Volume 34, Number 1: Spring 2004


Laura Mullen: Torch Song (Prose Is a Prose Is a Prose)

Rebecca Makkai: Suspension (April 20, 1984)

Stephen Dunn: Getting Places; Five Roses in the Morning; Postcard from Tortola; The Past

Nance Van Winckel: A Moth for Mary Ruefle; Making the Things That Make Man's Life Better

John Rybicki: Julie Ann in the Bone Marrow Unit, Zion, Illinois; A Song for Kay Mullen

Michael Robins: My Life as an Estimate Writ in Stone; My Life as an Account in the Single Digits

Fredric Koeppel: The Shape of the Winnow; Solstice

Steven Patterson: Aground and Aloft

Maria Theresa Stadtmueller: Where There Is No Earth

Laurie Sheck: Poem; Poem; Poem; Poem

Marjorie Stelmach: Tourist

Eric Pankey: As of Yet; The Elegist

Debra Allbery: All We Need

Robert Grunst: In the Orchard of Star Fruit; Dottie and the Plymouth Rocks

Patricia Vigderman: Sebald in Starbucks

Eric Rawson: Paris

James McKean: D/Altered

Tomaz Salamun: To Immerse the Weight; Ridges of Aromatic; Biscuits!; These Are the Islands

Robert Thomas: Sleepwalker

Boyer Rickel: Sometimes When a Story Is Told

Jennifer S. Epstein: Bouilloux-Bougival

William Ford: Bird Plague

Angie DeCola: Smoke

Francesca Abbate: Reconstruction; Dispatch; Bog Song

Patrick Ryan: Ground Control

DeWitt Henry: On Aging

Sheila MacAvoy: Daily Double

Margaret Murray: Reading Floyd Skloot

cover artwork by Joseph Patrick