fiction

George Saunders
FOUR INSTITUTIONAL MONOLOGUES

 Steve Almond
THE BODY IN EXTREMIS

John Patroulis
THIS, AND ONCE WHEN HE WAS TWELVE

Scott Southwick
HIGGS-BOSON

Bruce Holland Rogers
FALLING

Nikolai Gogol
THE OVERCOAT

nonfiction

William P. Coleman
. . . OF THINGS THAT ARE, HOW THEY ARE
 

poetry

Ginny Wray
ON READING A LETTER TO THEO

Neal Koga
KISSING CORNELIA

Ilya Kaminsky
A TOAST

Gary C. Wilkens
TWO POEMS

Audrey Johnson
TWO POEMS

Bob Thurber
THE WORK

Gerard Manley Hopkins
GOD’S GRANDEUR

editor’s note
MATTERS OF ART