Margaret Atwood, "Blackie in Antarctica", "Questioning the Dead", "The Nature of Gothic", "Sor Juana Works in the Garden"
Sharon Olds, "The Sound", "The Forgiveness", "My Mother's Pansies", "Coming of Age", "1966", "In His Hands", "Cherry"
Oliver Rice, "Over 100 Reminiscences and an Ideography; Blue Jays", "Tangerines", "Detrimental Genes"
Alexandra Burack, "What You Can Keep"; "Sky", "Fence", "Fields"
John Updike, "Orvieto", "Jacopo Pontormo"
Albert Goldbarth, "Con Carne"
Stuart Dybek, "Narcissus", "Shoesa", "Bath", "Three Kinds of Nakedness", "Current"
David Wagoner, "The Young Goats", "Night at the Zoo"
Tom Wayman, "Teachers at Risk", "My Mother's Burial"
Gary Soto, "The Mariachi Suit", "The Confusing Aspects of Being a Good Man"
Michael Miller, "The Alien Begins His Day"

Fiction:

Kathleen Crowley, "St. Anthony's"
Melissa Hardy, "The Uncharted Heart"
David Lynn, "Desserts and Dowries"
Greg Johnson, "Don't Tell
Dramatic Monologue"
Joyce Carol Oates, "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me"

Graphics:

Jill Krementz, "Writers and Their Familiars"
Barry Moser, "Illustrations for the New Testament"
 

Cover:

Margaret Atwood and Blackie,
Photo by Jill Krementz