Spring 2002

Cover Art: Paul Nehring
Front: Decalomania #5, 12’’x 16’’, acrylic
Back:
Decalomania #3, 8’’x 24’’, acrylic transfer


POETRY

Ted Kooser—At the Welcome Center | In the Hall of Bones | Applesauce

Richard Lyons—Language | Sprouting Feathers

Amanda Pritchard Moore—Prague Morning

James Mackie—View from an Old Prairie Outhouse

Julia Johnson—Vernal Equinox

James Kimbrell—In a Subway 4 | A Page from My Childhood Journal

Choi Yung-Mi—In the Submerged Area of Imha Dam | In Sokcho

Amy E. DeJarlais—Mad for Water

R.T. Smith—Sweetness and Light | Séance | Revival | Nest | Geese

Diane Kirsten-Martin—Louise, the First to Go | The Three of You

Lorene Lamothe—Crows

Virgil Suarez—Telenovelas | A Daguerreotype of a House in Snowed Country

Alan Shapiro—Transistor Radio | Sleet

Kelly Hessedal—Where I’m From

Reese Thompson—Detail of the Virgin’s Head

Lacy L. Schultz—What Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Sasha West—Elegy for My Living Father

Martin Walls—The Sky Similized to the Sea: the Moon, to a Lure: a Spider, to an Angler: the Stars, to Fishes | Snail

Michael David Madonick—Stork


FICTION

Rivka Galchen—Blessed Version of Mary

Christopher Helmuth—At the Movies

Kristi Dalven—Some Other Time

Carrie Scarff—Nothing in This World


NONFICTION

Aaron Reynolds—Smoke


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Managing Editor: Shanda Hansma Blue
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Book Reviews Contributing Editor: Martha Faketty
Creative Non-Fiction Editor: Dan Mancilla
Fiction Editors: Anna Moss and Libbie Searcy
Poetry Editors: Richard Foss, Kirsten Hemmy, and Billy Reynolds


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