Robert Boyers, “Samantha” (winner of the 2003 Cooper Prize)
Ellen Litman, “The Last Chicken in America” *
Tetman Callis, “Legal Advice” *
Lyndane Yang, “The Opium Bed” *
Bette Pesetsky, “Pants on Fire” *
Adrianne Harun, “The Farmhouse Wife” *
Christopher Zerby, “The Lynching Poems” *
Stacey Richter, Young People Today”

Memoirs:

Edmund White, “My Father”
Lucretia Stewart, “18th January 2003

Poetry:

Elisabeth Murawski, “Italian Evening,” “Crèche”
Virgil Suárez, “To the Order of Nuns Who Travel with the Circus,” “Wind Chime”
David Wagoner, “The Escaped Gorilla,” “Mr. Bones”
John R. Reed, “Mask,” “Cerise”
Bruce Beasley, “Song Region”

Photographs:

Jill Krementz, “Literary Encounters”

*finalists in the Cooper Prize competition