Number Ten

Introduction by Mira Rosenthal Poems: Paul Otremba   Coverage    Messiah    The Birds Alicia Ostriker   The Bird   Ars Poetica: The Pull   Ars Poetica: Gear Hangs   Ars Poetica: Strategy Ricardo Pau-Llosa   Mid-Caribbean, American Flight 936, Caracas-Miami Eugene Gloria    Laundry List    Blue Miles Kevin Prufer   For My Father Daniel J. Langton   Morning Delmira Agustini   The Intruder    To Eros    The Unspeakable Laura Cronk    Having Been Turned Down (The World's Leaders Don't Want    to Come to Dinner)    Entering    Up from the Bargaining Table Landon Godfrey    Interview: Antique Iron Bed Yerra Sugarman    Untitled Love Poem    On the Last Day of Saying Kaddish    We Did Not Come to Let Go María Meléndez    The So-Called Avant Gardist Gives a Reading for a So-Called    Audience    Teresa Maurice Manning    A Bestiary    On Splitting Ash to Burn    No Fooling, No Fib to Tell    On a Woodpecker Drinking from a Knothole Still Full of the Last    Rain       Essay: Barbarians Inside the Gate: Poetry, Truth and Entertainment by Tony Hoagland Interview: Radical Pastoral: A Conversation with Maurice Manning by Matthew Colglazier & Nathaniel Perry Reviews Only the Senses Sleep by Wayne Miller, reviewed by Deborah Bogen Field Knowledge by Morri Creech, reviewed by Luke Hankins

ARTWORK    Front cover image: from the Wilder series by Lesley Louden, Digital Image More about the artist here...