Cover Art: Mary Manusos
Front: Yellow House with Boats, 1990,
32’’x 44’’, Etching on handmade paper
Back: Blanket on Line, 1990, 44’x
46’’, Etching on handmade paper (top right); Yellow Fence, 1990, 44’’x 46’’, Etching on handmade paper (top
left); Green Palapa, 1993, 44’’x
46’’, Etching on handmade paper (bottom lfet)
POETRY
Sharon Bryan—The Underworld | Careless | My Last Night
Jennifer Hancock—I Never Wanted to Say | First Kiss: Portuguese Man O’War
Ed Ochester—On Frank O’Hara’s Birthday, Key West | For Ganesha, Hindu God of
Good Fortune
Dana Levin—Desire | Banishing the Angels
Carolyn Kizer—Jill’s Toes
Jesse Millner—It’s the Spring of 1965, and I’m Watching the June Taylor Dancers
Terry Kirts—Today in Illiana | Previously Answered Questions
Patty Seyburn—Sense of Things | River Rock
Saadi Youssef—The Gardener | The Flags | The Moment
Bob Hicok—Did I ever tell you about my love/hate relationship with confessional
poetry? | Harm’s Way
Patricia McMillen—Yang
Carl Auerbach—Romulus Augustus
Bob Russell—Maine, 11- December
Paula McLain—Lost in Space | Bloom
Valerie Loveland—Three Ducks
Kirk Robinson—Girl, 12 | Bolero
Dennis Hinrichsen—Orchard
Paulette Beete—Baptism
Allyson Shaw—Psalm of the Chorister
Ed Webster—A Provisional Vocation
Susan Varon—If Only I Could Have Adventures
John Rybicki—Sweet Star Chisel, Dearest Flaming Crumbs in Your Beard Lord, |
Letter to Old Man Markus
ESSAY
Mary Ruefle—On Secrets: Eight Beginnings, Two Ends
FICTION
Kevin Grauke—The Ringmaster’s Winter Circus Blues
Heidi Bell—This is Your Life
Traci Sobocinski—Disorders of the Hoof
Clifford Browder—An Entrepreneuse in September | The Witness
Brian David Mooney—Fog is a Cloud
Managing Editor: Kathleen McGookey
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Pedro Ponce and Janice Robertson
Poetry Editors: Scott Bade and Tony Spicer
