TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

W.D. Snodgrass
Chasing Fireflies
                         
Jared Carter
Osiris
                         
James Ragan
A Scansion of Petrarchan Larks
                         
Jorge Luis Borges
Poem of the Gifts
Translated by Robert Mezey
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize Winner 
                         
Maura Stanton 
Zuppa di Pesci
                         
Kate Light 
Least/Last 
                         
A.E. Stallings
Anti-Blurb
                         
Thomas Carper 
Awaking 
                         
Vivian Shipley 
The Swans at Morgan Point
                         
Alfred Nicol 
Play Recital, School Cafeteria
                         
Arlene Tribbia 
Fridays 
                         
Alicia Kramer Harris 
High-diving on Sunday
                         
Mary Frances Baugh 
Portrait of Three Women
                         
Jared Carter
Time Passes
                         
Angela De Hoyos 
This Deathless Birth of a Poem
                         
Kate Light
Thirty-five 
                         
Rhina P. Espaillat 
Passing 
                         
Willis Barnstone
Secret Face of Love
                         
Allison Joseph 
Against Atrophy
                         
James Ragan 
The Old Alley
                         
Jared Carter 
William Johnson
                         
Leeandra Nolting 
Boy-Crazy
                         
William Oxley
The Kissing Gates
                         
J. Chester Johnson 
The Killer
                         
Katie Rose Guest 
Leolyn's Diary
                         
Ronald J. Smith 
Antarctican Nocturne
                         
Jackie Bartley 
Supernumerary 
                         
David Radavich 
Cancer Isle
                         
Anne Wilson 
Firebird 
                         
Alicia Beale 
Remember Me to the Moon
                         
Christopher Cunningham 
Motel 6, Bakersfield, July 1979
                         
John Martin 
Taos 
                         
Donna Pucciani 
Midnight Sun, Copenhagen
                         
G.C. Waldrep 
Passion:  Skinflick
                         
Daniel A. Harris
The Honor, 1946
                         
Cathy Calkins 
Why They Cut My Hair
                         
Robert Long 
La Délaïssádo
                         
Mike White
Beggary
                        
Brad Buchanan
Drawing Blood
                      
Greg Pape
The Hog Boss

Peter Harris
The Cough, The Calm

John Savoie
CrossingsLife as a Temp
                         
John Savoie
Hero Alone

Helen Tzagoloff
What if Paris had been Educated?

Nina Corwin
Inhabitants of the Cusp

Dan Pettee
Market Street Megrims

Jane Miller
A Palace of Pearls

FICTION

T.C. Boyle
Lake Cachuma, November 2003

Arturo Vivante
The Luminescence of Decay

NON-FICTION

Carolina Cuervo Grajales
Language and Borges:  An Interview with Willis Barnstone

James Gorski
A Conversation with Robert Olen Butler

Andrew Frost
North Rim, Grand Canyon, January

REVIEWS

Arthur Brown
History and the Storyteller

Carrie Jerrell
The Forms That Hold Our Grief