Margaret Atwood, "Crickets", "Questions That Expect the Answer Yes", "Heart''
C.K. Williams, "House", "Not Soul", Archetypes
Wayne Koestenbaum, from Metamorphoses
Laurence Goldstein, "Dragon Lady"
Yusef Komunyakaa, "Scapegoat", "Doctor Feel-Good"
Judith Vollmer, "On Reporting the Murder of a Young Prostitute"
Denise Duhamel, "Stranger", "Cockroaches"
 

Fiction:

Sabina Murray, "Walkabout"
Melissa Pritchard, from Selene of the Spirits
Hartford Gongaware, "Our Lady of the Highways"
Willa Rabinovitch, "Out of Nowhere"
Richard Burgin, "Simone"
Patrick Ryan, "The Real Ones"
 

Graphics:

Simon Dinnerstein, "A Retrospective"
Jeremiah Ostriker, Portfoilo

 

Cover:

Kashmir, 1985, photo by Jeremiah Ostriker