Credits

Cooper, Bernard. “The Fine Art of Sighing” from Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper (Houghton Mifflin, 1997). Reprinted with permission of the author.

Dickinson, Emily. “Tell it Slant.” The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965 by Mary L. Hampson.

Doyle, Brian. “Leap” from Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies by Brian Doyle (Loyola Press, 2003) © Brian Doyle. Reprinted with permission of Loyola Press. To order copies visit www.loyolapress.com.

Hakala, Marjorie. “Jumping the Fence.” First published in the Bellingham Review, and reprinted with permission of the author.

Hurd, Barbara. “To Keep An Ear to the Ground” from Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies by Barbara Hurd (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Reprinted with permission of University of Georgia Press.

Parms, Jericho. “On Touching Ground” from Lost Wax by Jericho Parms (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Reprinted with permission of The University of Georgia Press. First published in the Bellingham Review.

Radtke, Kristen. “Perdition.” Reprinted with permission of the author.

Rekdal, Paisley. “The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee” from THE NIGHT MY MOTHER MET BRUCE LEE: OBSERVATIONS ON NOT FITTING IN by Paisley Rekdal, copyright © 2000 by Paisley Rekdal. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Ross, Michelle. “Cubist Mother.” Reprinted with permission of the author.

Staples, Brent. “The Coroner’s Photographs” from PARALLEL TIME: GROWING UP IN BLACK AND WHITE by Brent Staples, copyright © 1994 by Brent Staples. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. For UK and Commonwealth, reprinted by permission of ICM Partners. All rights reserved.

Sukrungruang, Ira. “Because, the Ferguson Verdict.” Reprinted with permission of the author.

Ryan Van Meter, “First” from If You Knew Then What I Know Now. Copyright © 2011 by Ryan van Meter. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Sarabande Books, www.sarabandebooks.org.

Wallace, Gwendolyn. “Math 1619.” Reprinted with permission of the author.