Poetry
Kay Ryan, "The Museum of False Starts"
Laurence Snydal, "Grandmother"
Eamon Grennan, "Endangered Species"
David Kirby, "The Possum Boyfriend"
Regie Cabico, "Hansel Tells Gretel of the Witch"
Jeff Friedman, "Orpheus in Williamsburg"
Fanny Howe, "San Francisco"
Charles Wright, "Envoi"
Karen Volkman, "Sonnet"
Robert Pinsky, "Canto XXI -- The Inferno of Dante Alighieri"
Thomas Lux, "So You Put the Dog to Sleep"
Ben Downing, "The Sideways Medusa"
Sophie Cabot Black, "November"
Virgil Suárez, "La Malanguita"
David Herrstrom, "Cabot's Tune"
Suji Kwock Kim, "Nocturne"
Kimiko Hahn, "When You Leave"
A.R. Ammons, "Period"
Lucille Clifton, "evening and my dead once husband"
Richard Katrovas, "Elegy for My Mother"
Jack Gilbert, "Two Poems"
Donald Hall, "Old Roses"
Jane Kenyon, "Let Evening Come"
Eavan Boland, "Irish Women Explorers of the Nineteenth Century"
Liliana Ursu (Tr. Tess Gallager & Adam J. Sorkin), "Ancient and Beautiful as the Mist"
Michael J. Rosen, "Notes Through the Winter"
Gonzalo Rojas (Tr. Ben Belitt), "Numen"
Henri Cole, "Three Aurelian Moons"
Carol Tufts, "Leda on the Edge of the Millennium"
Mark Halliday, "My Strange New Poetry"
Linda Gregg, "The White Bulls of Heaven"
Rabindranath Tagore (Tr. Chase Twichell & Tony K. Stewart), from "The Lover of God"
Alicia Ostriker, "The Exchange"
Michael Hudson, "The Sword-Swallower Pines for his Ex-Wife, the Fire Eater"
Fiction
Gary Lutz, "Men Your Own Age"
Tom Perrotta, "The Wiener Man"
Julian Barnes, "Hamlet in the Wild West"
Jonathan Lethem, "Children with Hangovers"
Sam Lipsyte, "Captain Thorazine"
Kawabata Yasunari (Tr. H. Francis Freniere), "Footfalls"
Raymond Carver, "The Bath"
Ha Jin, "Broken"
Gordon Lish, "The Traitor"
Nonfiction
Lorrie Moore, "Where Food Comes From"
Janet Reitman, "A Season in Exile"
Phillip Lopate, "Never Live Above Your Landlord"
Barbara Raisbeck, "Viewing"
Musa Mayer, "Philip Guston and the Privilege of Writing Badly"
Italo Calvino on Invisible Cities
Interviews
Allen Ginsberg, interviewed by Lynn McGee
Art
Kara Walker
Lisa Yuskavage
Nan Goldin
Laylah Ali
Shirin Neshat
Issue 46 is out now! Featuring new work from Diane Williams, Steve Almond, and Paul Muldoon, plus an interview with Susan Orlean. Look for it in your local bookstore or order a copy online!
Phillip Lopate, Diane Williams, and other renowned writers spoke at the Journal's last event, "Writing by Numbers: A Panel Discussion on Academia and the Arts," on April 2. Watch it here.