Vol. 23, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2006

Fiction

Thoreau’s Laundry, Ann Harleman

Bird on Bird, Jason Ockert

Homicide Survivors Picnic, Lorraine M. López

Girl Fish, Jim Meirose

Angels, Jan Pendleton

The Turret House, Charles Wyatt

Jack’s Things, Peggy Shinner

Faux Interviews

The Other Margaret, William Eisner

Interview with the Last Remaining Member of the Feral Dog Pack which Fed on God’s Corpse – June 2006, Ronald F. Currie Jr

Personal Essays

Pregnant Madonna Scrubbing Floor, Kim Dana Kupperman

Looking at the Rosy Glow, Ellen Morris Prewitt

Poetry

GUEST EDITOR, Olena Kalytiak Davis

[Lying in bed I think about you], Joshua Beckman

[Beautiful arbitrary reflexivity (the night)], Joshua Beckman

Millefiori: The Habits of Belief, Angus Bennett

At Elmwood Cemetery, Mt. Elliott and Lafayette, Detroit, Laura Bernstein-Machlay

Embouchure, David Biespiel

Site-Specific Adaptations, Elizabeth Bradfield

Minneapolis, Joel Brouwer

White Suit, Joel Brouwer

Grid, Karen Chase

Part-Time Lazarus, Mark Conway

Zilch, Mark Conway

The Grasp Relaxed is Neither, Mark Cox

On Turning 38 in Roma, Kevin Craft

Towards a Philosophy of Extrapolation, Kevin Craft

Every River, Weston Cutter

Place Mat, Jim Daniels

Opium Remnants, Jim Daniels

Parked, Christine Deavel

Professional Extra, Michael Dumanis

I Had a Late Night Visitor, Bruce Farnsworth

jesus knew, Nick Flynn

Another Point, Mark Halliday

The Future of Terror / 4, Matthea Harvey

Terror of the Future / 4, Matthea Harvey

Happiness Writes White, Edward Hirsch

Hanging, Myself, Cyphar Hopkins

The Bombardment, Ilya Kaminsky

Alfonso Looks Out of the Window, Ilya Kaminsky

from Nocturnes, Deborah Landau

Money Variations, David Lehman

Last Body, Alex Lemon

What to Use to Make a Junco, J. W. Marshall

Cloud Elegy, Cate Marvin

A Strange Forbearance, Davis McCombs

The Mimic Birds, Davis McCombs

zugszwang, Jeffrey McDaniel

just for the record, Jeffrey McDaniel

Time Not Being High, Heather McHugh

As Yet but Knock, Heather McHugh

Ecstatic Cling, Susan Parr

Eros, Susan Parr

My Affair with the Physicist, Susan Parr

Swooping Actuarial Fauna, Susan Parr

clutch and pumps, D. A. Powell

Will, Elizabeth Powell

Aubade, Panicking, Paisley Rekdal

Pasted Up in the Vicinity of the Sun, David Rivard

Birthday, David Rivard

An American Comet, Mary Ruefle

I Came Across the Living One Night, Mary Ruefle

Toward the Clear Blue Water, Ksenia Rychtycka

Dies Irae, Ira Sadoff

Id, Ira Sadoff

Autumn Poem, Amelia Salisbury

On Hearing a Clock Chime Once While Listening, Frances Sjoberg

Self My With Is, Frances Sjoberg

What Her Door Said, John Surowiecki

Hallowmas, Michael Theune

Some Considerations of (Untitled), Michael Theune

Europe, Michael Theune

Lesson, Jonathan VanBallenberghe

Retreat, Jonathan VanBallenberghe

Mrs. Othmar, Mon Amour, G. C. Waldrep

Flu Song in Spanish, Kary Wayson

Echolocution, Kary Wayson

Unbidden, Katharine Whitcomb

Worlds, Katharine Whitcomb

Different People Feel Differently, Rebecca Wolff

Sotto Voce, Rebecca Wolff

Twelve Exercises, Franz Wright

January, Matthew Zapruder

Lazy Comet, Hurry, Matthew Zapruder

from Roche Limit, Andrew Zawacki

Vol. 23, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2006

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