June 2013
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
High Frequency Words
Susan Daitch
When Our Bodies
Jaclyn Watterson
Home'n'Homer, Portmaneau
John Domini
The Apartment
Aaron Burch
EXCERPTS
The Skin Team
Jordaan Mason
Happy Talk
Richard Melo
POETRY
Operator's Manual
Water Skiing with Robert Creeley
Christian Anton Gerard
Battle at Biak, New Guinea
April Naoko Heck
How to Confess an Affair
How to Be a Prophet
How to Make a Red Velvet Cake
Alicia Jo Rabins
To Drive a Lover Mad
Benjamin Garcia
NON-FICTION
All Our Pretty Songs
Gabe Durham
BOOK REVIEWS
The Exiles by Matthew Kirkpatrick
reviewed by Lauren Perez
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black by Patricia Lockwood
reviewed by Carmen Giménez Smith
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic
reviewed by James Orbesen
The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress by Scott Nadelson
reviewed by Tyler McMahon