ISSUE 1


ISSUE 1 was published in Spring/Summer 2011, featuring the following— 

Jen Bervin, "(Northeast) Waiting Room for Reinhard Mucha"

Lauren O'Connor's response to Bervin: "(An Odd Place) Waiting Room for Réne Daumal"

Emily Skillings, "Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants"


Two poems from Anne Fitzgerald: "Whiteness" and "Diminished Responsibility"


Islands in the Sea, Eliot Weinberger's retelling of an Irish myth

An excerpt from Jennifer Cazenave's Les Maladies de la Peau translated by Charlotte Mandell

Two poems by Matvei Yankelevich, "POEM" and "(what is is now more)"

Daniel Nohejl's "What the Hillpilot Said"

Two poems from Alan Gilbert, "Almost Working" and "Ticket to Ride"

Hold Up!, a short story by Ben Townsend

Andrew Gorin's "This is a Portrait of Your Mama Because I Say It Is" and "Meet Me in the City Themed City"

Jeffrey Yang's poem "Tide Table" from his forthcoming book Vanishing-Line, published by Graywolf in September 2011 

Three poems by Sarah Holland-Batt: "Lace," "Botany" and "Home After Six Months Away"

Three poems by Robert Kelly: "Moses," "Untitled 1," "Untitled 2"

Jocelyn Spaar's review of Alix's Journal by Alix Cléo Roubaud, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2010

Art by Newsha Tavakolian, Travis Jackson and Orion Martin

Contributor illustrations by Chris Russell

And cover design by Maayan Pearl