Poetry
HA JIN The Past / Status
ROBERT GIBB Flash Bulbs
PAUL ZIMMER How We Survive Childhood
ANTHONY MADRID The Grandmother Poem
GARY YOUNG Untitled
J. ALLYN ROSSER Realism
DAVID IGNATOW Sanguine / A Bark
TONY HOAGLAND The Replacement / Medicine
PETER MARCUS From “Dark Remedies”
ANDREW GREEN Starlings
LARRY WATSON World Series
RON RASH The Fox
NORMAN WILLIAMS Taking Pan Fish / Praying for an Irish Father
GARY SOTO Inferior Dog / What Is Your Major?
OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS Palimpset / Like Working at Wal-Mart
STEPHEN DOBYNS Being Happy / Getting Tougher
MAURA STANTON Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
BROWNING PORTER Geranium
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Kill or Be Killed / “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”
AMY SCATTERGOOD Parnell’s Wife / Hagiography
Fiction
JOYCE REISER KORNBLATT Nora
STEPHEN DOBYNS The Cedar Bungalow
DEBRA MONROE Plumb and Solid
Essays
STEPHEN AKEY Glassboro
KEITH MONLEY A Samara
ROBERT SEPTO Woodlawn
DAVID WOJAHN The State Your Are Entering: Depression and Contemporary Poetry
Reviews
PHILIP BARUTH Obedience, Disobedience, and the Short Story: Two Recent Collections of Short Fiction
REGINA MARLER The Eyes Have It
GHITA ORTH Beachballs, Legs, and Affirmation
DAVID R. SLAVITT Eastward Ho!
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman