Introduction: Agent of Change LEE GUTKIND
Acknowledgments
An Insider’s Guide to Jailhouse Cuisine: Dining In SEAN ROWE
Literary Murder JULIANNA BAGGOTT
Rock Dust STAN BADGETT
Show, Don’t Tell THE EDUCATION OF ORONTE CHURM (INSIDEHIGHERED.COM)
The Rope Swing, the Swastika, the Oldest Whale I Know SCOTT BLACK
Table of Figures BRENDA MILLER
Okahandja Lessons EMILY RAPP
No Other Joy DBDSN (STEENABLOG.BLOGSPOT.COM)
First Year LAURA BRAMON GOOD
Letter from a Japanese Crematorium MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT
Uncle Moïse EDWIDGE DANTICAT
The Face of Seung-Hui Cho WESLEY YANG
The Poet’s Mother’s Deathbed Conversion JEFFREYETHANLEE.BLOGSPOT.COM
The Storyteller PLANETMEXICALI.SQUARESPACE.COM
Lavish Dwarf Entertainment ALICE DREGER
Chicago Transit Priority WOOD-TANG.COM
Grasshopper MARGARET CONWAY
What Comes Out DAWNELLE WILKIE
(names have been changed) STEAL YOUR IMAGINATION (WEB.MAC.COM/IRISHDOYLE)
Community College TIM BASCOM
Cantata 147: The Final Chorale AMY ANDREWS
I Can’t Answer SPADE’S A SPADE, OR THE BURDEN OF BEING RIGHT (OPEN.SALON.COM)
An Open Letter FIRST DRAFT: LAYING DOWN THE WORDS (KATHYRHODES.WORDPRESS.COM)
A Perfunctory Affair CHRIS COBB
Return to Hayneville GREGORY ORR
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