Poetry
BARBARA MURPHY Clarity / Bedtime Story / In Chekhov’s Three Sisters / PHIL 255: Logic
NANCE VAN WINCKEL Nothing in the World / Help, Help!
CLAUDIA EMERSON ANDREWS The Rapture / What Waits for You / Pinion
DAVID R. SLAVITT Ceyx and Alcyone: From Book XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
CLAIRE BATEMAN Friction / Sky
MICHAEL MILBURN In the Frame / Words for a Child / Poem in the Place of Goodbye
GHITA ORTH Breaking the Silence / Speaking as a Mother / Knowing / Healing / Understanding Bonsai
ELLEN CANTOR A Family History / This Eye / Making Meat
ION MIRCEA The Mold / S.F. / Forma Mentis (Translations from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Liliana Ursu)
LINDA KITTELL Verson of #199: Dr. Syn / On Her Knees / Braids / Walking in Her Cape Coat / Barracoon
LAURA KASISCHKE Housekeeping in a Dream / Pall
JOHN ENGELS Death Trip / Hummingbird on a Telephone Wire
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Semantics / Homunculus / Russian Phantasia / Homo Erectus / Dia De Los / Muertos / Speed Ball / Complicity / Queensland, Inc.
DEBORAH CUMMINS In the State of Absence
RALPH SNEEDEN Coltrane and My Father
ANDREW HUDGINS The Social Order
GARY P. CLARK, JR. Mouthwash / A Lakeside Toast
LOUIS SIMPSON Fame
Fiction
MAX GARLAND Chiromancy
LEE MARTIN The Least You Need to Know
GREGORY SPATZ Lisa Picking Cockles
Essays
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Elements of Love
ROALD HOFFMANN and SHIRA LEIBOWITZ Pure/Impure
JANE HIRSHFIELD Entering the Bird Cage: Poetry and Perceptibility
ROBERT CANTWELL The Invisible Science
Interview
MUNA ASALI An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa
Reviews
JOHN ENGLES A Cruel Happiness
HEATHER STEPHENSON Out of the Kitchen and Traveling On: New Fiction by Asian Women
ALLEN SHEPHERD As Good As Money in the Bank: Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman