Masthead
EDITOR
Ann Neelon
GUEST EDITOR
Nicky Beer
ADVISORY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Squire Babcock
Brian Barker
Holly Goddard Jones
Dale Ray Phillips
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Jim Bryant
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Jack Cobb
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Jacque E. Day
MFA EDITORIAL BOARD
Gregory Alan Norton
Brianna Pike
Leigh Landini Wright
WEBSITE DESIGN
Tony Powell
Emerging Poets Feature
Cover art by George Boorujy
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction, by Nicky Beer, Guest Editor
I Know You're Reading This, a poem by Mary Buchinger
My Lives, a poem by Al Maginnes
(This poem later appeared in Verse Daily. See it here.)
Two Poems, by Kristine Ong Muslim
Under the Alabama Sun, a story by Lynnell Edwards
Eight Poems, by Judy Jordan
Cha Cha, a story by Doran Larson
Self-Sufficiency, an essay by Maureen P. Stanton
Wintering Statues, January 2001, a poem by Elizabeth Langemak
21st Century Couplets, a poem by Stephen Gibson
The Traveler, a poem by Michael Johnson
Pocketbook Syndrome, a story by Ellen Morris Prewitt
For an Instant, a poem by David Huerta
translated by John Oliver Simon
Lake of Egypt, Southern Illinois, a poem by Susan Isaak Lolis
In the Smelter's Valley, a poem by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Mercy, a poem by Richard Boada
Dead Metaphor #8: Sunlight After Morning Thunder, a poem by Gaylord Brewer
Shooting Teddy, a story by Lex Sonne
Anti-Odysseus, a poem by Jason Koo
Shiny Suit, a poem by Marc McKee
Listening to Otis Redding, a poem by Timothy David Shea
Emerging Poets Feature
- Elizabeth Bradfield
- Jericho Brown
- Sean Hill
- Catherine Pierce
Book Reviews
From Where You Dream
by Robert Olen Butler and Janet Burroway
reviewed by Jack Cobb
Drowning in Gruel
by George Singleton
reviewed by Scott Gordon