“Thanksgiving” originally appeared in The Gettysburg Review and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.
 
Jon Loomis is the author of three poetry collections: Vanitas Motel (1998), The Pleasure Principle (2001), and The Mansion of Happiness (forthcoming in 2016), all from Oberlin College Press. He’s also the author of the Frank Coffin mystery series, set in Provincetown, MA. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.
 
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“The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens” originally appeared in Crazyhorse and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.

Travis Smith lives in Durham, NC and works as a bookseller. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Little Star, Parcel, Redivider, The Collagist, and other journals. He was a Grisham Fellow in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and can be found on Twitter: @travis_oliver
 
 
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Love Letter to Nike Alighting on a Warship originally appeared in The Kenyon Review and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.
 
Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote, winner of the 2012 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, as well as multiple scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A former Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2014, Best New Poets 2012, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is currently the 2015-2016 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.
 
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“Adoration” originally appeared in West Branch and has been reprinted with permission of the author.

Originally from the Ukraine, Luisa Muradyan is currently a PhD student at the University of Houston, where she is an Editor at Gulf Coast. Her previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, West Branch, Ninth Letter, and PANK among others.

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“Attention All Students” originally appeared in Little Star Journal and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.
 
Jeannie Vanasco is writing a memoir involving a necronym, psychosis, and an artificial eye. An excerpted version appears in the current issue of The Believer. Her other writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere.
 
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“Rue” originally appeared in The Iowa Review and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.

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“American Radiance” originally appeared in West Branch and has been reprinted with permission of the author.
 
Originally from the Ukraine, Luisa Muradyan is currently a PhD student at the University of Houston, where she is an Editor at Gulf Coast. Her previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, West Branch, Ninth Letter, and PANK among others.
 
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“Apples” was originally published in American Poetry Review and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.

Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow. Since 1998, she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and in 2003, Polonskaya became a member of the Russian PEN-centre. In 2004 an English version of her book, entitled A Voice, appeared in the acclaimed “Writings from an Unbound Europe” series at Northwestern University Press. This book was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. Her work has appeared in Boulevard , The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, The Journal, Poetry Daily, AGNI, New England Review, and The Literary Review, among other publications. Her book Paul Klee’s Boat was shortlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award and for the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Andrew Wachtel is the president of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He has translated poetry and prose from Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian and Slovenian.

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“Tap Out” was original published in Redivider and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.”

Edgar Kunz is from Massachusetts. His poems can be found in AGNI, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and other places. He is a 2015-2017 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.

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That was the year we came across the Pulaski Skyway. The middle of March, New Jersey stretching out before us like an old blanket they were trying to shake the dust out of. Eddie Rabbitt singing Well, I love a rainy night from the dashboard of every Pontiac Sunbird, every Chevrolet Chevette. We thought we’d get to the promenade and it would be there, waiting for us on the bleached herringbone of the boardwalk but we walked eight miles, up and then back and we did not find it. In the casinos rising from the rubble of the Traymore, of the Marlborough-Blenheim, we did not find it. We bought a souvenir globe from Bally’s Park Place and we shook it up, shook it up till it cracked and it spilled but it still wouldn’t say. In lucky dice, all-you-can-eat, bottomless coffee, nickela-spin, we did not find it. We put our make up on, fixed our hair up pretty but we did not find it: not in thin motel sheets or saltwater taffy, or between the pages of paperback bibles tucked into plywood drawers. We searched the eyes of the croupiers and card sharps but we did not find it, and the men who ran the rolling chairs were taciturn and breathless. We held our hands out to former Miss Americas in palm-reading parlours and they assured us that yes, it was there somewhere, muffled by the green felt of roulette tables, lost in a jangle of slot-machine song, in the bloody fallout from a nail bomb beneath the porch of a Philadelphia rowhome. But no, we did not find it, not in the brassy sweat of Kentucky Avenue clubs, prohibition memorabilia or the plastic cups of beer we drank in line for the blackjack game. And perhaps we never came any closer than the moon shining off the metal of defunct amusement park rides, cool steel of the big wheel felt though our clothes as we pitched our bottles into the sea and the wind bawled like an orphaned calf around the stumps of Million Dollar Pier. That was the year we came across the Pulaski Skyway. But we were too late, or too early, and we did not find it.

“Atlantic City” originally appeared in Cordite Poetry Review and has been reprinted with permission of the author. 

Josephine Rowe is an Australian writer living in Oakland, California. Her writing has appeared in Narrative, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and on The Paris Review Daily, and she is the author of two short story collections, most recently Tarcutta Wake (UQP, 2012). She is currently a 2014-2016 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Her debut novel, A Loving, Faithful Animal, will be published in 2016.

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