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Winner–1996 Greg Grummer Award, judged by Richard Peabody

• Priscilla Lee, “Shaman”

Winner–1996 Phoebe Fiction Prize, judged by Clint McCown

• Leslee Becker, “The Sincere Café”

Poetry

• Eli Alon, “It Will Be a Monotonous Poem” (Trans. by William Matthews and Moshe Don)
• Nuar Alsadir, “Thermodynamics: The Second Law,” “This Small Hour”
• Beth Anderson, “Of realm,” “Inhabit”
• Bruce Andrews, “‘Sun 3’/ from LIP SERVICE
• Michael Boughn, “Scattering States”
• Rebecca Byrkit, “Solar System for Criminals”
• Steve Carll, “An In,” “The Shanghai Was Big”
• Wanda Coleman, “DREAMWALK”
• Susan Conley, “Taj Mahal”
• Chris Custer, “Maneuvers”
• Brian Desmond, “You See, the Cloud”
• Ray DiPalma, “Sequel 30,” “Transcription #4,” “Transcription #14”
• Ellen Dudley, “The Barn”
• Russell Edson, “The Man Who Loved Music, “Of Lunch and Love,” “An Old Woman’s Dream,” “Sweet Tooth”
• Thomas Sayers Ellis, “Stretchin’ Out”
• Andy Fenwick, “Comfort Boxes”
• Stephen Robert Gibson, “LEFT ON HER MACHINE,” “QUICK THE EMERGENCY”
• Vince Gotera, “GHOST DANCE,” “BLUES CHANNEL, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLYING FROM MINNEAPOLIS TO SAN JOSE”
• Lyn Hejinian, from A Border Comedy
• Jody Hembree, “A HABIT OF LOOKING AT THE GROUND”
• Fanny Howe, excerpts from “Q”
• Pierre Joris, “green shoots,” “AVOGADRO’S NUMBER,” “the voices fade“
• Yusef Komunyakaa, “A Small System,” “Phantom Limbs”
• Elizabeth Krajeck, “THE FLASHLIGHT”
• Susan Landers, “Her Eyelashes Are Strewn Jacks”
• John Loughlin, “Explorer of Simple Pleasures”
• Khaled Mattawa, “DATE PALM TRINITY”
• Jackson MacLow, “Headline-Grabbin’ Storm Front,” “Rapidly Clement Gemstone”
• Eric McHenry, “ALEX CHILTON”
• Mark McMorris, “Rain and Things,” “Where Be Parrots”
• Gwyn McVay, “tsu•klon bé”
• Dave Medlinsky, “SMILE”
• Richard Meier, “Effusive Trees”
• Ron Mohring, “Hair,” “Death”
• Fred Muratori, from “A CIVILIZATION”
• Sheila E. Murphy, “WE WOULD BE SHEEP,” “OF BEING TOSSED FROM SANCTITY”
• Paul Naylor, from “On Certainty (Part 2: Practicing the Body)”
• Kirk Nesset, “THE NO-THEORY THEORY”
• Richard Peabody, “Bruiseography,” “A Demoralizing Factor”
• Daniel Pravda, “I DIE I WAKE UP”
• Peter Ramos, “Time to Work,” “Out-Patient Walk-In”
• Kim Roberts, “Natural Selection”
• Lee Ann Roripaugh, “KAKITSUBATA”
• Spencer Selby, “RESTIVE,” “CLEAR”
• Heather Smith, “The News,” “April 6, 1992”
• Phyllis Stowell, “Water, Everywhere”
• Kyoko Uchida, “BROTHER TONGUE”
• Lee Upton, “The Neighborly Rock Garden,” “Dubbed Film”
• Rosmarie Waldrop, “INSTEAD OF SPLINTERS”
• Diane Ward, “WOMANISH (portrait with perception),” “MAIN STEM”
• Joe Wenderoth, “For One Moment of One Night,” “Regular Obscene,” “Looking Back”
• James Williams, “EQUATORIAL AUBADE”
• Mary Winters, “Orphans from Limbo?”
• WritersCorps D.C. Poetry Feature

Fiction

• Lars Bergan, “Ritual”
• Joanne Kobin, “Her Honeydrop, Her Chickadee”
• Susan Lewis, “Behind Enemy Lines”
• Lisa Page, “MAMBO EXPRESS”