Lucia Nevai: Faith Healer

David Toscana: The New Guy

Sondra Spatt Olsen: Shrink

Lana Moussa: Grafting

Elmar Lueth: Walk Don't Walk

Younger Native American Writers from the Institute of American Indian Arts, chosen by Arthur Sze and Jon Davis:

Eddie D. Chuculate: Yo Yo

Sherwin Bitsui: Drought; Chrysalis

James Thomas Stevens: from Three Translations from the Mohawk: Canoe Song; Sustaining This Massive Shade; For Lack of Your Delicate Hip

Ann-Marie Oskolkoff: Healer: Remembering the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Melissa Pope: velvet ground

Esther Belin: Ko

Laura Nichols: Ghazal: Chama; Shard; The Butterfly Effect; Looting; The Myth of the West

Jody Barnes: The Nephelium

Allison Hedge Coke: Cut to the Scalp; Putting up Beans

Irvin Morris: The Sleeping Picasso

Arthur Sze: Ox-Head Dot; Syzygy

Jon Davis: The Giraffe; Neck

Michael Chitwood: The Burning Bush

Juan Jose Saer: Community Property; The Non-Cultural Man

Slyvia Molloy: Back Home

Christopher Torockio: High Crimes

Alicia Erian: Almonds and Cherries

Paul Guest: The Intrusion of Ovid; The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World

Jean Esteve: Pantheist; Happily Ending

Richard Quinn: On Allen Ginsberg's Prose

Cover arwork by Lois C. Thompson