Introduction: Agent of Change
Lee Gutkind

An Insider’s Guide to Jailhouse Cuisine: Dining In
Sean Rowe
from The Oxford American
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Literary Murder
Julianna Baggott
from The Cincinnati Review
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Rock Dust
Stan Badgett
from Minnetonka Review

Show, Don’t Tell
from The Education of Oronte Churm (insidehighered.com)

The Rope Swing, the Swastika, the Oldest Whale I Know
Scott Black
from Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing

Table of Figures
Brenda Miller
from Gulf Coast

Okahandja Lessons
Emily Rapp
from Bellevue Literary Review

No Other Joy
from steenablog.blogspot.com

First Year
Laura Bramon Good
from Image: Art, Faith, Mystery
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Letter from a Japanese Crematorium
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
from AGNI
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Uncle Moïse
Edwidge Danticat
from PMS poemmemoirstory

The Face of Seung-Hui Cho
Wesley Yang
from n+1
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The Poet’s Mother’s Death-Bed Conversion
from jeffreyethanlee.blogspot.com

The Storyteller
from planetmexicali.squarespace.com

Lavish Dwarf Entertainment
Alice Dreger
from The Hastings Center Report

Chicago Transit Priority
from wood-tang.com

Grasshopper
Margaret Conway
from Cimarron Review
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What Comes Out
Dawnelle Wilkie

(names have been changed)
from steal your imagination (web.mac.com/irishdoyle)

Community College
Tim Bascom
from Witness
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Cantata 147: The Final Chorale **Winner of the CNF/Norton MFA Program-Off!
Amy Andrews
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I Can’t Answer
from Spade’s a Spade or, The Burden of Being Right

An Open Letter…
from kathyrhodes.wordpress.com

A Perfunctory Affair
Chris Cobb
from Believer

Return to Hayneville
Gregory Orr
from The Virginia Quarterly Review
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