Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris—Guest Editors' Introduction
Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani—Series Editors' Introduction
Samuel Ace—Private Prisons
Diana Adams—from Oulipo-Pied Poems
Steven Alvarez—tupontu
Mark Amerika—from Locus Solus
Jennifer Bartlett—from The Hindrances of a Householder
Lesley Battler—Peak Oil Exile
Christian Bök—The Nocturne of Orpheus
Anne Boyer—The Animal Model of Inescapable Shock
M. K. Brake—Taxidermy for Dummies
Brandon Brown—Zedd ft. Foxes, "Clarity"
Lonely Christopher—Christmas Day, Mother's Day, and Return to Fire Island
Maxwell Owen Clark—Prosodic Retardation
Mark Z. Danielewski—from The Familiar
Kevin Davies—from FPO
Nathaniel Davis—from "This Is When I'm Speaking"
Samuel R. Delany—Email to Tracie Morris, November 21, 2015
Erik Didriksen—[My mem'ry gazes back on young romance] and [I notice my belovèd on thy arm]
Craig Dworkin—from In Quire, March 27, 2015
Kevin McPherson Eckhoff—from Their Biography: An Organism of Relationships
Tim Fielder—from Matty's Rocket
Richard Foreman—The Roper's Daughter
Tonya M. Foster—In Tongues
Peter Gizzi—Song
Jody Gladding—Five Poems
Mira Gonzalez—from Selected Tweets
Jean Grae—Crux
E. Tracy Grinnell—from "death / is an / innumerable / accuracy"
Gabriel Gudding—from "Amnicola"
Joseph Harrington—Cotton Still Tops in Area Economy
Jen Hofer—from "Interventions: Notes on Translating Intervenir"
Erica Hunt—Should You Find Me
Darius James and Tân Khánh Cao—Light Headed
Patricia Spears Jones—Self-Portrait as Shop Window
erica kaufman—[how speech might help]
Jake Kennedy—Elegy for Harold Ramis
Myung Mi Kim—from Civil Bound
Michael Kirby—from Glossary
Sonnet L'Abbé—XXIII, XXXIII, and LVII
Monroe Lawrence—No modernism
George E. Lewis—Soprano Part for Impromptu
Tan Lin—621B
Corbin Louis—Buck Moon, Hooves, and Claim Number 1468981
Janice A. Lowe—Boy Flower Tamir
Chris Mann—from The Use
D. S. Marriott—The Bunker
Jimmy McInnes—Begin Speech With
K. Silem Mohammad—from The Sonnagrams
Wangechi Mutu—from The End of Eating Everything
A. L. Nielsen—from Tray
Jenn Marie Nunes and Mel Coyle—from SAGEN
Barack Obama—from "Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches"
Shelagh Patterson—)-(
Julie Ezelle Patton—from "Do Process"
Trace Peterson—After Before and After
Sina Queyras—The Jailor
Aoife Roberts—from the fact-check of Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth
Lisa Robertson—from "Notes on Form and Belief"
Metta Sáma—there is no flash
James Sanders—from "Plants (Mistakes)", Mesoscape, and Plants (Jimmy Connors)
Jennifer Scappettone—Imagine a Cinder-Wench
Richard Schechner—The Humane Society
Carolee Schneemann—from "A Response to Maura Reilly's 'Taking the Measure of Sexism: Facts, Figures, and Fixes'"
Sarah Schulman, Jack Waters, and Stephen Winter—from Jason and Shirley
Dread Scott—Runaway Shot and If White People Didn't Invent Air
Rod Smith—Poem
Juliana Spahr—Went Looking and Found Coyotes
Fakhair Spence—[The last writing of me]
Moez Surani—from " Operación Opération Operation O "
ko ko thett—the burden of being bama
Edwin Torres—Of Worship and Flight and Bang Bawl Bocconi Birds Unspaced
Richard Tuttle—Pain and Construction of Envy
Imani Uzuri—no denial
Elizabeth Willis—Plot
Matvei Yankelevich—from Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
Young Paris—Kaké!
Acknowledgments
Contributors and Digital-only contributions to BAX 2016 can be found at bax.site.wesleyan.edu
David Gibbs—This Is Our Business
Rachel Eliza Griffiths—The Undressed Syllable
Amy Marengo —wishbone drying; this cloudbank; close lightning
Tom Mirovski—How to Make a Nature Poem
Sawnie Morris—elegy for a baby albatross of midway atoll
Azizaa—Black Magic Woman
Erykah Badu—Dial'Afreaq
Kendrick Lamar—The Blacker the Berry