Issue 21
BLR 10th Anniversary
FICTION
Boundaries by Ronald Pies
Transference by Louise Blecher Rose
Third Wife by Shavonne Wei-Ming Clarke
Gently Please, Gently by Ted McLoof
Free Love by Allegra Hyde
Periscope by Anne Elliott
The Beauty of Reflex Hammering by Jacob L. Freedman
Two Countries by Elisa Fernández-Arias
French Lesson by Judith Edelman
Here is What by Robyn Parnell
String Theory by Venita Blackburn
NONFICTION
Illness as Muse by Rafael Campo
Illness and the Imagination by Paul Harding
Bellevue: Fabled History Narrowed to a Fragment by David Oshinsky
The Colostomy Diaries by Janet Buttenwieser
Radon Gas and the Believers by Andrew C. Gottlieb
The Codeine of Jordan by J.S. Brown
POETRY
On the Wards by Rafael Campo
Roosevelt by Cornelius Eady
Gone (to Burnis Lake) by Cornelius Eady
After the Stroke by Edward Hirsch
Northern Burgundy by Beverley Bie Brahic
Succulence by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
When the Self Goes, It Goes by Jean LeBlanc
Almost Dark by John Kay
Echo’s End by John Kay
Meditation on the Morning After the Diagnosis by Ronda Broatch
Scar by Kristin Robertson
Rogue Wave by Marie Kane
Waiting by a River by David Wagoner
The Order of Mothers: What Friends and Relatives Said by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
Epistemology by Monica Wendel
The Ship of Fools Happens into Paradise by Kyle McCord
The Poem is Not the Anatomical Heart by Kyle McCord
Physiotherapy by Karen Alkalay-Gut
Fantaisie in F Minor, Op. 149 by Jaydn DeWald
Squared by Melissa Chandler
The Disordered Body by Amanda Auchter
We Sing by Abbas A. Abidi
Call to Prayer by Naomi Shihab Nye
Fast-Thinning Throng by Rachel Hadas
Death is Private by Hal Sirowitz
Ahihi Bay by Floyd Skloot
Elementary English Questions by Kaveh Bassiri
Medicalarium by Alberto Rios
Odysseus at the Age of Three by Hayden Saunier
Secrets of the Curandera by Alberto Rios
Elegy for My Gypsy Grandmother by Brandi George
I’m Afraid of the Brief Empty Space by Cortney Davis
Eye Examined by Cortney Davis
EXTRA
Publisher’s Note by Martin J. Blaser
Foreword by Danielle Ofri
Book Review: Poetry Roundup reviewed by Jason Schneiderman
Contributors’ Notes