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ART

Cover Out of the Darkness . . .  SPRING! [mixed media] • Gary Kelley
14 Buenos Aires [charcoal and digital] • Anthony Tremmaglia
18 Nothing Is Always the Same [ink and digital] • Clay Rodery
25 Lakeside Hollow [ink and digital] • Catherine Byun

FICTION

14 Buenos Aires • Brady Richards
18 Nothing Is Always the Same • Brian Fitch
25 Lakeside Hollow • Bridget Bentz Sizer

NONFICTION

35 The Boxing Day Wave • Amanda Morris 
39 A Paper Trail  • Caroline Sutton
48 The Persistence of Poetry [Past Perfect] • Stephen Haven

POETRY

3 Aleister Crowley Lipogram • Michael Kriesel
4 Atelier • Mia Schwartz
4 Dead Hummingbird • Frank Paino
5 Man in Flower • Brian Patrick Heston
5 Invocation • L. J. Morin
5 Lost Boys of the Upper Great Plains • Joe Wilkins
6 Our Baby Is a Sesame Seed • Nathan Renie
6 Psalm 2014 • Raphael Dagold
7 The Song Asked If My Ears Were on Straight • Susan Firer
8 Translator • Alex Vartan Gubbins
8 I don’t imagine embracing my father, • Diane Seuss
9 Hidden Cities • Liz Glodek
10 To Erlinda: Fifty Years Later • Sharon Hashimoto
10 Big Hair • Holly Karapetkova
11 Cold Rock (MKE Remix) • Christine Holm
11 Brief History of Midwestern Civilization • Jeff Gundy
12 The Archeology of Music • Tobias Wray
13 Paper or Plastic • Cathryn Cofell
16 I Take a Break From Scoring the SAT • Karen Craigo
16 Advice to My Daughter, a Sonnet • John Guzlowski
16 A Day in the Life • Robert Nazarene
17 4 Epistles to Mother Earth (Pt. 4)—Hummingbirds • Kevin Phan
17 Café Whispers • Lisa J. Cihlar
17 Notes to my Mormon Grandmother • Marianne Kunkel
22 Let Me Accept This Life • Lan Lan / Tr. Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
22 Loss • Lan Lan / Tr. Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
23 Twilight • Yang Jian / Tr. Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
23 Dusk • Yang Jian / Tr. Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
24 Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields • Mo Fei / Tr. Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
24 When Youth Is Not, You Begin • Mo Fei / Tr. Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
32 I Heard They Were Queer for One Another • Bradford Tice
33 Spandex • Tim Krcmarik
33 Sandhog • Nick Kolakowski
34 Mycene v the Transcendent I • Metta Sáma
34 Althea • Maceo J. Whitaker
37 My first heartbreak • Bridgette Bates
38 A Short Autobiography of Perfume • Karen An-hwei Lee
38 Cleveland, I do not love you • Jennifer Santos Madriaga

REVIEWS

43 A Dragon-Worthy Treasure • Ted Morrissey
44 Synecdoche: Brief Book Reviews • Vince Gotera
45 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey

MISCELLANY

2 From the Editors • NAR Staffers Out in the World
46 Contributors