Table of Contents
Introduction Brian Turner xi
The Last Kiss Nick Flynn 1
Notes On The Invisible Kiss Aimee Nezhukumatathil 3
The Kiss At Dawn Pico Iyer 5
Interlude Kim Addonizio 7
The Kiss I Would Have Spent On You Laure-Anne Bosselaar Kurt Brown 10
Bazooka Smackdown Patricia Smith 13
The Summons Mark Doty 15
The Secret Kiss Ilyse Kusnetz 20
Where Scars Reside Major Jackson 22
A Symphony In Rain Kazim Ali 27
Kiss, Kiss, kiss Camille T. Dungy 30
Light Years Rebecca Makkai 33
Kissing Joe F_ Philip Metres 35
Half Fable Terrance Hayes 38
The Evolution Of A Kiss Nickole Brown 44
Kissing Melissa Benjamin Busch 47
Kiss, Kiss Ira Sukrungruang 50
Trigger Lacy M. Johnson 53
A Letter To My Wife On Her 40th Birthday Brian Castner 55
Falling Andre Dubus III 57
The Ride Siobhan Fallon 60
Hollywood, Ending Schafer John c 64
A Small Harvest Of Kisses Guy de Maupassant Marcel Danesi Diane Ackerman Roxane Gay U.S. Army's Journal for Homeland Defense Civil Support and Security Cooperation in North America Aimee Bender Junot Díaz F. Scott Fitzgerald J. M. Barrie Joyce Carol Oates Jonathan Durrant Cormac McCarthy Marlon James Gabriel García Márquez George Saunders Toni Morrison Markus Zusak Brad Watson Hilary Lawson Steve Martin 71
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Téa Obreht Dan Sheehan 85
Contagion Roxana Robinson 91
Kiss Honor Moore 93
Genesis Christopher Merrill 94
A Motion Of Pleasure J. Mae Barizo 97
Kiss, Bounce, Grace Steven Church 100
Fruit Cameron Dezen Hammon 107
Fire The Angel Martin Espada 109
Leaning In Dinty W. Moore 112
The Revolutionary Kiss Tina Chang 114
The Heavy Load Adam Dalva 117
Maude Kimiko Hahn 121
Judas Kiss Tom Sleigh 123
The Smuggler Ada Limón 126
A Kiss For The Dying Suzanne Roberts 129
Man Without Fear Sholeh Wolpé 133
Winter Solstice Bich Minh Nguyen 135
The Greatest Show On Earth Kristen Radtke 137
Skeery The Blue Christian Kiefer 140
A Reckoning Of Kisses Beth Ann Fennelly 167
Late-Night Sessions With A Black Liberal Progressive Christopher Paul Wolfe 171
Aylan Kurdi, Age Three Matthew Komatsu 177
Bat Vision John Mauk 182
Ein Kuss Im Krieg Dave Essinger 189
The Kisses We Never Give Kathryn Miles 192
On Writing The Intimate Nickole Brown Benjamin Busch Camille T. Dungy Pico Iyer Major Jackson Philip Metres Sholeh Wolpé 196
Contributors 205
Everlasting Kisses 220
