5.11 / November 2010 Jonah Is CleanMel Bosworth Cautionary Notes on a Blood-Splashed Sneaker Sole, Size 6 ½Matthew Burnside Little ThingChristy Crutchfield Little ThingSarah Rose Etter The Baby in the BedroomJess Glass The Fan DancersMolly Gaudry and Lily Hoang Faces:Robert Lunday Werewolf AmericanoMatthew McBrearty Near SongJoshua McKinney IncognitoLetitia Moffitt KindnessElizabeth OBrien Love in the Large Hadron ColliderSalvatore Pane “Something About Perfecting A Love”Joseph Riippi A Room That Is And Or Is Not Past TenseBen Segal Concerning ActionFeng Sun Chen CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGERone Shavers The RhinocerosJ.A. Tyler PocketVallie Lynn Watson Oblivious SpringMarcus Wicker
5.10 / October 2010 Why queer?From the Guest Editor she’s a prayin’ kindCrystal Boson Excerpts from Mike Buffalo’s Kotton Kandy Klouds (Or The Consummation of Empire), A Restoration of Zachary German’s Novel Eat When You Feel Sad:Mike Buffalo Already StickyDoug Paul Case Graphy, or The Girlhood of AchillesElaine Castillo MY MOTHER’S BRAAbhishek Chaudhary KINDERTOTENLIEDER 1Dennis Cooper FATSarah Einstein IN THE FORESTBen Engel Sugar The TigerHolly Jensen Brought Forth for the Full Significance of the Psychonervous LifeAdam Jest Meat from a Hunter WomanTim Jones-Yelvington LOOPM. Kitchell Mood IndigoRickey Laurentiis Engaging ScreensaversPaul Lomax Seven Dwarves And Their Seasonal Affective, Intimacy, Grandeur-Cum-Dependency IssuesDennis Mahagin The Dorothy Allison PoemRobert McDonald An OuroborosChristopher Phelps CenicientaSofia Rhei transl. by Lawrence Schimel When I Was Bi(nary)Maureen Seaton Barnes and NobleKevin Simmonds Defiled ImaginationRachel Swirsky BoysSimon Sylvester GiftedAndrew Tibbetts The StormJulie Marie Wade And The Sea Keeps Its Fabulous ShadowsRobert Warwick Use Your Lips And TeethRobert Alan Wendeborn Room For TwoB.G. Will
5.09 / September 2010 Everybody Knows Promiscuous Girls Cause EarthquakesLisa Aldin Is This Part of the Love Ritual?Jenny Bitner For Those Who Are About To Die, We Salute You: A Cautionary TaleJ. Bradley The CowDeWitt Brinson Ich Bin Ein Trauriger MenshPatrick Allen Carberry POEMS ABOUT CONCENTRATION FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN’T CONCENTRATEP. Scott Cunningham Josephine is alone, not lonelyPhil Estes BRINGING OVER THE JELLO MOLDMegan Falley TELLINGGreg Gerke Vegetable, MineralTania Hershman Notes for a StoryTravis Hessman THIS RANT IS BEST WHEN READ ALOUD IN 23 SECONDS OR LESS WHILE WEARING A ONESIE, CATSUIT, JUMPSUIT OR UNITARD. And don’t stop too long at the periods. They are yield signs, not permission to loiter.Kristina Knappett Just Another in a Collection of Objects Not Good Enough to Be Considered PlanetsTara Laskowski With Her Light OffSunshine LeMontree UNDER THE BUZZ OF FLUORESCENCE AT THE VERMILLION SERVICE PLAZABurnt Filament —and my burden is lightJames Merenda What I Would Have Said to My Sister When She Was 16 and I Was 23Robin Lee Mozer GumsMichelle Nichols The Eskimo and IJen Percy Two Consecutive Pages In A NotebookJeffrey Pethybridge Etymology of GoodbyeAndrea Scarpino What I Have Been Doing Since I Was Last with YouIsabell Serafin DesireValerie Suffron Passing Invisible Fence in WinterBrendan Todt CasualtiesMichelle Valois
5.08 / August 2010 Man on FireZack Bean 235U+n = 95Sr + 139Xe + 2n + 180 MeVEric Bennett Crossfire Chemistry of Nightmares and Telephone CallsNicelle Davis Ladies FirstSean Doyle An Elegy For Dust and FlightJohn Fischer InvasionLuke Geddes So Very MuchLuke Goebel For GoodMelissa Goodrich THOUGHTS ON FINDING YOU DEADBrett Elizabeth Jenkins AbsalomammonMatt Lapata OpalineLindsay Merbaum Eating With Mr. ChickenTeresa Milbrodt Was She Quite Thin When She Died?Colleen OConnor Writing about Our Island of EpidemicsMatt Salesses Like Nobody’s BusinessKatie Jean Shinkle Trompe L’oeilB.R. Smith HeadBeth Thomas Epistolary AphorismsRobert Alan Wendeborn You Talking to Me?Bonnie ZoBell
5.07 / July 2010 Sex and the American RabbitRachel Adams Beautiful RetardsStace Budzko In JulySara Crowley FLESH AND BLOODAlana Dakin Poem Written While Receiving Oral SexTim Dicks from HenrytownChris Erickson Tiger TownJen Gann The Cruel Father, Learning that He Is About to Be Killed by His Son, Puts to Death All Children Born to HimKyle Minor GiftAnsley Moon GiftGena Mohwish TO UNDERSTAND STRING THEORYJohnsie Noel Falcon StreetTia Prouhet Salt of the EarthLaura Read AT THIS TABLEKeith Rosson Notes on a Clean RiverChris Sheehan What the American Public WantsRobert Anthony Siegel The Chameleon KidRobert Swartwood Gracias, Pero SiRobb Todd Gracias, Pero SiBrandi Wells GETTING GODLESSBill Yarrow
5.06 / June 2010 DISEASES, DISORDERS, BREAKSJames Tadd Adcox Rubbernecking Brushy CreekMelissa Broder Parable of Me and the Adult Diapers and the Gift BasketGabe Durham As Lovers DoKaitlin Dyer Look Away DixielandEmily Howorth She Loved Anything With WingsAlexandra Isacson MANAGE A TROISKevin Kaiser On the Day It Became Legal to Rape Your WifeVictoria Lynne McCoy Mr. ChickenTeresa Milbrodt five-gallon bucketadmin StillnessR.D. Parker SNOW ANGELSAnne Leigh Parrish ScienceJohnny Peters Something About BirthdaysJoseph Riippi How to do your makeup like a starAni Smith “Hanging Is The New Hugging: A Six Cassette Path To Becoming A True Modern Father With Dr. Daniel H. Nelson, Ph.D.”David Frederick Thomas FACEBOOK TANKA #13Tim Tomlinson RevelationOcean Vuong Only in MotionKate Wyer Do You Have a Place For Me?xTx
5.05 / May 2010 Red Satellite ReleaseJ.P. Dancing Bear furrRyan W. Bradley FleshCatherine Zobal Dent CompositeDavid Erlewine Fortune CookiesEileen Escabar Dead CowsSeth Fischer Big RedShanna Germain TomatoKathleen Heil From NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF THE BROWN BOY AND THE WHITE MANElizabeth Hildreth Hydrogen Event in a Bubble ChamberAubrey Hirsch Make Me a KnifeDavid LeGault The Reason Why People Will Always Be Enthralled By Plainspoken High-Stakes Domestic RealismKyle Minor CAPTAIN OBVIOUS LEARNS THE LIMITS OF COOLNancy Carol Moody ExtispicyZach Powers GlasnostJennifer Spiegel IanuariusD.E. Steward ABOUT THE BODYAmber Tamblyn A GOOD THINGAdam Tessier Points for ExecutionMabel Yu
5.04 / April 2010 HarquebusRachel Andelman Mom the PoetZZ Boone Grandmother Advises the DodoJulie Babcock Stampede QueenLeah Bailly On Balloon BoyNik De Dominic Daytime Television, Late Night SexKerri French The View From BelowMindy Hung VAMPIRE, AJamie Iredell Bone LagoonBrian Kubarycz But I Will Make Your Sandwiches Just The Way You Like Them, With Too Much Mayonnaise And No Mustard, And I Will Make Sure Not To Use My Hands Too Much When I’m Giving You A Blowjob, Since You Told Me That’s How You Like Me To Do It, And This Will Be Proof That I Know Who You Are And I Mean It When I Say That I Love YouAndrea Kneeland The Martian Martian Poet and Green GroupieDesmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdao On the first day of class, we wrestle heuristicsMichelle Menting Bee Inside a BulletEric Neuenfeldt HadoukenJonathan Papas Tipping the VelvetRachel Swirsky Seven Items in Jason Reynolds’ Jacket Pocket, Two Days After His Suicide, As Found by his Eight-Year-Old Brother, GradyRobert Swartwood HoleChris Tarry
5.03 / March 2010 Falcon JacksonBrian Allen Carr JUSTIFICATION FOR FAILING EYESIGHT.Joseph Goosey THE BEGINNING OF SORROWSBrad Green BEEF PINEAPPLE ROBOT.Daniel Gutstein BEEF PINEAPPLE ROBOT.Jessica Hagemann You don’t know how it feels to be pulled inside out: an ode to Bull ShannonMary Hamilton I WANT TO RIDE MY BABY ON A FREAKING PONYJohn Thomas Harris OMENSChristopher Heavener The Yielding and the UnyieldingJeffrey Hermann How to Write a Poem About the BluesAmorak Huey SHOULD: How Mommy Ate Her SoulNath Jones Dining by CandlelightNick Kocz My Dark LordDiane Lockward On The Occasion of a Felonious Assault on My HeartKarissa Morton MagicJennifer Pashley Of Magnates, Mavens and MogulsDan Piepenbring Of Magnates, Mavens and MogulsJoshua Ware
5.02 / February 2010 Fill in the BlankCL Bledsoe Son, LitterateurEric Burke Cast OutAlan Stewart Carl CALLOW MONSTERJoseph Celizic HOTEL MERCUREKatharine Coles Glass BoatOri Fienberg AUBADE THAT MISSES THE POINTElisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney Reading Practices (of Shoes)Emilie Lindemann An Arctic Mirage Sounds a Lot Like Rusty CricketsKimberly Lojewski The Earth Knows my Secret LoveCorey Mesler SwayedMichelle Reale WORK HISTORYChristopher Ryan HeadlinesErik Smetana Storage SpaceAmber Sparks Hawkins’s BoyCharles Dodd White Before the River FreezesMaya Jewell Zeller
5.01 / January 2010 HippomancyMaureen Alsop Then We Are SixAndrew Borgstrom Four Rotting OrangesDoug Paul Case [specimen]Mark Cunningham Agrarian Sex (Hey, Rube)Geordie deBoer The View From “Mr. Rockefeller”Sutherland Douglass Dear FriendDave Housley C’mon, Get HappyStephanie Johnson Anna in the Free-Floating WorldCarolyn Kegel are you aware that your illness affects your mind and your body?Thomas Patrick Levy are you aware that your illness affects your mind and your body?Amy McDaniel The seven strongest men in townCarrie Murphy PactJoseph Murphy A CATALOG OF WAYS TO HOLD SOMEBODYAlec Niedenthal Girl: A Guide for the UninformedAni Smith STAY BY ME (AND MAKE THE MOMENT LAST)Janey Smith