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Ocean Vuong
My Ulysses(s)
Lindsey D. Alexander
Homestead, Sure
Jennifer Ghivan
Ceremony
Kyle McCord
August 5, 2012
Ash Bowen
Storm
Jay Deshpande
The Music is Sweet When it’s Stuck Inside of Us
Eidolon
Cody Ernst
Thoughts on Crow Nest
Roger Reeves
New Ghost in the Balcony
When the Light Came to Lucille Clifton
Jonterri Gadson
In my Rush
Steven D. Schroeder
Fugitive
Rob Stephens
Faith, Works, and my Gris-Gris Doll
Brandon Krieg
Interjection
Claire Schwartz
your mouth is a cotillion
LA Johnson
Prescience
Alexandra Teague
Duchamp’s Nude, Descending, Speaks
Adam Love
After your last poker hand, you bought cocaine and a pistol.
Sarah Barber
The Varied Thrush
Brianna Noll
On Social Graces
Mary Angelino
Ice Storm
Keith Leonard
Ode to the Dreaming Dead
RETURNING THE GIFT: INDIGENOUS FUTURES
Kimberly Blaeser
Language, Tents, and Flysheets; Building a Shelter of the Ephemral
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When I was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol painting of Geronimo
At the Georgia O’Keefe Museum and Iterations
Heid E. Erdrich
WXYZ
Incantation on a Frank Bear Collage
Simon J. Ortiz
Who Likes Indians
Long Time Ago
Denise Low
A Jackalope Walks into an Indian Bar
Jane’s Maze
Gordon Henry
From Letters to the Dead and Distant (Dear Marie)
From Letters to the Dead and Distant (Dear Sonny)
The Mute Scribe Recalls Some Talking Circles
Laura Tohe
Blue Impala
Dancing Under Stars
Eric Gansworth
Origin Story
Janet McAdams
Chronicle of the Year, Stolen
The Body’s Guide to Evolution
Maurice Kenny
My Father Does Not Sing
Rhiana Yazzie
Patterns
Alice M. Azure
Plague of the Horned Serpents
Margaret Noodin
We Are Returning Always w/ Translation
Joseph Bruchac
The Cave at Quartz Mountain
Kimberly Blaeser
Speaking, Like Old Desire, Ephemeral Habitation Cavat
Eric Gansworth
From One Dance
Dream Pillow
Brian Philip Whalen
Air
George Choudas
The Son of Butt Trudd
Keith Rosson
Baby Jill
Lindsey Drager
Unsoiled
Sonja Vitow
What You Want to Learn
RETURNING THE GIFT: INDIGENOUS FUTURES
Philip H. Red Eagle
Discovery
Terre Ryan
The Way You Spell Success
James Warren Boyd
Shirts and Skins
Coleen Muir
Bone in the Throat
Shellie Richards
The Strike
RETURNING THE GIFT: INDIGENOUS FUTURES
Kimberly Blaeser
Language, Tents, and Flysheets: Building a Shelter of the Ephemeral
Emma LaPine
Girl 1
Susan Hale
Wedding Day Garden
James D. Autio
Milkweed and Wooden Leg
Ahab
Editor-in-Chief
Ching-In Chen
Managing Editor
Shanae Aurora Martinez
Fiction Editor
Mollie Boutell
Loretta McCormick
Poetry Editors
Kara Van de Graaf
C. McAllister Williams
Creative Nonfiction Editors
Matthew Schneider
Katharine G. Monger
Production Manager
Kristopher Purzycki
Art and Web Editors
Jessica Johnston
Katharine G. Monger
Kristopher Purzycki
Website Development
Dave Hudson
Interns
Chelsea Moskow
Nicole Timblin
Development Team
EJ Basa (co-coordinator)
Pamela Klein (co-coordinator)
Carina Gia Farrero
KrisAnne Madaus
Tobias Wray
Assistant Editors
Peter Burzynski
Mark Brand
kizzy fay
Sherri Hoffman
Matthew Joy
Greg Manlove
Rachel Nieman
Soham Patel
Barrett Travis
Kate Visser
Tobias Wray
Advisory Board
Mauricio Kilwein Guevara (Chair)
Kimberly Blaeser
Brenda Cardenas
Liam Callanan
Dave Clark
George Makana Clark
Susan Firer
John Koethe
Marilyn Taylor
Catherine Kott Washburne
Copy Editor
kizzy fay
Cover Image
Eric Gansworth
Cover Design
Kristopher Purzycki
Returning the Gift Editorial Committee
Kimberly Blaeser (consulting editor), Ching-In Chen, Shanae Aurora Martinez, Loretta McCormick, Tobias Wray