Past Issues of Subtropics


		Issue 7, Winter/Spring 2009 Fiction James Magruder Tenochtitlan Peter Cameron The End of My Life in New York Olga Slavnikova (translated by Marian Schwartz) Substance Molly Giles Give Me That [read] Jarret Rosenblatt A Kind of Falling Eva Talmadge Caroline Padgett Powell Cry For Help From France [read] Poetry Idra Novey A History in Six Couplets [read] Kim Garcia And in the beginning was all the after and The City of Z Alice Friman Medea, Intent and Tybee Island John Ash Impossible [read], In Jean Dubuffet’s Crimson Landscape and Unasked For Jehanne Dubrow Couplets, Modeled on the Verse of a Yiddish Poet [read] and Fragment From a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet Albert Goldbarth The Ardent Desire, Doesn't Mean We Understand and The Power of Less Denise Duhamel & Sandy McIntosh From “237 More Reasons to Have Sex” Seth Abramson The Nigerian Metanarrative [read] George Manner Path of the Storm Salgado Maranhão (translated by Alexis Levitin) #4 From Terra chã (#4 From Flatlands) and #6 From Terra chã (#6 From Flatlands) Mark McKee Some Names of Ships Jim Daniels One Word Chad Davidson Controlled Burn Benjamin Pryor If Making Love Were Thought and Up Near Balsam Adam Day Badger in Mourning Les Murray Lunar Eclipse, The Kiln Cavalry of Xian [read] and Phone Canvass TWIXT Three Poems Deborah Ager The Hours Jordan Davis Do You Want To Ada Limón Bird Bound for a Good World Timothy Green What Passes for Optimism at MacArthur Park Randall Mann Monday and Translation Gregory Fraser Hephaestus Calls My Brother Home Andrea L. Watson Skin Roberto Juarroz (translated by Mary Crow) Escamas de una Pequeña Sabiduria (Scales of a Little Wisdom)		Freezing Weather Hits Florida Orange Grove, January 27, 2000. © Pierre DuCharme/Reuters/CORBIS
		Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2008 Fiction John Brandon Naples. Not Italy. [read] Nadia Kalman Ruslan and Ludmila and Osip and Stalina Ricardo Silva Romero (translated by Joel Streicker) The Husband of Maria Klossner [read] Jacob M. Appel Ad Valorem Timothy Cook Red Star Celeste Ng Trick Peter Wells A Titled Lady Requires . . . Poetry Averill Curdy To the Mysterie & Company of Merchant Adventurers for the Discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands, & Places Unknown and Cold Heart Silvio D’Arzo (translated by Douglas Basford) Così vinti dal dolore (So overcome with pain) Eric Van Cleve Shelley Explains the Concept of the Burqa to Keats [read] G. C. Waldrep The Conquest of Mexico and Para(ballad) A. E. Stallings Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason, aged 3 [read] and The Dress of One Occasion Ben Debus Swimming Obol River with My Brother, Spooner County, WI Bruce Bond Tuning Fork Jeffrey Kahrs Serving Tongs Hai Zi (translated by Ye Chun) (Crossing the Ocean Holding a White Tiger) and (Four Sisters) John Kinsella Canto of the Theatre of Cruelty, Canto of the Struck, and Canto of the Others Anne Marie Rooney Gospel of Mary and Italian Winter Reginald Shepherd Being Cold Peter Cooley The Hurricane Poem Mark McBride In the Indian River Lagoon Dan Pinkerton Bullied Peggy Smith Duke Jet Cars Barry Benson Aunt Clara’s Correspondence Richard Kenney Volkerwanderung Again and Lightning Strikes the Protein-Rich Post-Cambrian Tide Pool [read] Cody Walker Alcatraz, and Back Mark Terrill A Poem for Those Who Mean Well Mark McKain Job’s Cookbook Megan Savage & Tracy Truels Accidental Death #1, Pauline and Accidental Death #2, Katie and Jessica, The Sisters Tomaš Šalamun (translated by Brian Henry and the author) Vrela grla (Boiling Throats) F. Daniel Rzicznek Greenbottle’s Tattoo Joseph Campana Ladybug John Poch A Sail Corey Marks Loss Katherine Bode-Lang Threshing Terese Svoboda Painting Day Joanne Childers The Hour Angle [read] David Chandler Anniversary Poem Barry Spacks Style Glenn Shaheen The Halifax Explosion Kathleen Rooney Brazilian Wedding: Dream No. 8 [read] Lisa Bower Bookends Jay Baron Nicorvo Stone Ryan Flaherty The Approach and Diurnal Arthur McMaster Unexpected Telephone Call Brenda Sieczkowski Sonnet Malhônnete Christine Poreba Courting, Paynes Prairie Bruce McRae Conspiracy Suzanne Zweizig Bicycling from Todtnauberg [read] and Cicada Catherine Wing Counting Song #5		Prose: Underwater Christ Statue off Key Largo, Mark Theiss/Ultimate Chase/Corbis, 2007 Poetry: Above a Small Swamp (detail), Maud Gatewood, 1992
		Issue 5, Winter/Spring 2008 Fiction Chris Bachelder Gatsby’s Hydroplane [read] John Brandon The Coming Summer Suzanne Halmi No More Happy Birthdays [read] Roy Kesey Stump Owen King Nothing is in Bad Taste Marshall N. Klimasewiski Aëronauts Paul Lisicky The Didache Ben Stroud Borden’s Meat Biscuit Poetry Jonathan Barrett 10 O’clock News Ann Buggey Fish Marina Colasanti (translated by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey) Jantar familiar (Family Dinner) and No silêncio (Amidst Silence) Sally Dawidoff At Twenty and Psychoanalyric Geri Doran The Dark Octaves and Swan Goes [read] Ori Joseph Fienberg The Seasons Martin Galvin Crazy Bones Bob Hicok What is the etymology of etymology? [read] Mark Jarman Ownership Jan Marie LaPerle Motherhood Jeanne Larsen The Garden of Roses Beth Martinelli Water-Bearing Bodies J. Morris When She Told Me No H. E. Sayeh (translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi) Ghorrobe Chaman (Sunset on the Green) [read] and Tasvir (Image) Heather Sellers Listening to the New Tom Petty Anis Shivani The War in Iraq Poses Irreducible Problems in Identification Ben Sonnenberg The Goat in the Moonlight, Speedwriting, Jessica’s Farewell, and Paris C. Dale Young Blood Nonfiction Mark Doty Still Life: Coda		In the Swamp (detail), Charles E. Burchfield, 1917
		Issue 4, Fall/Winter 2007 Fiction John Barth Assisted Living Kuzhali Manickavel The Dynamics of Windows [read] David Ramsey Powers Nancy Reisman Another Kiss Olga Slavnikova (translated by Marian Schwartz) from 2017 Katie Williams The Plan Poetry John Ash Stations and The Women of Kars [read] Eliezer Azikri (translated by Sheri Allen) Beloved Soul Erinn Batykefer Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Hills with White Cloud Todd Boss Turbulence: Three Exercises [read] and Wooden Kitchen Matches Luis Cernuda (translated by Stephen Kessler) Desolación de la Quimera (Desolation of the Chimera) Jonathan Fink An Army Moves as Water Moves— [read] Federico Garcia Lorca (translated by Mark Statman and Pablo Medina) La Aurora (Dawn) and Ciudad sin Sueño (City without Sleep) Barbara Hamby Ode on Dictionaries, Ode to Schmink, and Monster Mambo K. A. Hays It Is Easy Not to See the Mad Richard Kenney Lives of the Romantics Jennifer L. Knox Harmony: Bluegrass Duets Jon Loomis Sandhill Cranes in Migration [read] and On the Island of Women Richard Lyons Mary Sends a Clipping of a Man Who Eats Stones Karyna McGlynn [Daia bellycrawl into my room in weeds] and Postcoital Pippi Wayne Miller A Treatise on Power (in 32 Strokes) Floyd Skloot Butcher’s Apprentice Jennifer K. Sweeney from Still Life with Egg Meredith Walters Your Name Written on a Grain of Rice [read], How to Tell if You’ve Been Reincarnated, Brief Hist. of Contemp. Art, Blue Coat beside a Black Jacket, Forces Suspected but Never Observed, and This Poem Happens in Spring Zoë Ryder White Flight Pattern; Old Dutch Road, 1982; and Jane’s Litany Ginny Wiehardt Shotgun House Nonfiction Kelly Grey Carlisle Flotsam, Jetsam Liz Prato Under the Sheets [read]		Bathing Beauty Riding the Shoulders of a Water Skier, between 1945 and 1950, Cypress Gardens, Florida ©Michael Ochs Archives/Corbis
		Issue 3, Winter/Spring 2007 Fiction Steve Almond Nixon Swims Isobel English Nobody Came Matt Freidson The Story of Joe from New Jersey Laura Furman Here It Was, November David Galef List of Lists Frances Hwang Intruders Sándor Márai (translated by George Szirtes) from The Rebels Padma Viswanathan Naive Art Poetry Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (translated by Rosanna Warren) Les Roses de Saadi (The Roses of Saadi) Jerry Harp Still Life Together Lola Haskins From the Lake Mel Kenne Answers from the Other Deborah Landau The Lover’s Discourse Can Only Be Horizontal James Longenbach Ghost Pond Ann Lynn At Least by Me a Flood of Words Mariana Marin (translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Daniela Hurezanu) Stapânita (Mistress) and Elegie (Elegy) Eric Pankey Marginalia D.A. Powell cosmos, late blooming D.A. Powell & Haines Eason Cinescape: Rough Cut Lynn Wagner The Thinker: First Female Study Michael Waters First Poem Charles Wright from Littlefoot Charles Wuest Rosalind Find a Shadow and For a Few Days of Legend Nonfiction Kent Annan Slap		Pet Shop Clerk Holding Young Alligators ©Hulton-Deutsch Collections/CORBIS
		Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2006 Fiction Rachel West Carpenter Travel Story Tony D’Souza Magic Muffler Willem Elsschott Will-o’-the-Wisp Allan Gurganus "We, of Weedland" Sheila Kohler The Golden Dove Padgett Powell Did We Party Last Night? Liz Prato Underneath the Magnolia Tree When Magnolias Were in Bloom Jarret Rosenblatt Rhythmically Poetry Jennifer Atkinson The Black Fox of Salmon River and Rafting Lowe River Geoffrey Brock Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859 and Charles Graner Is Not America Billy Collins No Things Paola Corso Step by Step with the Laundress Peggy Smith Duke Hen Party Matthea Harvey Museum of the Middle Brandon Kershner Liberation Michael Loughran Incident Report and My Relationship with With Jacques Prévert (translated by J.T. Barbarese) Le désespoir est assis sur un banc (Park Bench Sphinx), Chanson des escargots qui vont a l’enterrement (Did You Hear the One About), and Riviera (Taking It In) Vivian Laramore Rader Everglades, On Having and Hads, and Hens Nonfiction James Lord Giacometti’s Goddess Robert Schultz The Ephemera Cynthia Zarin Real Estate		Tropical Rococo Sergio Vega
		Issue 1, Winter/Spring 2006 Fiction Chris Bachelder Near the End of the Symphony Strike John Barth Peeping Tom Ariel Dorfman Gringos Eileen Pollack The Bris Joanna Scott The Lucite Cane Manil Suri The Tolman Trick Poetry Anne Carson Grasscolored: A Threat Documentary Carol Frost Lucifer in Florida Bob Hicok Going home Lawrence Joseph Unyieldingly Present and In a Mood David Kirby Seventeen Ways from Tuesday David Lehman Poem in the Manner of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Poem in the Manner of Wallace Stevens Randall Mann Poetry and Nonfiction Judith H. Montgomery Swift Les Murray Birthplace and Lateral Dimensions Lucia Perillo Not Winter Paisley Rekdal Moth Ben Sonnenberg Dis and Proserpina Güven Turan Lost History and Natural History Nonfiction Kent Annan Sketches of Scarcity Harold Bloom Trust the Tale, Not the Teller: Hans Christian Andersen Abigail Thomas Guilt		Fire in the Lake (detail) ©Arnold Mesches