Summer 2003

Volume 25, Number 1


 

 

Cover Art

Roger Pfingston
Leaf Series #6

 

 

Fiction

Bridget Hardy
Going to the Movies
Marilyn Chin
The Parable of the Cake
Stuart Dybek
Wait
Frances Peebles
The Drowned Woman
Lucia Perillo
Report from the Trenches
Todd James Pierce
Arise and Walk, Christopher Reeve
Michael Martone
To Hell and Back
Achy Obejas
Salao, or the Worst Form of Unlucky
Abby Frucht
Edwinka Brunhilde
Rebecca Meacham
Trim & Notions
Mark Wisniewski
Fifty-Six Passes

 

 

Poetry

Mark Cox
Pompeii
Dana Curtis
Camera Stellata
Seraphim Walking Dogs
Molly Minturn
Dog Dreams
Nancy Eimers
On A Dog Dying in Separate Frames
Peter Cooley
Flight into Egypt
Crystal Williams
Sugar
On What to Say
Extraordinary Woman
Tim Seibles
Further
Lia Purpura
Era
William Olsen
Gegenschein:1959
Donald Revell
Burned Acreage
Gary Soto
Sometimes It Takes a Long Time to Get Buried
The Beach Ball
Maureen Seaton
Cave of the Time-Stream
Jim Daniels
you bring out the boring white guy in me
These days they’re wearing their haloes tight
Daisy Fried
Chicken Factory
Andrew Hudgins
Daddy, Are We Meat?
Mark Halliday
Lively Evening
Larissa Szporluk
Jack-in-the-Box
Richard Lyons
Footnote the Low Sky
Martín Espada
How I Became the Rare Iguana Delicatissima of the Caribbean
Madeline DeFrees
Serpentine Soliloquy
Cynie Cory
Brilliant Execution
Torch the Hotel
Simon Perchik
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Khaled Mattawa
Vicinity
Bruce Bond
Elegy for the Living
David Wagoner
Bear Act
Mark Jarman
In Church with Hart Crane
Steven Cramer
Nice:
Life and Death
Lucia Perillo
Given unlimited space, the dead expand limitlessly
Poem without Breasts
Fizz Ed
Viagra
Susan Tichy
Blazon
Julie Choffel
The Unfolding
Sean Mclain Brown
Scamp
Reginald Shepherd
These Are the Things
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
From Ancient Legends and Infidelities, Ch. 12, “The Bird that Came with Memory”
Nance Van Winckel
Leaving the Cage Door Open
Implement
Simone Muench
Your pretty white dress
Cyrus Cassells
Verde Que Te Quiero Verde
Sherman Alexie
A Short History of Arm-Horses
Dorothy Barresi
Beauty Secrets of the New Critics
Jan Beatty
When Foucault Entered the Body
David Kirby
Faith
Rafael Campo
The Story of Us
Nick Carbó
Consequences
Orlando Richardo Menas
Raspa
Frogs
Angela Ball
The Universe Is a Pale Turquoise with Extra Degrees of Green
Paisley Rekdal
Wood/Cut: Two Japanese Prints
Sandra Meek
Epitaph, in Process
Robin Behn
Station in White
Alice Friman
For a Man with a Sunny Disposition
Denise Duhamel
How to Be a Prolific Woman Poet
Michael Conrad Dickman
How to Make Love
Tom Clark
Venerable Imp Rebus
Tony Hoagland
Suicide Song
Jane Mead
The Crypt of the House
The Length of Life
James Grinwis
None Doom
Julianna Baggott
I Send Poetry a Postcard
Marlys West
Weed Music
Richard Blanco
Time as Art in The Eternal City
David Baker
Harvest Cloud
Mary Jo Bang
Advanced Tools
Carol Frost
Apiary II
Lynette Ng
If you only knew
Becky Peterson
If All Signatures Were Forged
Ray Gonzalez
The Blessings
Colette Inez
Song for Fernand Léger
Breath Strokes
Terrance Hayes
The Blue Etheridge

 

 

Interview

Indiana Review
Interview with Lucia Perillo

 

 

Reviews

Sara Jane Stoner
Disappearing Ingenue: The Misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard, Melissa Pritchard
Robin Kish
Requeim for a Summer Cottage, Barbara Lockhart
Kate Goldstein
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer
Amanda Hong
In the River Sweet, Patricia Henley
Kari Gillesse
The Miss America Family, Julianna Baggott
Laurie Filipelli
Six Girls Without Pants, Paisley Rekdal
Chris Million
Arcady, Donald Revell
Esther Lee
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, Marilyn Chin
 
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