Fiction
WHAT IS WAS Lon Otto
INTO THIS HOUSE Richard Lundquist
HOW THE DEAD LIVE Gina Ochsner
HEAVY FRUIT Lisa Metzgar
Brenda Ueland Prose Prize
THE LOSS OF GREEN Catherine Brady
ANSWERING MONETA Susan Olding
ORANGES Gary Eldon Peter
AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH Patricia Hoolihan
Poetry
SELF-PORTRAIT DOING T’AI CHI IN CHINATOWN
ITS IS HARD NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD Jim Moore
SESTINA: AGAIN YOU RETURN Rita Moe
MOONDOG Marie Rickmyer
POETRY CITY James Cihlar
400 P W Johnson
GO CAREFULLY, CAREFULLY Martha Goetsch
CANTO 37 Redwings crows cranes R. Virgil Ellis
AT THE VALU-MART Josie Raney
TWILIGHT Dorianne Laux
THE ANARCHISTS IN THE COFFEE SHOP Steve Mueske
POODLES
CHRISTMAS FABLE Bonnie Wanek
FIGURE Judith Kerman
A NIGHTMARE AFTER MY FATHER’S STROKE Ann Iverson
¿QUÉ ES? Roseann Lloyd
ON THE PONTOON William Reichard
OTHERWISE Michael C. Smith
RURAL DEMOGRAPHY Virgil Suarez
MY ROMANCE
MUSE Kim Addonizio
LEAVERS Donald Hall
HAVING BEEN AT SEA EIGHT MONTHS
YOUR NAME Christine Sikorski
CUE
YAHOO Juliet Patterson
CARTOGRAPHY
GENESIS Julie Hessler
GLASS GIRL Julie Cox
REACH Holly Harden
IN SECOND GRADE Kathy Anderson
THERE ARE THREE APPLES Melanie Kenny
LEAVE-TAKING Vicki Graham
WHAT THINGS WANT
HEARING BIRDS AT THE SHINTO SHRINE Robert Bly
THE PORTRAIT: GEORGE BELLOWS’ AUNT FANNY Mary Coolidge Cost
SYMBIOSIS
MEDIEVAL HERBAL Mary Kay Rummel
MAURICE PRENDERGAST – STILL LIFE David Cost
SEA
PRESENCES Ilze Klavina Mueller
8:03 P.M.
IT IS NOT THE FACT THAT I WILL DIE THAT I MIND Jim Moore
The Loft’s National Prize in Fiction
LORD I WANT TO BE MORE INDIAN IN MY HEART Michael Schlemper
The Loft’s National Prize in Poetry
NOT DRINKING ALONE: A LETTER AT THANKSGIVING
DAMAGE Jude Nutter
Creative Nonfiction
HOMESICK IN AMERICA Juliet Wittman
RIVER LOGIC Ruth Gila Berger
Meridel Le Sueur Essay
OUT OF THE DARKNESS: WRITING TO SURVIVE LA LUCHA Judith Ortiz Cofer
Interviews
AN INTERVIEW WITH ROSELLEN BROWN Jim Moore and Claire Ellis
AN INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS Barrie Jean Borich and Pam Joern
AN INTERVIEW WITH RAFAEL CAMPO Carol Pearce Bjorlie
Book Reviews
THE LONGING FOR CONFLAGRATION A Bookworm
NIGHTWORKS: POEMS 1962-2000 by Marvin Bell and
BLESSING THE BOATS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
Stan Sanvel Rubin
WHERE NONFICTIONS CHANGE DIRECTION by Mark Spragg and
THE NIGHT GARDENER: A SEARCH FOR HOME by Marjorie Sandor
Judith Kitchen