Volume 17.1


CONTENTS

Diane Glancy
    The Deer Rider
Nick Barrett
    The Story of Two People Picking Zucchini
Catherine McLaughlin
    Blue Collars
James Magorian
    Feeding Birds
Adrian C. Louis
    Reclaiming an Old Debt
    Two Prayers for the Sioux
Paul Scot August
    Bluegrass
Antony Oldknow
    Inside the Eyelids
Lee Sharkey
    Fat Woman Talking
Leslie Bienen
    Icarus
Charles Munoz
    Fifth Symphony
    A Photograph of Buchenwald
    For Edward Abbey
John Chrisgau
    Cultivating by Tractor Light
    Sailing the Stone Boat
Jim Peterson
    Empty Hands
Alison M. Apotheker
    Hitching a Ride with Gold Miners in the Yukon
Simon Perchik
    My Arm and the Night
Lyn lifshin
    I Remember Haifa Being Lovely But
    The Old Woman in Amerstam
    My Mother’s Third Call on a Day of Sleet and December Falling
Anca Vlasopolos
    Midwest, Summer Storm
Susan Montez
    Last Poem of the Season
Alan Soldofsky
    Inventory
Patricia Matthews
    Little Blue Nude
Francine Witte
    Yin/Yang
Brangien Davis
    Winter
Jan Schmidt
    A Woman Without Children
Craig Curtis
    Today’s Visit
    Womb Tidings
Beth Walker
    Arrowheads
    Becoming Woman
Michael S. Weaver
    A Morning with Abby Shahn
    Liu Huifang
William Stafford
    Easter Morning
    Epiphanies of an Old-Model Hoover
Richard Jones
    Pirandello’s Shirt
Robert Anderson
    Dear Miss Ross
Michael Chitwood
    Sugar
Edmund August
    With Heavenly Fire
Aegina Kim
    Fight
Richard Spiess
    What Follows the Death of Your Body
Doris Wong
    A Suicide Note
    Angels & Artichokes
Elaine Terranova
    Story in the Style of Henry James
Judith Ortiz Cofer
    Orar: to Pray
Kelly Ann Averill-Savino
    Ovoviviparous
Elton Glaser
    Genealogy
Fred Johnston
    Voices of the Fathers
Cynthia Atkins
    Woman in Bathtub
Cathy Song
    Old Story
Anne Gorrick
    Flokati
Ruth Daigon
    Dachau
Eamon Grennan
    Headlines
    Smoke
Donald Hall
    When I Was Young
Colette Inez
    In the Country of No Remorse
    The Dance of Adolph and Eva
Eve Shelnutt
    Portrait
Willie Reader
    The Blacksmith and the Perpetual Mother
    Machine
Rita Signorelli-Pappas
    The Village of the Mermiads
Ira Sadoff
    Bud Powell at the Club Montmarte
Sheryl St. Germain
    My Body in Summer
David Citino
    Walking by the Lion’s Den Adult Theater and Bookstore, Sister Mary Appassionata Experiences the Stigmata
    Bathing Lenin
Julia Budenz
    from “Umbra”
Gail Mozur
    Pennies from Heaven
Joyceann Masters
    Leaving the Door Open
Suzanne Greenberg
    Aghast
Tina Marie Conway
    Stop me If you Think You’ve Heard This One Before
Pete Fromm
    The Baby Sitter
Craig Curtis
    Carbon
Thomas Bontly
    The Sisters
Margot Patterson
    A Crazy Thing Called Love
William Duane
    Passos
Kate Kaplan
    Turn of the Century
Gabrielle Danchick
    Black Teeth
Jack Adlor
    A Writer’s Life
Rodger Kamenetz
    On Reading and Being Read To
Philip Garrison
    Coherence at Arm’s Length
James Brown
    My Papa’s Waltz
Nancy Mairs
    Voice Lessons
Richard Krawiec
    Academics and the Constricted Self
Philip Graham
    The Alien Snow
Richard Frost
    Love
Polly Brody
    Totem
Norman Lavers
    Fathers, and Father Figures
Tony Ardizzone
    Naming the Self
C. Phillip Jean
    A Value-Based Classification of Fictional Character Types
Michael J. Bugeja
    Nuala Archer’s The Hour of Pan / ama
Leasa Burton
    Larry Levis’ The Widening Spell of the Leaves