Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — The Voice of the Revolution

Dispatch

• Kwame Dawes and Andre Lambertson — Ashes
• Kelly Hearn — A Jungle Tiananmen

Essay

• Matt Donovan — Leaving Trinity

VQR Symposium

• Shahriar Mandanipour and Sara Khalili — If You Didn’t Kill the Cuckoo Bird
• Kamin Mohammadi — Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code
• Fatemeh Shams and Erika Abrahamian — Their Black Imaginings: Letters from an Exiled Wife to Her Imprisoned Husband

VQR Gallery

• Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #7

Poetry

• Temple Cone — Fear and Trembling
• William Kloefkorn — Late Morning, Almost Noon, Memory, and Living Without It
• Adrienne Rich — Confrontations
• Habib Tengour and Marilyn Hacker — This Particular Tartar

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
• Jacob Silverman — A Gentle and Angry Instrument: Robert Walser’s Short Fiction
• Brendan Wolfe — Odd, Exhausting, and Beautiful