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12X12, Ed. Christina Mengert, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
(University of Iowa Press)

A

The Accordionist's Son, Bernardo Atxaga (Graywolf Press)
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, S.L. Wisenberg
(University of Iowa Press)
After the Honeymoon, Nathan Graziano (sunnyoutside)
All Over, Roy Kesey (Dzanc Books)
Alluvium, Erin Bertram (dancing girl press)
American Fractal, Timothy Green (Red Hen Press)
AM/PM, Amelia Gray (Featherproof Books)
Andean Express, Juan de Recacoechea (Akashic Books)
An Angle of Vision, Ed. Lorraine M. Lopez (University of Michigan Press)
Apologies Forthcoming, Xujun Eberlein (Livingston Press)
Arkansas, John Brandon (McSweeney's)
As a Friend, Forrest Gander (New Directions)
At or Near the Surface, Jenny Pritchett (Fourteen Hills Press)
Awesome, Jack Pendarvis (MacAdam/Cage)

B

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Based on a True Story, Hesh Kestin (Dzanc Books)
The Bathroom, Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Dalkey Archive)
Bear, Karen Chase (CavanKerry Press)
Beats at Naropa, Ed. Anne Waldman (Coffee House Press)
Behind My Eyes, Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton)
Beloved on the Earth, Ed. Jim Perlman et al (Holy Cow! Press)
Bending the Notes, Paul Hostovsky (Main Street Rag Books)
Bestiary, Elise Paschen (Red Hen Press)
Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (Bellevue Literary Press)
Best of the Web 2008, Ed. Steve Almond (Dzanc Books)
Beyond the Station Lies the Sea, Jutta Richter (Milkweed Press)
The Bigness of the World, Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press)
Big Word, Mary Miller (Short Flight/Long Drive Books)
Bill's Formal Complaint, Dan Kaplan (National Poetry Review Press)
Bob, or Man on Boat, Peter Markus (Dzanc Books)
Border Crossing, Jessica Lee Anderson (Milkweed Press)
Boring Boring, Zach Plague (Featherproof Books)
Breaking It Down, Rusty Barnes (sunnyoutside)

C

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Camera, Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Dalkey Archive)
Canceled Memories, Nazik Saba Yared (Syracuse University Press)
Catch Light, Sarah O'Brien (Coffee House Press)
Circulation, Tim Horvath (sunnyoutside)
City of Regret, Andre Kozma (Zone 3 Press)
Clear All the Rest of the Way, Warren Woesnner (Backwaters Press)
Comfort, Joyce Moyer Hostetter (Calkins Creek Books)
The Conqueror, Jan Kjaerstad (Open Letter)
The Cosmopolitan, Donna Stonecipher (Coffee House Press)
Crazy Love, Leslie What (Wordcraft of Oregon)

D - E - F

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Dangerous Places, Perry Glasser (BkMk Press)
Dear Apocalypse, K.A. Hayes (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Dear Everybody, Michael Kimball (Alma Books)
Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum, Nin Andrews (Subito Press)
Death at Solstice, Lucha Corpi (Arte Publico Press)
Dismantling the Hills, Michael McGriff (University of Pittsburgh Press)
A Disposition for Shininess, Arisa White (Factory Hollow Press)
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, Cristy Road (Microcosm Publishing)
Dixmont, Rick Campbell (Autumn House Press)
Do the Math, Emily Galvin (Tupelo Press)
Double Header, Suzanne Burns (Future Tense Books)
Drift and Swerve, Samuel Ligon (Autumn House Press)
Easter Rabbit, Joseph Young (Publishing Genius)
The End of a Good Party, Jean Ross Justice (University of Tampa Press)
The End of the Straight and Narrow, David McGlynn
(Southern Methodist University Press)
Europes, Jacques Reda (Host Publications)
Family Secret, Rich Murphy (Finishing Line Press)
Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, ed. Tara L. Masih (Rose Metal Press)
First Execution, Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions)
First We Read, Then We Write, Robert D. Richardson
(University of Iowa Press)
A Fixed, Formal Arrangement, Allison Carter (Les Figues Press)
Fog & Car, Eugene Lim (Ellipsis Press)
From the Paris of New England, Doug Holder (Ibbetson Street Press)
Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
Future Missionaries of America, Matthew Vollmer (MacAdam/Cage)

G - H - I

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Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Gourmet Rhapsody, Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions)
Her Highness' First Murder, Peg Herring (Five Star)

Hiding Out, Jonathan Messinger (Featherproof Books)
Home Free, Sharon Jennings (Second Story Press)
Homicide Survivors Picnic, Lorraine M. Lopez (BkMk Press)
The House of Your Dream, Ed. Robert Alexander, Dennis Maloney
(White Pine Press)
How Some People Like Their Eggs, Sean Lovelace (Rose Metal Press)
The Human Mind, Angela Woodward (Ravenna Press)
Hunger, Elise Blackwell (Unbridled Books)
Hush Sessions, Kristi Maxwell (Saturnalia Books)

I Am Death, Gary Amdahl (Milkweed Editions)
The Imagist Poem, Ed. William Pratt (UNO Press)
In a Bear's Eye, Yannick Murphy (Dzanc Books)
In Hovering Flight, Joyce Hinnefeld (Unbridled Books)
Interference & Other Stories, Richard Hoffman (New Rivers Press)
Interfictions 2, Ed. Delia Sherman, Christopher Barzak
(Small Beer Press)
In the Devil's Territory, Kyle Minor (Dzanc Books)
In the Land of the Free, Geoffrey Forsyth (Rose Metal Press)
Inventing the Real, Henry James, Edith Wharton (The Feminist Press)
Irresponsibility, Chris Vitiello (Ahsahta Press)
The Islands of Divine Music, John Addiego (Unbridled Books)
I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Sloane Crosley (Riverhead Trade)

K - L

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Keep This Forever, Mark Halliday (Tupelo Press)
knockemstiff, Donald Ray Pollack (Doubleday)
Lands of Memory, Felisberto Hernandez (New Directions)
Last Night in Montreal, Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled Books)
The Laundromat Essay, Kyle Buckley (Coach House Books)
Legible Heavens, H.L. Hix, (Etruscan Press)
Liam's Going, Michael Joyce (McPherson & Co.)
Life Goes to the Movies, Peter Selgin (Dzanc)
Light Boxes, Shane Jones (Publishing Genius)
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Live with Meaning. Die with Passion., Fumitada Naoe (One Peace Books)
Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason (Starcherone Books)
The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli, Ginnetta Correli (Marshmallow Press)

M

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The Madwoman of Bethlehem, Rosine Nimeh-Mailloux
(Second Story Press)
The Main in the Wooden Hat, Jane Gardam (Europa Editions)
A Man of Ideas, David Galef (Noemi Press)
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time, Patrick Alexander (Vintage Books)
Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramirez (Curbstone Press)
Master of Reality, John Darnielle (Continuum Books)
Me as Her Again, Nancy Agabian (Aunt Lute Books)
Melancholy Fate of Captain Lewis, Michael Pritchett (Unbridled Books)
Mind Games, David Giantasio (Word Riot Press)
Misfits and Other Heroes, Suzanne Burns (Dzanc)
Missing Her, Claudia Keelan (New Issues)
MLKNG SCKLS, Justin Sirois (Publishing Genius)
A Model Year, Gina Myers (Coconut Books)
Modern Life, Matthea Harvey (Graywolf Press)
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth, Charles Simic (Ausable Press)
Morning in a Different Place, Mary Ann McGuigan (Front Street Press)
Mosquito, Roma Tearne (Europa Editions)
The Musical Illusionist, Alex Rose (Hotel St. George Press)
The Mysterious Life of the Heart, ed. Sy Safransky
(The Sun Publishing Co)

N - O

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New World Order, Derek Green (Autumn House Press)
Not a Speck of Light is Showing, Barry Graham (Paper Hero Press)
Nylund the Sarcographer, Joyelle McSweeney (Tarpaulin Sky Press)

Of Kids and Parents, Emil Hakl (Twisted Spoon Press)
Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee (Ravenna Press)
Oh, Don't Ask Why, Dennis Must (Red Hen Press)
On a Day Like This, Peter Stamm (Other Press)
Once the Shore, Paul Yoon (Sarabande Books)
One of These Things is not like the Other, Stephanie Johnson
(Keyhole Press)
On the Mason-Dixon Line, Ed. Billie Travalini, Fleda Brown
(University of Delaware Press)
Other Resort Cities, Tod Goldberg (OV Books)
Our Aperture, Ander Monson (New Michigan Press)
O Woolly City, Priscilla Sneff (Tupelo Press)

P - Q - R

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Pale of Settlement, Margot Singer (University of Georgia Press)
Panama Fever, W.B. Garvey (Jonkro Books)
Parables & Lies, Jesse Ball (The Cupboard)
The Pear as One Example, Eric Pankey (Ausable Press)
Persephone, Lyn Lifshin (Red Hen Press)
The Pets, Bragi Olafsson (Open Letter Press)
Please, Jericho Brown (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Praying at Coffee Shops, Maureen Sherbondy (Main Street Rag)
Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Ed. Kevin Morgan Watson (Press 53)
A Proper Knowledge, Michelle Latiolais (Bellevue Literary Press)
Ravel, Jean Echenoz (The New Press)
A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor, Maram al Massri
(Copper Canyon Press)
The River Flows North, Graciela Limon (Arte Publico Press)
Rupert, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Open Letter Press)
Ryan Seacrest is Famous, Dave Housley (Impetus Press)

S

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Saint John of the Five Boroughs, Edward Falco (Unbridled Books)
Salvation, Lucia Nevai (Tin House Books)
Seal Woman, Solveig Eggerz (Ghost Road Press)
Secret of Breath, Isabelle Baladine Howald (Burning Deck Press)
Sensational Spectacular, Nate Pritts (BlazeVox)
A Series/A Sequence, Dirk Stratton (NeO Pepper Press)
Shelter Half, Carol Bly (Holy Cow! Press)
Shot, Christine Hume (Counterpath Press)
Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Signs of Life, Norma Waksler (Black Lawrence Press)
The Sky Over Walgreens, Chris Green (Mayapple Press)
The Slow Vanishing, Maureen Sherbondy (Main Street Rag)
Small Kingdoms, Anastasia Hobbet (The Permanent Press)
Some Place Quite Unknown, Jane Lazarre (Hamilton Stone Editions)
Something to Exchange, Celia Gilbert (BlazeVOX)
Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind, Tr. Kenneth Rexroth (New Directions)
Sound + Noise, Curtis Smith (Casperian Books)
Spilling the Moon, Matt Schumacher (Wordcraft of Oregon)
Spooky Action at a Distance, Tom Noyes (Dufour Editions)
Spring Wind Brings the Fireworks, Christopher Kelen, Agnes Vong
(Visual Artists Collective)
State of the Union, Ed. Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder
(Wave Books)
Strange Case of Maribel Dixon, Charles Jensen (New Michigan Press)
Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain, Christopher Janke (Fence Books)
The Suburban Swindle, Jackie Corley (So New Publishing)
The Subversive Scribe, Suzanne Jill Levine (Dalkey Archive Press)
Swan Dive, Michael Burke (Pleasure Boat Studio)