TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

Rita Dove
Persephone, Falling

Mario Luzi
Night Washes Over the Mind
Translated by Dana Gioia

Les Murray
Post Mortem

Marie Ettiene
Some Of Them Are Japanese
Translated by Marilyn Hacker
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize Winner

Federico Garcia Lorca
The Guitar
Translated by Ralph Angel
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize Winner

Virgil Suárez
Los Muertos Vivos / The Undead

Karen Glenn
In Berkeley

Jim Barnes
In St. Maximin with the Old Men at Boules, Looking For the Maestro

J. P. Dancing Bear
Perseus in the Garden

Kate Light
Open Slowly;

Mike Carson
Gathering Snails

Kevin Keck
The Letter

Adam Knight
How You Hold Me

Harry Thomas
Kafka

Naomi Shihab Nye
Argument

Naomi Shihab Nye
Supple Cord

Barbara DeCesare
Peter and the Wolf

Vivian Shipley
The Dodo

Vivian Shipley
Hard Luck

William Oxley
Things Change

Doug Flaherty
Something About Rhythm

Jill Mancina
About Earthquakes

Leeandra Nolting
Heels

Walt McDonald
Dusk at Kill Devil Falls

Paul Bone
Villanelle at Sunrise

Hollie Trevathan
The Weatherman

Teresa Starr
Silent Home Movies, Reel One

Barry Ballard
Adjusting the Thermostat

Rob Griffith
At the St. Louis Museum

Ralph McInerny
Rexford Drive

Pat McCutcheon
Veteran's Benefits

Alicia Harris
Triptik

Lois Marie Harrod
On the Nature of Inspiration on a Bad Day

Mark Mansfield
After Fragonard's Girl Reading a Book

Mark Mansfield
The 'M' Word On Avenue B

Patricia Murphy
Not Having Them

Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Munster Football Final 1924

Priscilla Atkins
Doing Time

Sean Chapman
Snow in Fayetteville

Tom C. Hunley
Gossiping About the Dead

Thomas R. Smith
On the Word "Afford"

Arlene Tribbia
FL

J. Morris
Civilization and Its Discontents

Rana Arroyo
Life as a Temp

Terry Brix
Bar-Coded Life

William Greenway
Curses

FICTION

Melina Draper
St. Mommy Bear

Tom Williams
Hoops

Tiffany Griffith (translator)
Grettir's Saga

Tiffany Griffith (translator)
The Death of Gunnar

NON-FICTION

Elisabeth Meyer
A Conversation with X. J. Kennedy

Aurion Johnson
Heart Matters

Andrew King
My Father, My Life

REVIEWS

A. E. Stallings
X Marks the Spot

Jane Friedman
Mortalities and Inde1ibilitie

A. M. Juster
Wyatt Prunty's Southern Comfort

Henry W. Russell
Mona Lisa Smiles: Ambiguity in Jerusalem