Issue 2

Arts & Letters Prize Winners

Norman Goodwin Poetry
The Conference
The Hit

James Crnkovich Fiction
Laundromat People

Fiction

Brad Barkley
Mistletoe

Jim Gorman
Her Brothers, For Whom She Sewed

Valerie Nieman
Crunch

Roger Sheffer
Yellow Blazes

Poetry

One Buchanan
Only Yak in Batesville, VA

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Comfort

Beth Ann Fennelly
Mother Sends My Poem to Her Sister with Post-Its

Robert Gibb
Cigar: An Ode
Folding the Fox

Margaret Gibson
In the Heart of the Mountains
Amaryllis

Samuel Hazo
Shall Nothing But Sleep Content You?
Parable for Dealing With Your Enemies

Maxine Kumin
Afoot in Grays Point
Opening the Doors of Perception in Grays Point

Thea S. Kuticka
Hurricane Linda Strikes California Coastline

Kimball MacKay
Suite for Tommy

Joanna Smith Rakoff
Love Poem #7: Smoking

Essays

Barbara Lefcowitz
Hourglass, Tallow, Reversals

Dinty W. Moore
Ah, Wilderness! Humans, Hawks, and the Search for Ecological Correctness on the Muddy Rio Grande

Interview

Gail Halloway Adams
An Interview with Bonnie Ann Mason

Translations

Adam J. Sorkin translates Daniela Crasnaru
Dovezi Despre Mine
Propositions About Myself
Tabloul
The Painting
Pastel
Pastel
Nivelul Zero
Sea-Level Zero
On the Absence of “Absence” (“Absenta”)
Atat
That’s All

Book Review

Sandra Meek Reviews Poetry by Larissa Szporluk, Donald Revell and Carl Phillips
Discordant Grace: Metaphysical Postmodern Poetry

Featured Artist

Dean Dass
Eight Prints