Masthead
EDITOR
Ann Neelon
ADVISORY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Squire Babcock
Dale Ray Phillips
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Jim Bryant
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Jacque E. Day
MFA EDITORIAL BOARD
Lacey Bard
Amanda C. Grossman
Rachel Rinehart Johnson
Will W. Miller
Sara Pridmore
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Pamela Miller
WEBSITE DESIGN
Tony Powell
Cover Photography, Front and Back
Richard R. Sitler
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction by Ann Neelon
Silence and Dreams poem by Michael Campagnoli
The City poem by Michael Campagnoli
The Chosen poem by Michael Campagnoli
The Real Estate Renaissance memoir by Re'Lynn Hansen
Black Pansies poem by Karen Holmberg
Garnet, the Poor Man's Ruby poem by Karen Holmberg
Faces of a Tycoon story by Murzban F. Shroff
AM-FM poem by Doug Cox
Back Taxes poem by Doug Cox
Going for Broke: An Alphabet of (No) Money memoir by Lorri McDole
The Age of Generosity poem by Sarah Grieve
Juba story by Rion Amilcar Scott
Broken Clouds poem by Mercedes Lawry
Empathy poem by Mercedes Lawry
Parallel Living poem by Mercedes Lawry
A Primer poem by Mercedes Lawry
All the Baboons Had Gone Away poem by Mercedes Lawry
The Anarchist (from Jarina and Pavel) novel excerpt by Bev Jafek
Sangre Frio poem by Anthony Robbins
La Novia story by Lou Mathews
When Darkness Fell poem by Dan Stryk
Meditation At a Farmers Market Rousing on a Muggy Summer Morning poem by Dan Stryk
Voices Through the Walls poem by Dan Stryk
Robber's Hand poem by Dan Stryk
Sustainable Aid memoir by John Teschner
Royal Highlander Trailer Park poem by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck
The Leisure Class poem by Robert Avery
Foreclosure poem by Christopher Ankney
The Best Peaches Came From an Old Black Woman Who Hated My Mother poem by Christopher Ankney
A Golden Noumenon poem by Sigman Byrd
Waiting for the Perseids poem by Sigman Byrd
Steps story by Andrey Dmitriev
translation by Henry Whittlesey
Life and Work of Andrey Viktorovich Dmitriev
Ivan in Pitavino: Translator's Notes on Andrey Dmitriev and His Aesthetic by Henry Whittlesey
Visiting a Tlingit Oil Skimmer at the Peabody poem by Scott Woodham
Sweetest poem by Elizabeth Levitski
Book Reviews
Please by Jericho Brown
reviewed by Will W. Miller
The Death of Jayson Porter
by Jaime Adoff
reviewed by Amanda C. Grossman
The Big Beautiful
by Pamela Duncan
reviewed by Sara Pridmore
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
by Jonathan L. Howard
reviewed by Lacey Bard
Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir
by Sue William Silverman
reviewed by Rachel Rinehart Johnson
Contributors' Notes
Artist's Statement
by Richard R. Sitler