Fall 2001

Cover Art: Donald E. King
Front: Taos Backyard, 22’’x 30’’, Gouache
Back:
Abandoned Store, 7’’x 7’’, Watercolor; Casa De Bruja, 7’’x 7’’, Gouache


POETRY

Becky Cooper—How the Body Learns to Float | The Science of Naming, an Apology | The Stairway to the Stairs

Edward Bartok- Baratta—Shoes I Haven’t Worn | July Has the Most Murders

Myronn Hardy—Madagascar Notebook #2

Linda Bierds—Organmeister: Hasse after Marienkirche | The Last Castrato

Alexander Long—Noise

Mihai Ursachi—Sensorium Mysticum

Robert Grunst—Bottie Bowling

Joseph Campana—12:00am | 4:32pm

Lisa Yanover—Guide for the Perplexed

Sarah Messer—Look, | Starting with that Time

Sandra Miller—Katya Kapovich, Poetesse

Christopher Janke—Nocturne

Karen Kevorkian—The Body

Peter Markus—Our Father’s Shed, Where Our Father Keeps His Tools, The Rusty Buckets & Muddy Shovels, The Nuts & Bolts & Nails & Screws, Bottles Half Filled With Whiskey | Our Father Who Walks on Water Comes Home With Two Buckets of Fish

Laura E. Howard—Full Measure Rest, A Fugue | Tiny Glasses Full of Gin

Vandana Khanna—Hence, Monsoon | On the Edge of Delhi

Bob Hicok—Memento | My affair with a hat | Skin | Morning, three years into the job


NONFICTION

Becky Bradway—Confirmation


FICTION

Patricia Cumbie—Where People Like Us Live

Courtney Angela Brkie—Remains

Liz Beasley—Curve Ball

Sari Wilson—Daily Commerce

C. Abe Gaustad—Depth of Mirrors


SYMPOSIUM ON POEM VS. SONG

Campbell McGrath—Grievous Angel

Mary Ruefle—I have a friend…

Mark Halliday—Me and Bruce

David Wojahn—Death Watch Music

Martin Walls—“If I ventured in the slipstream…”

Betsy Sholl—Splish-Splash

Bill Olsen—Flying Shoes

Gerard Morrison—Adios: An Interview with Townes Van Zandt


Managing Editor: Shanda Hansma Blue
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Symposium Contributing Editor: Bill Olsen
Fiction Editors: Lisa Lishman and Libbie Searcy
Poetry Editors: Richard Foss, Beth Martinelli, and Lydia (Jade) Melvin
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Amy Stewart


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