SPRING 2000
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZE
Arthur Meryash, Drama
Augustina
POETRY
Colleen Anderson
Watermark
We Talk at Night
David Baker
Two Clouds
Donald Hall
Four Easters
Love Poem
Christine Boyka Kluge
Choosing a Tongue
Sea Urchins
Miriam Morsel Nathan
The Green Cashmere Sweater with Gold Buttons
Eric Nelson
Earth Day
Barbara Tran
In The Mynah Bird’s Own Words
Jean Valentine
Eighteen
In the Poor Hotel
FICTION
Allison Amend
A Private, Vulgar Thing
Joan Connor
And I, Isolde
Bret Lott
Gesture
ESSAYS
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Her Kind: A Fable for Our Times
In Search of My Mentor’s Gardens
Janice Eidus
Class Barbie
Winston Fuller
To Press One’s Eye Against the Body of the World
Dinty W. Moore
By My Own Hands
INTERVIEW
John Hoppenthaler
So Let it be Like Rain: An Interview with Jen Valentine
TRANSLATION
Carolyn Wright & Mohommad Nural Huda translate Nasima Sultana
I Was Asleep, I Was Alone
I’ll Go Away and I Won’t Say a Thing
Promise
To My Promise-Bound Childhood
BOOK REVIEW
John Drexel
Something Lucid Surrounded by Something Mysterious
FEATURED ARTIST
Juergen Strunck
Eight Prints
STAFF
Drama Editor: David Muschell
Art Editor: Marc Snyder
Fiction Editor: Gail Galloway Adams
Keith Hendrix
Danielle Wyckoff
Jeff Drye
John Sirmans