No. 18
Martha Cooley on the Costa Concordia; Brett Fletcher Lauer on how to write a love letter; Kate Walbert's radical feminists; Andrea Barrett's investigators; stories by Bonnie Nadzam and Kevin Wilson; Aaron Crippen translates Du Fu; poems by Rae Armantrout, Terrance Hayes, Joanna Klink, and others; and introducing Magdaléna Platzová.
Fiction
Radical Feminists
No. 18 • Kate Walbert
Beatrice Wells is on her way to Bryant Park with her boys, ice-skating, Saturday afternoon, when she bumps, literally, into Jonathan Fontaine, his hair, though thinner, still as his name would suggest, puffed, coiffed, as if Jonathan Fontaine has just stepped out of a Dr. Seuss story or a zany French farce.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 18 • Rae Armantrout
We are learning to control our thoughts / to set obtrusive thoughts aside.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 18 • Joanna Klink
I brought what I knew about the world to my daily life / and it failed me.Poetry
Poem for John Locke
No. 18 • Adam Fitzgerald
A sound mind in a sound body is a short / but full description of a happy state in this world.Feature
A Supposed Person
No. 18 • Brett Fletcher Lauer
Before I actually wrote a poem, I pretended to write poetry.Fiction
A Signal to the Faithful
No. 18 • Kevin Wilson
The first time Edwin passed out during mass, he could not determine whether the act made him more or less holy.Fiction
The Investigators
No. 18 • Andrea Barrett
Early that June, Constantine Boyd left Detroit with his usual trunk but got on a train headed east instead of west.Order A Public Space
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