issue 2 (2006)

TERRANCE HAYES
The Blue Emmett (p)
A Girl in the Woods (p)
A Plate of Bones (p)

GARY L. MCDOWELL
All Stones are Broken Stones (p)

STEPHEN DUNN
How to Write a Dream Poem (p)

CAROL GUESS
Shove (p)
The Belltown Angel (p)
Dodge and Burn (p)

DORIANNE LAUX
Starling (p)
The Birthday Party (p)

PHILIP PARDI
Yearning for God in the Absence of God, Yearning for Beauty in the Midst of Such Beauty (p)

LAWRENCE RAAB
The Uninvited (p)

EMILY PÉREZ
The People Under Your Couch (p)

DENISE DUHAMEL & MAUREEN SEATON
CAT 4 (p)
Olive Oyl and Popeye (A Family Dynamics Poem) (p)

STEVEN D. SCHROEDER
Deathmatch Mode (p)

ARTHUR SMITH
Endanger (p)

DAVID MCCOMBS
Fossil Fuel (p)

AL MAGINNES
Evacuation and Display (p)

TIM O’CONNELL
Letter #12: Never Sent, Never Received (p)
City of Air (p)

ALLEN C. FISCHER
City of Windows (p)
What is Felt (p)

LISA WILLIAMS
A Waterfall (p)

SAM TAYLOR
Next (p)
Background (p)
Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude (p)

GRACE BAUER
A Little Like Dorothy (p)

BRYAN PENBERTHY
Lovetown (p)
Goodbyetown (p)

NICKY BEER
Stumphumper (p)

DENISE DUHAMEL
Photo Op (p)

MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK
Zodiac (p)

BILLY COLLINS
The Student (p)

MARILYN KALLET
Tell Yourself (p)

JOANNE LOWERY
Envy of Birds (p)

PHIL WEST
Proposal on the Lake in Central Park (p)

NOAH FALCK
Confessions Inside a Pickup Line (p)

CARRINGTON MACDUFFIE
Reversal of Order (p)

AMANDA AUCHTER
The Magician’s Girl (p)
Gardenia (p)

JAMES HARMS
Known You Were Loved (p)

LANCE LARSEN
On Mourning (p)
Geographical (p)

EUGENE GLORIA
Bilbao, Spain(p)

MARK M. MARTIN
Pain (p)
Human Love (p)

H. L. HIX
A: (p)

MARY AUSTIN SPEAKER
The Champion (p)

CYRUS CASSELLS
The Ruins in Total Eclipse (p)

JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN
Funeral, Mineral, Vegetable (p)

BOB HICOK
My Iron Age (p)

MICHAEL CZYZNIEJEWSKI
pleurisy (f)

MARYL JO FOX
Marker (f)

SARAH BLACKMAN
Weather (f)
Brides (f)

JOHN DUFRESNE
from ‘Requiem, Mass.’ (f)

STEVE ALMOND
Heart Radical: The Strange, True Flight of Airships (nf)

CARLOS EDMUNDO DE ORY
Feature: Poems
“Autoelegy,” “Monkey Hands,” “The Papyrus X-Rated,” “Under My Work Lamp,” “Finite Theory,” “Biographies” Translated by Steven J. Stewart (p)

ROGER PFINGSTON
Pegasus (a)

MICHAEL BERRYHILL
Pipe Dream (a)
Francisco (a)

SANDRA JOHNSON
Procrastination Transfiguration (a)

RACHEL LAVIN
La Encueratriz (a)

BEN OLSEN
Baxter Lecture Hell (a)


SPECIAL FEATURE

AIMEE BENDER AND GEORGE SAUNDERS
A Conversation with Aimee Bender and George Saunders (nf)