Past Issues of Subtropics


		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