Barbara Lau: October 2001 / Iowa

Lee Goodman: A Girl Like Summer

Charles Simic: The Elusive Something; Little Night Music; Minds Roaming; Slurred Words; Nearest Nameless

Simon Perchik: *

Margaret Gibson: Noh Robe; Bamboo Yards at Kyobashi

James Doyle: At Chartres

A Selection from the International Writing Program

Andras Petocz: here and there with igal sarna

Etgar Keret: Fatso

Dato Turashvili: Brooklyners

Man-Sik Lee:The Torture of Mezentius; The Power of Sorrow

Medy Loekito: Il Silenzio; The Voyage; Night Sketch (V); Love Letter

Aida Nasralla: The Moaning of the Subhat

Joy Goswami: Three Poems

Norge Espinosa: I, Charlotte, comme il faut

Matthea Harvey: The Good Are Bad for Business

Tony Whedon: Transcendentalism; Typhoon

Mark Halliday: 240 Sneakers

Carrie Pollack: Dowry

Peter Walpole: Island of Three Pines

Valerie Hurley: Ruby, Wanda and Me, Late at Night, in the County Jail

Brian Swann: Coyote; The Skull

Wendy Bishop: My Moon; Without Oceans

Michael Carlson: Galley-West; Love for the Wrong Thing; Jack Frost Sugar Refinery; Today Is the Kamakura Period

Oscar Casares: Ruben and Norma

Reginald Shepherd: Five Feelings for Orpheus; Modernism

Robert Dana: This Time

George Murray: Two Hundred Acres: First Draft of a Coroner's Report; A Long Dead Woman from Bethany is Saddened to See Lazarus Swept Away

Karl Harshbarger: The Funeral

Jason DeBoer: Godless in India

Tom Wayman: Kosovo

E.G. Burrows: Thorn

Paul Lake: Lullaby

Dana Sonnenschein: In Memory of Hegel, Philosopher among Toque Macaques

Carol Ann Davis: Poem Ending on a Line of Celan

Brian Henry: Emersonian Transition in James Tate's The Lost Pilot

Lyall Bush: Ground of Thought: Notes on Style in Some Recent Essays on American Culture

Cover artwork by Alexander Gourlay