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The MacGuffin’s vol. 39.2 welcomes a familiar name to the masthead’s editor slot: Brett M. Griffiths. Readers will remember Brett as a Poetry Staffer, and this issue’s diverse poetry selections should give a sense of this, from Angie Macri’s elegiac “The rain suddenly silver over the diamond,” to Rebecca Foust’s trio of Orwellian poems to, MacGuffin fan–favorite Joey Lew’s contemplative closing poem, “Holding Pattern.” The opening and closing stories follow the magazine’s recent bend toward narrative experimentation, with J. Grace’s Brautigan–esque “My Father Was a Serious Man” and the deconstructed narrative of Chris Wiberg’s “Multilateration” serving as prime examples.

8: Chris Davidson – Blue City
9: V.A. Bettencourt – When Halley’s Comet tore through the night sky
10: Angie Macri – Apricot Beauty, Apricot Fox
11: Angie Macri – The rain suddenly silver over the diamond,
12: Pamela Wax – The Great Big Indelible Tent of Us
13–15: J. Grace – My Father was a Serious Man
16: Ella Seetoo-Ronk – How We Said Us
17: Pam Crow – Flame Is Just the Fire You Can See
18: James Crews – Remember
19: Mark Belair – making do
20: John Dorroh – Catatonic
21–25: Eddie Vona – And Suddenly, I Am Her
26–34: Rita Ariyoshi – The Monster, Hank
35: Judy Brackett Crowe – Paper Wings
36: Phillip Watts Brown – Boy with Scissors and a Map
37: Phillip Watts Brown – Requiem with Salt
38: Mervyn Seivwright – Something Not Seen at Le Jardin Du Lexumbourg
39: Doug Mathewson – The Mark
40–44: Nancy Solak – The Price of Milk
45: Sharon Pretti – Waterline
46–47: Sharon Pretti – If Day Ever Ended
48: Ruth Holzer – Déménageurs, Boulevard Saint–Michel, 1898
49: Ruth Holzer – Pyrrhichios
50–58: Z.Z. Boone – St. Doughnuts
59: Fran Markover – Cherries in the Snow>br>60: Jill Kronstadt – Overwintering
61: Jill Kronstadt – Route 16
62–72: Mary Sophie Filicetti – Losing St. Louis
73: Michelle Morouse – The First Thing the New People Did Was to Tear Down That Chicken Shed
74: Jennifer Makowsky – One afternoon beyond
75: Jennifer Makowsky – Monsoon Season
76–77: John Walser – This City Night Still Heat Heavy
78–89: Brooke Dilling – We Begin at the End
90: Gloria Parker – Everything Must Go
91: Justin Hunt – Heimat
92: Andrea Reynolds – Third Generation
93: John Cullen – The Three–Legged Race
94–96: John Salter – Calypso
97: Justin Hamm – Around Back
98: Justin Hamm – November
99: Justin Hamm – The Waiting
100: Justin Hamm – Second Thoughts
101–111: Jason S. Dennis – Reverse Mortgages Aren’t What You Think
112: Sean Madden – Re Ascension
113: Kay Barnes – Votive Candles
114: Rebecca Foust – Praise
115: Rebecca Foust – Another Life
116: Rebecca Foust – You, Aging & Left
117–127: David Waters – Touching
128–137: Tom Eubanks – Being Here
138: Ann Weil – Sun Worshipper
139: Ann Weil – Ambassador of Her Species
140: William Snyder – My grandmother would have peeled her skin
141: Nancy Beauregard – Today I Need to Hold a Tarantula
142–153: Chris Wiberg – Multilateration
154: Joey Lew – Holding Pattern
155–160: Contributor Notes

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