Albert Goldbarth: Apology; Astronomy

Steve Tomasula: C-U See-Me

Debra Di Blasi: Czechoslovakian Rhapsody Sung to the Accompaniment of Piano

Julianne Buchsbaum: The Astronomer; Palinode; Whalebones; The Prodigal

Geoffrey G. O'Brien: The Excommunication of Spinoza; Solubility

Oliver Rice: Any Sublimated Lovers; A Husband for Emily Dickinson

Henry Shukman: Horses at Christmas; Happy Harada

Joelle Fraser: An Interview with Sherman Alexie

Mary Summers: Four Ladies

Tom Wayman: The Blossoming

Nance Van Winckel: Five Years Later, Talking About the Dead Woman; At Loon Lake; Dressing

Julie Babcock: Alice's History Lesson; Pinocchio

James Tate: A Tattered Bible Stuffed with Memos; Hayden and Madge

Patricia Hooper: Near the Intersection

Gregory Djanikian: High School Lesson

Ann Struthers: Bones; Syrian Roses

Phillip H. Round: Life and Land (in Words and Pictures)

William Howarth: Earth Islands: Darwin and Melville in The Galapagos

Robert F. Sayre: The Landscape of Capitalism

Joni L. Kinsey: Ending Up and Landing Out in the Prairie

Terry Evans: Mixed Grasses and other photographs

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds: from Native Hosts and Neuf Series

Hertha D. Sweet Wong: Native American Visual Autobiography

Ray DiPalma: Idiom

Martha Collins: Through

Jeffrey Schwartz: Old Men

Laura Kasischke: Bike Ride with Older Boys; Small Boys Petting Caterpillar

David Ray: A Day at a Time

Todd Earl Rhodes: Untitled

Michael Theune: Orthoparadoxy, continued

Sharon Wahl: Confessions of a Philosopher

D.H.: On Mayflies

Cover photography by Terry Evans