Spring 1998

Cover Art: Sydnee Goldstein Peters
Front: Marker, Drawing, 13’’x 13’’, mixed drawing media
Back:
Sabbath, Drawing, 13’’x 13’’, mixed drawing media


POETRY

Angela Sorby—Empire Builder | Kate Fox | Land of Lincoln | Really Barely There

Reginald Shepherd—Lucidity | The Scent of Bitter Almonds

Karri Harrison—Monologue in a Laundromat

Elizabeth Gold—Cicada | Thrips

Jeanne LeVasseur—Elephant

Conrad Hilberry—Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi

Robin Behn—The Call

Uros Zupan—A Tree and a Sparrow | A Plan for Poetry at the Close of the Millennium | The Dark Angel | Woman of Light

Mary Jo Firth Gillett—I ask— | Metamorphosis

Cameron K. Gearen—Birds, Obscured

Paul Guest—For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write a Handi-capable Poem | Photogenic Superstar of the Insect World: An Accidental Ode

Terry Alan Kirts—Some Advice in a Time of Excess

Dean Young—And You Don’t Even Have to Leave the Building

Diane Suess-Brakeman—Ars Poetica | Personality | It Blows You Hollow

Lisa Sewell—Human Nature

Richard Jones—Has teaching affected your love of poetry? | How did you meet your wife? | What gives you hope? | If you could no longer write, how would you express yourself?


INTERVIEW

Tod Marshall and Greg Dunne—A Talk with Richard Jones


FICTION

John Lofy—Blue Earth

Dennis Vannatta—The Real Mona Lisa

Gian Lombardo—I Ching Series

Emily Meier—Eleven Days to China

Sara McAulay—Two Fathers

Deborah Bayer—Loveless Café

J. Morris—Prodrome


Managing Editor: Kathleen McGookey
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Matt Mullins and Carla Vissers
Poetry Editors: Anne Moore Odell and Pablo Peschiera



 



 

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