FALL 1999
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Norman Goodwin, Poetry
The Conference
The Hit
James Crnkovich, Fiction
Laundromat People
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
FICTION
Brad Barkley
Mistletoe
Jim Gorman
Her Brothers, For Whom She Sewed
Valerie Nieman
Crunch
Roger Sheffer
Yellow Blazes
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
STAFF
Drama Editor: David Muschell
Art Editor: Marc Snyder
Fiction Editor: Gail Galloway Adams
Keith Hendrix
Danielle Wyckoff
Jeff Drye
John Sirmans