Christopher Merrill: Brick; Guidebook; Logbook

Sharon Bryan: At Last; Charming Quarks

Stan Sanvel Rubin: Belles-de-nuit; Why a Horse Isn't a Tangerine; Object/Lessons

Boyd White: Cabin John; Freak Show

C. Mikal Oness: Vermiculture; Expertise

hydi zasteR: the jalapeño incident; bleed, be; smog concerto

Jan Wesley: My Old Man Gets Sick and Dies and Leaves This Hole in the Universe

Joel Craig: Flanger; Ry Cooder

Lao Tzu: Lao Tzu on Politics

Patricia Stanton: Rat; The Woman Who Cries Speaks; Sirens on the Fourth of July

Peggy Shumaker: Strokes; Oatmeal

Laurel Snyder: Logos; Sense

Parker Smathers: art-ifact; A Talking Car

Timothy Krcmarik: Boll Weevil Ode; Free Love

Joshua Reed Stuart: Riding the Train

Jeannine Hall Gailey: Case Studies in Revenge: Philomel Gives Advice

Boyd W. Benson: Saving One's Self a Lot of Grief

John Akins: Wounded Woman Sentry; Haunted by the Vietnamese Goddess of War; War Wimps

Regie O'Hare Gibson: Wild Thing

Lia Purpura: On Not Hurting a Fly: A Memorial

Fleda Brown: I Am Sick of School

Andrey Bychkov: The Hunter

Marjorie Perloff: "In Love with Hiding": Samuel Beckett's War

Lucia Nevai: Interment

Brian Lennon: Aksamüstü

Kass Fleisher: Advice for New Faculty Members: An Open Letter to J.A.

Jennifer Levin: Stand Wherever You Want

Charlotte M. Wright: Henry's Story

Kristina McGrath: In Her Days as a Gentleman: A Decline & Rise in Humours & Fortunes

Sandra Park: Another Warning

Patricia Foster: Stripping the Memoir

Human Rights Index: Darfur

cover artwork by Rebecca Clouse and Amber Withycombe