Sara Deniz Akant: “a whild rabbit what he caught” from Babette by Sara Deniz Akant. Copyright © 2014 Rescue Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Micah Bateman: “Every world behind this world” by Micah Bateman. Copyright © 2015 Micah Bateman.

Melissa Ginsburg: “Minnow’s gill a tiny lever” and “Crows accrue in the metropolis.” by Melissa Ginsburg. Copyright © 2015 Melissa Ginsburg.

Tanya Grae: “Like Darwin’s Finches” by Tanya Grae. Copyright © 2015 Tanya Grae. First appeared in The Florida Review. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Keith Jones: “Shells preceding,” “Silvered oval, island of glass,” “Kern.,” and “I have poured over that” by Keith Jones. Copyright © 2015 Keith Jones.

Matthew Klane: “Doom and Gloom” and “Group Therapy” by Matthew Klane. Copyright © 2015 Matthew Klane.

Nate Klug: “Thinking,” “Dusk in Jasper County” and “Sound from Sound” from Anyone by Nate Klug. Copyright © 2015 University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.

Davy Knittle: “a room made of music sustains itself ” by Davy Knittle. Copyright © 2015 Davy Knittle.

Julie Gonnering Lein: “Rime in the Screen” by Julie Lein. Copyright © 2015 Julie Lein.

Horacio Castellanos-Moya: Chapter 1 from Senselessness. Copyright © 2004 by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translation Copyright © 2008 by Katherine Silver. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Travis Smith: “The New Science,” “Discourse on the Lion’s Smile,” and “Monarch” by Travis Smith. Copyright © 2015 Travis Smith.

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