New poetry by:

• Lynne Potts
• Alice Notley
• Tao Lin
• Andrew Terhune
• Lindsay Turner
• Wm. Meyer
• Aby Kaupang
• Sam Witt
• Kenneth Goldsmith

• Laura van den Berg
• Jill Logan
• Alyssa Knickerbocker
• Peter Levine
• Nahal Suzanne Jamir

Table of Contents

Lost Classic: A Letter from Katherine Anne Porter to Merle Armitage

Cover Art: Kendall Cox

Book Reviews of U.P., Biogeography, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, Netherland, and Bad River Road

Contributors' Notes

Meridian is pleased to announce its new anthology, Best New Poets, with the fourth annual edition available for purchase online and in select bookstores. Each year, Best New Poets features the work of fifty emerging poets selected from nominations by writing programs, literary magazines, and an Open Internet Competition.