27.2 - Summer/Fall 2015
2014 Barthelme Prize
- Gifted by Emma Bolden (Winner)
- No One Makes Plans by Patty Yumi Cottrell (Honorable Mention)
- Delmonicos by Susan Lilley (Honorable Mention)
2014 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
- The World and a Presence by Marcelo Morales, trans. Kristin Dykstra (WInner)
- Poem Untied by Haydar Ergülen, trans. Derick Mattern (Honorable Mention)
- Two pieces: Silhouettes, and Unfolding by Ana Gorría, trans. Yvette Siegert (Honorable Mention)
Fiction
- The Happy Few by Mark Lebowskie
- Oneness Plus One by Aimee Bender
- Intermission by Diana Xin
- The Best of My Younger Thinking by Mike Ostrov
Poetry
- Physiognomy by Jennifer Militello
- Hard Child by Natalie Shapero
- The Country of Ice X by Raúl Zurita, trans. Daniel Borzutzky
- from The War of the Orchards 14 by Marosa di Giorgio, trans. Jeannine Marie Pitas
- Mekong River by Adriana X. Jacobs
- They Speak of Deep Resentment by Anna Rosenwong (trans)
- Journey to the Center of a Mechanical Bird by Rebecca Liu
- It must have been the season of the midnight sun, by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
- Two poems: I Have a Fever and Its Name Is God, and Oxygen Song by G.C. Waldrep
- Smile, Eidolon by Gale Marie Thompson
- Study for the Boatsman by Peter Mishler
- The immaterial colorworks of great mosaics by Jennifer Scappettone
- Do Birds Sing from Sheer Exuberance by Paul Jenkins
- salt by Andrew Michael Roberts
- Beauty Be by MRB Chelko
- Agatha’s Letter to Her Mother by Alexis Orgera
- Lamentation of Christ: Sold Off to Pay Debts by Elisabeth Murawski
- Two poems: More of my ability to I feel you, and The Loser Poem by Guy Pettit
- Pantoum Found in Talking Heads Lyrics by Richard Prins
- The Death of My Grandfather by Christopher Robinson
- Atomic Theory by Kien Lam
- Big Sur by L.S. Klatt
- Brief History by Dave Nielsen
- Trailerville (1940) by Robert A. Fink
- from Staying Alive by Laura Sims
- Not the Wind, Not the View by Matt Morton
- Battening Song by Ted Matthys
Nonfiction
- On Modeling and Mortification by Rachel Howard
- Whistle by Larence Lenhart
- The Emptying That Fills by Gary L. McDowell
- Which I Have Loved Long Since, and Lost Awhile by Jaren Watson
- Niners by Tyler McAndrew
- Neon by Maybylee Chai
Reviews
- In the Garden of the Body by Talia Mailman
- Brutal Business: Coming of Age in 1970s Houston by Adrienne G. Perry
- Odd Splendor by Natalie Diaz, Tarfia Faizullah, David Tomas Martinez, Roger Reeves, Alan Shapiro (Interview)
Art
- As It Happens: Tracking Down Chitra Ganesh by Sharon Butler
- The Library as Installation by Raphael Rubinstein
- Off the Shelf: A Conversation with MANUAL (Ed Hill / Suzanne Bloom) by Juliette Bianco (Interview)