Caedmon's Hymn (translation)
Paul Muldoon

 

From Langland's Piers Plowman: Gluttony (translation)
Ken Smith

 

Tolstoi: A Day in the Life (poetry)
Michael B. McMahon
       Biographical Sketch
       The Silent Ones (poetry)
       Night Places (poetry)
       Our Town: A Lament (poetry)

 

From Poems in Memory of Ted Hughes (poetry)
Daniel Weissbort

 

El Desdichado (After Nerval) (poetry)
Michael Perkins
       Biographical Sketch
       Poem on a Line by Akhmatova: "I'm Not Yet Cured of Happiness" (poetry)
       Omnia Mea Mecum Porto (poetry)
       Self-Portrait by Moonlight (poetry)
       The Green Leaf Eats the Body of the Sun (poetry)

 

Small Courtesies (story)
R.M. Kinder

 

From the Homeplace (poetry)
James McMichael

 

Smile I. and Smile II. (stories)
Jarda Cervenka

 

Necessities (poetry)
Christopher Merrill

 

Infidelity as a Creative Act (poetry)
Mike Barrett

 

Mother About 26, Son About 11,
River Immemorial, c. 1896 (story)
Reginald Gibbons
       Author's Biography

 

Cathe, Cabochon, Chorale (poetry)
Carolyn Moran

 

The Dream Team; On Quiet, Sunny Streets (poetry)
Wayne Zade
       Author's Note on "The Dream Team" and "On Quiet Sunny Streets"

 

Beneath Our World There's Nothing
But Other Worlds (poetry)
Martin Walls
       Author's Note on "Beneath Our World"
       Poem for the Magnolias (off-site poetry)

 

Not This Sky (poetry)
Nancy Donegan
       Author's Biographical Sketch
       The Redbud Opens First (poetry)
       March Wind (poetry)

 

On this Eastern Edge (poetry)
Glenna Holloway
       The Ignis Fatuus (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Cutting a Finger on Obsidian (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       The Hurricane Hunters (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Wings (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Writer's Workshop (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Apprentice Artist (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Author's Photo

 

Yield to This; Who Does Not Love
the Figure Before Them (poetry)
Malinda Markham

 

The Sorrow and the Grace of Vultures (poetry)
George Looney

 

Accidents (story & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
David Green
       Atchley (an excerpt from the novel)

 

Harmonicas; Potters' Field (poetry)
Laura-Gray Street

 

What Cannot Be Fixed; The String Section
Skinnydips (poetry)
Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
       Author's Note on "What Cannot Be Fixed" and "The String Section Skinny Dips"
       Author's Biography (off-site)
       Return Ticket (poetry)
       Uprooted (poetry)
       Genesis (poetry)
       Cuba 1979 (off-site poetry)

 

Natalia Ginzburg's Dream of Music (poetry)
Peg Boyers

 

The Six Ways (poetry)
Terence Winch
       Author's Biography
       Roots and Branches Part I: An Interview with Terence Winch (requires Real Player)

 

The Men on the Wall (poetry reading, requires Real Player)
Maria Terrone
       Author's Note on "The Men on the Wall"
       Autobiographical Sketch
       Drifts (poetry)
       Faith (poetry)
       Ghost Frescoes (poetry)
       The Gulls and the Man (poetry)
       The Sum of Her (poetry)
       In Standard Time (off-site poetry)
       Bob In His Valley (poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Inside the VA Dictaphone Typing Unit, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, 1969 (poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Night of the Comet (poetry reading, requires Real Player)

 

Water Rites (essay)
Marilyn Krysl
       Every God Will Leave Us: An Interview with Marilyn Krysl
       Mailyn Krysl on the Web

 

Fruit Fly; Potato Beetle; Silverfish (poetry)
Jere Odell

 

Sestina for a Poet Laureate (poetry)
Susan Grafeld Long

 

Nation Ill-Prepared for Nuclear Attacks (poetry)
Ace Boggess
       If You Had News (poetry)
       Immigration Search May Affect Asparagus Crop (poetry)
       Pretend It Doesn't Matter Tonight (off-site poetry)

 

Sketch: Roof of the Metropolitan; A Week
Before Our Wedding I Read About the National
Spelling Bee (poetry)
Andrew Epstein
       Author's Biography (poetry)
       Garden of Fourteen Paths (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Your Mind Can Move Faster (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)
       Stand Clear the Closing Doors (poetry & poetry reading, requires Real Player)

 

Nothing Happens Again, 1978 (story)
R.D. Skillings

 

Toledo Bend (poetry)
Simone Muench

 

A Sort of Prayer; The Stupid Club (poetry)
J. Morris
       Autobiography
       Angels (poetry)
       Corridor (poetry)
       What We Did (poetry)
       Posing (poetry)
       Portrait of the Artist (song, requires Real Player)

 

Ausencia in Spanish Means Absence (poetry)
Virgil Suarez
       Author's Autobiography

 

Hard Work (story)
Michael McCole
       Cooper and the Dog Girl (fiction)

 

No Place Like Home (poetry)
Robert Hahn

 

Orus, the Fallen Angel: After Dali's
Atavistic Vestiges After the Rain (poetry)
Ryan G. Van Cleave

 

William Bronk's Paradoxical Accomplishment (review)
Henry Weinfield

 

Street-Smart Swagger & Tendresse: A Review of
August Kleinzahler's Green Sees Things in Waves
(review)
Andrew Osborn
       Additional Reviews
       Andrew Osborn on the Web (off-site)

 

Prynne's Poems (review)
Devin Johnston

 

Two Uses of Mind: Or the Art of Absence (review) Alison Armstrong
       Author's Biography (poetry)
       The Man in the Apple-Green Tie (fiction)
       Gazelle (fiction)
       Alison Armstrong reads from her Poetry & Fiction (requires Real Player)

 

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