POETRY
Introduction by Michael Spri ...
Sara Backer - The Failure of ...
Esvie Coemish - Love Letter ...
Jéanpaul Ferro - The Risk of ...
James Grabill - from Double ...
Lois Marie Harrod - Sex and ...
klipschutz - No Logo
Sandra Kohler - Message
Susan Laughter Meyers - Why ...
Simon Perchik - *
Eric Paul Shaffer - What the ...
Judith Skillman - Swaybacked
Jared Smith - This Woman to ...
Sara Backer - The Failure of ...
Esvie Coemish - Love Letter ...
Jéanpaul Ferro - The Risk of ...
James Grabill - from Double ...
Lois Marie Harrod - Sex and ...
klipschutz - No Logo
Sandra Kohler - Message
Susan Laughter Meyers - Why ...
Simon Perchik - *
Eric Paul Shaffer - What the ...
Judith Skillman - Swaybacked
Jared Smith - This Woman to ...
FICTION
Introduction by Bruce Boston ...
Michael T Banker - Creation ...
Joe McKinney - Writing for E ...
Kenneth Schneyer - The Manne ...
Siana LaForest - A Dream of ...
Matthew Herreshoff - Peace
Michael T Banker - Creation ...
Joe McKinney - Writing for E ...
Kenneth Schneyer - The Manne ...
Siana LaForest - A Dream of ...
Matthew Herreshoff - Peace
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- ISSUE ONE: Dec (00)-Feb (01)
- David Harouni (Featured Artist)
- Painting 1
- Painting 2
- Painting 3
- Painting 4
- Painting 5
- Painting 6
- Painting 7
- Painting 8
- Painting 9
- Painting 10
- Painting 11
- Painting 12
- Painting 13
- Gallery 1
- Gallery 2
- Gallery 3
- Interview with David Harouni
- Stan Rice (Featured Writer)
- African Immigrant Outside Museum of Art
- Alone in Love
- Breaking Light
- Eating Out
- Mr Heade Went to Brazil
- The Rhythms
- Interview with Stan Rice
- Poetry
- Dee Sunshine - Tranquility
- Dee Sunshine - Women Singing
- Gilbert Allen - Beyond Barbie
- Gilbert Allen - Good Luck
- Janet Buck - Pocket Change
- Janet Buck - Bird Watching
- Janet Buck - The Laundromat
- Al Maginnes - The Valley of Sleeping Women
- Al Maginnes - Outlasting Elegy
- Al Maginnes - Late Words for the Moon
- Fiction
- Linda Boroff - Everything I Have Is Yours
- Melanie Faith - Kiko
- Michael Jasper - Breathing Trouble
- Michael Laimo - I Exude in Partials
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE TWO: Feb-Apr (01)
- Charlotte Foust (Featured Artist)
- Desert Sands
- Winterlands
- Mystic Waters
- Crimson Abstraction
- Profile
- Single Minded
- Blue
- Abstract Face I
- Abstract Face II
- Disappearing Act
- Red Dye No. 5
- Reflection
- Omen
- Fair Weather Friend
- Dancing With Butterflies
- Gallery
- Interview with Charlotte Foust
- Susan Ludvigson (Featured Writer)
- Discoveries in a Morning Diary
- Where I Go At Night
- Someone Who Believes Herself Native
- Falling in Love Again
- Yoko Ono in Bed with Einstein
- Stepping Into a River
- Interview with Susan Ludvigson
- Poetry
- Chris Tysh - dogma dogs
- Willis Barnstone - Night of No Number
- Willis Barnstone - Fire & Verse
- Amittai Aviram - Programmer's Domestic Partner, Music Scholar, Dashes Poem Off on Napkin While Dinner Cools
- Alan Shapiro - The Old Man
- Alan Shapiro - If I Only Knew Then
- Amittai Aviram - Rainbow Over Bamberg
- Thomas Anthony - Sitting With Questions
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE THREE: Apr-Jun (01)
- Ginger Wagoner (Featured Artist)
- Bless The Children 1
- Bless The Children 2
- Bless The Children 3
- Bless The Children 4
- Bless The Children 5
- Bless The Children 6
- Bless The Children 7
- Bless The Children 8
- Placement Center 1
- Placement Center 2
- Placement Center 3
- Placement Center 4
- Placement Center 5
- Placement Center 6
- Placement Center 7
- Placement Center 8
- Interview with Ginger Wagoner
- Sharon Olds (Featured Writer)
- Satan Says (from Satan Says, 1980)
- What if God (from The Gold Cell, 1987)
- Possessed (from The Dead and the Living, 1984)
- Waste Sonata (from The Father, 1992)
- The Planned Child (from The Wellspring, 1996)
- To One Who Wrote Me, "I, Too, Am an Incest Survivor" (new)
- The Death of St. Peter on the Late Show (new)
- The Talkers (from Blood, Tin, Straw, 1999)
- Interview with Sharon Olds
- Poetry
- David Starkey - Still Life
- William Borden - Dead Ends
- Chocolate Waters - Pushing Fifty
- Christopher Macli - Da Da Da
- Chocolate Waters - Not Even Death Moves Me
- Sarah Lindsay - Mound Digger
- James Longenbach - Sleepless Night
- Laurie Kuntz - The Anniversary
- James Longenbach - Overhead
- Barry Spacks - Making Songs
- Sarah Lindsay - Slow Butterflies in the Luminous Field
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE FOUR: Jun-Aug (01)
- James Michalopoulos (F. Artist)
- 2 Tone
- Auto Neurve
- Buds Bias
- By Georges
- Cryptic
- Dontfencemein
- Heart Right Out of Sight
- Last Find
- Luxotta
- Puntuality
- Slam Fam
- Trois Trees
- Unfound
- Untitled
- Michael McClure (Featured Writer)
- Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Two)
- Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Three)
- Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Four)
- Zazen #1
- Zazen #2
- Zazen #3
- Zazen #4
- Zazen #5
- Zazen #6
- Zazen #7
- Zazen #8
- Zazen #9
- Interview with Michael McClure
- Poetry
- J.P. Dancing Bear - The Lonelier Moon
- Frank Anthony - Four BRIK Poems
- Mark Budman - Dear Nicholas
- Andrena Zawinski - I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
- Janet Buck - The Teapoy
- John G. Nettles - Tango Sinistre
- Kathryn T.S. Bass - Small Art in Artichoke
- C. J. Sage - When We Played The Song of Eros
- Fiction
- ISSUE FIVE: Aug-Oct (01)
- GAK (Featured Artist)
- 4X4 Cover
- Anthrax Ripple
- Bite The Bullet 2
- Blast Zone
- Compass Rose 2
- Darker Dawning
- Gang Banger
- Their Reverant Mother Vindictus
- Toilet Boys
- Vortex Phoenix 2
- Willis Barnstone (Featured Writer)
- And Through Our Closed Eyelids We Are Light: Spiritual Ways of a Godless Poet
- Interview with Willis Barnstone
- Poetry
- Jack Fisher - Downstream Dreams
- Barbara Hendryson - The Wedding
- Austin Alexis - Powwow
- Amy Schrader - Eve Avoids the Work
- Walt McDonald - For Friends Missing in Action
- Corrine De Winter - The End of Desire
- Gary Earl Ross - Transparencies
- Katy Whittingham - The Bird
- Priscilla Atkins - The Woman at the Bel Air Sands
- Corrine De Winter - Idle Fire
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE SIX: Oct-Dec (01)
- September 11, 2001 (Photography & Artwork)
- Jay Boucher/WTC 2
- Jay Boucher/WTC 3
- Jay Boucher/WTC 5
- Jay Boucher/WTC 11
- Jay Boucher/WTC 20
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 1
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 2
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 3
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 4
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 5
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 6
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 7
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 8
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 9
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 10
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 11
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 12
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 13
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 14
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 15
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 16
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 17
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 18
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 19
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 20
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 21
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 22
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 1 Collapse
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 2 Collapse, Photo 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 2 Collapse, Photo 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Towers After Crash, Before Collapse
- Sara K. Schwittek/Assist Heroes
- Sara K. Schwittek/Blood Drive
- Sara K. Schwittek/Bridge Smoke
- Sara K. Schwittek/Bus
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candle 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 3
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 4
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 6
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 7
- Sara K. Schwittek/Daisies
- Sara K. Schwittek/Evening 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Explosion 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Firehouse
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 1 Collapses
- Sara K. Schwittek/Flag
- Sara K. Schwittek/Flag Promenade
- Sara K. Schwittek/Flowers 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Gerber 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Interview
- Sara K. Schwittek/Liberty
- Sara K. Schwittek/Michael
- Sara K. Schwittek/Missing
- Sara K. Schwittek/Morning After, Photo 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Morning After, Photo 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Phone Blood
- Sara K. Schwittek/Police 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Read God's Word
- Sara K. Schwittek/Rescue Lights 3
- Sara K. Schwittek/Triage
- Sara K. Schwittek/View After, Photo 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/View After, Photo 2
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 1
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 10
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 11
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 12
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 2
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 3
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 4
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 5
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 6
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 7
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 8
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 9
- September 11, 2001 (Writings)
- Monica J. O'Rourke/Lest We Forget
- Sharon Esther Lampert/Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United
- Richard Mayer/9/11/01
- B.J. Smith/An American
- Michael O'McCarthy/An American Apocalypse
- Cathy McArthur/Paint Over This Poem
- Tammy A. Callahan-Callanan/The Eagle Will Soar Again
- Janet Buck/Two Poems
- Chris Saade/An Existential Reflection On The Latest Tragic Events
- Karl W. Bokelmann/What Was I Doing?
- Judith Laura/Air Cover Over DC
- Joel Young/Three Poems
- Mary Jane Beaufrand/Other Abnormalities
- Elizabeth Lowry/The Tower People
- Barbara Hendryson/Take Your Balmy Afternoons
- Alyssa Lappen/Paper, Smoke, and Ash
- Kristyn Y. Reid/Unholy Terror
- Rochelle Ratner/Dear Diary
- Marisa Rosenfeld/Today
- Virginia Boshears/The Red, White, and Bruised
- Christina Sng/Postwar
- Paul Kloppenborg/Twist of Steel (09-09-01)
- Wendy Carlisle/American Air
- Larry Winters/Two Writings
- Charlotte Jones/911
- Margaret Price/Revenge
- Greg Braquet/Three Poems
- Jeremy Schultz/Two Writings
- Jude Rittenhouse/Letter from Planet Earth, September 2001
- Rochelle Mass/Four Writings
- Lenore Weiss/Two Poems
- Howard Camner/Infamy
- Margaret Dornaus/The Mourning After
- Stephanie Nikolopoulos/Free and Brave
- J. Marcus Weekley/A Haiku Sequence
- Gretchen L. Jameson/Response to The World Trade Center Tragedy
- Mary Dezember/Frozen Music
- Annette Marie Hyder/Five Poems
- Melissa Lamberton/Three Poems
- Margaret Ellis Hill/Eruption
- Vicki Hudspith/Four Poems
- Barry Sherman/Extraordinary Times Inspire Extraordinary Measures
- Pam Chillemi-Yeager/A Poem
- Roy L. Post/Six Poems
- Susan K. Droney/Terror
- Austin Alexis/Three Poems
- Reva Sharon/From Jerusalem to America
- Alan Gann/Two Poems
- Helen Dixon/The Enemy
- Terry Lowenstein/Four Poems
- Phyllis Jean Green/Our Sales Staff Is Already On It
- Dorothy Ryan/Meditation on Loss
- The Intentional Living Institute/An Expression of Solidarity
- Tom Anthony/September 12 Writing
- Frank Anthony/Four Poems
- Mark Siegel/Bad Week
- Megan Breiseth/I Do Not Think We Choose
- Marcia A. Borell/A Short Piece
- Karin Beuerlein/No Soot Carries Here
- Cristina Lopez/Eyes Half-Opened
- Tamara Kaye Sellman/Three Poems
- Korkut Onaran/Two Poems
- Miki Magyar/11 September, 2001
- Anika Gupta/Martyr's Shadow
- Joan Payne Kincaid/Six Poems
- Karen A. Romanko/Two Poems
- Beth Boettcher/Residual Haunting
- Corrine De Winter/Two Poems
- John G. Nettles/Thinking with the Wrong Hemisphere
- Elizabeth Kerlikowske/Coffee Cake
- Lyndall Hare/Inauguration: September 11, 2001
- Margaret A. Robinson/9.11.01
- Jean Kiser/This Is Not Hollywood
- Michael Christen Smith/Everywhere They Are Asking
- Dana Imperatore/The Flight Heard Around The World
- Margaret M. Smith/Towers
- Gregory Phillips/The Crash
- Everette Bell/9/11/01
- Cara Bahir/Twins
- Amber Harlow/Evil's Identity
- Deborah P. Kolodji/Wake-Up Call
- Juanita Torrence-Thompson/Three Writings
- Ken Whitmore/Two Poems
- Lyn Neil/9/11/01
- Amy Harke-Moore/Suicide Bombings, Day Two
- Jamie Proctor/Icarus: 9/11/01
- Pat Poggi/Going Home
- James H. Albury, Jr./Awakening the Slumbering Giant
- Leanna Bartram/We Crumble (New York)
- Stephen D. Rogers/Firefighter Death
- Shelia M. Goss/Times of War
- Deborah Miller Rothschild/Mr. Yamamoto's Painting
- Tony Leather/Images of Pain
- Farida Mihoub/False Ambitions
- Michael Guinn/Freedom Rings
- Robert Bohm/Beyond the Sentimental to the Real
- Scott Lindberg/Events of September 11, 2001
- S.J. Thonn/We Are Humans
- Christine G. Richardson/Prophetic Footnote
- Timothy C. Davis/How To Spot a True Believer
- Matthew Pasca/The Closing of a Nation
- Poetry
- Meredith Stricker - Reading the Blank Spaces
- Suzanne Frischkorn - Limited Range of Motion
- Karen White - Evening at Evangelo's
- Tony Barnstone - Flight of the Gimps
- John Grey - The Sides in This Relationship
- Frank Van Zant - The Slingshot and the Sweetgum Tree
- Charles Fishman - Learning to Dance, 1956
- Bruce Boston - Shells: The Next Generation
- Carly Svamvour - Foxes
- Michele F. Cooper - Entrail #10
- Martina Newberry - Spreading Sand in Abdullah's Garden
- Joan Payne Kincaid - Natives Used to Call Them Ghosts
- Jacqueline Seewald - On The Nature of Things
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- ISSUE SEVEN: Dec (01)-Feb (02)
- Francis Eck (Featured Artist)
- Travel with The Wind
- Unknown Treasures
- Looking for Absolute
- Glacier Vatnajokull
- Provence
- Icebergs - Iceland
- Iceland
- Boreal Spring - Iceland
- Gold of Harvest Time
- The Perseides
- America Always
- A Tragic Day
- Fred Chappell (Featured Writer)
- The Persistence of Origin
- A World of Difference
- Universe Exhibit
- Nocturne
- Aubade
- Interview with Fred Chappell
- Poetry
- Eugene Gloria - Reading Langston Hughes
- C.J. Sage - Narcosis Song
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa - sacrament
- Kathleen Dale - Morning Glory
- Lois Marie Harrod - Lucky Seven
- Phyllis Jean Green - Aliases Tackle Philosophy 101
- Jen Cullerton Johnson- Under O'Malley's Roof
- Pam Bernard - Covenant
- Andrena Zawinski - Writing Lessons
- Ed Lynskey - Another Song for Clarissa
- Christopher Locke - North Star
- Chocolate Waters - Knocking Around Hell's Kitchen
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE EIGHT: Feb-Apr (02)
- Kathleen Ward (Featured Artist)
- Aphrodite-Girl On The Beach
- Flight Over Salem
- July Sixteenth
- The Music Lover
- Point Counterpoint
- Salem Dawn
- Sheherazade
- The Hotel Room
- The Music Lover
- Rose Tattoo
- Thief of Hearts
- East of Eden
- Dark Wing
- Nikki Giovanni (Featured Writer)
- Nikki-Rosa (from Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, 1970)
- Ego Tripping (from Re: Creation, 1970)
- [Untitled] (from My House, 1973)
- Night (from The Women and the Men, 1975)
- Woman (from Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day, 1978)
- Sky Diving (from Those Who Ride the Night Winds, 1983)
- Desperate Acts (new)
- A community of clouds (new)
- Interview with Nikki Giovanni
- Poetry
- Ward Kelley - Clear Knowledge
- Robert Lietz - Keeping Touch #3
- Rochelle Mass - Baptism Doesn't Happen When You're Afraid
- Rayn Roberts - Letter to a Longtime Companion
- Janet Buck - The Sketch
- Ruth Daigon - Ghost Music
- Sharon Shahan - In Some Countries It Is Illegal to Call This A Dream
- Radu Andriescu - Tudor (translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Radu Andriescu)
- Suzanne Burns - Hysteria
- Eric Bliman - Another Reason I Won't
- matt robinson - beer & the lazarus eye
- James Owens - The Way Things End
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE NINE: Apr-Jun (02)
- Tantra Bensko (Featured Artist)
- Reality Is A Conspiracy
- White Grove
- Bright Playa
- Approach
- Absolute
- Scene From A Poem
- Bestiary Of Truth
- Prepared By Quantum Dreams
- Rose And Miracles
- Subtle Bodies
- Angles Of Desire
- Steps Leading To An Enigma Which Could Also Be A Coffin
- They Speak But Their Words Are Guardians
- These Times End
- In The Blue Of The Woods
- Thomas Lux (Featured Writer)
- Tactile (from a chapbook, Merry Bones; fameorshame press, 2001)
- Reject What Confuses You (from a chapbook, Merry Bones; fameorshame press, 2001)
- Thus, He Spoke His Quietus, (from a chapbook, Merry Bones; fameorshame press, 2001)
- The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association (from a broadside released by fameorshame press, 2001)
- Rather (appeared previously in The Greensboro Review, 2001)
- National Impalement Statistics (new)
- Dogsbody (new)
- Interview with Thomas Lux
- Poetry
- Susan Terris - Michael Mazur: Ice Glen, 1993
- Martina Newberry - Dead Poet's Memorial
- Charles Fishman - Wheeler Avenue
- Suzanne Frischkorn - Panther & Bathing Suit
- Sheila K. Smith - Langston's Tune
- Richard Jordan - To the Schoolgirl On the Amusement Ride
- Jessica Smucker Falcon - The Rivers Turned to Blood
- Susan Ludvigson - When the Flag Goes Up
- Bruce Boston - Hypertexts
- Barbara Hendryson - Wicked Grace
- Carol Carpenter - Betrayal
- Susan Ludvigson - Amnesia
- Corrine De Winter - Swallowing Light
- Carolyn Adams - Flowers
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE TEN: Jun-Aug (02)
- The Bogside Artists (F. Artist)
- The Work
- Red Girl bw
- Banners Child
- 2
- 404 neg 01
- 239
- 5
- Bernadette, Battle of the Bogside Mural
- Bloody Sunday Protest (Puppets)
- 4
- Bloody Sunday Commemoration Mural
- Petrol Bomber
- Gary Soto (Featured Writer)
- Poetry
- Kathryn T.S. Bass - The Headaches (After Ashbury)
- Rhonda J. Nelson - Criminal
- Liam McKee - Suite Paraclete
- Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein - Loving Ghazal
- Donald Levering - Boy -- Reprise
- Sonia Pereira - The Bath
- Toni La Ree Bennett - You'll Kick a Flattened Can
- J.P. Dancing Bear - Fertile Crescent
- Khadijah Queen - Ghazal for My Ancestors
- Sandra Kohler - The New Regime
- C.E. Chaffin - Mall Demolition
- Simon Perchik - *
- William Ford - The Great Yellowstone Fire, 1988
- Karen A. Romanko - Equations in Time
- Walter Bargen - Conversation
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE ELEVEN: Aug-Oct (02)
- Bruce Boston (Featured Writer)
- Like an Addict Glowing (new)
- The Slums of Atlantis (new)
- Blood-Simple as a Thorn (new)
- The City and The Stars (new)
- Interstellar Tract (from Poly; Ocean View Books, 1989)
- In Far Pale Clarity (appeared as a limited edition broadside; Quixsilver Press, 2002)
- Interview with Bruce Boston
- Mike Bohatch (Featured Artist)
- Contorted
- Play Things of the Damned
- Penitence
- A Fatal Revelation
- Spirit of Progress
- Displaced Paranoia
- Transformed
- Revenant Martyrdom
- Laurie A. Carlson (Featured Artist)
- Protean Dawn: Legendary Arts & Dreams of Fusion
- Spume on a Quantum Shore
- Faie, Scientist
- Faery Waterfall
- Return of the Mother of the Sun and Stars
- April Lee (Featured Artist)
- Slawek Wojtowicz (Featured Artist)
- Poetry
- Erin Elizabeth - Crossing the Susquehanna
- Martina Newberry - Secret History
- Janet Buck - Thanatopsis
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa - every body dreams every night
- Suzanne Burns - A Jury Member Dreams of Taking the Manson Girls to Cocoanut Grove
- Adam Clay - Mind of Heaven
- Linda Alexander - After War, We Retreat to Shore
- Marian Kaplun Shapiro - In The Season of Miracles
- Lucy A.E. Ward - Bodies at Hotel Sitsobek
- Nanette Rayman - How She Died
- Bill Yake - Deadhorse Flats
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Interview with Octavia Butler
- Interview with Tantra Bensko
- ISSUE TWELVE: Oct-Dec (02)
- Maxine Kumin (Featured Writer)
- Grace
- Strut
- The Food Chain
- Going to Jerusalem
- The Lovers Leave by Separate Planes
- Interview with Maxine Kumin
- Kelly Billette (Featured Artist)
- Radium
- Primative Thought
- Edge
- Allegory
- Superstitious Reality
- Subtrahend
- Wallow
- Meaning and Discontent
- Surface Gliders
- Secret Saints
- Shelley Eichholz (Featured Artist)
- Anasazi
- Haunt
- Sober
- The Nursery
- While It Sleeps
- Gemini
- Torn
- Shelley Eichholz and Craig Morey/Peril
- Skin Depth
- The Hive
- Poetry
- Barbara Hendryson - The Wounding
- Wesley Biddy - Shakespeare's Sister
- Steve Mueske - An Apologetic
- Sheila Black - Playing Dead
- Charles Fishman - Jake, Sleeping
- Susan Wheeler - In Your House, the Platitudes
- Brandy Sejeck - The Voyage
- Corrine De Winter - Close to Holiness
- Richard C. Williams - The Sun Dodger
- Michelle Gibson - The Rim of a Canyon
- Jnana Hodson - Blue Rock LXXII, LXXIII
- Michael Leary - Saguaro
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE THIRTEEN: Dec (02)-Feb (03)
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Irene Livingston - Still Here
- Jackie Bartley - Two Portraits with Sushi and Light Bulb
- Erik Vatne - Poem 112
- Marge Simon - Primal Menagerie
- Sandra Kohler - Sojourn
- Ouyang Xiu (translated from the Chinese by David Lunde) - Lyrics to the Tune "Die Luan Hua"
- Suzanne Frischkorn - Jim Sings the Blues
- Carol Carpenter - Continuing View
- Ruth Daigon - The Young Dead
- Nancy A. Henry - On the Edge of the Village
- Joanna Catherine Scott - Typhoon's Approach, Manila
- Janice Moore Fuller - Like the Call of an Endangered Bird
- Florence Weinberger - Marrowbones
- Christine Boyka Kluge - One Claw into the Dream
- Sharon Gee - Featured Artist
- Dancing Daffodils
- A Moment in Time
- Amantia
- Discovery
- Kumaro
- Land of Hope
- Mahala
- White Sands
- Blue Deep
- Crimson Deep
- Inner Vision
- The Knowing
- Dancing in the Moonlight
- Desert Morning
- Guitar Man
- Last Crusade
- Stuart Dybek - Featured Writer
- Non-Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FOURTEEN: Feb-Apr (03)
- Robert Mezey - Featured Writer
- Touch It (from White Blossoms)
- How Much Longer? (from The Door Standing Open)
- To Be a Giant (from Small Song)
- The Grave (from Glosses and Variations)
- The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: A Cento (from Evening Wind and Other Poems)
- Hardy (from Evening Wind and Other Poems)
- Tea Dance at the Nautilus Hotel (1925) (from Evening Wind and Other Poems)
- VARIATION ON A THEME (from Collected Poems 1952-1999)
- Interview with Robert Mezey
- For Edgar Bowers (new)
- A Sleeper in the Valley (new)
- Long Lines, Beginning with a Line Spoken in a Dream (new)
- Poetry
- Bruce Boston - Two Nightstands Attacking a Cello
- Lucy A. E. Ward - Subject: File Classified
- Tobias Seamon - Exeunt the Heroes
- Bernadette Geyer - The Naming of Bones
- Stephen Newton - we went away from the things we knew
- Vicki Hudspith - Were We Drowning?
- Sarah Fay - End November
- Willis Barnstone - Full Moon Over a Two-Note Man
- Gilbert Allen - Outlook for Temporal Creatures Bleak
- Richard Sassoon - Reflections on Alchemy (Part 1)
- Michael Salcman - Looking at Kline
- Michael Spring - Dendrocalamus Asper
- Fiction
- David Alan Goldberg - Feat. Artist
- Dream Nude
- La Strada
- Happy Man
- Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face
- Anita Loos: Loos as a Goose
- Billie Holliday
- Rimshot and Corkscrew: Bitching and Moaning
- Don DeLeaumont
- Alice Takes Her First Bus Trip
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Vanity Fair, 1925
- Shake It, Girl
- Whadizzit?
- Non-Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FIFTEEN: Apr-Jun (03)
- W.S. Merwin - Featured Writer
- Anabasis (I) (from A Mask for Janus)
- The Drunk in the Furnace (from The Drunk in the Furnace)
- Is That What You Are (from The Lice)
- Plane (from The Carrier of Ladders)
- Inauguration (from The River Sound)
- Star (from The Pupil)
- To the Coming Winter (new poem)
- Interview with W.S. Merwin
- E. W. Lane - Featured Artist
- 73 Tears
- The Grove
- Chakra Figures
- By My Calculations
- Horses on Yellow
- Written on the Body
- House with Yellow Door
- The Corridor
- Past Life
- Red Jack
- It's a Game
- King and Queen
- On Target
- Alone
- Poetry
- Charles Fishman - A Field in Virginia
- Donald Levering - The Night the Millennium Changed,
- kris t kahn - The Bacchante
- Rochelle Mass - They Said He Was Living With #4
- Amy Small-McKinney - Body of Surrender
- Carol Parris Krauss - La Catrina; Puerta del Diablo
- Chanda Wakefield - Fusion
- Alain Sherter - Strange Teacher
- John Capista - Fleur du Mal
- Sheila Squillante - Hard Parting
- J.T. Ledbetter - In Mid-Winter
- Elisha Porat - Birds of Pain (Translated from the Hebrew by Asher Harris)
- Alan Catlin - night trains: an elegy
- Janet Buck - Double Vision
- Andrew Boobier - Différance
- Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE SIXTEEN: Jun-Aug (03)
- Featured Writer - Ai
- Featured Artists
- Barbara Rachko/He Just Stood There Grinning
- Barbara Rachko/He Was So In Need of Botany
- Barbara Rachko/In Reality the Frogs Were Men
- Barbara Rachko/Scene Seven: Living Room
- Deb Ramsay/River Began to Melt
- Deb Ramsay/Hold the Place
- Deb Ramsay/Forget and Then Remember
- Deb Ramsay/Ability to React
- Deb Ramsay/Sprinkling of Immortality
- Anne Stickel/Door #6
- Anne Stickel/Door #7
- Anne Stickel/Door #8
- Anne Stickel/Door #9
- Brian Zegeer/Animus 2
- Brian Zegeer/Harvest
- Brian Zegeer/PYT
- Poetry
- Khadijah Queen - Because there are no lakes,
- Christa Kongslie - At the Truckstop
- Theresa Boyar - Apocalypse Documentaries
- Jeffrey Alfier - Aguila, Arizona
- C.E. Chaffin - Mr. Z Goes Fishing
- Marge Simon - Language of Scorpions
- Michael Ladanyi - Humming Riddles
- Walter Bargen - Scorched
- Clayton A. Couch - state holiday blues
- Barbara Hendryson - To Show Me the World
- Phyllis Jean Green - Pot Calls Kettle
- Bill Yake - Watching for Signs
- Kristy Bowen - Cassandra
- David Lunde - The Social Fabric
- Robert Edward Levin - My Last Place
- Donora Hillard - Brothers
- Corrine De Winter - The Virgin in the Alcove
- Jason Heroux - Summer
- Polly Weiss - 7 Sonnets for 7 Brides
- Reviews
- Charles Fishman's Time Travel Reports...reviewed by William Neumire
- Alan Shapiro's Song and Dance...reviewed by Kara Candito
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE SEVENTEEN: Aug-Oct (03)
- Featured Writer - Philip Levine
- Zero for Conduct (first appeared in The Forward)
- Shadow Boxing (first appeared in First of the Month)
- Above the Angels (alternate version first appeared in Poetry International)
- Godspell (new)
- Down Under the Manhattan Bridge (new)
- Interview with Philip Levine
- Featured Artist - Ula Einstein
- altering landscape
- swimming in the depths
- his memory in my head
- evolutionary tension
- addressing the past
- restoration
- untitled #11
- emerging and receding
- late to blossom
- untitled #12
- awakening
- Poetry
- Lyn Lifshin - Past the Abandoned Railroad
- Collin Kelley - Self
- Irene Livingston - Moisty Green Summer of 1950
- Annalynn Hammond - I Beg You
- Ace Boggess - Do You Want the Usual
- Michael Johnson - Bread of Vengeance
- Greg Braquet - Mardi Gras Indian
- Lyn Lifshin - Hardly Anyone in My Family Could Sew
- Richard Newman - Commerce
- Donna Spector - Our Old Hillegass House
- Candy M. Gourlay - Emotion Jars
- Peggy Ann Tartt - Sin Eater
- C.J. Sage - For Food
- Ahn Behrens - New York Fever
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Sarah Lindsay's Mount Clutter...reviewed by William Neumire
- kris t kahn's arguing with the troubadour...reviewed by Bill Wesse
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE EIGHTEEN: Oct-Dec (03)
- Featured Writer - Ruth Stone
- Almost the Same
- Cause and Effect
- Chasuble Plausible
- Border
- Interview with Ruth Stone
- In the Next Galaxy...reviewed by Lindsay Penelope Sloane
- Reviews
- Michael Spring's blue crow...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Janet Buck's Tickets to a Closing Play...reviewed by Sam Sacks
- Featured Artist - Khalid Al-Tahmazi
- Man & Woman, II
- Five Sisters
- Blue Sky
- Is It Still There?
- Diary of the Diviners
- Winter Festival
- Magic Space
- The Red Bird
- Conversation
- Sweet & Love
- The Dreamer
- Visualizing Montreal
- Poetry
- Charles Fishman - At the Levittown Pool, 1952
- Hezy Leskly - Remains (translated from the Hebrew by Gilad Maayan)
- Ryan Masters - In Freefall
- Carly Svamvour - Return Fire from the Cello
- Donald Levering - The King of Coal Carnival
- Carol Carpenter - From My Watchtower in the National Forest
- Arlene Ang - Decline of the Victorian Period
- Carrie Etter - Not Wings
- Andrea Defoe - Gallery
- William Neumire - Odysseus
- David Cazden - Poison Ivy
- Beth Partin - Five Dreams of Revenge
- Estelle Villas - Mercy
- Chocolate Waters - Spelling Bee (a performance poem)
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE NINETEEN: Dec (03)-Feb (04)
- Featured Writer - Alan Dugan
- From Poems: "This Morning Here"
- From Poems Two: "From Rome. For More Public Fountains in New York City"
- From Poems Three: "On Zero"
- From Poems Four: "Saint Monday"
- From Poems Five: "Summer Gale"
- From Poems Six: "Love and Money"
- From Poems Seven:
"On Not Working and Then Working
On Working and Then Not Working" - Reviews
- Collin Kelley's Better to Travel...reviewed by Kathy Vogetanz
- Juanita Torrence Thompson's Celebrating a Tapestry of Life...reviewed by Barbara Hantman
- Michael Ladanyi's Spelling Crows of Winter...reviewed by Bernadette Geyer
- Sandra Kohler's The Ceremonies of Longing...reviewed by William Neumire
- Rochelle Mass's The Startled Land...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Poetry
- Ben Passikoff - Arrangement in Black
- Ruth Daigon - Invocation
- Janet Buck - The Last Tango Is Here
- Susan Terris - Two-week Suitors
- Donna Spector - A Devil's Bargain
- Barry Spacks - Drawn to the Rhythms of the Floating World
- Rochelle Ratner - Purim 2003, The Day After Bush Gives Saddam an Ultimatum
- Simon Perchik - *
- K. A. McGowan - Don't Ask
- Sonia Pereira - On Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
- Rane Arroyo - Radio Evangelist
- Bruce Boston - Severed Yellow Children
- Alan Catlin - Panopticon
- Tammy Armstrong - Bugbears
- Molly Herrick - Poem (backwash one)
- Featured Artists -
Three Lowe Gallery Artists - Maggie Hasbrouck - Birdcage
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Queen
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Sailboat
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Violin
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Yellow Dress
- Harry Paul Ally - Cain and Abel
- Harry Paul Ally - Eunuch
- Harry Paul Ally - Icarus
- Harry Paul Ally - Pieta
- Harry Paul Ally - Standing Figure with Stick #3
- Lita Cabellut - El Nino
- Lita Cabellut - Los Ombros
- Lita Cabellut - Paysajf
- Lita Cabellut - Trashemante
- Lita Cabellut - Triptico
- Atlanta Gallery #1
- Atlanta Gallery #2
- Atlanta Gallery #3
- Atlanta Gallery #4
- Santa Monica Gallery #1
- Santa Monica Gallery #2
- Santa Monica Gallery #3
- Santa Monica Gallery #4
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Daniel James Wood...Alan Dugan, Poems Seven
- William Neumire...Alan Dugan: the naked truth
- Lindsay Sloan...Untitled: A Retrospective Look at the Life and Work of Alan Dugan
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY: Feb-Apr (04)
- Poetry
- Willis Barnstone - Night Café
- Willis Barnstone - Café Zero
- Sandra Kohler - Scenarios for a Deathbed
- Charles Fishman - A Summer Night
- Michael Johnson - Waterwalker
- Richard Newman - The Silence of Men
- Michael Paul Ladanyi - Stretched into Disappearance
- Estelle Villas - Sparrow
- Angela O'Donnell - Lies
- Rachel Dacus - War News
- Kristy Bowen - Sometimes, Mary
- Steven Brodsky - Riverbed
- J.D. Smith - Epilogue
- C.E. Laine - A Meadow on Change
- Arlene Ang - Tea with Miss Marple
- Art
- Charlotte Foust - Ascension I
- Charlotte Foust - Ascension II
- Charlotte Foust - Time Loop I
- Charlotte Foust - Time Loop II
- Aja- The Enthusiastic Response to a Dull Question
- Aja - Tigerlillies
- Aja - Babylon
- Aja - Mardi Gras
- Aja - Monsoon
- Julio Mateo - Ode to Nature: XII
- Julio Mateo - Ode to Nature: IV
- Julio Mateo - The Rhapsodies: V
- Julio Mateo - The Birth of Venus, XVII
- Reviews
- Michelle Cameron's In the Shadow of the Globe...reviewed by Jim Boring
- J. Timothy Lovelace's The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry...reviewed by Jeffrey C. Alfier
- Stuart Dybek's I Sailed with Magellan...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Bruce Boston's Pitchblende...reviewed by David Lunde
- Another South: Experimental Writing in the South (Ed. Bill Lavender)...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- Barbara Hendryson's Luminosity...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Non-Fiction
- Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-ONE: Apr-Jun (04)
- Poetry
- David Mills - Fool's Gold
- Andrew Boobier - Imagining America
- C.E. Chaffin - Be Still
- Andrea Defoe - It Has a Red Head
- Andrea Defoe - If Jesus Were Navajo
- Carolyn Howard-Johnson - Olvera Street Tutorial
- Kathryn Butler - Drown
- Pat Hegnauer - Elegant Shambles
- Jill Van Epps - Requiem
- Marge Simon - The Seasons of Death
- Barbara Hendryson - Stars
- Peg Duthie - Da Capo Senza Fine
- Ava Leavell Haymon - The Gold Underpainting Is a Given
- Johnson Cheu - Apricots
- Wang Yun - Country Scene (translated from the Chinese by David Lunde)
- Art
- Andrey Doukhan - Alter Ego
- Andrey Doukhan - Moon Lovers
- Andrey Doukhan - Claustrophobia
- Andrey Doukhan - Protect Me From What I Want
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #1
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #2
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #3
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #4
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #5
- Susan Graves - Nebulous Clouds
- Susan Graves - Ripples
- Susan Graves - Volcanic Smoke
- Valentin Panaitof - Morning of Chimeras
- Valentin Panaitof - Thirst
- Valentin Panaitof - Isaac
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Amy Small-McKinney's Body of Surrender...reviewed by Jeff Stumpo
- Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer's Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present...reviewed by Gerard Meister
- American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Eds. Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr)...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- Nathan Leslie's A Cold Glass of Milk...reviewed by Barbara M. Simon
- Cecilia Woloch's Late...reviewed by William Neumire
- Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-TWO: Jun-Aug (04)
- Poetry
- Terri Brown-Davidson - The Neighbor's Drawing
- kris t kahn - Sappho's Shadow
- Irene Livingston - Gloom Goon
- Catherynne M. Valente - Suzuri
- Eric Paul Shaffer - Black Light
- Tobias Seamon - The Contract
- Liz Dolan - Picking Up Steam
- Scott T. Summers - Twin
- Joanna Catherine Scott - Adoption Anniversary
- Leslie Goerner - Medicine Man
- Susan Culver - And Then, She Opens Her Eyes
- Carol Carpenter - The Puzzler
- Janet Buck - Carrots in Dirt
- Fiction
- Ellen Birkett Morris - Lost Girls
- John Vanderslice - A Desert Has No Exits
- Katherine Olga Huether - Wise Woman
- Judith Cox - Snow on Lambs
- Nathan Leslie - Introduction to the Fiction Section
- Featured Artist - Lynne Taetzsch
- Eye on the Dawn
- Tokyo Fantasy
- Feathered Nest
- Categorical
- Looney Tunes
- Night Songs
- Ghost Story
- Talk to Me Now
- In the Gloaming
- Hidden Grace
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Charles Fishman's Country of Memory...reviewed by Barbara Crooker
- Alan Catlin's The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre...reviewed by Charles P. Ries
- Walter Bargen's The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences...reviewed by Gilbert Wesley Purdy
- S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.'s You Should Get That Looked At...reviewed by Henry Berne
- Barbara F. Lefcowitz's Photo, Bomb, Red Chair...reviewed by Laurel Johnson
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-THREE: Aug-Oct (04)
- Poetry
- Ruth Daigon - A Watch That Waits
- Bonnie J. Morris - The Trigger Fish
- Diana Pinckney - The Artist Speaks to Her Unborn Paintings
- John O'Dell - What Fish Think
- Michael Johnson - The Story of Lightning
- Phillip Sterling - Li Po in America
- Rosemary Clark - Waltz
- Nancy Kenney Connolly - Monologue for a Massage
- Thomas Dorsett - Venus and Adonis
- Fiction
- Courtney Zoffness - Lump Sum: A Chinese Dinner Divided
- Kathryn Kulpa - Palm Sunday
- Tim Myers - That Night
- Loren Jenks - The View from the Throne
- R.T. Smith - Woodwork: How the Rustic Art Placation Ended with Howling Hounds
- Book Reviews
- Suzanne Frischkorn's Red Paper Flower...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Bill Yake's This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain: Poems 1970-2003...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- David Chorlton's Return to Waking Life...reviewed by Laurel Johnson
- Erin Murphy's Science of Desire...reviewed by Jeff Stumpo
- New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Featured Artist - Eduardo Recife
- lost paradise
- caution
- happier
- expo arte digital
- the boy
- what a beautiful world
- loneliness
- change yourself
- build size fast
- superego
- everything is connected to each other
- we're trapped
- welcome
- Editor's Introduction
- THE POLITICAL ANTHOLOGY
- Poetry
- Tony Barnstone - Alladin in Oakland
- Joseph Alexander - Milk, Not War
- George Wallace - A Prayer in Time of American War
- Stacie Barry - I Sold You, You Sold Me
- Orville Lloyd Douglas - I Am Not Black
- John D. Smith - On Pacifism
- Ellen Hopkins - Ugly in Black
- Rosemary Musachio - Twenty-four Hours a Day
- Michelle Gibson - Prayer after 9-11-01
- Lisa Harrison - The Answer
- Randy Lofficier - I Heard It on the Evening News
- Eddie Coletti - Torture
- Geoff Tims - The Voter Speaks
- Michele F. Cooper - The Way the War Gets Born
- Vernyce Dannells - Names Have Been Changed
- Frances Ruhlen McConnel - Where Have You Gone, You Glistening Guardians of the Air?
- Helen Buckingham - Gardener's World
- Braxton Younts - Old Glory
- Stephen B Grant - In the Wake of America's Storm
- Daniel Thomas Moran - White on Rice
- Joel Mathew Hegberg - Essence Distilled
- E. Louise Beach - After Battle
- Joyce Meyers - Jenin's Daughter
- Eileen Malone - Refugee Camp
- Alan Shapiro - Dog and Owner
- Miriam Axel-Lute - Counter/Protest
- Magdalena Ball - The Modern World
- Bob Bradshaw - Monster in the Twenty-first Century
- Victor Camillo - The Newspaper
- Ann Cefola - Portrait of My Country
- Deborah Ferber - The Sweet Fruit of Revenge
- Gerry Nicosia - The Dead Bid George Farewell
- Martin Kich - Homely Metaphors for Slaughter
- Georgie Lee Blalock III - Not Sure They Got It Right
- Harry R. Wilkens - Real World
- Radomir Luza Jr - Yo (I Liked Ronald Reagan)
- Curtis Carroll Rice - Strong Enough
- Christopher J. Jarmick - Crazy Talk
- John Dooley - Slave Killer It
- Mike Sekuloff - Rage Plagues
- John Tiong Chunghoo - Political Haiku
- Samuel Nicholson - Everyday Heroes
- John J. Mundt - What We Have on Our Hands
- Davina Rhine - Three Days and Four Nights
- Chris Major - I See
- Janet Butler - Iraq
- David Michael Jackson - I Knew Nothing of the War
- Matthew D'Abate - Another One for the Grizzlies
- Barbara DeCesare - What You Say Goes
- M.A. Internicola - Bombs Over Baghdad Wednesday Morning
- Terri Lyn Kenepp - Stars
- Frank Anthony - Bless US American Bums
- Corrine De Winter - Why Not to Vote for Bush
- Nina Corwin - Telling Time
- Dawn M. Lang - Golden Eggs are for Pantyhose
- Ulrike Gerbig - Ice Age
- Christopher Kendalls - Your Electoral Vote
- Robin M. Buehler - Sons of the Father
- Keith Berry - American Detox
- Arthur Ford - At Least Half
- Gabrielle S. Faust - Desert War
- John Francis Missett - These Dead of Yours
- Scott Withiam - Government Dependence
- Samuel Minier - Radiant Jesus
- Jan Oscar Hansen - War Is Coming Our Way
- Craig Kirchner - Baghdad Dream
- Martin Bennett - September, 1972
- Barry Ergang - We Regret to Inform You
- Vadim Bystritski - Off The Twin Tower
- L. Ward Abel - In Another Country Now
- Anne Harding Woodworth - Tulip Control
- Jeanpaul Ferro - Talking to Yahweh at Raudhatain
- Teresa White - Long Hot Summer of 2004
- Lynn E. Cohen - Pearl Sky Days
- Suzan Lustig - Fatal Reports on the Low-Carb Lifestyle
- Susan O'Neill - Licensing Requirements
- Jim D. Babwe - My Candidate Is an Honest Politician
- Rachel Webster - Anti-war
- Jerry Chambers - Morality Lost
- Howard Camner - Everything Changed Under Cromwell
- Ellen Birkett Morris - The Decision
- Gretchen Fletcher - Some Things Never Change
- Rachel Barenblat - No Alternatives
- Michael Morical - Cento: By the Earth's Corpse
- Alana Merritt Mahaffey - Televising Tel Aviv
- June Saraceno - A Sudanese Mother, 2004
- Corey Mesler - President W
- Sandra J. Lindow - A Crow in Wartime
- Bruce Williams - Bombs Away
- Hazel Wilcox - Communist America
- Derek Tellier - Terror's Variables
- Tony Word - A Poem Of Gratitude
- Enriqueta Rodriguez Carrington - To Those Who Have Been Disappeared
- Albert Russo - If Truth Be Told
- Sheila Nixon - Iraq, Safe For Democracy!
- Jake Vagus - A Cardinal in the Rain (Elegy to Reagan)
- Tom Moore - Rich Herds in Flames
- Ed Wolverton - God Bless America
- Jessica Pankratz - Cloning a Nation
- Lyn Lifshin - A Wet Cold Winter to Come
- Jayne Jaudon Ferrer - Conventional Behavior
- Kate Bernadette Benedict - The Pledge
- Liz Riseden - A Woman Smiles
- D. Breeden - History; Duty: A Song for Conservatives
- Donnie Cox - American Business Card
- John Bradley - Exorcism of the Word
- Japheth Brubaker - Economy
- Jerry Cunningham - Coming Home
- Barbara Hantman - New Year's 2003
- Laurel Lamperd - Special Relationships
- Robert Cohen - Palestinians
- Lenore Weiss - Free Speech Zone
- Tanner McSwain - Requiem for Dust
- Donna Spector - When the Storm Comes
- William R. Stoddart - A Tale of Two Presidents
- Cynthia Yates Alderman - A Salute To Our Troops
- John E. Simonds - People of Commitment
- Nick Brown - the government above...
- Mary Bass - Your Servant From The Front
- Dorothy Laurence - Winter of 2004
- Morrigan Benton-Floyd - Body Count
- Joan Payne Kincaid - Policies of Deceit
- Philip Reyth - America: A Prophecy
- Justin Barrett - My Political Poem
- Mark Nensel - Wrong
- Kenneth Pobo - Cannibals
- Elisha Porat - In Netanya, above the Cliff
- Cheryl Stiles - Gulf
- A.D. Winans - Written on the Bombing of Iraq
- Mark McKain - American Charm
- Liz Dolan - Air Raid Drills
- Francis Masat - A Clod of Dirt
- Tolkacz - American
- Steven E. Brown - Sandy Koufax
- Kathryn Allen - Broken Bullet-Proof Vests
- Stephen Oliver - The Desert as Palimpsest
- Judy Z. Kronenfeld - First Salvo
- Steve Alan Gerber - Distance
- Michael Lohr - The Ghosts Of War
- Jerry Schaefer - Right?
- Karren Alenier - You Can Tell 'em I'll Be There
- Mark Sealey - After Life
- Desirae Souverville - Lost Intentions
- Sandy Crimmins - I'm Sicka His Shit
- Drew DeFinis - The Fix
- K. L. Jones - World Sight
- Jack Cooper - No Longer
- Anthony Fedanzo - Beggars in the Butcher Yard
- Marge Simon - Patriots' Day
- Stephen Mead - Rice
- Amy Trussell - Life Preservers
- Ellen Sander - Bloodlines
- Shelley Ettinger - Blood Sport: a Geography
- John Bennett - Ymafni
- David E. Howerton - American faith
- Sahar Delijani - There is no Forgetting
- Ted Hedden - Indian Summer Breeze
- Calvin Weaver - Deacon Dragon’s Duty
- Estelle Villas - Onoma
- Richard Hahn - Exit Strategy
- Giselle L. Betts - And Now a Word on Our Government
- Gaille Merrill - Still Waving
- Pat Brodie - Letter to Iraq
- Jean M. Welch - Inferno
- Margaret Rozga - Estuarian Politics
- Yvonne Morris - News and Weather
- Steven Sher - Far from the War
- M. Brisbin Miller, II - Tirades
- Donna Nocera Miller - State of the Union
- Rosalie Calabrese - Oil
- Laura Crews - Death of the Yamana or Yaghan
- Isabelle Ghaneh - Crazy Sounds, Coming Loud
- Andy Larter - A Bullet For Everyone
- Elizabeth Kerlikowske - State Of The Union
- Chris Faiers - The fire has come down from the mountain
- D. E. Green - Continental Divide
- Lorraine Stark - A Band of Sisters
- Ralf Smart - The Hoeing Song
- James Grinwis - The Violent Emotions of
- Eliza Kelley - Sudan Report
- Dorothee Lang - Tipping the Scales
- Robin Leslie Jacobson - Stars and Stripes
- Justine Pena - Our Men and Women in Service
- Patricia Brody - Riverside Park: Battle Scene with Cherries
- Sravana Reddy - Yes, the People
- Bren Gentry - I Approve this Message
- Griffin Irving - Soldier Boy
- Brett Axel - George W
- Sandy Knauer - No Soul
- William John Watkins - Convention Coverage
- Albert Russo - If Truth Be Told
- Scott Compton - Strength
- Valery Oisteanu - Manifesto for the Abolition of Bureaucracy
- Tim Bellows - America
- D.N. Moule - Politically Incorrect
- Dorothy Ryan - The Circle Is Unbroker
- Darby Harn - Santa Monica
- Si Wakesberg - Three Political Parables For Our Time
- Melanie Rivera - Ghazal
- Laurence Loeb - Ars Politica
- Peter S. Griffin - You Can't Fool Them All The Time!
- Sherry Chandler - Rally
- Larry Rapant - Political Speech
- Jeffrey C. Alfier - No-Spin Zone
- Riccardo Giovanni - Invisible (Unseen And Unheard)
- Daniel M. Shapiro - 86% Effective
- Jeffrey Michael Miller - Kerry vs. Kerry
- Anne Montague - Beheading
- Margaret Balch-Gonzalez - Apocalypse
- Ed Cockrell - Heaven's Reward
- Jason Fraticelli - Stromboli's Playground
- Jon Wesick - Why I’m Voting for Kerry
- Dory Hudspeth - Listening Through Politics
- Srinjay Chakravarti - Capitol Hill
- Pamela Pignataro - Political Haiku
- Collin Kelley - AIDS Suite
- Joe McLaughlin - Springtime In Iraq (3 Tankas)
- Megan Webster - A Truck Full of Parts
- Darlene Lancer - War and Peace
- James E. Roethlein - The City
- Lucy Fuchs - Soldier
- Gregory Betts - Effluviad
- Pat Barber - Homefront
- George Held - Patriotism: November 11, 2002
- Roger J. Crotty - George II
- Sarah Levenson - Poem That Morning
- Zach Christian - No Sale; No Sense of Taste
- Alec Whittle - indiana (amy)
- Tony Reevy - Dreaming of Lincoln
- Peter Goodwin - This Land, Your Land
- Tamir Buchshtav - Land
- Allyson Whipple - Evil Either Way
- Barbara Southard - Man On A Bridge
- Gil Allen - Wardrobe
- T. Luis Cox - The Salt of the Moon in the Shadow of Wasson Peak
- Adam Penna - From Ben and I
- Mordecai Marcus - Disaffected
- Jayne Lyn Stahl - A Special Breed
- Gloria Cosgrove - Lament of a Gardener
- Gloria G. Murray - Chopin And President Bush
- Ruth Mark - The final curtain call.
- Carol Williams - Decisive Victories
- Joseph Byrd - Gulf War II
- Elizabeth Penrose - A Pacifist in Wartime
- Darryl Wellington - The Sinister Mind of Fu Manchu
- Jerry Norris - Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
- Sam Grabelle - Government
- Daniel Pantano - Pedigreed Hands
- Marilynn Fuqua - Derelicts
- Roy A. Chávez - Peace has the pale color of a cross
- John Bryan - Surrealerial Killer
- Duane Locke - Al Fresco Cafe Poems #12
- Katherine Murphy - Tambourine Days
- Hal Sirowitz - Home-grown Anger
- Susie Howard - WTHEFM
- Patricia Wellingham-Jones - The Cleanest War in History
- Alan Catlin - Three Views from a Burned Out Building in Iraq
- Jeff Redstone - The Daily News
- Anna Evans - Next to of Course England America I…
- Leonore Wilson - At the Grave of Abedul Hassn, Baghdad
- Phillip Robets - Curds and Whey
- Lisa Haviland - Noose
- Anatoly Tsaliovich - The Pig That Grew Horns
- Gail Goldsmith - Prospect
- George G. Rose - A Long Tale A Wagging
- Sally Buckner - Afternoons
- Richard Newman - What I Carry with Me
- Cheryl Snell - War
- Dee Rimbaud - Atom Dead Latex
- Bruce Boston - Concrete Poem for the President
- Clayton Couch - Combat Poem
- Darlene Estlow - Price Of Peace
- David Salner - Nixon Times (Or Was It Johnson)
- Mary Saracino - Enforcing the Peace
- David B. Axelrod - Ited We Stan
- JB Mulligan - it's worth something
- Michael Meyerhofer - Our Patriotic Conundrum
- Steve Dalachinsky - Beached 2
- Jeannine Hall Gailey - You Misunderstand Republicans
- Arlene Zide - The New Romans Learn Doublespeak
- Danielle Grilli - Soldier Downed By Senseless Act of Violence
- Peggy Landsman - Good Morning, Barstow!
- Bill Roberts - Dreaming of Freedom
- Teresa Peipins - On the Death of a Friend, The Start of the War
- Grey Held - The Beech Tree
- Ram Mehta - Everything‘s under control
- Caroline Washington - Don't Forget About Me...
- Nettie Bozanich - Daydreaming from Canada
- Susan Landon - Airport Screening
- Len Bourret - No 'Freddie the Freeloaders' in the Hamptons
- Jean Lehrman - Kansas
- Brenda Seabrooke - Pay Per View
- Jeffrey Kahrs - Current Events
- GinnaKarla S. Nicolas - I Can’t Eat Enough Oatmeal
- Bill Britton - Electioneering
- Henry Howard - The Boy with the Bomb
- Robert Covelli - Heretic!
- Sharon Esther Lampert - Gay Brotherhood
- Ruth Daigon - The Young Dead
- Paul Utukuru - Our Religion and Our Politics in the Year 2004
- Karen Newman - American Politicians
- Robert K Meyer II - The Fat Tuesday Speech
- Ahn Behrens - Dining in America
- Paul Kloppenborg - World Economy
- Maria Fama - Fireworks On July 4, 2004
- Marte Broehm - Fifty Years Forward: A Prophesy for 2053
- Phillip Corwin - Bush League
- Michael McIrvin - Virgil on Main Street: Poem Presaging War
- Geo Staley - Sioux Victory Day June 25th
- Amy Ritchie - East to West
- Ulf Kirchdorfer - Go for It
- Bryan Thao Worra - What Tomorrow Takes Away
- Kathy Downey - War Gods
- Paul Hostovsky - War & Peace
- Jeffrey Ethan Lee - Surreal (killer) soul in the USA
- Joseph McGreevy - Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Gunther Haas - Poets Against Poets Against The War
- Terry Hertzler - A Dangerous Place
- Jadene Felina Stevens - The President Said
- Kristen Havens - Risk
- Ann Elliott Sherman - Shiva in a Snakeskin Suit
- Manuel Figuroa - A Distant Chime
- Brian Howe - The Waiver
- Jack Adler - Mirrors of Remorse
- Tasha Klein - My fellow Americans
- AnnMarie Eldon - Dear Donald
- Daniel Maguire - Leaders
- Raye Rose - Eleven Minutes
- Dan Wilcox - July 4th
- Eileen Malone - Knife Thrower's Wife
- Scott Malby - Venus Furioso
- Frank Joussen - Power Point
- Doug Arnold - Newly Apolitical
- Rich Murphy - Terrorized
- Tammy Turner-Peaden - Wars And Rumors Of
- Benjamin Hartley - The Tower
- Emma Phillips - The Grand Old President
- Peter Morriss - Better a Millstone…
- Adele Bourne - Grocery List
- Michael Estabrook - Politics Is An Old Boot
- Khadijah Queen - Free Country
- Anatoly Tsaliovich - Liberal Rock
- Viviana Grell - Brand X
- Sarah L. Tolcser - The Day the City Fell
- Joy O'Donnell - Poetry And Politics
- Jeff Leong - Third World Child
- Leslie Enloe - Weapons Of Mass Destruction
- Theresa Magliano - Make It Stop
- Sam Friedman - Elections, 2000
- Jose Gouveia - Talking Middle East in South West Ireland
- Ann Tweedy - domestic violence
- Melanie Stiles - Red, White and Blue Moments
- Darla Wells - Written When all the Country Had to Worry About Was Monica
- Marj Hahne - Friday, 13 August 2004
- Randy St. Marie - Voodoo Events
- Steve Dalachinsky - Pray for Me
- Charles H. Johnson - The Way We Were
- Justin Evans - Jubilate Agno
- Paul Catafago - Memory Failure (for Ronald Reagan)
- Peter H. Desmond - Black Body Radiation
- Christopher George - The Progress of Christ through America in this Election Season
- Tamara Kaye Sellman - Alive
- Felicia Chernesky - Not Just Your Own Private Sorrow
- Adrian Lurssen - Analysis of an Otherwise Intelligence
- Dave Holt - Choirboy
- Allen Lau - Revolution, and Sing
- Maria Ponce de Leon - Radio Flyer
- Shanna Germain - Laid Bare
- David Wright - If Poets Ruled
- John Setliffe Bourne - We Don't Need No Stinking Environment
- Deborah J. Hunter - My Poems Are Too Loud
- Ken Buhr - Until
- Adi Albala - The Hawks at The Hague
- Eve Packer - atocha
- Mary Langer Thompson - Rolling the Stone Away
- Steven Ratiner - Mass Grave
- Michael Boettcher - Please, Can You Spare a Quarter? I'm Hungry
- Celestine Woo - From the Christian Cauldron
- Helen Tzagoloff - Coronation At The Capital
- Austin Alexis - Sounds of War
- Schuyler Bishop - When Abercrombie & Fitch Went Off to War
- Carol Bevan Bogart - Wingspan
- Omékongo Dibinga - Welcome to the Congo
- David Radavich - The Day Our Hero Rode Into Town
- Rayn Roberts - Opinions Expressed Here Are Not Necessarily Those Held In Madison
- Thomas Dorsett - Grave New World
- Susan H. Case - And Now We're Suddenly Quiet
- Tolu Ogunlesi - No Christmas in Baghdad
- Barbara MacKay - The Bush
- Debashish Haar - Devaluation of Life
- Douglas A. Yingling - Countdown to Terrorism
- Amy Small-McKinney - Nigeria 2002
- Jan D. Hodge - Thoughts on Iraq
- Susan Edwards Richmond - Crossing
- Lou Bradley - War
- Eliet Brookes - George
- Andres Castro - I Know Racism
- Serena M. Agusto-Cox - Campaign 2004
- Rosalie Calabrese - Oil
- Dale Jacobson - The Ballad of Rachel Corrie
- Edward Roberts - A Salute to Those Who Serve
- Lynn Veach Sadler - A Teenager Has Fears that He May Cease to Be
- Bruce DuBoff - Sonnet for Caesar
- Geraldine Cannon - The Perfect Candidate
- Philip Burton - A Word to The Unwise
- Eve Hoffman - Spring Shout 2003
- Celest Woo - From the Christian Cauldron
- Mark S. Bauer - America in 2003
- Mira Kores - To a Spy
- Glenn Hutchinson - Freedom
- S. M. O'Halloran - Back to the Stone Age
- Mame Willey - Given The Impending Election
- Beate Sigriddaughter - A Place for the Unborn
- Kenneth B. Chiacchia - Victim
- S Beth Bishop - Honeymoon, Manhattan
- Phil J. Gatton - Solomon
- Philip Allen - Where ‘the Problem’ Lies
- John J. Trause - On the Horror, Futility, and Absurdity of War
- Pat Falk - After Reading Women on War
- Wendy Drexler - The Twentieth Century
- Jack Cook - Feds and Meds: A Meditation
- Steven Brodsky - To Dust
- Lynn Stoller - Wavy Gravy's Ghost Gives Up
- Maurisa Thompson - Pictures from Fallujah
- Kelley Jean White - A stranger spoke in Quaker meeting
- J. Che' Davies - I am America
- Nathaniel Smith - News from the Front
- Vera Rich - The Ballad of a Useful Man
- Barbara Hoffman - Variations on a Prayer
- Esther Cameron - Premises
- Shawnte Orion - Arizona Wildfires, like Global Diplomacy
- Thomas H. Brennan - Oxymorons
- Anthony "Skip" Fedanzo - Election Day
- Chris O'Carroll - Doing Her Bit For The War Effort, The First Lady Calls Off a Gathering of Poets
- Barbara Reiher-Meyers - Election Story
- Joel L. Young - More?
- Helen Losse - Mantra 2004, The Republican Convention
- Bob Newman - Rubaiyat of Saddam Hussein
- Charlaine Coleman - Progress
- Philip Pisani - Upstate Hometown
- Terry Lowenstein - A Different Harvest
- Sunny Solomon - On the Way to Iraq Everywhere There is Dancing
- Lynn Stoller - Politics
- Eugene Schlanger - Afghanistan
- David Buchsbaum - Septembers Happen
- Abir Pathak - Politician (Strong willed man)
- Jesseca Cornelson - Hair Cut
- Katherine Adamenko - War Haikus/Haikus for War
- Dan Smith - King Of The World
- Geona Edwards - Images
- Michael Tritto - New Century Old
- Florence Weinberger - Art and Artifice
- Fiction/Plays
- Bayard - This Is Not What America Is About
- Stephen Ortman - Campaign Strategies
- Maria Lapachet - We Were Young
- Rob Rosen - The Mule and the Elephant
- Greg Bauder - Mom and Apple Pie
- Anne Stickel - Afraid of the Dark
- Ellen Meeropol - Knocks
- T. Zachary Cotler - We Get the Picture
- Renee Roberson - The Cure
- Charles Langley - Sammy: A Children's Story for Adults
- Tim Houlihan - Once Upon a Time in Manchester
- Robert Ready - Autocephalous
- Sandra Levy Ceren - Your Health Care Is at Risk
- Lee Ehlers - Shame
- Jonathan Lowe - The Bush Vocabulary
- Robert Guffey - Letters to the President
- Wayne Scheer - Nothing Wrong with Cheating?
- Jon Hubach - This Is America
- Henry Pelifian - Americans in Iran
- Theresa Chaze - And Freedom for All
- William Borden - Joe and Al
- Stan Hinton - Devil's Advocate
- Ace Boggess - An excerpt from his unpublished novel, Haunting Gray
- Bill Teitelbaum - The Order of the Bells
- Melody Mansfield - A Day in September
- Erika Dreifus - Calendar Man
- Nicole Matthews - The Last Transcript
- Kari Ann Owen - Modern Life: The Bomb
- Colin Harvey - The Bounty Hunters
- Miriam Fried - The Last Time I Saw America
- Toby Tate - The Muffin Man
- Raktabh Mahesh - Rachin's Engineered Heart
- Andrew Kaye - Giving Peace a Chance
- Sand Rector - Tom, Dick and Harriet Go Home
- Kenneth Hickey - Election Night
- Tom Doughty - Rat Bait
- Rosalie Calabrese - Fly, Lily, Fly
- Mike Ingles - Fresh Kill
- Mrinal Bose - Excerpt from The Dangling Man
- Steve Falcone - Stone's Throw
- C.B. Smith - The Articles of Peace
- Paul Silverman - River Street
- John Quinn - An Interaction
- Nahid Rachlin - Unlikely Bomber
- Daniel DiPrinzio - A Week with the Veep: Dick Cheney Opens Up
- Nicole Matthews - Compassion for Hire
- Ralph Monday - The Subduer
- Beate Sigriddaughter - The Movie Buff
- L. J. Reed - Neil
- Yvonne Chism-Peace - Space Invaders
- Doren Robbins - Week of Nine Something
- Jeff Haas - A Model Citizen
- Terese Ficyk-Pampellonne - A Play
- Ed McDermott - Going
- Antonios Maltezos - A Lamentable State of Mind
- Charles Blackstone - Terrorist Tantrums
- James S. Dorr - Peace on Earth
- Karen Malpede - The Voice of Ready.Gov
- Suzanne LaFetra - Doom And Bloom
- Harry Tru - Howard & George
- Linda Hudson Hoagland - Learning To Hate
- Douglas Douglas - Spiderpig, 911
- Tracy Abell - Family First
- Susan Spaulding - You Never Know
- Thaddeus Rutkowski - Pink Slip for the President
- Paul Dickey - All-American Call Center
- Elisabeth Carter - Since They Moved the Silver Bullet
- Peter A. Pascaris - A Capitol Idea
- Utahna Faith - Mis-Take, a tale in six scenes
- Trent Hudley - And to Believe I Saw It on Broadway
- John Young - Liquid Gold
- Dina Televitskaya - The Terrible Days Now in Russia
- Dave Yost - A Story
- Barbara Jacksha - The Red Trout
- Margaret B. Davidson - Strange Justice
- Alfred Brock - George W. Bush's Soliloquy
- Mary Porter-Chase - Dear Senator Kerry
- Michael Cocchiarale - Operation Something
- Brent Powers - Cleanup
- Phillip Routh -
- J. B. Hogan - Click It or Ticket
- Amanda Lam -
- Mark Olson -
- Non-Fiction
- Robert Klein Engler - Ground Zero
- Michael O'McCarthy - How Many Male Gods in One Heaven?
- Alex Migliore - Comatosed Recruit Blues
- Mindy Farabee - Romanian Spring
- Gerard Meister - Pointe of View
- Rachel Johnson - Is Your Muse Missing?
- Bill Sander - A World Pledge
- Bernard Miller - That Dirty L Word
- Dawne E. Bost - How a Lifelong Socialist Became a Republican, or The Politics of Romance
- Jimmy Hall - Kirsten Powers Is Typical Of Her Party
- Jimmy Hall - What We Learned About Kerry From Kerry
- Renee Mumford - Election Time
- Carmen A. Fiore - Is Arrogant Conceit a Prerequisite for the Political Life?
- Rodney R. Jones - Bracing for Martial Law
- Cleatus Rattan - Assumptions to Ponder, or Fahrenheit 2004
- Amy Winklett - America: Love It or Leave It
- Don Monkerud - Republican Women to Polish Their Image
- Renate G. Justin - Voting
- Susan Dorman - Beyond Gunpowder: A Rational Perspective on Cloning
- Craig Etchison & Tom Robertson - Learning from Lance
- Avery Elzmyth - Bush or Kerry? Eh, I'll Pass
- Mary Grabar - Smokestacks
- Stephen Paske - What's My Vote Really Worth
- William Starr Moake - I'm Not Voting
- Jerome Richard - The Price Is Wrong
- Felicia Parsons - A Case Against Culture
- Eli Hastings - Coming Away
- Leonard Levy - Noodling with Ideas
- Kelly Ann Malone - Today's Soldiers, Today's Stars
- Michael Levy - What Waits Just Around The Election Corner
- Melisande Luna - Generation GOP
- Daniela Gioseffi - There Is Such a Thing as U.S. Capitalist Fundamentalism
- Richard Sassoon - I Will Vote
- Dennis Fox - Jerusalem Again: A Personal Political Journey
- Pat Poggi - Choice Moments In DC
- C.S. McKinstry - Heinz: Made in Mexico
- Kelvin Bueckert - A Conspiracy Of Hope?
- Brett Alan Sanders - On the Pragmatics of Liberalism
- Patricia F. Dascoli - Hair Factor
- Bob Mustin - What Terrorism Should Be Teaching Us
- Steve Kowit - The Way The World Is Now
- Stewart Brodian - Why Concern Over Israel
- Rose Marie Buccheri - Voting Conscientiously
- Stephanie Nolasco - Patriot Act Report Outline
- C.E. Chaffin - On the Quadrennial Madness of America the Puritanical
- A Letter from John Kerry
- Ed Horne - Two Short Pieces
- James Palombo -
- Joe Rector -
- Gene Tanta -
- Seshu Chamarty -
- Sandra L. Ceren - Your Health Care Is At Risk
- Art/Illustrated Writing
- A.D. Winans - Grave Yard Headstone, Fallon, Nevada.
- A.D. Winans - Anti-War Banner at the Women's Building, San Francisco
- Merrie Miller - Truth
- Tantra Bensko - Brainwashing
- Katrin Wiese - Larleadr
- Terri Gelenian-Wood - Strange Bed Partners
- Ari Rubin - Words of the Prophets
- Rochelle Ratner - Analysis
- Rochelle Ratner - Checkup
- Rochelle Ratner - Ledge
- Rhoda Novak - Discourage War, Seek Peace
- Satch - Peace in Iraq
- Satch - Next Hot Spot: 1st Marine Lands in Hell
- Satch - Death Appears at the Republican Convention
- Ted Finn - Damn the Eternal War
- Drek Davis - War
- Adam Wagler - Allegiance
- Walter James O'Brien - Suicide Santa
- Latuff - War for Oil
- Latuff - Ronald
- Latuff - Adolf
- Patty Mooney - No War Know Peace
- Patty Mooney - Vote Him Out
- t.p. Luce - my people
- Tom Block - Supreme Court, My Ass
- Janet Snell - War
- Janet Snell - Artist Against Apartheid
- Judy Jones - The Bones of the Homeless
- Judy Jones - Seeing Thru the Eyes of a Child
- John A. Thompson, Sr. - Boots & Bows
- John A. Thompson, Sr. - Sacrifices & Blessings
- John A. Thompson, Sr. - Unforgotten Firefighter
- Sandra Shapiro - Cloister
- Sandra Shapiro - Bike and Car
- Paula Grenside - Cassandra
- Paula Grenside - Dove
- Anja Klauss - Who
- Anja Klauss - Tony Blair
- Anja Klauss - Hobby Horse
- Wayne Bjerke - Drenched In Blood/Rumsfeld
- DX Stone - Go Home
- DX Stone - Scary World
- DX Stone - Voices
- Stacey Fruits - Closing Time
- Stacey Fruits - How Far Would You Go for Fuel
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-FOUR: Oct-Dec (04)
- Poetry
- Robert Champ - The Collectors
- Tim Jones - Love Scene with Monks
- Mike Allen - Miró’s Mirror
- Lincoln Michel - The Color of Mouse Trails on Snow
- Marcia Nehemiah - Saved
- Jennifer Jerome - Answer for Me
- Introduction by Bruce Boston
- Thomas Reynolds - The Day I Became an Exile
- Elizabeth Barrette - The Poltergeist of Polaris
- S. C. Cavanaugh - The Crucifix Between Her Breasts
- Roger Pfingston - Photographing Emily
- Kara Candito - Falling Woman
- Charlee Jacob - Taking No Prisoners
- Tim Jones - Death Gets Wheels
- Robert Champ - The Page
- Fiction
- Brenda Ling - Call Me Eddie
- Marcy Lehtinen - Loss
- Marge Simon - Blood on My Tongue
- Mary McLaughlin Slechta - Ma’s One and Only Road Trip
- Justin Crouse - The Jungle Room
- Jordan Rosenfeld - No Marks
- Reviews
- Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa...reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- T. C. Boyle's The Inner Circle...reviewed by Matthew Katz
- Sharon Olds' Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- Janice Moore Fuller's Sex Education...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Interviews
- The San Francisco Pedestal Event
- John Amen
- A.D. Winans
- A.D. Winans (2)
- Ruth Daigon
- Ruth Daigon (2)
- C.E. Chaffin
- C.E. Chaffin (2)
- Rachel Dacus
- Rachel Dacus (2)
- David Lunde
- David Lunde (2)
- Amanda Cotten (Owner of Valencia Street Books)
- Partial Audience Shot
- Intermission (Partial Audience Shot)
- Alan Kaufman
- Alan Kaufman (2)
- Jayne Lyn Stahl
- Jayne Lyn Stahl (2)
- Linda Boroff
- Shirley Bohrer Capp (reading for Linda Boroff)
- Ilya Kaminsky
- Ilya Kaminsky (2)
- Loren Jenks
- Loren Jenks (2)
- Grumble Bunny
- Valencia Street Books
- John Amen (2)
- Introduction
- Vote Now for Pedestal Readers' Awards
- ISSUE TWENTY-FIVE: Dec (04)-Feb (05)
- Poetry
- Eugenia Hepworth Petty - Istanbul, Turkey; September, 1997
- Adam Cornford - Wing
- G.O. Clark - Family Tree
- Joe Haldeman - ghosts
- Barry Brummett - At the Gun Show
- Steven Ratiner - Ancient Flute Discovered in Jiahu, China
- Michael Spring - The Pickaxe
- Kevin Keck - The Archaeologist
- Arlene Ang - Constable Wu Gives His Halberd to Madame Liang
- Carolyn Brigit Flynn - Take a Walk by Your Town
- Kathryn Hawkins - Slopes
- Daryl Muranaka - Saying Goodbye
- Jordan Sanderson - Another Reason to Cut Out Your Tongue Before Falling Asleep
- Michael Brosnan - Finding My Voice
- Introduction by Bruce Boston
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Robert Sund's Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems and Translations...reviewed by Bill Yake
- Philip Levine's Breath...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- Terri Brown-Davidson's Marie, Marie Hold on Tight...reviewed by J. Eric Miller
- Diane Lockward's Eve's Red Dress...reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- Heidi Lynn Staples' Guess Can Gallop...reviewed by William Neumire
- Catherynne M. Valente's The Labyrinth...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- The New York Pedestal Event
- Introduction
- Housing Works
- Crowd Gathering
- John Amen (Welcoming)
- Richard Newman
- Carol Carpenter
- Juanita Torrence-Thompson
- J.D. Smith
- Chris George
- Pat Falk
- Barbara Seaman
- Chocolate Waters
- John Amen with Guitar
- Intermission (Partial Shot)
- Donna Spector
- Scott Summers
- Rochelle Ratner
- Radomir Luza
- Sharon Esther Lampert
- Jean Lehrman
- Ellin Pollachek
- Florence Weinberger
- George Wallace
- John Amen (Closing)
- Editor's Introduction
- Vote Now for Pedestal Readers' Awards
- ISSUE TWENTY-SIX: Feb-Apr (05)
- Featured Writer - Hayden Carruth
- The Pedestal Magazine Readers' Awards
- Poetry
- First Place: Carol Howard-Johnson's "Olvera Street Tutorial"
- Second Place: Rosemary Clark's "Waltz"
- Third Place: Jennifer Jerome's "Answer for Me"
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Liz Dolan - The Interloper
- Kevin Conder - Uncle
- Ona Gritz - Washington Square, 1982
- Catherynne M. Valente - Memoirs of a Girl Who Failed to Be Born From a Peach
- David Koehn - The Missing Island
- Andrea Defoe - On Salvaging the Whore
- Charles Fishman - A Dream of the Morning
- Sandra Kohler - Desire
- Jun de la Rosa - Storm News
- Toni E. Scales - Tryst
- Megan Buckley - Lunchtime, The Turk’s Head, Dublin
- Allison McEntire - Operation Iron Hammer*
- Fiction
- Lainee Frizzo - The Moon and the Stars
- Steven R. Cope - Hannibal's Messiah
- Suzanne Nielsen - Thick Skinned
- William Payne - Get Help
- Jai Clare - Bristles and Blood
- Rebecca Kraft - Jack Squat
- Introduction by Nathan Leslie
- Reviews
- Grace and Gravity...reviewed by Barbara M. Simon
- Rebecca Loudon's Tarantella...reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- Sarah Maclay's Whore...reviewed by Collin Kelley
- Louise Erdrich's Four Souls: A Novel...reviewed by Cole Haddon
- The Best American Short Stories 2004...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-SEVEN: Apr-Jun (05)
- Poetry
- Irene Livingston - Over
- Jared Smith - Storm King Mountain
- Corrine De Winter - Our Lady of Fifth Avenue
- Susan Edwards Richmond - Yoga Practicum
- M. Scott Douglass - A View from the West Virginia Turnpike
- Walter Bargen - The Oscars
- Louisa Howerow - Forewarned
- Cheryl Stiles - Ball Lightning
- Karyna McGlynn - Photo, 1977
- Christine Potter - Talking to Beethoven, 1967
- Sandra Del Valle - An Open, Late Letter to Paul Celan
- Emily S. Warren - Fate
- Featured Writer - John Dufresne
- Reviews
- A.D. Winans' The Wrong Side of Town...reviewed by Charles P. Ries
- The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005...reviewed by Matthew Katz
- Florence Weinberger's Carnal Fragrance...reviewed by Lee Rossi
- George Wallace's Burn My Heart in Wet Sand...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Joanna Catherine Scott's Breakfast at the Shangri-La...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- David Barringer's Terminally Curious...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Fiction
- Meredith Sue Willis - The Story of Scheherezade and Dunzyad
- Angela Carlton - The Lost Ones
- CL Bledsoe - Smoke Break
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-EIGHT: Jun-Aug (05)
- Featured Writer - T.C. Boyle
- Essays
- Apocalypse Then: After the Plague (2001) and T.C. Boyle’s Heart of Darkness...by Matthew Katz
- “You think I think this is funny?": The Humor of T.C. Boyle...by S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.
- T. Coraghessan Boyle and Surviving the Baby Boom...by Jason Sanford
- Interview with T.C. Boyle
- Poetry
- Jonathan K. Rice - Gazebo
- Marge Simon - My Purple Tie
- Daniel Y. Harris - Husk
- Bruce Boston - The Scream Behind the Mirror
- A.D. Winans - Untitled
- Patrick Carrington - Reverence
- Toni E. Scales - Minerva
- Barbara Hendryson - Of the Mission, by Moonlight
- Thomas D. Reynolds - The Hard-Boiled Paleontologist
- Sandra Kohler - February, 2001
- Estelle Villas - Addiction
- Ona Gritz - Midsummer
- Arlene Ang - Mistress Lin Counts Her Husband's Snores Through the Walls
- Fiction
- Featured Artist - Javier López Barbosa
- 159
- Vida Nueva II
- Through Learning Times
- Timeless Pleasure
- Magical Kiss
- Paradise Mountain
- Moment of Joy
- Encanto
- Moon Shadows
- Reviews
- David Lieberman's The Task, The Hoard & The Long Walk Home...reviewed by Richard Newman
- Joy Passanante's The Art of Absence...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Darcy Shargo's The Flame and the Fiction...reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- W.S. Merwin's Migration: New and Selected Poems...reviewed by Jared Smith
- Verse: The Second Decade...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- M. Scott Douglass's Steel Womb Revisted...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Charles Fishman's 5,000 Bells...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-NINE: Aug-Oct (05)
- Poetry
- Charles Fishman - In the Wave
- Sarah Sloat - 3 Deep
- Amelia Klein - The Driftwood Hour
- Rose M. Smith - Birthing (the divorce)
- Liza Porter - Disappeared
- Elisha Porat - A Biblical Experience
- Rebecca Morgan Frank - Hurricane House Party
- L. Ward Abel - Apologia from Unknown Parts
- Jacqueline West - Life through a Black Net Veil
- Ash Bowen - Weather Report
- Tammy Armstrong - Bike
- Jari Thymian - Ernesto in the River
- Reviews
- Gilda Morina Syverson's In This Dream Everything Remains Inside...reviewed by Herne Berne
- Fiction Collective Two (FC2)...books reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Michael Spring's Mudsong...reviewed by Collin Kelley
- Gloria Kurian Broder's Their Magician and Other Stories...reviewed by Doug Pond
- Jeannine Hall Gailey's Female Comic Book Superheroes...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Fuad Attal's Love & Memory...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Featured Writer - Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Fiction
- R.T. Smith - Trebuchet
- Miriam N. Kotzin - Just Desserts
- Krista O'Connell - Stick Girl with Flowing Black Hair
- Richard Peabody - The Rain in Eritrea
- Featured Artist - Edward Wolverton
- The Flirt
- The Dancer
- Fair Maiden
- Innocence
- The Blue Vase
- Dream Lover
- The Geisha
- Mendicino Coast, The Hooters
- Bloom
- The Great Southern
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY: Oct-Dec (05)
- Featured Writer - C.K. Williams
- Interview with C.K. Williams
- Entering Into The Singing with C.K. Williams...by Jared Smith
- Mythology in the Poetry of C.K. Williams…by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- The Danse Macabre of Forgiveness and Repair: C.K. Williams on Grief and Dying...by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Reviews
- Gary L. McDowell's The Blueprint...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry...reviewed by Lee Rossi
- Ralph Nazareth's Ferrying Secrets...reviewed by David Lieberman
- Steven R. Cope's The Furrbawl Poems...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go...reviewed by Natalie Reitano
- Rachel Dacus's Femme au Chapeau...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Dick Barnes' A Word Like Fire: Selected Poems...reviewed by Terri Brown Davidson
- Poetry
- Lynn Strongin - Oyster Boy
- Jody Helfand - Photo: Elderly Jew, Young Boy
- Susan Edwards Richmond - Mycology
- Jan Steckel - The Maiden Aunts
- Kathleen Burgess - For Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- Daniel M. Shapiro - How to Write a Score for “The Adventures of Robin Hood" without Korngold's Help
- Kathryn Allen - Nagoya to Hawaii, 1953
- Barbara Crooker - Elegy for New Orleans
- M - Complaint to Betsy's Shoe, Found in a Bowl of Popcorn at 8:00 a.m.
- Sonia Pereira - Copper Blessings
- Michael Spring - Decades from the Azores
- Fiction
- Featured Artist - Iv Toshain
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-ONE: Dec (05)-Feb (06)
- Poetry
- George Wallace - A Cheyenne Woman
- Andrea Defoe - About Hibernation
- Bruce Boston & Marge Simon - Lilith Revisited
- Jaclyn Friedman - Watermelon Basketball
- Michael Johnson - Cessna
- Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb - Southwest to Northeast: A Diagonally American Stanza
- Amy Ouzoonian - This Is How It Happened
- Irene Livingston - Sam McGee, Cremated One More Time
- Douglas S. Jones - Excerpts from the “Sexy" series
- Sara Berkeley - Golden Temple
- Florence Weinberger - Peter Serkin at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai, CA
- Philip Dacey - New York Postcard Sonnet #9
- Michele Heather Pollock - Serenade
- Interviews
- Fiction
- Wayne Scheer - Off the Road
- Liliana V. Blum - Lazarus (translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei)
- Greg Gerke - Visitors
- Angela Carlton - Funeral People
- Mark Kline - Naaja
- Rob Taylor - She Runs
- Introduction by Nathan Leslie
- Reviews
- Uzma Aslam Khan's Trespassing...reviewed by Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Lois Roma-Deeley's northSight...reviewed by Barbara Crooker
- Frank Bidart's Star Dust...reviewed by Sarah Sarai
- Two Books by Oswald LeWinter...reviewed by Rachel Dacus
- Jared Smith's Lake Michigan and Other Poems...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Al Maginnes's Film History...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Stanley H. Barkan's Mishpocheh...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Amy Uyematsu's Stone Bow Prayer...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Second Annual Pedestal Readers' Awards
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-TWO: Feb-Apr (06)
- Interviews
- Poetry
- Jennifer Jerome - Last Winter, Edina, Minnesota
- Catherynne M. Valente - November Is a Silent Month
- Jan Steckel - Harder
- Toni E. Scales - On Reading Joshua Miller's The Mao Game
- Charles Fishman - Head on a Frozen Lake
- Martina Newberry - No Hay Banda
- Michael Homolka - Living Room Window
- Jan Steckel - The Underwater Hospital
- Ellen Kombiyil - What Stars Explode
- Peter Krok - That Departure
- Sam Byfield - Still Sarajevo
- Marina Lee Sable - Metropolis of the Mind
- Arlene Ang - Marshal Song Enters the Servants' Quarters after a Night of Gambling, His Pockets Empty
- Kristin Berger - Counting Cross-Stitch
- Kristine Ong Muslim - How to Make a Perfect Storm
- Fiction
- J. Brundage - The Jig
- Jesse Waters - Keeping What’s Broken
- Antonios Maltezos - A Landscape and a Horse to Ride
- Eric Stoveken - Fastidious
- Introduction by Nathan Leslie
- Reviews
- Anne Silver's Bare Root: A Poet’s Journey with Breast Cancer...reviewed by Larry Colker
- Marlin Barton's Dancing by the River...reviewed by Elizabeth P. Glixman
- David Slavitt's Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets...reviewed by Okla Elliott
- Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures...reviewed by CL Bledsoe
- Billy Lombardo's The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories...reviewed by Heather Harris
- Jay Griswold's Conquistador...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Ted Kooser's Delights and Shadows...reviewed by Henry Berne
- The Best American Short Stories 2005...reviewed by Matthew Katz
- The 2005 Pedestal Readers' Awards
- Poetry
- First Place: Estelle Villas - Addiction
- Second Place: Jan Steckel - Maiden Aunts
- Third Place (tie): Amy Ouzoonian - This Is How It Happened
- Third Place (tie): M - Complaint to Betsy's Shoe, Found in a Bowl of Popcorn at 8:00 a.m.
- Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-THREE: Apr-Jun (06)
- Special Feature: North Carolina Poets
- Mark Smith-Soto - Get a Hold
- Rachelle Rogers - Turning Time
- Al Maginnes - Airport Chapels
- Heather Ross Miller - The Lost Poems of Ernest Hemingway
- Sarah Lindsay - Land's End
- Jaki Shelton Green - Inside a Jallalabad Mirage
- Janice Moore Fuller - The Moon Tells Me
- Glenn Hutchinson - the gardener-artist
- Valerie Nieman - Eager
- David Manning - Recurrences
- Nicole Cartwright Denison - The Alcove’s Confession
- Tanya Olson - Caught in a Trap: The Dead Redux
- Diana Pinckney - The Dance
- Sara Claytor - Red Leaf Oracle
- Laurie Capps - Cousin Gideon
- Fred Chappell - In the Retirement Home (excerpts)
- Fiction
- Melody Clayton - Julia
- Derek Nikitas - All Nite Video
- Dawn Sperber - Why the Moon
- Introduction by Craig Renfroe
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Leonard Gontarek's Déjà vu Diner...reviewed by Amy Small-McKinney
- Deborah Batterman's Hair Shoes Nails...reviewed by Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Samuel Menashe's New and Selected Poems...reviewed by Deborah P. Kolodji
- In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Kathryn Kulpa's Pleasant Drugs and Ander Monson's Other Electricities...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Martina Newberry's Running Like a Woman With Her Hair on Fire...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Albert Russo's The Crowded World of Solitude, Volume II...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-FOUR: Jun-Aug (06)
- Poetry
- Introduction by Amy Small-McKinney
- Emily Symonds & Fritz Ward - The Sweet Here (& After)
- Johnson Cheu - Silhouette Artist
- Anjana Deshpande - Driving in the USA
- Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis - Aglow
- JoLee G. Passerini - Flight
- Janet Buck - Erosion
- Leonard Gontarek - Eleven Poems About Distance
- Sandra Kohler - The Bowl
- Justin Vicari - Nature
- Bruce Smith - Widow with Dead Pony
- Martina Newberry - Outlook
- Elizabeth Twiddy - The Oldest, Wordless Story
- Julia Lisella - Children
- Melissa Frederick - Sunrise Service II
- Tim Suermondt - The One Story
- Fiction
- Margot Demopoulos - Smyrna
- Andrew McIntyre - Ambush
- E.V. Slate - Room For Everyone
- Introduction by Nathan Leslie
- Tammy Wilson - The French Chef
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Charles Fishman's Chopin's Piano...reviewed by Lois Roma-Deeley
- Jeannine Hall Gailey's Becoming the Villainess...reviewed by James Owens
- Two Books by Mike Allen...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Gary Fincke's Standing Around the Heart...reviewed by Helen R. Peterson
- Lara Vapnyar's Memoirs of a Muse...reviewed by Michelle Reale
- Collin Kelley's Slow to Burn...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Jared Smith's Seven Minutes Before The Bombs Drop...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Larissa Shmailo's The No-Net World...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-FIVE Aug-Oct (06)
- Reviews
- Barbara Jane Reyes's Poeta en San Francisco...reviewed by Collin Kelley
- M.G. Miller's Bayou Jesus...reviewed by A.M. Stickel
- Philip Dacey's The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins...reviewed by James Owens
- Francoise Dorner's The Woman in the Row Behind...reviewed by Andrew J. Pegman
- Irene Blair Honeycutt's The Prince with the Golden Hair...reviewed by Henry Berne
- Chelsea Rathburn's The Shifting Line...reviewed by Collin Kelley
- The Bizarro Starter Kit...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Jan Steckel's The Underwater Hospital...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Interviews
- Poetry
- Jennifer K. Sweeney - The Bird Carver
- Eric Greinke - Garment
- P.V. LeForge - Gum Swamp Footbridge
- Harry Smith - Death in England
- Michael Spring - I Have Planted a Door
- Donna Pucciani - The Art of an Affair
- Maureen Flannery - Nkisi Nkondi, Power Figure from Republic of Congo, Affirms His Strength and Plots His Escape with the Help of Unassuming Museum-Goer
- Hu Diqing - A Display Window (translated from the Chinese by William Marr)
- A.D. Winans - The Man You Don't Want to See
- Bette Lynch Husted - Private Archeology
- Mihai Ursachi - The Story of the Traveler with Cherries (translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Georgiana Farnoaga)
- T.M. De Vos - Snow
- Marie Ashley-France - Basin
- Alia Hussain - Monologue with the Sky
- Kathi Morrison-Taylor - Seth
- Introduction by Jared Smith
- Fiction
- Shad Itschner - What's Not There
- Erika Dreifus - Rio, 1946
- Jim O'Loughlin - The Real Story
- Breanna Downie - Lines Written on Public Baths
- Zan Bockes - For the Love of God
- Miriam Kotzin - Souvenir
- Tammy Wilson - The French Chef
- Introduction by Nathan Leslie
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-SIX: Oct-Dec (06)
- Poetry
- MTC Cronin - The Ladder Is Not
- Carol Frith - Quetzals: Solving a Collage for Images and Proofs
- James Tipton - Hardening into Stone
- Roger Scott - Paradise and Fortune Avenue
- Timothy Green - After Hopper
- Ruth Daigon - Until Light Grows Old
- S. Jason Fraley - Narcissus in Old Age
- Ann Walters - The Corps of Discovery Licks its Salty Lips
- Paul Sohar - tuesday morning
- Caroline Wilson - the love letter
- Joseph Bradshaw - My Heart in Hiding/ Stirred for a Bird
- Liz Gallagher - Episode iii: The Day the Shelling Started
- Moez Surani - Cairo
- Kelley Jean White - 305. One-Drawer Work Stand, Important
- Stan Marcus - Parts of a Hole
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
- Fiction
- Katherine Ludwig - The Candy Stand Man
- Linda Muhlhausen - Reply to Jennifer
- Jen Michalski - Discount
- Chris Fox - That Person Is a World I Want to Live In
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Jennifer Reeser's Winterproof...reviewed by Jack Conway
- T. Luis Cox's A Stone Blessing...reviewed by Martina Newberry
- Richard Jeffery Newman's The Silence of Men...reviewed by Amy Unsworth
- T.C. Boyle's Talk Talk...reviewed by Matthew Katz
- Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women...reviewed by James Owens
- Maureen F. McHugh's Mothers & Other Monsters...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- 2006 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Catherynne M. Valente's The Grass-Cutting Sword...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Thank You to Our Recent Donors!
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-SEVEN: Dec (06)-Feb (07)
- Poetry
- MaryAnn Franta Moenck - November Medley
- Jared Smith - Life at the Margins
- David Thornbrugh - Even the Fifty-foot Woman Mourned the Polish Pope
- Jared Carter - Wheat Penny
- Sandra Kohler - Wildness
- Jean Hollander - Organs and Blood
- Andrea Dulanto - Rothko Room, Tate Museum
- Janet Buck - Asterisks
- Leonard J. Cirino - The Mirror
- John Grey - A House
- Kristine Ong Muslim - Little Jimmy Dead Eyes Arrives in the City
- Ed Frankel - Transformational Grammars
- Jehanne Dubrow - After Visiting the U.S.S. Anzio
- Charles Freeland - Why Light Was Invented
- Erick Mertz - Words Like Estuary
- Introduction by Michael Spring
- Fiction
- W.A. Low - Not Brian
- R.T. Smith - Air Band
- Richard Peabody - Everybody’s Stoned (and So Am I)
- Maureen Pilkington - New Year’s Eve 1969
- Interviews
- Reviews
- A.D. Winans's The Other Side of Broadway...reviewed by Alan Catlin
- Barbara Crooker's Radiance...reviewed by Ann Fisher-Wirth
- Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death...reviewed by James Owens
- Joanna Catherine Scott's The Road from Chapel Hill...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Peter Thabit Jones's The Lizard Catchers...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Outside the Green Zone...reviewed by James Owens
- Jennifer Sweeney's Salt Memory...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Ross Gay's Against Which...reviewed by Thomas March
- Third Annual Pedestal Readers' Awards
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-EIGHT: Feb-Mar (07)
- Poetry
- Introduction by Sandra Kohler
- Antonia Clark - Gone to the Dogs
- Marcia Nehemiah - Semiotics, or How to Follow a Map
- Phillip Sterling - At the Showroom Window
- Eve Rifkah - January 30, 2005
- Christine Klocek-Lim - Partial Building Collapse
- Jude Goodwin - La Estrella
- Susan Terris - Beatrix Potter: On Children and Love
- Cory Brown - Ars Poetica
- Ellen Roberts Young - No Star In the East
- Ona Gritz - 1971, Winter in Queens
- Alexa Mergen - Deciduous
- Billy Reynolds - Black Sheep
- Emilia A. Phillips - Dinner Parties and Post Nuptials
- Mitchell Metz - House, Hedge, Hole
- Devrie Paradowski - One-ish
- Fiction
- Mary Carroll-Hackett - The Real Politics of Lipstick
- John Michael Cummings - Sergeant Perry and the Roaring Woodworker
- Bill Hughes - The Tang of Copper, The Savor of Salt
- Wendy Miles - Allegiance
- Don Shea - Shift
- Sarah Collins Honenberger - Dreams from the Belly of a Truck
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Scott Snyder's Voodoo Heart...reviewed by Stephen Delaney
- Stephen Miles's Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror...reviewed by Richard Thieme
- Lee Passarella's The Geometry of Loneliness...reviewed by James Owens
- R.T. Smith's Uke Rivers Delivers...reviewed by James Owens
- Walter Bargen's Remedies for Vertigo...reviewed by James Owens
- Bruce Boston's Flashing the Dark...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Susan Ludvigson's Escaping the House of Certainty...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Inside the Outside: An Anthology of Avant-Garde American Poets...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- The 2006 Pedestal Readers' Awards
- Poetry
- First Place: T.M. De Vos - Snow
- Second Place: Jennifer Jerome - Last Winter, Edina, Minnesota
- Third Place: Jan Steckel - The Underwater Hospital
- Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTY-NINE: Apr-Jun (07)
- Poetry
- Anuradha Vijayakrishnan - Butcher
- Elizabeth P. Glixman - Sisyphus Looking for Grace
- Amy Watkins - For a Childhood Friend, After Her Mother’s Suicide
- K. R. Copeland - My Great Aunt Dot's Prosthetic Eye
- Dana Sonnenschein - On a Chinese Vase Found at Goodwill
- Malaika King Albrecht - Sounds After the Howl
- Michele Lesko - Interlude: Claridge’s London
- David Troupes - The Mill River
- Sonya Taaffe - Reliquiae
- George Wallace - refugee
- Pat Daneman - Shawnee Pasture
- Christine Potter - The Sorrow Of Early Spring
- Jay Udall - in the living room
- John Hazard - Revisionist Geology, Southwestern Ohio
- Sherre Vernon - The Babysitter's Sister
- Elisha Porat - Homecoming (translated from the Hebrew by Eddie Levenston)
- Fiction
- Karen Heuler - Talking about Rita
- James Scott Iredell - A Night Out
- Introduction by Chad Prevost
- Kathie Giorgio - Ticking
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Charles Jensen's Living Things...reviewed by Collin Kelley
- Kate Greenstreet's case sensitive...reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- The Best American Short Stories 2006...reviewed by Matthew Katz
- The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- The Best American Poetry 2006...reviewed by James Owens
- L. Ward Abel's Jonesing for Byzantium...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- J.J. Deogracias's Lost in Transition...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Patrick Carrington's Rise, Fall and Acceptance...reviewed by James Owens
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FORTY: Jun-Aug (07)
- Reviews
- Luke Whisnant's Down in the Flood...reviewed by James Owens
- Mark Nepo's Surviving Has Made Me Crazy...reviewed by James Owens
- Hélène Sanguinetti's Hence This Cradle (English translation by Ann Cefola)...reviewed by Eric Greinke
- Jared Smith's Where Images Become Imbued with Time...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- George Wallace's Sky Is...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- David Whyte's River Flow: New & Selected Poems, 1984-2007...reviewed by James Owens
- Indigo Moor's Tap-Root...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Poetry
- Linda Pastan - Witness: for William Stafford
- klipschutz - Equivalence.
- Dorianne Laux - Dark Charms
- Ross White - Apophis
- Judy Kronenfeld - Time Zone
- Elisha Porat - Homecoming (translated from the Hebrew by Eddie Levenston)
- Sara Backer - The Fourth Nest
- Alex Grant - Four Parsecs in a Bri-nylon Shirt
- Ona Gritz - Abraham's Hand
- Jéanpaul Ferro - This Much
- Susan Varnot - Watching Bats at Dusk
- Gerald Yelle - Sleep II, Day IV
- Eric Paul Shaffer - What Ice and February Know of Resurrection
- Introduction by Michael Spring
- Glenna Luschei - Salt of the Earth
- Fiction
- Featured Writer - Richard Burgin
- Interview with Richard Burgin
- Excerpt from Barry and Elliot
- The Conference on Beautiful Moments...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FORTY-ONE: Aug-Oct (07)
- Poetry
- Ros Barber - Bad Mother
- Sandra Kohler - Minuet in the Court of the Daily
- Sarah J. Den Boer - Lessons from Miguel
- Ken Champion - Cafe
- Andrew Mossin - The Wall
- Yun Wang - Fear of Snakes
- James Tipton - Mr. Beeson's Shop of Mirrors
- Robert Gregory - Her Slow and Downward Line
- Mary Miller - Patterns
- Allan Peterson - Ardor
- Margaret Clark - Other Miracles on the Day You Were Born
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
- Allison Shoemaker - Drowning in Arizona
- Lynn Strongin - The woman physician who jogs before each dawn
- Arun Gaur - Inhaling Oxygen
- Jarrod Minto - Flat, Flexible
- Fiction
- Amanda Ramsden - Free Panties
- Cari Oleskewicz - Asindopo
- Laura McCullough - Sometimes a Wooden Leg
- George Held - Crucifix Anxiety
- Christopher Bundy - Backtalk, or a Slender Twenty-eight
- Man Martin - The Real Deal
- Angie Smibert - Chayka
- Zan Bockes - Ghost Mother of Togcha Channel
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Robert Sund's Taos Mountain...reviewed by Bill Yake
- Roy Fisher's The Long and the Short of It...reviewed by Lee Rossi
- Janice Moore Fuller's Seance...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- d.a. levy & the mimeograph revolution...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Juanita Torrence-Thompson's New York and African Tapestries...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Marge Simon's Like Birds in the Rain...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FORTY-TWO: Oct-Dec (07)
- Poetry
- Elisha Porat - Bloody Aquifer (translated from the Hebrew by Cindy Eisner)
- Alex Dally MacFarlane - Obedience on the Pyre
- Glenna Holloway - Generation Gap
- Eleanor Goodman - Ohio
- Damon McLaughlin - Germination
- Janet Buck - Glimpses
- Jennifer Weathers - The Rhinoceros at La Specola, Florence
- Allen Hoey - Drinking Alone
- Lynne Burnett - Face to Face
- Gary Metras - Born in Water
- Scott Owens - If He Had Seen the Day Shining In One More Window
- Jamaal May - Spring
- Sarah Levenson - Bird
- In Search of Meaningful Nonlinearity: An Introduction by Jared Smith
- Fiction
- Greg Gerke - Post-9/11
- Don Hucks - West on 40
- Sophie Chen - The Good Son
- Karen Stromberg - 169 Words
- Introduction by Matthew Katz
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Dorianne Laux's Facts About the Moon...reviewed by Lee Rossi
- Rick Hilles's Brother Salvage...reviewed by Lee Rossi
- 2007 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets...reviewed by James Owens
- Joshua Michael Stewart's Vintage Gray...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- John Dorsey's, S.A. Griffin's, and Scott Wannberg's Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- John Pursley III's When, by the Titanic...reviewed by James Owens
- Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Susan Jackson's Through a Gate of Trees...reviewed by James Owens
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FORTY-THREE: Dec (07)-Feb (08)
- Poetry
- Caridad McCormick - What You Called to Say at Lunch
- Linda Leedy Schneider - Albania Day Fourteen
- Carol Levin - Yard Cows
- Gerald Yelle - Abandon All Former Means of Investigation
- Leonard J. Cirino - A Parallel Universe
- Bill Yake - The Capital: This Machine of State
- Jéanpaul Ferro - Into the City
- William Page - Orion and the Chicken
- Antonia Clark - Precautions
- Tim Lockridge - Real Buck Attacks Ceramic Deer
- Vladimir Vysotsky - White Wilderness (translated from the Russian by George Tokarev)
- Barbara Lefcowitz - Checkout Line
- Allison Tobey - Redemption
- Charles Rafferty - Vermont
- Mark Thalman - At the Cabin: O'Dell Lake
- Fiction
- Thomas Kearnes - Kindergarten
- Michelle Brafman - Ripe
- Joseph O'Farrell - Wreck
- Shaul Hendel - V
- Introduction by Jen Michalski
- Reviews
- Stanley Nelson's Limbos for Amplified Harpsichord...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Ken Rand's Pax Dakota...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Simon Perchik's Rafts...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Christine Boyka Kluge's Stirring the Mirror...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Surreal South...reviewed by Okla Elliott
- Fourth Annual Pedestal Readers' Awards
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FORTY-FOUR: Feb-Apr (08)
- Poetry
- Amy Pence - Spirit Robe
- PB Rippey - Stranded
- Lisa Ortiz - Notes on Genetic Drift
- Cecelia Hagen - The Invention of Safety
- Eric Nelson - From Verona With Love
- Billy Collins - Altitude
- Daniel Y. Harris - Orchard
- Lalita Noronha - But for that
- Howard Faerstein - 1600
- Michael Morical - The Traveling Temple
- Terry Savoie - Deconstructed Sestina #4
- Marylen Grigas - Foreign Cities
- James Scannel McCormick - Stay
- Daniel Donaghy - The Loop
- David Thornbrugh - Puzzles for the Sphinx
- Danielle Hanson - Elderly Breasts
- Fiction
- The 2007 Pedestal Readers' Awards
- Poetry
- First Place: Malaika King Albrecht - Sounds After the Howl
- Second Place: Linda Leedy Schneider - Albania Day Fourteen
- Third Place: Michele Lesko - Interlude: Claridge's London
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Paul Genesse's The Golden Cord...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Charles Rammelkamp's The Book of Life...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Ellen Bass's The Human Line...reviewed by Vito Victor
- Alta Ifland's Voice of Ice...reviewed by Leonard J. Cirino
- Best American Poetry 2007...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FORTY-FIVE: Apr-Jun (08)
- Poetry
- Elizabeth Bruno - Knocking Down the Icicles with Brooms and Other Household Objects
- Anne Agnes Colwell - Revisions
- Michelle Kyoko Crowson - Signal in a Dark Field, Blinking
- William Doreski - Head of the Lake
- Stewart Florsheim - Mother's Favorite Drawing
- Matthew Gavin Frank - Two Pictures: Preface to Metamorphosis
- Sarah Law - Funeral
- James Grabill - Fractals Spun through Years
- James Midgley - Miracle Workers
- Tayve Neese - Bee Legends
- Gailmarie Pahmeier - Why I Like Some Country Songs
- David A. Pitcher - Burial
- Frances Ruiz - Futility
- Hannah Silva - The Periphery
- Joshua Michael Stewart - January
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
- Fiction
- Beth Bosworth - Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Liliana V. Blum - A Perfect Day for Canned Tuna
- Shellie Zacharia - Juan Tomas and the Pale Yellow Letters
- Reviews
- Glenna Luschei's Total Immersion...reviewed by Alice Osborn
- Kevin Keck's Are You There, God? It’s Me. Kevin....reviewed by S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.
- Jen Michalski's Close Encounters...reviewed by Lisa Bower
- Rebecca Shelly's Red Dragon Codex...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- David Dannov's It's the Shaking of the Ground that Crumbles Walls but Doesn't Crumble Trees...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Ellaraine Lockie's Blue Ribbons at the County Fair...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Four Chapbooks...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Alice Oswald's Spacecraft Voyager 1, New and Selected Poems...reviewed by Deborah P Kolodji
- Editor's Introduction
- Issue 46
- Interviews
- Poetry
- Steven Lautermilch - A leaf
- Bruce Boston - Conflicted as a Warrior Poet
- Michelle Bitting - Twyla
- Robert Klein Engler - Playing with Fire
- Sandra Kohler - Truce
- Steven D. Schroeder - Self-Portrait in a Funhouse Mirror
- Doug Ramspeck - The Road Up and the Road Down
- Persis M. Karim - Rumi's Conversation with Shams on the Occasion of his 800th Birthday
- Rachna Vohra - Mumma
- Brenda Mann Hammack - Skinflower
- Taylor Graham - Charm
- Introduction by Susan Terris
- Cody Todd - from Robbery at the Mint
- Vincent A. Cellucci - Matter for Mourning
- Reid Mitchell - Parchment Crane
- Scott Owens - Poem to a Cold Land
- Amber Flora Thomas - Magician
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Joanna Catherine Scott's Night Huntress...reviewed by Kristina Marie Darling
- Seven Valleys of Love...reviewed by Alice Osborn
- Philip Murray's Poems...reviewed by Alice Osborn
- Yoko Ogawa's The Diving Pool...reviewed by Matthew Katz
- Peter Krok's Looking for an Eye...reviewed by CL Bledsoe
- Erin Elizabeth Smith's The Fear of Being Found...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue edition)...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Edward Hirsch's Special Orders...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Jared Smith's The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations...reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Issue 47
- Featured Writer
- Feature - Eric Greinke
- Slam/Spoken Word
- Ami Mattison - Sunday Burial
- Amy Weaver - Better Than the Movie
- Bluz - JosephReUp
- Gandhi Jones - 5ive Rhymes Fast
- J. Bradley - Solving the Circumference
- Gypsee Yo - Christmas 2005
- Lizz Straight - Origami MykroMix
- Marty McConnell - Two of Cups
- Stacie Boschma - A Preservation Poem
- Poetry
- Paul Fisher - To My Left Hand
- Jared Carter - Schroedinger’s Cat Revisited
- Karen L. Newman - Drought-Driven
- Carolyn Helmberger - Driving to the Farm Where My Parents Lived
- James Tipton - A Tidal Wave of Deep Blue Longing
- Gerald McCarthy - Attica 1977
- Judith Terzi - It Ain't So Bad
- Mehnaz Turner - The Bibliophile
- E. Laura Golberg - Walking from Sandown to Bembridge, Isle of Wight, October 12
- Kristine Ong Muslim - A Study of Nothing
- Mark Thalman - Eagle's Nest
- Sally Molini - Two-Sided Mirage
- Sean Patrick Hill - Enlightenment, or Something Close To It
- Beau Hamel - why i hate cats
- Sarah Luczaj - An Urgent Request
- Introduction by Barbara Lefcowitz
- Fiction
- Jac Jemc - Two Flash Pieces
- Cheryl Chambers - Palm Reader
- Kim Chinquee - Doing Everything
- Miriam N. Kotzin - Casseroles
- Aaron Gilbreath - Micturition of Power
- Reviews
- Issue 48
- Spoken Word/Slam
- Poetry
- Hugh Fox - And Then
- Jèanpaul Ferro - Let's Make Love and Listen to All the Death from Above
- Ellen Bass - Persephone
- Jared Smith - This Poem
- Allison Tobey - Ungracious Radish
- Allan Kaplan - On the Avenue
- James Cushing - A Pillowcase Moon
- Susan Terris - Permanent Wave Machine
- Oriana - Cavesight
- Linda Leedy Schneider - My Hands Speak After 25 Years
- Richard Schiffman - Clever Stalk
- Bob Bradshaw - Roof Garden
- Samn Stockwell - My Formative Years
- Ona Gritz - Route 2
- Charles Adès Fishman - Starry Night
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Christine Potter's Zero Degrees at First Light
- John McKernan's Resurrection of the Dust
- Richard Parks's The Long Look
- Heather Thomas's Blue Ruby
- The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Hurricane Poetry (Three Collections from Coffeehouse Press)
- Kakalak 2008 Anthology of Carolina Poets
- Judy Kronenfeld's Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths
- Issue 49
- Interviews
- Poetry
- Tammy F. Trendle - Could Be
- Paul Hostovsky - Visualization
- Lisa Fay Coutley - Posing for Aunt Sandy
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
- Eduards Aivars - The Translator's Husband
- Katie Fesuk - Letters from a Tree
- Rick Marlatt - November Father
- Joseph P. Wood - Excerpts from Carpetbagging: Tuskegee National Forest Suite
- Natasha Kochicheril Moni - It wasn't like we were eating the squirrels
- Shaylah Kloska - Boyhood
- Michelle Menting - Backwoods Colloquial
- Brian Foley - Flint
- S. Jason Fraley - Self Portrait With Note Taped To Chest
- Margaret Bashaar - Barefoot and Listening
- R Jay Slais - Finger Print
- Sarah Sorenson - Downtown
- Fiction
- Introduction by Matthew Katz
- Paige Varney - Whiff of Infidelity
- Valerie Vogrin - The Interview
- Geoffrey H. Goodwin - Overheard
- David Erlewine - Always with Us
- Ben Nadler - My Mother's Brother Is My Uncle
- Reviews
- Kristie LeVangie's Libidacoria
- Chavisa Woods's Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind
- Irene Blair Honeycutt's Before the Light Changes
- Ana Maria Shua\'s Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction
- The Best American Poetry 2008
- Review of Four Chapbooks
- Bruce Boston's The Nightmare Collection
- The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
- Issue 50
- Spoken Word/Slam
- Interviews
- Poetry
- Introduction - Susan Terris
- Jordan Reynolds - Angels Out Always
- Caleb Powell - Yīn Dào: An Etymology
- Deborah J. Brannon - Ireland, A Sapphic Poem
- Amy D. Unsworth - A Day Beginning and Ending in Crows
- Jéanpaul Ferro - Near Life Experience
- Alex Galper - The Fourth Astral Plane
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- Issue 51
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- Introduction by Arlene Ang
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- Jari Thymian - The Greatest Potato Show on Earth
- Brandon S. Roy - The Widow on the Corner
- Nicelle Christine Davis - The Missing Text of the Gospel of Judas
- Amy Small-McKinney - Grief Work
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- Introduction by Terri Brown-Davidson
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- Lisa J. Cihlar - MRI
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- Colin Ward - Gods Lake Narrows Pilgrimage
- Lance Levens - Warriors
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- Lisa J. Cihlar - What's the Matter with You?
- Eleanor Wilner - Of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
- Eleanor Wilner - Watch This Poem Disappear
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- Eric V. Neagu - This Morning
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- Issue 54
- Featured Writer - Stanley Nelson
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- Laura Janka - The Average Human Gene Contains 8 Introns
- Diane Glancy - Vision Quest at the Comet Hotel
- Michael Bazzett - Note To Self at a Certain Point in the Future
- Allan Peterson - Making Sense
- Alex Grant - The Knife Thrower's Assistant
- Wendi Lee - Bluebeard's Wife
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- Jeanpaul Ferro's Essendo Morti – Being Dead
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- Issue 55
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- Suzi Q. Smith
- Jessica Helen Lopez
- Logan Phillips
- Idris Goodwin
- Esmé Vaandrager
- Colin Gilbert
- Introduction by Zachary Kluckman
- Poetry
- Rebecca Cross - The Doll After Play
- Scott M. Bade - Notice:
- Leonore Wilson - Covenant
- Joan Colby - Demain (Tomorrow)
- Gerald Yelle - Ewer
- Christopher Lirette - Lacuna
- Nicelle Christine Davis - A Bodie Miracle
- Judith Skillman - The Skull
- Stewart Florsheim - The Machine
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- Sean Lovelace - 5 of Spades
- Helena Bell - Cleaning the Quail
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
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- Howard V. Hendrix - Falling Forward
- Eric Schaller - Cabinet Number 42
- Bruce Golden - Blind Faith
- Liz Argall - Cracked Leather
- Joe McKinney - Sabbatical in the Ohio Methlands
- Jane Yolen - When Elder Sister Grew Her Wings
- Introduction by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon
- Reviews
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- George Wallace's Poppin’ Johnny: New American Poems
- Pris Campbell's Sea Trails: Poems and 1977 Passage Notes
- Diane Klammer's Shooting the Moon
- Alan Semerdjian's In the Architecture of Bone
- Darrell Kastin's The Undiscovered Island
- Anthony S. Abbott's New & Selected Poems, 1989-2009
- D. Harlan Wilson's Peckinpah an Ultraviolent Romance
- Ted Jonathan's Bones & Jokes
- Issue 56
- Spoken Word/Slam
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- Introduction by Susan Terris
- Mark Thalman - David Hill Road
- C. E. Chaffin - Tom Heaven
- Moira Magneson - Praise
- Tammy Ho Lai-Ming - Marvelous Banality
- Sonya Taaffe - By the Dog
- Jacob Russell - Losing One's Place
- Hadaa Sendoo - Sunset at the Plateau
- Brianna Noll - Franz Liszt Snores Like a Buzzsaw
- David St. John - Past Regards
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- Carlos Andrés Gómez
- J.W. Basilo
- Tufik Shayeb
- Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
- Molly Kat
- Introduction by Zachary Kluckman
- Poetry
- Paul Thaddeus Lambert
- Scott Helmes
- Baron
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- Jim Leftwich
- Tom Cassidy
- Introduction by Bob Grumman
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- Guy R. Beining
- Reed Altemus
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- Marilyn R. Rosenberg
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- K.S. Ernst
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- Connie Post - If
- Barry Napier - The Person We All Become
- Hugh Fox and Eric Greinke - Beyond Our Control
- Toni Scales - Stopping by Frederick's on a Foggy Evening
- Bruce Boston - Recording Ancient Truths
- Judith Skillman - Washington Harbor
- Robert Wooten - On a Moonlit View
- Rebecca Anne Renner - self portrait in a yellow sundress
- Richard Schiffman - Crop Circles
- Leonard Cirino - Factories
- James Grabill - Animal Sync
- Emily K. Bright - Monsoon
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- Dawn Comer - Avocado
- John Edward Lawson - View from a Pedestal
- Steve Aylett - Logical Harm
- Introduction by D. Harlan Wilson
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- Issue 59
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- Jeff Alan - April Again
- Veronica Golos - Snow in April
- Tim Myers - Anorexic: A Renga
- Janice Moore Fuller - Visitations, Harlaxton Manor
- Ricky Garni - After 5 Inches of Snow
- Tom Daley - Plume [After Isaiah]
- Michael Diebert - Seniors
- Nicelle Davis - The Night Circe Cannot Remember
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- Jean Hollander - Mare Imbrium
- Daniela Elza and Al Rempel - unhinged
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
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- Introduction by Charles Rammelkamp
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- Spoken Word
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- Katie Manning - How to Be Universally Wrong
- Donavon Davidson - Now More Than Never
- Andrei Guruianu - Legends and Other Ordinary Things
- Joellen Craft - You Are Here
- David M. Harris - Starting from a Line by Monica Mayper
- Wanda Lea Brayton - Filtered Five
- Helen Losse - The Perseids
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- Adam Hughes - Vision Quests Terminate in Passages from the Farmer’s Almanac
- David McAleavey - Mezzo
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- Deborah Hauser - Rapture: On Reading Lisa Russ Spaar
- Introduction by Nicole Cartwright Denison
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- Hakim Bellamy
- Caits Meissner
- Frankie Soto (aka Hidden Legacy)
- Buddy Wakefield
- Amiri Baraka
- Introduction by Zachary Kluckman
- Poetry
- George Drew - Listening to Dyson Disturb the Universe
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- Stewart Mintzer - Ants Prayer
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- Martin Golan - Miracle Child
- Tim Hawkins - To Another Friend Who Didn't Make It
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- Charles F. Thielman - Wing Bones
- Ryan Sharp - Dear D
- Introduction by Jared Smith
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- Robert Hill Long - Robinson's Republic
- Anne Germanacos - Lives
- Carol Berg - Angry Sister
- Lily Iona MacKenzie - Wolves
- George Wallace - Coney Island in the Month of May
- Rose Black - Holding the Names
- Vidhu Aggarwal - Humpadori Sphinx Friend
- Jeffrey Ethan Lee - A Crumbling Juliet
- Judith Pacht - Sand
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- Michael Bazzett - Fourteen Lines about Sunflowers
- Introduction by Susan Terris
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- Eric Greinke's Traveling Music
- Daniel Y. Harris's & Adam Shechter's Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad
- Editor Introduction
- Issue 63
- Poetry
- Sarah A. Odishoo - Merry-Go-Round Universe
- Michael Kriesel - Dr. Cyclops' Revenge
- Sandra Kohler - Giving Blood
- Gerald Yelle - Black Hole Summer
- Janet Buck - Turning Off the Morning News
- Alexander Lumans - The North Pacific Land-Bridge that Reappears Every Seventeen Years
- DéLana R.A. Dameron - Reflection, broken
- Jennifer Campbell - After the Diagnosis
- Sara Lier - Coney Island Elegy
- Judith Skillman - House of Burnt Cherry
- Jéanpaul Ferro - The River that Runs Away from Paradise
- Bill Neumire - To the Girl Who Disappeared
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- Adrienne Crezo - Husband-Shaped
- Introduction by Charles Rammelkamp
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- Editor Introduction
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- John C. Mannone - The Pleistocene Extinction
- Emily O'Neill - Nursery
- Geoffrey A. Landis - How the Frogs Survived, the Last Time the World Ended
- Michael Shorb - Ahura Mazda
- Benjamin Myers - Notes from a Time Traveler
- Steven L. Peck - The Complete Text of the First Ten Volumes of Dr. Fleckwain’s Very, Very Short Steampunk Novels
- Robert Borski - Voyages of the H.M.S. Whitechapel
- Elizabeth Barrette - Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Bryan D. Dietrich - Neil Armstrong
- Lee Ballentine - Magneto
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- Introduction by Marge Simon and Bruce Boston
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- Introduction by Howard Hendrix
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- Arthur Vogelsang's Expedition: New & Selected Poems
- Editor Introduction
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- Adam Hughes - Love Poem
- Jennifer Poteet - Advantages of Smoking at Night
- Mary Elizabeth Parker - Ryder Moon
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- Rachel L. Snyder - In Place of Absence
- Rick Bursky - Plans for a Future
- Michelle Reale - Salve
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- Victoria Kelly - Standing on the Airfield, Before War
- C. John Graham - Noise
- Introduction by Arlene Ang
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- Natalie Giarratano - Leaving Clean
- Kara Candito - Deathbed
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- Kristina Marie Darling - Notes to a History of Bird Keeping
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