Fiction
SKETCHING VESUVIUS Maura Stanton
THE GIFT John Gilgun
LAKE ELYSAIN Elissa Raffa
STILL LIFE IN ICE Gina Ochsner
THE BEAN Stacey Levine
SLOW LEARNER Julie Schumacher
SLIDER Paul Graham
Poetry
TOWARD A HUMAN NATURE Susan Luzzaro
SKETCHBOOK OF THE TRAPPER’S WIFE Diane Jarvenpa
ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER: GOETHE’S WINtER JOURNEY/WINTERREISE Sharon Chmielarz
THE MURAL Anna Meek
JOURNEYMAN Marc J. Sheehan
BEGINNING AGAIN Joyce Sutphen
ABUELITA’S INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE WE LEFT CUBA
SONG TO THE HIBISCUS Virgil Suárez
IN KAY’S GARDEN William Reichard
WANTING MORE AND MORE TO LIVE UNOBSERVED, UNOBSERVING Jane Hirshfield
SEARCH FOR A MUSE Joanne Esser
RIGHT OF WAY Denise Sweet
from THE TANGO Leslie Scalapino
VANISHING ROMANCE Anna Sochocky
PARABLE OF PASSOVER Robert Hill Long
BALLAD OF A RETURNEE Samuel Hazo
FALLEN Kathryn Kruger
EXILE Thea Sullivan
MIDNIGHT CALL James Lenfestey
LONG ENOUGH Ilze Mueller
BREAST CANCER Ann Iverson
SAT THE BOY IN A MOVEMENT Brandon Lussier
QUESTIONS ARISE Mark Halliday
MOVING ON Kate Lynn Hibbard
THE RECIPE Temple Cone
SO WHAT Kim Addonizio
THE NIGHT OF THE WORLD IS A PASSAGE Joshua Poteat
MASSAGE Roseann Lloyd
WINTER BLESSING Margaret Hasse
DAKOTA TURKEY Margot Fortunato Galt
HYDRANGEAS Angela Shannon
BALZAC ON HIS DEATHBED Askold Skalsky
MOSES’ CRADLE Robert Bly
JOAN IN THE WOOD Thomas Ruud
ASTER, CROCUS Su Smallen
ELLEN IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES David Ronald Lee
GILL-NET George Petty
HOPE Deborah Keenan
WRITTEN ON THE EVE OF THE CASSNI SPACE LAUNCH Shane Seely
WRITING POEMS ABOUT STILLNESS Jim Moore
RHODODENDRON, FUCHSIA, THORN John F. Deane
Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize
JAIRUS’S DAUGHTER Pam Wynn
FOR SALE Susan Rich
THE DOG IN DAUMIER’S THE REFUGEES Joseph Duemer
PAINTING WHITE MOUNTAIN Katherine Soniat
THE DEAD Carine Topal
Creative Nonfiction
NATALIE’S BIRTHDAY Carolyn L. Holbrook
CENTER OF GRAVITY Holly Harden
HOW FRENCH IS IT? Brigitte Frase
A YOUNG GIRL’S FANCY TURNS Julie Landsman
MEMORY THEFTS AND TRANSPLANTS Pamela Carter Joern
Meridel Le Sueur Essay
THE WAREHOUSE AND THE WILDERNESS Scott Russell Sanders
Interviews
AN INTERVIEW WITH LESLIE SCALAPINO Larry Sutin and Rebecca Weaver
AN INTERVIEW WITH MERIDEL LE SUEUR Patricia Kirkpatrick
Book Reviews
ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF DIFFICULT BOOKS A Bookworm
MANY CIRCLES: NEW AND SELECTED ESSAYS by Albert Goldbarth and
FOR RABBIT, WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR: AN AMERICAN READ by Anne Rolphe
Judith Kitchen
TO FIT YOUR HEART INTO THE BODY by Judith Neeld
FIRE SHADOWS by Gwen Head
CATHERAL OF THE NORTH by Connie Woisine
CAMERA LYRICA by Amy Newman
MAN UNDER A PEN TREE by Keith Ratzlaff
Stan Sanvel Rubin