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Grant Application

Bill Knott   I am to go out each day at noon and stand On the top of our Capitol’s highest highrise, Where aircurrents stack, where storms assemble, Where the crossroads of sky are swept by radar,   Up there, buffeted, stand, cupping in my hands A gleam of gold-dust, a handful of gold-dust Doled…

Interview: Bill Knott — Anatomy of a Poem

Bill Knott The following interview was conducted via telephone between Jeffrey McDaniel and Bill Knott. The questions were limited to the preceding poem, “Grant Application.” JM: Does this have anything to do with the NEA? BK: It has to do with the problems the NEA has been having the past few years with the right…

Harbor

Jonathan Bowen   I “It’s too much house for me now,” I tell her. “Too many rooms. All I do is rattle my bones in all these rooms.” “So, what do you want to do?” she asks. “Sell it. Maybe get a townhouse or something.” “You’re going to sell Harbor?” April’s on the other end…

To Grow by Subtraction (Maddie’s Salvage)

Marilyn F. Moriarty   The only excess on Inishmore was in the people — in their talking, in their music — and last night what music there was with noisy old ballads, raucous pipes, a roar of voices more like the sea than the sea itself.  Never a quiet place was Inishmore but filled with…
Cover art by Russell Peagler

The Good China

Phong Nguyen   Peter’s defense was passive.  He held up his arms, stepped from side to side, and stood back from the offensive player, as though pantomiming an invisible wall, relying on the gesture to block the shot. He played basketball like it was baseball, John thought— hugging the space around the net like it…

Several Vistas

Peter Gizzi of death. And even that crust of representation they belong to, falling asleep in a bus station, uncertain that this was all there is, all one waking reverie, the only hint of actual existence, say an office window, is no longer your friend, but is itself become abstract, squinting your eyes to find…