Fall 1999

Cover Art: Mary Manusos
Front: Yellow House with Boats, 1990, 32’’x 44’’, Etching on handmade paper
Back:
Blanket on Line, 1990, 44’x 46’’, Etching on handmade paper (top right); Yellow Fence, 1990, 44’’x 46’’, Etching on handmade paper (top left); Green Palapa, 1993, 44’’x 46’’, Etching on handmade paper (bottom lfet)


POETRY

Sharon Bryan—The Underworld | Careless | My Last Night

Jennifer Hancock—I Never Wanted to Say | First Kiss: Portuguese Man O’War

Ed Ochester—On Frank O’Hara’s Birthday, Key West | For Ganesha, Hindu God of Good Fortune

Dana Levin—Desire | Banishing the Angels

Carolyn Kizer—Jill’s Toes

Jesse Millner—It’s the Spring of 1965, and I’m Watching the June Taylor Dancers

Terry Kirts—Today in Illiana | Previously Answered Questions

Patty Seyburn—Sense of Things | River Rock

Saadi Youssef—The Gardener | The Flags | The Moment

Bob Hicok—Did I ever tell you about my love/hate relationship with confessional poetry? | Harm’s Way

Patricia McMillen—Yang

Carl Auerbach—Romulus Augustus

Bob Russell—Maine, 11- December

Paula McLain—Lost in Space | Bloom

Valerie Loveland—Three Ducks

Kirk Robinson—Girl, 12 | Bolero

Dennis Hinrichsen—Orchard

Paulette Beete—Baptism

Allyson Shaw—Psalm of the Chorister

Ed Webster—A Provisional Vocation

Susan Varon—If Only I Could Have Adventures

John Rybicki—Sweet Star Chisel, Dearest Flaming Crumbs in Your Beard Lord, | Letter to Old Man Markus


ESSAY

Mary Ruefle—On Secrets: Eight Beginnings, Two Ends


FICTION

Kevin Grauke—The Ringmaster’s Winter Circus Blues

Heidi Bell—This is Your Life

Traci Sobocinski—Disorders of the Hoof

Clifford Browder—An Entrepreneuse in September | The Witness

Brian David Mooney—Fog is a Cloud


Managing Editor: Kathleen McGookey
Business Manager: Michele McLaughlin
Fiction Editors: Pedro Ponce and Janice Robertson
Poetry Editors: Scott Bade and Tony Spicer


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