Philip Levine, "You Could Believe", "The Secret"
Sandra Gilbert, from The Tidal Wave
Eamon Grennan, "New Hampshire Pastoral", "Still Life with Wasp Nest and  Birches", "Putting on Rings"
Albert Goldbarth, "Transplanting"
Gray Jacobik, "The Girls of Cork City", "Perspective", "Pregnant"
Reginald Gibbons, "Logic", "Winter", "Blue Annunciation"
Barry Spacks, "Poem for Marvin Nairin"
Brooks Haxton, from Twang
Tom Wayman, "The Quiet of the Seven Sisters", "Useless", "Moving to Heaven", "Ice Lake"
William Heyen, "Yellowjackets"
Denver Butson, "Beauty or Flight"
Dick Allen, from The Day Before Yesterday
Joanna C. Scott, "The Abandoned Babies' Home"; "A Dog, on the Other Hand"
Virgil Suarez, "At the Hatchery", "Mr.  Wade", "Typing Teacher"
Laurie Sheck, "Tracks; from Black Series"
Marisa P. Clark, "Afterbirth"

Fiction:

Melissa Hardy, "The Prospector's Boot"
Janice Daugharty, "The Odds Are Against It"
Kevin Casey, "Lost"
Beatrice Colin, "Tangerines"
Hal Herring, "Vacation"
Marian Thurm, "Marquise"

Essay:

Annie Dillard, "Some Notes on the Individual
Photographs"
George Webber, Portfolio: Montana
Jennifer Sher, Self-Portrait

Cover:

Self Portrait, photo by Jennifer Sher