CONTENTS
Introduction by Brian Turner
THE LAST KISS by Nick Flynn
NOTES ON THE INVISIBLE KISS by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
THE KISS AT DAWN by Pico Iyer
INTERLUDE by Kim Addonizio
THE KISS I WOULD HAVE SPENT ON YOU by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown
BAZOOKA SMACKDOWN by Patricia Smith
THE SUMMONS by Mark Doty
THE SECRET KISS by Ilyse Kusnetz
WHERE SCARS RESIDE by Major Jackson
A SYMPHONY IN RAIN by Kazim Ali
KISS, KISS, KISS by Camille T. Dungy
LIGHT YEARS by Rebecca Makkai
KISSING JOE F_______ by Philip Metres
HALF FABLE by Terrance Hayes
THE EVOLUTION OF A KISS by Nickole Brown
KISSING MELISSA by Benjamin Busch
KISS, KISS by Ira Sukrungruang
TRIGGER by Lacy M. Johnson
A LETTER TO MY WIFE ON HER 40TH BIRTHDAY by Brian Castner
FALLING by Andre Dubus III
THE RIDE by Siobhan Fallon
HOLLYWOOD, ENDING. by Schafer John c
A SMALL HARVEST OF KISSES Guy de Maupassant • Marcel Danesi • Diane Ackerman • Roxane Gay • U.S. Army’s Journal for Homeland Defense Civil Support and Security Cooperation in North America • Aimee Bender • Junot Díaz • F. Scott Fitzgerald • J. M. Barrie • Joyce Carol Oates • Jonathan Durrant • Cormac McCarthy • Marlon James • Gabriel García Márquez • George Saunders • Toni Morrison • Markus Zusak • Brad Watson • Hilary Lawson • Steve Martin
KISS KISS BANG BANG by Téa Obreht and Dan Sheehan
CONTAGION by Roxana Robinson
KISS by Honor Moore
GENESIS by Christopher Merrill
A MOTION OF PLEASURE by J. Mae Barizo
KISS, BOUNCE, GRACE by Steven Church
FRUIT by Cameron Dezen Hammon
FIRE THE ANGEL by Martín Espada
LEANING IN by Dinty W. Moore
THE REVOLUTIONARY KISS by Tina Chang
THE HEAVY LOAD by Adam Dalva
MAUDE by Kimiko Hahn
JUDAS KISS by Tom Sleigh
THE SMUGGLER by Ada Limón
A KISS FOR THE DYING by Suzanne Roberts
MAN WITHOUT FEAR by Sholeh Wolpé
WINTER SOLSTICE by Bich Minh Nguyen
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH by Kristen Radtke
SKEERY THE BLUE by Christian Kiefer
A RECKONING OF KISSES by Beth Ann Fennelly
LATE-NIGHT SESSIONS WITH A BLACK LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE by Christopher Paul Wolfe
AYLAN KURDI, AGE THREE by Matthew Komatsu
BAT VISION by John Mauk
EIN KUSS IM KRIEG by Dave Essinger
THE KISSES WE NEVER GIVE by Kathryn Miles
ON WRITING THE INTIMATE with Nickole Brown, Benjamin Busch, Camille T. Dungy, Pico Iyer, Major Jackson, Philip Metres, and Sholeh Wolpé
Contributors
Everlasting Kisses