Cover Art: Cat Crotchett
Front: Apollo, 35 ½’’x 44 11/16’’, oil
on paper, 1999
Back: The Boy Wonder Story, 42’’x
36 5/8’’, oil on paper, 2001
Poetry
John Brehm—The Inner Life| Someone Up There
Margot Schilpp—Trompe L’Oeil| Vantage Points| In Which the You Is Multiple
Douglas Goetsch—Park Avenue| The People in My Building
Mariko Nagai—This Winter, When the Ocean is Quiet
Bai Hua—The Mountain and Water Hand-Notes
Karen I. Jaquish—That Last Night, Alone
Helena Mesa—Magnolias, Falling| Nocturne
Elizabeth Rees—Recovery
Brian Henry—from Contagion
Sarah Murphy—Song of That Summer
Nicholas M. Regiacorte—Straw Tail| Adeste Fideles
Christopher Howell—The Holdup| My Mother and the Sky
Carol Levin—The Perfumer
Ander Monson—Ordinary Experience| Cutting White Onions on My Father’s Board
Ronald Wallace—In the Blink of an Eye| Bringing up Abstractions
Jim Daniels—Under New Ownership
Kimberly Meyer—Pictures of the Floating World| Petitions for a Child in
Springtime
Theodore Worozbyt—Faces| The Fireflies
Fiction
Kami Westhoff—Killers
Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli—The Man Who Loved Big Women
Gonzalo Medina—The Avocado Tree
Bonnie Roop Bowles—Heart Stones
John McNally—Junk Heaven
Creative Nonfiction
Tara Jill Ciccarone—For Sally Who Turned Out Bad
Eli Hastings—Sky
George Bishop Jr.—Yerga: A Fragment
Interview
Brad Land—Poet and Memoirist Sarah Messer
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