George Singleton, “Crawl Space”
Castle Freeman, Jr., “Lord, Let Me Know My End”
Mary Swan, “1917”
Katie Estill, from Evening Would Find Me
Walt Foreman, “Beer in the Sun”
Richard Burgin, “The Spirit Returns”
Dan Chaon, “Safety Man”
Jim Grimsley, “Jesus Is Sending You This Message”

Poetry:

Joan Murray, “In the Beginning”
Ted Deppe, “For Caitlin...,” “A Pair of Earrings”
William Reichard, “Slow Meditation,” “On the Prairie with My Father,” “Hare”
Peg Boyers, “Adult Children”
Agha Shahid Ali, “New Delhi Airport,” “Above the Cities,” “Heavy Hors D’Oeuvres”
Ronald Wallace, “Bluebirds,” “The Truth”
Sharon Chmielarz, “The Other Mozart: Maria Anna (Nannerl)”
Michael Atkinson, “A Note on the Typeface,” “Drink”
William Heyen, “Woodstock, 1999”
Robert Phillips, “An Empty Suit,” “Variation on Vallejo’s ‘Black Stone on a White Stone’”
Laisha Rosnau, “Spring Run-off”
Tom Wayman, “The Road Father”
 

Photographs:

Mark Cohen, Portfolio

 

Cover:  

Girl with Popsicle, Wilkes-Barre, PA 1973, photo by Mark Cohen