Table of Contents: July/August 2009

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Dick Allen · Sandra Beasley · Amy Beeder · Caroline Bergvall · Rebekah Bloyd · Todd Boss · David Bottoms · Christian Bök · Scott Cairns · Olivia Clare · T. Zachary Cotler · Jordan Davis · Tim Dlugos · Craig Dworkin · Elisabeth Eybers · Robert Fitterman · Daisy Fried · Drew Gardner · Albert Goldbarth · Kenneth Goldsmith · Nada Gordon · Jessica Greenbaum · Bob Hicok · Jane Hirshfield · Tony Hoagland · John Hodgen · Clive James · John Koethe · Jason Labbe · Richard Lehnert · Hailey Leithauser · Philip Levine · Fred Marchant · Kevin McFadden · W. S. Merwin · Sharon Mesmer · Ange Mlinko · K. Silem Mohammad · Mel Nichols · Conor O'Callaghan · Vanessa Place · John Poch · Katha Pollitt · Donald Revell · Robyn Sarah · Derek Sheffield · Charles Simic · Gary Sullivan · Yvor Winters

Cover art: Tatsuro Kiuchi, “On the beach,” 2006.

	AUTHOR	TITLE
	Tony Hoagland	At the Galleria Shopping Mall Personal Summer in a Small Town
	Jane Hirshfield	Perishable, It Said
	Amy Beeder	Captain Haddock vs. the PTA
	Charles Simic	The Melon Nancy Jane
	Scott Cairns	Another Road Home
	Sandra Beasley	The Piano Speaks Unit of Measure Let Me Count the Waves
	John Poch	A River The Llano Estacado
	John Hodgen	For the man with the erection lasting more than four hours
	Philip Levine	An Extraordinary Morning
	Tim Dlugos	Come in from the Rain The Truth Mehr Licht
	Ange Mlinko	This is the Latest
	Todd Boss	Call as You Will
	David Bottoms	After the Stroke
	T. Zachary Cotler	Behind the Prytaneum
	Richard Lehnert	My Soul
	Elisabeth Eybers	Poet as Housewife
	Derek Sheffield	To Do
	Hailey Leithauser	“Was you ever bit by a dead bee?” O, She Says
	Bob Hicok	Learning to swim
	Kevin McFadden	Teeth An Auto-da-fé A Date
	Robyn Sarah	Blowing the Fluff Away
	W. S. Merwin	Identity
	Jason Labbe	When Big Joan Sets Up
	Olivia Clare	Who Lived Among Them
	Fred Marchant	Note Held
	Dick Allen	Cloud No Bigger than a Man’s Hand
	Jessica Greenbaum	Houston in the Early Eighties
	Albert Goldbarth	The Poem of the Little House at the Corner of Misapprehension and Marvel

		FLARF & CONCEPTUAL WRITING
	Kenneth Goldsmith	Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo. An introduction to the 21st Century's most controversial poetry movements.
	Jordan Davis	Three Poems on Demand
	Mel Nichols	I Google Myself
	Sharon Mesmer	The Swiss Just Do Whatever
	K. Silem Mohammad	Poems About Trees
	Nada Gordon	Unicorn Believers Don’t Declare Fatwas
	Drew Gardner	Why do I hate Flarf so much?
	Gary Sullivan	Am I Emo? A poetry comic.
	Caroline Bergvall	The Not Tale (Funeral)
	Christian Bök	The Great Order of the Universe
	Robert Fitterman	Directory
	Kenneth Goldsmith	Two Poems from “The Day”
	Craig Dworkin	Fact
	Vanessa Place	Miss Scarlett

		COMMENT
	Clive James	The Necessary Minimum Dunstan Thompson slides out of the shadows.
	Daisy Fried	Sing, God-awful Muse! On Milton and the Nipple Nazi of Northampton.

		POETS WE’VE KNOWN
	Donald Revell	Heaven's Commonplace: Hoc Opus, Hic Labor Est Remembering Robert Creeley.
	Rebekah Bloyd	A Poet in Death Valley Remembering Miroslav Holub.
	John Koethe	Ninety-Fifth Street
	Katha Pollitt	Miss Bishop Says So Remembering Elizabeth Bishop.
	Conor O'Callaghan	You're Not the Outlaw You Think You Are Remembering Michael Hartnett.

		I BELONGED TO YVOR WINTERS
	Yvor Winters	It is Life; It is Not an Ivory Tower Letters to a Young Poet.