Vol. II, No. 12, December 2011
- Tainted Success and the Heroes of Martin Scorsese: Essay — Philip Marchand
- NC at the Movies: John Cage’s 4′33” (full orchestral version)
- Everything Starts With Language: Review of Gary Lutz’s divorcer — Jason DeYoung
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jason Eisener’s Treevenge, Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Amphetamine Heart: Poems & Readings — Liz Worth
- The Fairy Tale of Dexter Arjuna, President-Elect: Short Story — Adam Lewis Schroeder
- L’Immacolata: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Liguria, Italy — Natalia Sarkissian
- Making the Little Monsters Walk: Interview with Brad Watson — Richard Farrell
- From Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Fiction — Brad Watson
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jane Campion’s The Water Diary, Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Lady Day: Fiction — Xu Xi
- Sprezzatura with Two Rabbits: Poem — Alan Michael Parker
- The In-Between Generation: Review of Kazushi Hosaka’s Novel Plainsong By Brianna Berbenuik
- Plainsong: Novel Excerpt — Kazushi Hosaka
- Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood | Essay — Nancy Eimers
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Pedro Pires’s Danse Macabre, Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Arise and Go Now: Short Story — Sheridan Hay
- Childhood: Essay — Liz Blood
- A Feeling for the Model Organism: Essay — Lynne Quarmby
- And Make Mine a Double: Interview with Keith Lee Morris — Richard Farrell
- Ayudame: Short Story — Keith Lee Morris
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Chris Milk’s The Wilderness Downtown, Introduced by R. W. Gray
Vol. II, No. 11, November 2011
- The Answer I Found in a Fortune Cookie: Toward a Digital Conception of Nonfiction — John Proctor
- Mississauga: Cadence of Desire and Return, A Childhood Geografictione — Cheryl Cowdy
- Girl Wearing Bear, or Elle, the Poem — John Watson
- Peering over the Precipice, A Review of Fall Higher by Dean Young — A. Anapuma
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: John Bolton’s “Breakdown,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Bermuda Voices, Island Writers: Essay — Kim Aubrey
- The Struggle for the Centre: One City’s Adventure With Modernity — Nathan Storring
- On the Prayerful in Poetry: Essay — William Olsen
- From Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Essays — Mark Frutkin
- Book of Raunch: A Review of Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes — Steven Axelrod
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Chris Milk’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- More Adventures at the Bottom of the World — Laura Von Rosk Reports from Antarctica
- Lipstick and Cigarettes: A Short Play — Dwight Storring
- The Feast of Sacrifice: Eid-al-Adha at Alexandria, Egypt — Natalia Sarkissian
- The Devil’s Dictionary for Writers — Steven Heighton
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Julie Trimingham’s film triptych “beauty crowds me,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Marilyn McCabe Translates (& Sings) a Paul-Armand Silvestre Poem (Music by Gabriel Fauré)
- What It’s Like Living Here — from Danila Botha in Toronto
- What it’s like living in Antarctica — from Laura Von Rosk at McMurdo Station
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Spencer Susser’s “I Love Sarah Jane,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Becoming-masks: The Life and Times of Captain N. at n – 1 Dimensions: Essay — Cheryl Cowdy
- Why do we burn books? or, The burning question of our movement: Essay — Noah R. Gataveckas
- Look at the Camera, A Journey through Childhood’s Photographic Space — Eric Foley
- Hurricane Irene—What It Was Like, from Hilary Mullins in Bethel, Vermont
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies, Halloween Edition: Andres Muschietti’s “Mama,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Three Poems — Blanca Castellón
- Joseph Wood Krutch’s Natural Personality: Nature Writing in America — Adam Arvidson
- Consider Desire: Poems — Leslie Ullman
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jan Kounen’s “The Story of Panshin Beka,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Our Endless Past: An Interview with Donald Breckenridge — Mary Stein
- Eternal Recurrence: The Permanent Relevance of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” | Essay — Patrick J. Keane
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Trevor Anderson’s “The Island,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- The Perplexing Other: A Review of Dorianne Laux’s The Book of Men — A. Anupama
- Shame: Short Story — Benjamin Woodard
- The Man with the Bagful of Boomerangs in the Bois de Boulogne: Short Story — Joseph McElroy
- Immersed in Mystery: Review of Joseph McElroy’s Night Soul and Other Stories — Jason DeYoung
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Miranda July and Miguel Arteta’s “Are You the Favourite Person of Anybody?” Introduced by R. W. Gray
- Mucking Up the Landscape: Poetic Tendencies in Prose | Essay — Mary Stein
- Childhood: An Essay in Writing Myself — Rick Martin
- The Filthiest of Shiny Things: Fiction — Carrie Cogan
Vol. II, No. 9. September 2011
- Searching for a Literary Burning Man, By Wendy Voorsanger
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jane Campion’s “Passionless Moments,” introduced by R. W. Gray
- Postcards from Italy: Lake Como, September 2011, by Natalia Sarkissian
- The Power of Rachel Carson: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
- The Courage to Write and Publish Your Story: Five Reasons Why it’s Important to Write Memoir, By Sue William Silverman
- Writing a War Story, An Essay by Richard Farrell
- Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Ruth Meehan’s short film And the Red Man Went Green, introduced by R. W. Gray
- A “Dark Star” Passes Through It, an Essay by Leslie Ullman
- An Alien Feeling, from Sion Dayson in Paris
- We Flew Kites, a Bermuda Childhood — Kim Aubrey
- Translations of Classical Tamil Love Poetry, Essay and Poems by A. Anupama
- Keeping Silent? Writing Fiction After September 11, Essay by Erika Dreifus
- Siena’s Palio: A Medieval Horserace Turns Viral, Text and Photographs by Natalia Sarkissian
- 8:46, A 9/11 Story by Philip Graham
- Wan, A Short Story by Dawn Promislow
- “Couplets (in Meditation of Self-Defeat)” and “Western Tenet,” Poems by Benjamin Evans
- Jean Valentine, Jayne Cortez, Gary Soto, Amiri Baraka, Ed Sanders & More — Photos by Dan Wilcox
- “A Diminished Thing” and “Pincushion Doll,” Poems by Julie Larios
- We’re the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World, or: You’re Doing It Wrong – The Fight Club Identity Crisis by Brianna Berbenuik
- Two Stories Not-Exactly-About Love: Fiction — Danila Botha
- Saddened and Riddled with Nostalgia — Douglas Glover
- The Cimbalom Player, a Short Story by Julie Marden
- Poems from Domestic Love — Karen Mulhallen
- From The Crimes of Hector Tomás by Ian Colford
- What It’s Like Living Here — from Allison Kaufman in Connecticut
- Four Poems By Sheryl Luna
- My Owls, Essay, Photos & Video from Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
- Tahrir Square, August 2011: Photographs by Natalia Sarkissian
- From Seawrack: Poems by David Helwig
- From Field Rations, Poems by Melinda Thomsen
- Sontag & Kael: Criticism is demolition? an essay by Michael Bryson
- The Day After the Memoir: An Interview with Steven Church — John Proctor
- In Search of the Author, Barthes Be Damned: Review of The Selected Stories of Mercé Rodoreda — Richard Farrell
- Winter Coat, Winter Count (Assiniboia Death Trip): Short Story — Mark Anthony Jarman
- Rintrah: Essay upon a Cat — Patrick J. Keane
- The Memory of Water: Poems — Jack Myers
- The Plumber’s Dream: Short Story — Ben Johnstone
- In Hell We All Burn Brightly: Bret Easton Ellis’s Empire vs. Post-Empire — Brianna Berbenuik
- Categories of Untruth: the CNF debate continues — Adam Regn Arvidson
- Katahdin & Other Poems — Sharon McCartney
- Chatting with ET: Dialogue between The Actual and The Possible: Essay — Lynne Quarmby
- Criticism Through Imagery: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
- Three Poems — Eliot Khalil Wilson
- The Sky Is Red at Bordeaux: Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
- The Policeman’s Wife: Poems — Marina Endicott
- My First Job — Steven Axelrod
- The Formalist Reformation | Review of Viktor Shklovsky’s Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar — Bruce Stone
- From Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar — Viktor Shklovsky, Translated by Shushan Avagyan
- Writing Instruction as a Social Practice: or What I Did (and Learned) in Barrancabermeja — Diane Lefer
- From Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha — Matthew Stadler
- Almost Independence Day: Nonfiction — Richard Farrell
- Alice & Huck: Screenplay — R. W. Gray
- A Rake’s Progress: Essay — Susan Olding
- Katie Vibert: ICÔNES NORDIQUES
- Narrative Genres and THE ADMINISTRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS: The Case of Daisy Goodwill’s Rebellion | Essay — María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
- Marilyn McCabe Sings (& Translates) a Guillaume Apollinaire Poem
- The Immortality of the Crab: Nonfiction — John Proctor
- Egypt After the Revolution, Part II: Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
- Flaubert and Cows: Essay — Mary Stein
- About Face: On Class Reunions and Reading Salter | Essay — Richard Farrell
- The Book of Happenstance: Fiction — Ingrid Winterbach
- Summoning Eternity: Review of Ingrid Winterbach’s The Book of Happenstance — Jacob Glover
- My First Job: Essay — Melissa Fisher [Winner of the 3 Quarks Daily $1,000 Arts & Literature Prize]
- Knowing What Happens: Interview with Mavis Gallant — Jason DeYoung
- Gunslinger & Angel of Death: Fiction — Casper Martin
- The Enigmatic Edward Hoagland: Nature Writing in America — Adam Arvidson
- James Agee’s Unconventional Use of Colons: Essay — Anna Maria Johnson
- Star Suite: Poems — Gary Moore
- es muss sein? es muss nicht sein, i tell you: Poem — Brianna Berbenuik
- My First Job: Essay — Natalia Sarkissian
- Whirlpool (All Tremors Cease): Underwater Video Meditation — Steven David Johnson & Anna Maria Johnson
- St. John’s, Newfoundland: Photographs — Nicole Dixon
- Crisp: Short Story — R. W. Gray
- Titboning Vargina (and Other Social Readings): Review of Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask — Darryl Whetter
- Three Poems — Maya Sarishvili
- Two Rivers: Fiction — T. Greenwood
- The Confluence of Rivers: An Interview With Tammy Greenwood — Richard Farrell
- God’s Flea: A Play — Diane Lefer
- Three Poems — Ray Hsu
- Waiting For Romesh: Short Story — Clark Blaise
- Reasons to Rejoice in Green Algae: Essay — Lynne Quarmby
- What It’s Like Living Here — Stanley Fogel’s Cuba
- Move It or Lose It: Essay — Martin Balgach
- Where are today’s Steinbecks? | Essay — Mark Lupinetti
- Kilroy: A Writer’s Childhood — Keith Maillard
- Childhood — Court Merrigan
- What It’s Like Living Here — Danielle Frandina in San Francisco
- Three Poems — Kim Fu
- Zone: Fiction — Mathias Énard
- This Ancient World: Review of Mathias Énard’s Zone — Mary Stein
- What It’s Like Living Here — Diane Lefer in Los Angeles
- What It’s Like Living Here — Laura Catherine Brown in Manhattan
- Jesus Was a Punk Rocker: Short Story — Danila Botha
- Foran’s Version: Review Charles Foran’s Mordecai: The Life and Times — Darryl Whetter
- Will, Kate & Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings and the Death of bin Laden: Essay — Richard Farrell
- Poems by Cesare Pavese — Translated by Richard Jackson
- Egypt After the Revolution: Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
- And the Sign Said: Photographs — Melissa Fisher
- What It’s Like Living Here — Liz Blood in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
- Sabah Al Khair Habibti: Collage — Natalia Sarkissian
- Five Photographs — Robert Semeniuk
- POIESIS OF THE PAST: A historian’s reading of the short story ‘Youth, a narrative’ by Joseph Conrad — J.N.F.M. à Campo
- Three Prairie Schooner Edward Stanley Award-Winning Poems — Nance Van Winckel
- The Sixty-Five Years of Washington: Fiction in Translation — Juan José Saer
- Elegant Uncertainty: Review of Juan Jose Saer’s The Sixty-Five Years of Washington — Richard Farrell
- DNA: Novel Excerpt — Johannah Rodgers
- Stem Cells and the Fountain of Youth: Essay — Lynne Quarmby
- Kindred Spirits, 400 Years of an American Family: Nonfiction — Joe David Bellamy
- The I(r)onic Bond, a Chemical Romance: Micro-Fiction — Jonah Glover
- Long Point, a Geography of the Soul, Collected by Douglas Glover
- Four poems from Otherwise Elsewhere — David Rivard
- The Substitute, from Lynne Tillman’s Someday This Will Be Funny
- Mixes and Collisions: A Numéro Cinq Interview With Mark Anthony Jarman — Mary Stein
- Childhood: Essay — Cynthia Newberry Martin
- Forever: Poem — Sydney Lea
- Wanna Groom? Review of Sex at Dawn — Darryl Whetter
- Escape Mushroom Style: Fiction — Trinie Dalton
- What it’s like living here (a Charticle) — Kate Reuther in New York City
- Edward Abbey’s Access to Wildness: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
- On the Hunt for Elusive Literary Game: the Premio Bagutta, Italy’s Oldest Literary Prize — Natalia Sarkissian
- Blind Spots: Essay — Richard Farrell
- from Fatherless: Memoir — Keith Maillard
- Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation in the Novel — Vanessa Blakeslee
- Speculating on Divinity Genes: Review — Peter Chiykowski
- Four Poems from Oz — Nancy Eimers
- What It’s Like Living Here — from Mary Donovan in Wheaton, Maryland
- The Blue Guitar: Novel Excerpt — Ann Ireland
- The Dayroom: Essay — Inmate #6666666Z, Texas Department of Corrections
- Excerpt from Trail of Breadcrumbs: Why I Joined and Left the US Navy — Memoir by Christy Clothier
- Now the Green Blade Rises: Sermon — Maggie Helwig
- The Soul’s Habitation: Emotion and Writing — Richard Farrell
- The Infinite: Poem — Giacomo Leopardi, Translated by Richard Jackson
- Let’s See Them Top That (And Other Neat Things To Do In Las Vegas): Essay — Brianna Berbenuik
- Weathers and Places: Essay — Sydney Lea
- Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, & More: Author Photos — Dan Wilcox
- Shooting Guns: Essay — Brianna Berbenuik
- Evidence of Life: Essay — Richard Farrell
- Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator — Richard Jackson
- What It’s Like Living Here — Kim Aubrey in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Gregor: A Short Story — Quim Monzó
- What It’s Like Living Here — John Proctor in New York City
- I Am a Landscape of Desire: Gender, Genre and the Deconstruction of the Textuality of Empire in Douglas Glover’s Elle | Essay — Pedro M. Carmona Rodríguez
- Loren Eiseley’s Two Cultures: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
- The Quirky Bird Art of Paula Swisher — Anna Maria Johnson
- Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work — Richard Farrell
- David Levithan’s Argot of Arousal: Review — Darryl Whetter
- Ridin’ the Rail: The Ending of Huckleberry Finn Revisited — Gary Garvin
- The Real McCoy: Essay — Renee Giovarelli
- Convergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript: Essay — Patrick J. Keane
- Introduction: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
- A Letter from Italy — Natalia Sarkissian
- Childhood — Michelle Berry
- What It’s Like Living Here — Cheryl Wilder in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Niagara: Short Story — Michael Bryson
- What It’s Like Living Here — Richard Farrell in San Diego, CA
- Poems — Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe & Mary Sanders Shartle
- Rue Rouge: Fiction — Connie Gault
- A Letter from Italy — Natalia Sarkissian
- Childhood — Brad Green
- The Author and the eBook: Essay — Ian Colford
- Three Poems from The Pillow Books — Karen Mulhallen
- Riffing on Whirlpools: Photographs & Text — Anna Maria Johnson & Steven David Johnson
- Lives of the Saints: Short Story — Jess Row
- Four Poems from Sand Theory — William Olsen
- Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire — Haijo Westra & Adam Westra
- What It’s Like Living Here — Anna Maria Johnson and Steven David Johnson in Cootes Store, Virginia
- Domenic Stansberry’s Noir Manifesto
- Godliness, at Last: Reflections on The Challenger Disaster — Richard Farrell
- What it’s like living here — from Sarah Seltzer in New York City
- Missing Dad — Natalia Sarkissian
- Cross-Canada Car Photo Essay by Barrett Olson-Glover
- What It’s Like Living Here — from Lynne Quarmby in West Vancouver, British Columbia
- Amanda Jernigan: Five poems from Groundwork
- Childhood — Steven Axelrod
- What It’s Like Living Here — Gwen Mullins in Chattanooga
- Five Movements of the Soul and Hodgepodge: Poems — Habib Tengour, Translated by Pierre Joris
- What It’s Like Living Here — Michelle Berry in Peterborough, Ontario
- What It’s Like Living Here — Jeanie Chung in Chicago
- Plot Structure in Short Stories: Essay — Gwen Mullins
- From THE LAME DOLL: Poem — Besik Kharanauli, Translated from Georgian by Timothy Kercher and Ani Kopaliani
- Richard Farrell’s Non-Commencement Commencement Address, Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Graduation, January, 2011
- Laurianne’s Choice: Short Story — Ian Colford
- Quality Time on the Bay of Silence, Sestri Levante — Natalia Sarkissian in Italy
