”

Essay
Joelle Fraser  Inspiration Point  and the prison town of Susanville—“This is what she told me: the boys had been quiet all day.”

Poetry
“Start whispering, / someone whispers. It’s all we have.” — John Gallaher  Ray Amorosi  Teresa Pfeifer  Norman Dubie  Catie Rosemurgy  Ernest Farrés translated by Lawrence Venuti  Hailey Leithauser  Theodore Worozbyt  Maxine Scates  Dean Young  Suzanne Buffam  All this and more.

Fiction
Randy DeVita  Guarding Mary  Tri-State Security seeks self-help: “04:00: Mobile patrols suspended.”   Marjorie Celona  This Is When I Love You the Most  Bobbie sneaks into Mr. Radcliffe’s office.

Essay
Kat Meads  What Lies in Closets  “The night the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped the heiress...”—the Patty Hearst tell-all files revisited.

Poetry
“Edges pretend that / one thing ends”—Gail Wronsky  Kevin Ducey  Daneen Wardrop  Kevin Clark  Emmanuel Moses translated by Marilyn Hacker  Albert Goldbarth  Marianne Boruch  Fabio Morábito translated by Kathleen Snodgrass  Deborah Bogen  Adrian C. Louis  Christopher Howell  Leon Stokesbury  Peter Kline  All this and more.

Fiction
Gary Fincke's The Out-of-Sorts "He copyread sports, but he paid attention to every line of the article about the woman who’d kept police at bay with three poisonous snakes . . ."
Sean Ennis's Dependents the miracle of birth and a pack of stoners: "I met a kid the other day named Solomon and he was on a leash in Wal-Mart."
Amelia Kahaney's  five days with The Temp The agency, the mother-of-pearl lighter, the half-boots, the final run for the elevator.

Poetry
High degrees of “you are here” precision:  Barbara Claire Freeman   George Eklund    Ko Un translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim, Gary Gach   Cynthia Hogue   James McCorkle   Billy Collins   Jennifer Militello   Tung-Hui Hu   Edip Cansever translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast   Dorothy Barresi   All this and more.

Fiction
Luke Blanchard's Flash Burn the boiler tank, Nathan Birch, The Work, rifles, and the road dump.   Karen Brown's Galatea “I married William in upstate before he turned out to be the Collegetown Creeper.”

Essays
Carolyn Walker's Christian Becomes a Blur “‘Christian’s always been a little different,’ I tell Dr. Herbst, and I begin the litany that began in preschool. Resurrect the witches. Damn the bullies. Denounce the guy in my son’s head.”   Lia Purpura’s Street Scene “The eye disarrays the neatest sequence.”

Poetry
The Ovidian ruckus and the little engine behind the ears:  Mark Halliday   Tomaž Šalamun translated by Brian Henry and the author   Kaethe Schwehn   Marie Étienne translated by Marilyn Hacker   Dara Wier   H. E. Sayeh translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi   Adrienne Su   Dean Young      All this and more.

Fiction
Gary Fincke   Morrelli and Ed on Three Mile Island: “A mushroom cloud? We’re calling in sick.”   Quinn Dalton’s “Jimmy the Brain and the Beautiful Aideen”   Celeste Ng’s Sam learns without touching.

Essay
Nicole Walker’s “Slip”—“The house moves down the hill, whole, for a minute.”

Poetry
Speaking for the faint echo and the world-flood:  Marianne Boruch  Nin Andrews  “A poem believes it hears Jesus. / Yes, Jesus!”  Chard deNiord  Sandy Tseng  Ciaran Berry  Albert Goldbarth  René Char translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson  “arches forge a fresh supply of wings”  Srikanth Reddy  Wyn Cooper  
And many more.

Fiction
Peter Short and “The Hawthorne Curve”: “Dad claimed no possessions. What he had in his life was nothing you could count. He said this to me after Mom’s funeral and I believed him.”  Rob Phelps’ chronicles of “The Neighbor War”: “‘I’m not gay,’ Julian explained, ‘but my army is.’”

Creative Nonfiction
“Migration”—Mark Krewatch’s alter ego pitches everything he's got to the glossy L.A. monthlies.

Poetry
Dreams of trying to remember:  Kerri Webster  John Ashbery  Billy Collins  Aimee Nezhukumatathil  Marvin Bell  Tomas Tranströmer translated by Michael McGriff with Mikaela Grassl  Sarah Vap  David Wojahn  Stacie Cassarino  George Eklund: “Every breath is an apocalypse”  And many more.

Fiction
T. M. McNally:   At the golden Hills Coutry Club, sitting in the sand trap, Howie tells Melanie that Roger stole his brother’s girlfriend . . .
Chrissy Kolaya:  Though that’s not what I told his mother.  She believes he was a hero.  That he gave me the only life vest, though the truth is, there weren’t any.  It’s best for her to believe this. . .

Essays
Amy Meissner and the family graveyard in Sweden; Kelly Madigan Erlandson upon accidents, milkweed pods, the war effort, and rehab.

Poetry
the dewdrop worlds of    A.V. Christie   Dorothy Barresi   Dean Young   Nance Van Winckel   Dieter M. Graf   Marvin Bell   Leon Stokesbury   James Grinwis.    All these and many more.