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