Poetry
ANTONIO MACHADO Fields of Soria / Autumn Begins / The House So Dear / I go on dreaming / In the Center of the Square
WILLIAM MATTHEWS Sentence / Note Left for Gerald Stern in an Office I Borrowed, and He Would Next, at a Summer Writers’ Conference / The Shades / This Spud’s for You
PAUL MARIANI Shadow Portrait / Manhattan / The Bombings
MALENA MÖRLING Constellations / For F.M. Who Did Not Get Killed Yesterday on 57th Street
MARK JARMAN Questions for Ecclesiastes
JORDAN SMITH Job / Lilac
LYNDA HULL The Window / Fiat Lux
ROBERT FARNSWORTH Unforgiveable Landscape
SASKIA HAMILTON Early April Tuesday / Reading / Three Dreams / Who Finds You
ANDREW HUDGINS Tricks of the Body / Biff Burger / Wisdom and Advice
BROOKS HAXTON 1969
DAVE SMITH Bunny’s Restaurant
FLOYD SKLOOT Object Assembly
DAVID RIVARD Against Recovery / Change My Evil Ways
DONALD HALL Extra Innings
MARK COX The Rest / Sleep Apnea
NANCE VAN WINCKEL Repercussion / Two Rains
RICHARD TILLINGHAST A Backward Glance at Galway / The Night of Displacement / Southbound Pullman, 1945
ANNE STEVENSON Painting It In / Trinity at Low Tide
JACQUELINE OSHEROW What We’d Say If We Explained Ourselves to Trees
ROALD HOFFMAN T he Bering Bridge
COLETTE INEZ Journey from Santa Cruz
BARBARA GOLDBERG A Matter of Choice
WYATT PRUNTY The Angel and the Beast
EILEEN MYLES Jumble / PV / Waterfall
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA On the Day of the Dead, Mr. Emptiness Sings of Love / Shawashté
RODNEY JONES Grand Projection / My Persona / Second Nature / Speaking Up / Thirty-One Flavors of Houses
Fiction
DAZAI OSAMU Shame
LIZA WIELAND Called By Name
JOHN ENGELS Lilacs
KATHRYN CHETKOVICH My Real Life
PHILIP F. DEAVER Business
ANN HARLEMAN How It Is
STEVE YARBROUGH Hazel Baker
ROBLEY WILSON The World Still Melting
Essays
PHILIP LEVINE Living in Machado
SAMUEL F. PICKERING Sweet Auburn
IRA SADOFF Hearing Voices: The Fiction of Poetic Voice
JEFF KAUFMAN Eyes Backward: A Visual Essay
Impure Forms
ROBERT HILL LONG from The Effigies
DAVID BENGTSON from Broken Lines
Reviews
MARK JARMAN The Grammar of Glamour: The Poetry of Jorie Graham
EMILY WHEELER Death on Stage (on Judith Freeman and Helen Schulman)
JEFFREY SCHEUER The Sound Bite Society (on Cecilia Tichi and Shanto Iyengar)
JOSEPH DUEMER To Make the Visible World Your Conscience (on Pamela Alexander, Cornelius Eady, A. Poulin, Jr., Albert Goldbarth, David Ignatow, and Adrienne Rich)
MOLLY MCQUADE Smart Girls (on Lynn Lauber, Eileen Pollack, and Paula Sharp)
CAROL FROST Philip Levine at Work
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman