FALL 2001
PRINT ISSUES SOLD OUT
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES
Rachel Pastan, Fiction
Sam O’Grady
Peggy Ann Tartt, Poetry
Instead of Carnations
The Dying Season
POETRY
K.E. Allen
Woman in a Boat
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Hoot Owl
Looking Out
Maria Elena Caballero-Robb
Yellow Fever
A.V. Christie
Chorus
Lullaby for Water
Margaret Gibson
Requiem: A Poem in Five Voices
John Gilgun
Contentment
Horn
Holly Iglesias
The Panic of Ninety-Three
FICTION
Jeff Bens
Fireflies
Ben Miller
Retort of the Bad Tipper
Luke Whisnant
Down in the Flood
ESSAYS
Fleda Brown
Walls Six Feet Thick
Edward M. Cifelli
Gwendolyn Brooks: Mid-Century American Poet
Janice Eidus
Like Lovers
Dinty W. Moore
Getting Better All the Time
INTERVIEW
Margaret Gibson and Marilyn Nelson
Out of the Silence: A Mutual Interview
TRANSLATIONS
Alexandra Newton Rios translates Nestór Groppa
The river passes chañares, thorns and the leaves of the green willows
flower vendor
The world grows complicated when it rains
BOOK REVIEW
Keith Hendrix
New Poetry from W.W. Norton
FEATURED ARTIST
Oscar Jay Gillespie
Eight Prints
STAFF
Fiction Editor: Kellie Wells
Drama Editor: David Muschell
Art Editor: Marc Snyder
Shel Evans
Megan Moore