Table of Contents
Sharon Olds - Four poems
Gerald Shapiro - Last of the Cowboy Poets, story
Chad Prevost - Language Barrier, poem
Jean Janzen - Two poems
Melissa Yancy - Firstborn, story
John Kinsella - ‘‘The Killing State’’/The Murdering State, poem
Bruce Bond - Two poems
Robert J. Stevens - Bath, story
Brandi George - My Best Friend and Me, poem
Donald Platt - Two poems
Avery Slater - Maunder Minimum: The Sun King, poem
Fleda Brown - Three poems
Nancy Welch - Free Country, story
Robert McNamara - Three poems
Robert Gibb - Two poems
Floyd Skloot - Two poems
Keith Alexander - Two poems
Gloria Boyer - Two poems
Charles Harper Webb - Two poems
Garth Risk Hallberg - That High, Lonesome Sound, story
Maxine Kumin - Two poems
Justin Taylor - Flings, story
Paul Dickey - We Never Know, poem
Alexandra Teague - Two poems
Jason Tandon - Fatherhood, Beginnings, poem
Katie Umans - Love Poem (in a False Tense), poem
Scott Nadelson - The Nothing That Is, essay
Reviews
Matthew Shenoda - Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies, Anis Shivani
Marianne Kunkel - The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, ed. Rita Dove
Elinor Benedict - The Sin-Eater: A Breviary, Thomas Lynch
Willis Goth Regier - The Use and Abuse of Literature, Marjorie Garber
Brooke Horvath - Vinculum, Alice Friman
Catherine Grandorff - Stateside, Jehanne Dubrow
Steve Langan - See Me Improving, Travis Nichols
Alyse Bensel - The Double Truth, Chard deNiord
