Table of Contents

Poetry

• Paul Zweig, “Amanita Phalloidus”, “The Way Down and Out”, “Losing a Friend”, “Getting Older”
• Gretchen Spitz, “Postcard”, “Michael”
• Lyn Lifshin, “The Dream of Dark Air, Running”, “The Bad Reading Snow”
• Elisavietta Ritchie, “Entymological Differences”
• DuVal Conner, “Leaving”
• Thomas Philion, “Matinee”
• Tim Dlugos, “So Far”, “Mallarme”
• Barbara Inman, “Lambs Wrestle”, “Lions Gaze”
• Richard McCann, “When You Ask Me How I’m Doing, I Tell You”
• Kathleen Spivak, “Photojournalism”
• Joseph Bruchac, “Hemlocks”, “Dream Song”, “Natives”
• Harley Elliott, “The Secret Language of Roses”, “The Dancing Man”, “The Tourist Regards His Feet”, “The Trap”
• Andrei Codrescu, “Blue for Cassanova”, “Spyglass”, “The Goldrush”, “Still”, “Muffled by a Belt Across the Mouth”
• Albert Goldbarth, “Drastic Remedies”, “Dynamics of Garbling”, “Wintersong”
• Ann Elizabeth Poe, “Ida”
• Miriam Goodman, “Evictions”
• Lee Mellick, “Exposition”
• Hugh Walthall, from Bloodhurst, Phoenix
• Mary Feit, “Improvisation for Marty”
• Marian M. Mohr, “The Vandals at the Digs”
• Evelyn Thorne, “Memories of Lives I Have Forgotten”
• Ed Cox, “It Happens This way”
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, “Poor”, “Monks”
• Michael Lally, “What I Want”, “Don’t Let Me Go Home Alone”
• Will Inman, “The Mountain That Fed on Him”, “He Became”
• Joseph Maiolo, “Laying Sod”
• Linda Lerner, “The Father’s Curse”
• Christopher W. Wells, “October Respite”
• Robert Hershon, “The Famous Cat”

Fiction

• Robert Bausch, “Milhous”
• Margaret Gibson, “Fragment from a Novel”
• Ann Weber, “Epitaph”

Book Reviews

• Four Views into the Heart of the Cave: Joseph Bruchac’s The Buffalo in the Syracuse Zoo, Harley Elliott’s All Beautyfull & Foolish Souls, Andrei Codrescu’s The History of the Growth of Heaven, and Albert Goldbarth’s Coprolites, by Jim Everhard
• Two Young Vikings: Greg Kuzma’s Good News: Poems and Daniel Halpern’s Traveling on Credit: Poems, by William F. Claire
• Margaret Gibson’s Lunes by Michael Rumfelt

Art

• Stephen H. Saperstone
• Donald Dickson
• Betsy Jones
• Alexandra Gerry, Cover