Selected Essays from the NonfictioNow Conference, The University of Iowa, November 10–12, 2005

Phillip Lopate: Curiouser and Curiouser: The Practice of Nonfiction Today

Lauren Slater: Tongue and Groove

Pico Iyer: The Mystery of the Desk

Abigail Thomas: For You, For Me

Sheryl St. Germain: Nigger: Notes from a New Orleans Daughter

Amy Leach: Comfortless; When Trees Dream of Being Trees; The Trappists

Lia Purpura: On Form

Albert Goldbarth: Wuramon

David Shields: Spider's Strategem

Phillip Lopate: "Howl" and Me
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Poems, Essays, Stories, Reviews

Margaret Gibson: Fuel; Moment

Anis Shivani: I Watched Last Night's Executions with My Sister

Dana Levin: Spring

F. Daniel Rzicznek: In a Land with No Sky

Joshua Kryah: Neverbody; Called Back, Called Back; Scrape That Starts the Fire

John Kinsella: Golden Whistler; The Ocean Forests: an elegy and lament

John Michael Cummings: The Scratchboard Project

Arthur Vogelsang: Mandate; I Don't Know; The Companion

Ellen Wehle: Medusa's Severed Head; The Grail Speaks

gregory galloway: insomnia in

Deborah T. McGinn: The Dream Says

Tod Marshall: Describe Manifest Destiny to High Modernism; Ars Poetica IV: A Reading from the Letters of Paul to the Caribbeans

Bruce Bond: Madame Zero

David B. Morris: Eros Modigliani

Brian Swann: The Lark in the Clear Air; Aleut Reverie

Stephanie Ivanoff: Point of View, or Submersible

Kim Bridgford: Raven Outside Witchcraft Museum; Rusting Propellers on Wood Island

Eric Rawson: Thinking About Voltaire

Vic Camillo: Victor Burns Angry Letters; A Letter from Barbara

Lynne Nugent: Recent Memoir: Butterscotch, Black Chairs, and Breeders

Sarah L. Courteau: The Art of War

Human Rights Index: Human Trafficking

cover artwork by John Dilg