Volume 1
(1998)

Fiction

RAVENSWOOD Stuart Dybek

A PLACE BETWEEN STATIONS Stephanie Allen

CHERRY BOY Tom Miller Juvik

WRAPPED IN BLUE Lon Otto

PERM Suzanne Breenberg

 

Poetry

I TAKE MY DAUGHTER SLEDDING Mary McCluske

THE SCISSORS Barbara Daniels

TWO BODIES

THE ANATOMICAL WONDER PLAYS DEAD IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE Richard Solly

INSURANCE

HURRICANE Deidre Pope

NOVEMBER MORNING Marya Hornbacher

I MIGHT HAVE DREAMED THIS Kirsten Dierking

TELLING STORIES Roban Preston

ALL I CAN SEE Laura Stearns

THE CHICKEN

EVENING DRIVE: CONSOLATION  Margot Fortunato Galt

THE SLEEPLESS GRAPE

AFTER CRYING

THE LILY

PROVISION Li-Yong Lee

ORIGIN Bill Scheffel

JOYCE’S TOWER  Brian Cronwall

BEATEN INTO THE SHAPE OF A SAINT’S HEAD Kathleen Heideman

SUGAR BLUE Angela Shannon

WORSHIP THIS Suzanne Mark

INSIDE THE CORNER/ST. CROIX FALLS

THREE THINGS DIFFICULT TO NAME Kathleen Houser

MOTHER’S MILK Jane Sanderson

INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

EMAIL TO A HIGHSCHOOL SWEETHEART

WHO RECENTLY TRACKED ME DOWN Adrian C. Louis

UPON HEARING ABOUT A MARRIAGE GONE WRONG

ON SEEING MY FRIEND WALK AWAY FROM THE HOSPITAL J.P. White

THE HYPNOTISTS Heid Erdrich

THE WINE TREES OF VALLECITOS Linda Hasselstrom

MEMORY Nancy Overcott

THE ONES WHO LAUGH AND CRY

LIGHTNING AT DINNER Jim Moore

 

Creative Nonfiction

GHOSTS J. Wesly Kobernick

TO PARIS Mary Moore Easter

A VUKOVAR MEMOIR Josip Novakovich

HOW TO HANDLE A LARGE MACAW Jeanne Cowan

THE OWL AND THE FOX TRAP Michael Kiesow Moore

STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS Judith Kitchen

 

Article

THE SOUND OF A HAND READING: THE RIDDLE OF SILENCE IN THE WINGED SEED, A REMEMBRANCE BY LI-YONG LEE Laura Littleford

 

Interviews      

AN INTERVIEW WITH SANDRA BENITEZ Marie Stolie

AN INTERVIEW WITH LI-YOUNG LEE Patricia Kirpatrick and Laura Littleford

AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL GRUCHOW Nancy Sather

 

Book Reviews

THE LAST KABBALIST OF LISBON BY RICHARD ZIMLER Larry Sutin

THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME A NOVEL OF FEVER,

DELIRIUM & DISCOVERY BY AMITAV GHOSH Harper Levine