Introduction

Outside In
Wayne Koestenbaum
“A salutary and chosen / auto-evisceration”

Transit
Emily Richardson with Iain Sinclair & Russell Martin
Old London, meet New Troy

Campaign Journal
Rachel Mason
“The speeches end, the choir sings”

Akhmatova in Azerbaijan
Samantha Power with Howie Kahn
Discussing Sergio Vieira de Mello

The Tree of Knowledge, Qurna, Iraq
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
“It was not an apple tree”

To Displace &
Redistribute Debris
James Sham
“Racism is worse than terrorism”

Chinese Customs
William Smith
Washington Crossing the Yangtze

Thinking Through Images #1
Craig Kalpakjian & Sarah Kessler
“A screaming comes across the sky”

The State of Inauthenticity
Peter Schwenger
On the International Necronautical
Society’s New York Declaration

Basic Instinct: Poems
Descriptive Video Service®, Live® Entertainment Inc. & Dan Hoy
“With a saucy gaze,
Catherine uncrosses her thighs”

Brush
Keren Cytter
A melodrama in six parts

Religious Behavior +
Angus Was So Near...
Diane Williams & Jenni Knight
Two stories & drawings

A Logical Love Story
Sheila Heti
A conversation with my father