POETRY
That Spring by David Young
4th Street Cemetery and Denali by Vandana Khanna
Well Baby and Not the Same by Dwaine Rieves
Red Lessons, Nightpiece, “The Tomb of the Wrestlers,” Recieving the Blessing of St. Blaise, and Where I Used to Live by Elizabeth Antalek
In Baltimore’s Art District by John Lundberg
He Dreams a Blue Dress by Johannah Racz
Retraction by Billy Collins
Cleopatra Muses on Seduction by Geri Radacsi
Apology to Vallejo by Bernard Jankowski
Rommel’s Asparagus and I Can’t Tell You by Thomas Lux
Hymn by Jeffrey Croteau
Ameh Joon by Susan Atefat Peckham
The Frog Finds His Home in the Damp, Damp World and After the Long Illness by Todd Heldt
Ending with a Line by a Band Called X by Dan Memmolo
Economy by Joshua Keen
ARTWORK
Esperance (front cover), Song (back cover), and others by Larry Enge and Carol Wilder
INTERVIEW
Poetry Begins Where Certainty Ends: An Interview with Eavan Boland
FICTION
In This Fashion by Jenny Rodin
Death Artist by William Orem
Tell Me Where It Hurts by Steve Almond
Little Dallas by Kristine A. Somerville
The Religion of Loss by Carolyn Johnson Lewis
ESSAY
The Taxonomy of Garbage by Robert Vivian
REVIEWS
C.D. Wright’s Deepstep Come Shining
Helene Barker Kiser’s Topography
Patricia Henley’s Hummingbird House
Jen Banbury’s Like a Hole in the Head
John Updike’s Bech at Bay
