VOLUME 18.1

Contents

Rob Carney
    Cain and Job shoot pool
    still-life with Magdalene and wind
    salt in Lot's wounds
Emily Ballou
    Lorraine who was lost does yoga
Dannye Romine Powell
    Fairest of Them All
E.W. Smith
    Evelina Weaving
Gerrie Paino
    With the Woman in the Cancer Ward
    In the Chapel of the Virgin, Zaragoza, Spain
Aaron Anstett
    Big World Full of Uneasy Sleepers
James Williams
    Stillborn
Kit Pancoast-Nagamura
    Haiku on the Lijang River
Shelley Crisp
    Naming the Animals
Heather Davis
    Garden party
Alice Friman
    The Good News
Mary Makofske
    A Personal History of the Early Fifties
Jackson Stahlkuppe
    Tommy T, Awaits Visits From His late Wife
Roberta Spear
    Eating Blackberries in the Dark
Brent Cunningham
    The Pyromaniac and the Gas Station Girl
Hannah Stein
    Hand-Me-Downs
Katie Price
    Gaze (Otherwise the Curved Breast Could Not Dazzle You So)
Paula Goldman
    Michelangelo's Last Pieta (1475-1564)
    O'Keefe's Black Door
Guy Blair
    Generations
Philip Dacey
    The 15th Zagreb Literary Talks (May 12, 1988)
David Swerdlow
    Beautiful
Jeanne Bryner
    The Mill's Annual Picnic, 1960 Conneaut Lake Park, Pa.
Lyn Lifshin
    Your Words
    Hair
Lisa Williams
    Cemetery
Dede Wilson
    Whirligigs
Renata Treitel
    Like the Bosom of an Artichoke
Mary Armstrong
    Hindsight
Robert Cording
    For Sarah Winchester
Robert Cording
    For Sarah Winchester
Linda L. Fox
    The Snow Peas and the Crones
Jeff Crandall
    Carp, Pike Place Market
Angela Vogel
    Southside Jersey
Jeffrey Encke
    New god, In Training
Anne Ohman Youngs
    How August Light
Connie Voisine
    The Miracle
    Hearing the Snow
    Gretel and the Oven
J.P. White
    Elephant Land
Carl Lindner
    Snake
Steve Scafidi
    Love Story River
    The Swing
Jane A. Chapman
    Mother, You Called Me
Steven Reese
    Christian in the Den of Produce
B. J. Bushrow
    In Reverse, the Accident
    Closet Child
    Mona Lisa in the Mall
Jill Kalz
    Sex Behind the Mill Road Cafÿ
Albert Goldbarth
    Proportion
    Even; Equal
    Contest! Name the Crayon Colors
Wendy Counsil
    Titania Wakes
Charles Fox
    Monsiour Ilagro, the Prince of Deception, Solves the Problem of Conjuring
Elton Glaser
    Slum Hisself, Mouth Open
Stephanie Mendel
    They Killed the Silence of the Drive by Pretending

Nonfiction Symposium: What Gives Life Meaning?
Nancy Mairs
    Yes! Yes!
Mary Swander
    Leap Frog
Richard Robbins
    Seeing and Saying
Wendy Dutton
    The Zen of Murder
Patricia Foster
    Dilemmas of Invisibility
Melissa Haertsch
    What We care For
Benjamin Chambers
    After the Unspeakable
Philip Garrison
    Memory's Trigger Finger
Keith Cahoon
    The Phoenix Plates

Fiction
Kathleen de Azevedo
    The Last Run
Ira Wood
    How We Got That Way
Tomas Filer
    Good
D.L. Olson
    Flowage
Carole Resenthal
    Winging It
Elizabeth Inness=Brown
    Territory
    Lupe Solis
    Laundromat Blues
Christina Sunley
    The Power of Distant Things
Lise McCloud
    Still Life With ¿Marigoldsî and the Blue Mumbled Earth

Book Reviews
Katherine H. Wikoff
    A Glean in the Eye by Louis Daniel Brodsky
Mary L. Buley-Meissner
    Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
Anthony Alessandrini
    Rain-Charm for the Duchy and
    Other Laureate Poems by Ted Hughes
Michael J. Bugeja
    New and Selected, 1962–92 by LaurenceLiebermann
Mark Pizzato
    The Disappearance of the Outside:
    A Manifesto for Escape by Andrei Codrescu

Artwork
Brian Kelly
    Dan Archibold, Ohio, 1993
    New Orleans, 1985
    Nelsonville, Ohio, 1984\
    Baltimore, 1991
Jamie Tuttle
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Katt Yanda
    The Singer I
    Rodin on Death Bed
    The Spirits
Tim Southall
    Mack the Knife
    Nightmares
    Pipe Dreams
Jamie Tuttle
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