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12X12, Ed.
Christina Mengert, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
(University of Iowa Press)
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- 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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- Tales from the Tinker's Dam, Daniel Gabriel (Whistling Shade Press)
- Teller Tales: Histories, Jo Carson (Ohio University Press)
- Temple Gate Called Beautiful, David Kirby (Alice James Books)
- Temporary People, Steven Gillis (Black Lawrence Press)
- Then, a Thousand Crows, Keith Ratzlaff (Anhinga Press)
- A Theory of Everything, Mary Crockett Hill (Autumn House Press)
- They All Seemed Asleep, Mattew Rohrer (Octopus Books)
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be hung from the celing by strings of varying lengths, Rick Reid
(Black Goat) - Tomorrowland, Howie Good (Paper Hero Press)
- Torched Verse Ends, Steven Schroeder (BlazeVOX)
- Translation in Practice: A Symposium, Ed. Gill Paul (Dalkey Archive)
- The Translator's Diary, Jon Pineda (New Issues)
- The Tsar's Dwarf, Peter Fogtdal (Hawthorne Books)
- Tsim Tsum, Sabrina Orah Mark (Saturnalia Books)
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- Vacation, Deb Olin Unferth (McSweeney's)
- Van Gogh in Poems, Carol Dine (Bitter Oleander Press)
- Vienna Triangle, Brenda Webster (Wings Press)
- The Waitress Was New, Dominique Fabre (Archipelago Books)
- The Warmest Place of All, Licia Rando (Pleasant St. Press)
- Waste, Eugene Marten (Ellipsis Press)
- What Stirs, Margaret Christakos (Coach House Books)
- When You Come Home, Nora Eisenberg (Curbstone Press)
- Where I Stay, Andrew Zornoza (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
- The White Space Between, Ami Sands Brodoff (Second Story Press)
- The Winter Sun, Fanny Howe (Graywolf Press)
- Who Can Save Us Now?, Ed. Owen King (Free Press)
- Why the Long Face?, Ron MacLean (Swank Books)
- The Withdrawal Method, Pasha Malla (Anansi)
- Without Wax, William Walsh (Casperian Books)
- A
Woman’s Guide to Mountain Climbing, Jane Augustine
(Marsh Hawk Press) - The Wonder Singer, George Rabasa (Unbridled Books)
- Words Overflown by Stars, Ed. David Jauss (Writer's Digest Books)
- Written on the Sky, Tr. Kenneth Rexroth (New Directions)
X - Y - Z
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- Yes, Yes, Cherries, Mary Otis (Tin House Books)
- You Must
Be This Happy to Enter, Elizabeth Crane
(Punk Planet Books) - The Zen of
Chainsaws & Enormous Clippers, Drew Kalbach
(Paper Hero Press) - Zero at the Bone, Stacie Cassarino (New Issues)
- Zone : Zero, Stephanie Strickland (Ahsahta Press)
