Poetry
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT To Remain
CORRINNE HALES Consummation
PHILIP LEVINE Facts / Coming of Age in Michigan / The Sweetness of Bobby Hefka
LINDA BIERDS April / Yellow Chambers
WENDY BATTIN The News from Mars / One
J. ALLYN ROSSER A Dream of Ezra Pound / Suburban Report
DAVID YOUNG Mirror Ghazal / Worship Ghazal
ROBERT CORDING Starlings
JIM BARNES The Ranch, Wild Horse Canyon
Fiction
TAMAS ACZEL Temptations
JACK PULASKI Courting Laura Providencia, and the Cost of Living
DAVID HUDDLE Scotland
JEAN THOMPSON Heart of Gold
W. D. WETHERELL Aisle Number Seven
Essays
ROBERT CANTWELL On Stereotype
MARIANNE BORUCH From Bishop’s Blue Pharmacy
BRETT CANDLISH MILLIER Elusive Mastery: The Drafts of Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”
RICHARD MOORE Brecht and Rilke
JOHN ENGELS Lying Down
Special Feature: The Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project
PREFACE
BARBARA ALLEN The Beheading
WENDY BRENNER A Little Something
MARY CATHERINE HARPER Deaf Enough
JOE HEITHAUS People Under Water
DIANNE NELSON A Map of Kansas
KERRY SHERIN Question
DAVID TOMERE The Seven Dwarfs: An Excerpt
JAMES PERKINS WILLIAMS Sounds, Silences
BOB ZORDANI My Strongest Man
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman