#50
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Phillip Henry Christopher
• Berkeley Morning
Greg Keeler
• Dreaming Richard Brautigan
Pagan Kennedy
• The Encyclopedia of Scorpions
Poetry
Magdalena Alagna
• Halloween 1976
Buzz Alexander
• Entering Prison
Without Me Again
Eric Anderson
• Life During the Bush Years
• Between the Lines
Nin Andrews
• Taking the Kids to Interview . . .
Talking About Sex
Lauren McLean Ayer
• Unseen
Grace Bauer
• Birthday
Sandra Beasley
• Everything Relative
Jill Beauchesne
• Newton’s Love
Ralph Black
• Anna, Dreaming
Marie-Claire Blais
• James (tr. by Steven Moyer)
Gary Blankenburg
• A Walk on the Wild Side
Kate Braverman
• Acts of Autumn #3
• Autumn Women #2
• Lady’s Night at Club Lobotomy
J. P. Dancing Bear
• Seen Through a Vase of Flowers
Jim Daniels
• Taking Account
Barbara DeCesare
• Nathan and I Dream In French
Denise Duhamel
• My Mother’s Hair
• Healing Pies
Moira Egan
• Girl Talk
Greg Every
• Apache Women
Lauren Fanelli
• Sonnenizio for Kim Addonizio
Vievee Francis
• What Happened to Us
Kate Gale
• Orchard Bees
Rachel Galvin
• Covenant at Little Devil Stairs
James Grinwis
• Zeugens are Jagged Shaped Columns of Rock
Michael Hardin
• Touched
David Hernandez
• Stuffed Animal Roadkills
Anna Maria Hong
• Flaneur of the Visible World
Sonja James
• Twin Shafts of Light
Fred Johnston
• Friendly Fire
George Kalamaras
• One of Only Two
Jim Kates
• Faulty Memories of Big Jordy
Jesse Lee Kercheval
• Final Report on the Lost Footage of the War
Judith Kerman
• Marie Curie with Her Lover
David Kresh
• Aerocondor de Colombia
Patrick Lawler
• Duct Tape Monologue
Adrienne Lewis
• Marry Me
Melvin E. Lewis
• Near Sidewalks
M. L. Liebler
• Journey to War
Majena Mafe
• Pintuckers
Mark Mansfield
• That Elegant Redemption Rag
Rita Maria Martinez
• Pop Poem
C. M. Mayo
• UFO 1990
Richard McCann
• Nights of 1987
• Garden
Erika Meitner
• Camp Westmont, 1988
Thylias Moss
• Song of Iota
• Heads Wrapped in Flowers
Eileen Myles
• Culture
Sheryl L. Nelms
• Fucking a Bull Rider
Dawn Newton
• Jailbait
Naomi Shihab Nye
• Pimento
• Poor Pitiful Me Award
Elizabeth Rees
• Upsetting the Basket
Rusty Russell
• Before and After Bloomington
Judi A. Rypma
• Night Watch
Miriam Sagan
• Fourth Street
• Ana Mendieta: Falling in Four Elements
Patricia Roth Schwartz
• After the Velveeta Buses
C. M. Scott
• Cake at the Counter Feels Good
Martha Silano
• Blue Positive
Sampson Starkweather
• Be Jazz, Die
Terry Stokes
• Chapter 28: Someone Has Been Trimming the Trees with Pretzels
John Surowiecki
• Watching Sea Hunt with J. Z. and S. Z.
•French Lesson apres Larry Rivers
Todd Swift
• The Eyes of England
Eileen Tabios
• Falling Up
Barbara Tomash
• from Flying Water
David Trinidad
• Penelope
Thomas L. Vaultonburg
• The Streak
Riggin Waugh
• Girl-So-Queer
• Charm School
Kathi Wolfe
• What Angels Do on Their Day Off
Fredrick Zydek
• Letter to Kelly About the Land of Pain
Fiction
Art
Kathy Acker
• The Seattle Book
Jim Barnes
• The Visiting Writer
Tiffany Lee Brown
• Mary’s Egg
Randy Sue Coburn
• How Long Have You Known Me?
Paula Coomer
• Pajamas in the Moon
Lucy Corin
• Godzilla versus the Smog Monster
Lucinda Dhavan
• A Face in the Crowd
Des Dillon
• Saturne Monsieur
Trevor Dodge
• Epsilon
John Dufresne
• Died and Gone to Heaven
C. M. Dupre
• The Sacrificial Goat’s Head Box
Robert Fagan
• Confusions: A Love Story
Thomas Glynn
• What to Do When the Famous Die
Elizabeth Hand
• from Generation Loss
Dave Housley
• Frog Prince II
Christine Japely
• What the Mother Did
John King
• Limbo Girls
Matthew Kirkpatrick
• Minor Heroes Save You
Michael Martone
• Three Contributor’s Notes
Molly McQuade
• Death by Creamation
Sharon Mesmer
• In Ordinary Time
• An Upside Down Horse in the Jewel in the Crown . . .
• Hesperis
• Obsolete Heroes
• At Epiphany
Rick Moody
• Pirate Radio
Susan Neville
• The Mausoleum
Hal Niedzviecki
• Displacement
Lance Olsen
• from Nietzsche’s Kisses
David Petersen
• The Wicker Man
Kevin Sampsell
• Skip the Walker
R. Gilad Schamess
• Lucky
Tamara Kaye Sellman
• Peppercorns
Mary Slowik
• Snake in the Pond
Julianna Spallholz
• A Man of Regret
• Who Will Take the Cat
Kara Allison Stambach
• from Miami Water Tribe
Lee Upton
• Alice Doesn’t
Donna D. Vitucci
• Snowbound
D. Harlan Wilson
• Disney Reanimated
Lidia Yuknavitch
• Eight by Ten Glossies
Jillian Ann
• photo, self-portrait
Terence Byrnes
• photo, Catherine Kidd
Walter Odets
• photo, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
Scott Shrimp
• photo, Jillian Ann
Patricia Storms
• frontispiece, cartoon
Colin Winterbottom
• Cover photo–The Bartoli Fountain, Capitol Hill, WDC