Cover Art: Dick Keaveny Front Cover: Anatomy Lessons,
76’’x 119’’, 1998, oil on canvas, (detail) Back Cover (left): Old Man as Young Boy, 60’’x 48’’, 1999, oil on canvas, (detail) Back Cover (right): Best Infantata,
60’’x 48’’, 1999, oil on canvas (detail)
POETRY
Chris Hudson—A Gathering
Oliver de la Paz—School Years | Origami Dove | Earth and Sky
David J. Daniels—Distant | Safari | The Miracle Tortilla
Charles Harper Webb—Amplified Dog
Tenaya Darlington—Career Cashier | Not Wanting a Child
David Oliveira—Summer | A Little Travel Story
Mary Ann Samyn—Inside the Yellow Dress
Charles Simic—Rusty Key | In the Courthouse
Brian Henry—A Distant Architecture | Infirm
Brian Teare—Aunt Jackie: Insomnia, Tuscon, AZ ca. 1975 | Drought Summer:
Photo Journal
Eric Schwerer—Swamp Girl
Maura Stanton—Psalm for a Lost Summer
Ian Ganassi—Silent Short | Corporate Espionage
S. Stephanie—What Concerto Number 3 in D Minor Is Trying to Tell Us
Cameron K. Gearen—Rite of Spring
Russell Thorburn—Roschenthalers’ Bread | The Dead and the Living
Mary Jo Firth Gillett—Airborne
Jonah Winter—Ode: Kritique of Pure Reason | Against Simile | In the Best
of All Possible Worlds
David Dodd Lee—Color, Eyelids of
Joseph Di Prisco—Poem in which the concept of closure is addressed:
FICTION
Sharon Dilworth—A Little Learning
Christine Sneed—I Want to Marry You
Chuck Kinder—The Girl with No Face
Trudy Lewis—Masked Ma’am
Managing Editors: Shanda Blue and Kathleen McGookey Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin Fiction Editors: Lisa Lishman and Chris Torockio Poetry Editors: Karen Carcia, James D’Agostino, and Alexander Long Creative Nonfiction Editor: Amy Stewart
