Poetry
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Because I Didn’t Die / The Cooling Board / Moonshine / Sex, Magnolias, & Speed / Touch / A Trailer at the Edge of a Forest / Nude Tango
BRENDAN CLEARY Wedding in Omagh / Down South / Beer & Sympathy / Graveside
GREGORY DONOVAN Ragman: 1958 / Satchel Mouth
PHILIP TERMAN The Schwitz
LIZ ROSENBERG The Dark Side / The First Snow
ANN TOWNSEND The Language of Diplomacy: Adult Comp. / Modern Love
JEANNE LARSEN Correspondence in April / In Brown Creek Valley, Thinking of a War
JOHN ENGELS Locked Out / In a Side Aisle of Kennedy Bros. Antiques Mall / Waking from Nightmare / Watching for Animals
MILLER WILLIAMS The Groom Kisses the Bride and the Mind of the Young Preacher Wanders Again / The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina Starting with Long Lines
MARILYN HACKER Chiliastic Sapphics / For K.J., Between Anniversaries
Fiction
JUDITH TEMPLE Mackerel Skies
ROBERT SCHIRMER The Bats, The Disk
LISA LENZO Self-Defense
SUSAN MINOT Japanese Lanterns
GREGORY SPATZ My Mother, Jolene and Me
Essays
PHILIP LEVINE The Holy Cities: Detroit, Barcelona, Byzantium
WILLIAM MATTHEWS 100 Sentences: An Essay
JOHN ELDER Following the Brush
Special Feature: The Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project
PREFACE
DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN True Caning Plant in Long Beach, Long Island
MICHAEL LAUCHLAN Scars
LEE MARTIN Rock, Scissors, Paper
TERENCE MULKERN Notice to Mariners / Tapioca
GABRIEL SPERA The One That Almost Got Away
ELIZABETH TERZAKIS Playing Parts
JAN WERNER Effigy
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman