Claes Oldenberg's Aesthetic of Equivalence (introduction)
Robert Haywood

 

Drops in Gray Water; From Fear of New York (poetry)
Claes Oldenberg

 

How the Grinch Did Penance, Or A Survey of Western Literature (story)
Geoff Schmidt

 

Nothing to Brag About (poetry)
Martha Zweig
       Ruth Armstrong Interviews Martha Zweig

 

After Eleven Days of Rain (poetry)
Julianna Baggott
       Author's Note

 

Decision; Scarce (poetry)
Laton Carter

 

A Letter For Emily Dickinson; Poulenc (poetry)
Annie Finch
       Author's Biographical Note
       A Review of Annie Finch's Eve by Carolyn Kizer
       Poetic (poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
       Letter to Ed (poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)

 

Scribe (poetry)
Norman Finkelstein
       Scribe: A Commentary

 

A Carted Whore (story)
Gordon Weaver
       Author's Note on "A Carted Whore" and "Kempe's Nine Days Wonder"
       Kempe's Nine Days Wonder (fiction)

 

Welcome; Inland In This World (poetry)
Geoffrey Gardner
       May (poetry)
       Starksboro (poetry)
       Another Spring (poetry)

 

Civilities In Time Of Civil War; The Origin of Circles (poetry)
Kurt Heinzelman

 

Dirigible Days; Purple (poetry)
James Finnegan

 

Three Performances (poetry)
Janet Holmes

 

Baroque Dancer (poetry)
Teresa Iverson
       Here the Marsh... ( poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
          from the CD-ROM collection One Side of the River: Poets of Cambridge & Somerville.
       Kaleidoscope ( poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
          from the CD-ROM collection One Side of the River: Poets of Cambridge & Somerville.

 

The Law of Gravity (poetry)
Susanne Davis

 

On the Bridge (poetry)
Gerard Malanga
       Gerard Malanga on the Web (off-site homepage)
       Author's picture

 

Minding the Darkness III.xi (poetry)
Peter Dale Scott

 

Trapdoor (poetry)
Barry Silesky

 

Illegible Due to Blotching: Poetic Authenticity and its Discontents (review)
David Wojahn

 

When My Mother Came Back From Barbados; After the Rain, and Kant (poetry)
Robert McNamara
       Author's Bio
       Sati, Seventh Month, By the Sea (poetry)
       Winged Ants, Millers, Spiders, Moths (1963) (poetry)
       When My Mother Came Back from Barbados (poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
       After the Rain and Kant (poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
       Robert McNamara on the Web (off-site homepage)

 

Film Noir; Far From Lowell (poetry)
Anthony Libby

 

Falling In Europe ( poetry, reading, requires RealPlayer)
Mary Ann Moran
       First Love Poem (poetry)
       Balance Is All to the Undecided (poetry)
       Primitive (poetry)
       Miranda's Summer (poetry)

 

An Unstruck Sound is the Initial Move (poetry)
John Peck

 

Billy's Last Smoke (story)
Jarda Cervenka
       Author's Biography and Photo

 

Somehow Earlier, Fields of Brushy Pain Outside and Flat, Though Painful (poetry)
James S. Proffit

 

The House Museum; Something to Declare (poetry)
Peter Robinson
       The House Museum ( poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
       Something to Declare ( poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)
          On Revising "Something to Declare"
       More Aftershocks ( poetry and poetry reading, requires RealPlayer)

 

After Metaphor (poetry)
Ryan G. Van Cleave

 

Poets of the Cimitero Acattolico (poetry)
CarolAnn Russell
       CarolAnn Russel on the Web (off-site homepage)

 

Polaroid (poetry)
Reginald Shepherd

 

Legacy; Now the Clouds are Gone (poetry)
D. James Smith

 

Late Night; Boy Loading Wagon; Father "Overcome By Despair" (poetry)
Corrinna Vallianatos
       At the Bus Depot (poetry)

In the Haze of Pondered Vision: Yvor Winters as Poet (review)
Robert Archambeau

 

A Blue Moon In Poorwater (short review)
Tony D'Souza

 

Editors Select
       R. D. Skillings, Where the Time Goes.
       M.G. Stephens, Where the Sky Ends: A Memoir of Alcohol & Family.
       Jay Neugeboren, Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living With Mental Illness.
       Jamie Kalven, Working with Available Light: A Family's World after Violence.
       Virgin Fiction 2, Rob Weisback Books.
       A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne.
       Christopher Merrill, Only the Nails Remain.
       John Phillip Santos, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation.
       John Peck, Collected Shorter Poems 1966-1996.
       Sandra Alcosser, Except by Nature.
       Michael Coffey, 87 North.

 

Contributors' Notes