Rita Signorelli-Pappas

 "Evening in Vezelay"
 

Jeff Knorr

 "Winter Turkeys"
 

Kathrine Varnes

 Four Sonnets from "His Next Ex-Wife"
 

Jim Murphy

"Basement Occupations"
 

Rebecca Dunham

 "Toast of the Terrarium"
 

Benjamin Vogt

"Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954"
 

Nicole Pekarske

 "On the Birth of My Mother's Youngest Brother"
 

Peter Serchuk

"Not Like This Rose"
 

Robin Kemp

 "Climbing"
 

Rhoda Janzen

 "First Time"
 

Heather Maring

"Taco Bell, Hannibal, Missouri"
 

Jesse Lee Kercheval

"Bang"
 

Ricardo Sternberg

"Paulito's Birds"
 

Stephen Benz

"St. Ambrose's Boarding School"
 

Ann Silsbee

"Bluer Than Sapphire"
 
 
 

INTERVIEW
 

Andrew Mulvania

"Q & A with Sherod Santos"
 
 

ESSAY
 

H. Palmer Hall

"Why I Still Write about the War"
 
 

REVIEWS
 

Mary Carter Ginn

"Vivian Shipley: When There Is No Shore"
 

William Allegrezza

"Don Schofield: Approximately Paradise"
 

Janet McCann

"H. Palmer Hall: Reflections on Writing, Publishing & Other Things"
 

Ann Silsbee

"Diane Lockward: Eve's Red Dress"

Edward Byrne

"The Fundamental Desire To Sing: 
Two Decades of Poetry by Sherod Santos"
 
 
 

COVER ART
 

Gregg Hertzlieb

"David Hockney: Slow Rise"
 
 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES