Table of Contents Erin Sweeten Preface Sherman Alexie Ode to Coffee Dennis Finnell The Literacy Project Mark Jarman Change of Love Poem Patiode Zen Emily Leithauser Homing Elms The Raconteuse Boston Arboretum Two Classmates Stephen Charles Lester The Most Powerful Force in the Universe Daniel Lin Turning Dennis Loney Lower Pastoral Austin MacRae Grand Central Freeze Amit Majmudar The Seven Deaths and Seven Resurrections of Grigori Rasputin Rick Mullin Dead Catfish Marseille Esther Greenleaf Mürer Legacy Marci Nelligan Sesteina Rauschenberg David Sanders Unattended Consequences Sappho Fragment 31 (trans. Caitlin Doyle) Lesley Wheeler Puppeteer The Integrity of Prime Numbers Ken Wood Sweet Briar series, Laocoön series, and more Artist's Statement and C.V. Contributors' Notes