Cover art by Chad Wys: Nocturne 93, 2011, c-print, 30"x24", from the series Nocturnes (Set 1). © Chad Wys; all rights reserved.
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In Absentia

Forthcoming Spring 2013

Edited by Bradford Morrow

Here we explore the presence of absence, the losses that gain on us, the black holes in our everyday lives. This will be an issue of missing persons, phantom limbs, sensory deprivation, amnesia, lost masterpieces, broken artifacts, islands that sink under the skin of the sea.

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Frederic Tuten, The Tower

Joanna Scott, The Collector’s Beginning

Karen Hays, The Cubes

Benjamin Hale, Venus at Her Mirror

John Madera, Suspension as a Unit of Experience; or, What She Remembered of the Vanishing Lines

Ann Lauterbach, Seven Poems

Matt Bell, In Each Room, Some Unadorned Spectacle

Robert Olen Butler, AWOL

Robert Walser, Three Dramolets, trans. by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel

J. W. McCormack, The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart

Kim Chinquee, Four Stories

Gabriel Blackwell, (    )

Carole Maso, The Silver World

Can Xue, Venus, trans. by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

Marjorie Welish, Prospects Of and At

Lucy Ives, Orange Roses

Justin Wymer, Six Poems

Robert Coover, Pach’

Julia Elliott, Organisms

Gillian Conoley, Peace Poems

G. C. Waldrep, Six Poems

Charles Bernstein, Elfking Suite

Joyce Carol Oates, Betrayal

Stephen O’Connor, Next to Nothing

Maxine Chernoff, Five Poems

Brandon Krieg, The Removes

Miranda Mellis, Up the Hill

Joanna Ruocco, Three Stories

Yannick Murphy, By the Time You Read This