Masthead
EDITOR
Ann Neelon
ADVISORY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Squire Babcock
Brian Barker
Nicky Beer
Holly Goddard Jones
Dale Ray Phillips
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Jim Bryant
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Jacque E. Day
MFA EDITORIAL BOARD
David Berrol
Caitlin Chester
Bryan F. Marovich
Elizabeth Mitchell
Roger Stanley
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Pamela Miller
WEBSITE DESIGN
Tony Powell
Cover Artwork, Front and Back
Emily Wolfson
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction by Ann Neelon
The Old Tools poem by Robert Lunday
I Used Your Book poem by Robert Lunday
M is for Monday's Mugging memoir by Stephanie Dickinson
Altichiero’s Frescoes: The St. Catherine Cycle Oratory of St. George, Padua poem by Stephen Gibson
They Shall Inherit the Earth story by Julianne Lynch
Testimonial poem by Joe Wilkins
Fist/Boy/Man/War poem by Joe Wilkins
Anniversary poem by Joe Wilkins
White Cloud poem by Richard Robbins
At the Coast poem by Richard Robbins
Crumbs poem by Richard Robbins
Dancing on Fire story by Bonnie Roop Bowles
At Café Catalonia on the Morning After poem by Jeffrey C. Alfier
Legal Guardian poem by Jeffrey C. Alfier
The Blue Tienda on Paseo Bravo poem by Jeffrey C. Alfier
Invisible Dog on a Leash story-poem by Sherman Alexie
Wildling poem by Frederick Smock
They're Never on Time story by Richard Spilman
The Worst Thing That Happened memoir by Kelle Groom
Because the Body is Made of Water poem by Ephraim Scott Sommers
On Remembering poem by Ephraim Scott Sommers
Even at Infinity story by Curt Eriksen
Six Untitled Poems by Simon Perchik
A Life Away memoir by Bobbi Buchanan
Prehistory poem by Jane Lin
The Survivor Recites Her Lessons poem by Jane Lin
Even As an Angry Wind Leaves Nothing in its Path story by A. Igoni Barrett
The Lords of Front Street, Key West poem by Susan Lilley
Bees in Mourning poem by Susan Lilley
A Poem for Dialecticians poem by Mark Terrill
Yes I Did poem by Mark Terrill
Dialing in the Verities poem by Mark Terrill
Autobiography Excerpts by Emily Wolfson
Book Reviews
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
reviewed by David Berrol
Honoring the Ancestors
by James E. Cherry
reviewed by Roger Stanley
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
edited by Bill Morgan
reviewed by Bryan F. Marovich
Cashay
by Margaret McMullan
reviewed by Elizabeth Mitchell
Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
by Patrick deWitt
reviewed by Caitlin Chester