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Fall/Winter 2000

Volume IV, Issue 2

Cover image by
Mary Qian
"Woman in Blue Dress"

Editors
Jeff Knorr
Tim Schell
Brad Stiles

Contributing Editors
David Mount
Craig Lesley
Allen Widerburg
Kate Gray

Copy Editors
Beverly Froehlich
Allison Gerfin

Intern
Lindsay Wolff

Designer
Diane Angelo

     

ESSAYS

 
Virgil Suárez The Anatomy of a Poetry Contest
Melissa Pritchard The Near Impossible
Steven Winn Keeping Silence
Steve Heller Walking through the Moon
Lisa Chavez Chicken
Peter Van Gelder Rocky Mountain High
H. Lee Barnes Changing Hands

INTERVIEWS

 
Teresa Leo Breaking Silences: An Interview with Martín Espada

FICTION

 
Jim Nichols The Slow Monkeys
Winner of the 2000 Willamette Award in Fiction
Judith Slater Chester, Resurrected
Osvaldo R. Sabino Smoke and Steel: Three Tales for the End of the Century
David Kranes Walking Towards Boise
Clint McCown Some Assembly Required
Christopher Meeks Academy Award Afternoon and Evening
Stacy Thieszen Riding
Catherine Brady The Last of the True Believers

POETRY

 
Gaylord Brewer Ode to Leonard Cohen and Yogi Berra
Winner of the 2000 Willamette Award in Poetry
Martín Espada A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen
Virgil Suárez Los Murcielagos/The Bats
Virgil Suárez La Noche
Elton Glaser Incompatibles in the Wild Light
JoAnne Reyes-Boitel Everyday Mambo
Yvonne V. Sapia What It is Like to be Gone
Bart Edelman Your Father's Ghost
Kathleen Flenniken Elisabeth Reads Poetry
Stella Johnston Not a Step
Stella Johnston War Stories: Memorial Day: 1989
Marilyn Johnston Taking Count
Ruth Thompson My Father Lived in Silence
Kate Gale What I Did Not Tell Anyone
Kate Gale Urban Gorillas
Heather Brittain Bergstrom Geraniums
Peter Henry What Follows: Self-Portrait, Palimpsest and the Iamb "For Sure"
Anthony Russell White Counting My Feathers
Susan Terris States of Mind: A Meditation on Places I've Never Been
Colette Inez Documentary
Colette Inez Double Tankas for Chiang Ching
Stephen Haven Blossom
Stephen Haven Sun Wukong, Monkey King
Stephen Haven Ultrasound
James Hoggard Louisiana Dawn
Rob Whitbeck The Night Work
Rob Whitbeck Flensberger Bahnhof
Brian Daldorph Parnell's Daughter
Brian Daldorph Young Molloy
g. anna sanchez great serpent
Stephen Wallin Spelunking the Skull
Stephen Wallin After Thereafter
Chris Howell The Thirteenth Interval
Beth Ellen Anstandig The Last Stop Disco
Susan Allspaw Going to the Seal Rodeo
Susan Allspaw What Happens During Whiteouts in Antarctica
Jennifer Grotz Mind of Winter
Jennifer Grotz The Heart
Jennifer Grotz The Air We Breathe
William Sheldon Catching My Breath
William Sheldon Fecund July
William Sheldon After the Zoo
Miles Garrett Watson What We Never Want
Rigoberto Gonzalez Crooked Man
Ryan Van Cleave Garbage Truck, Hearse Driver
Demetrice Anntía Worley White Lines
Pearl Karrer Baja Meditations
Roseann Lloyd Santa Clara Convent, Antigua, Guatemala
Lois Rosen Our Daily Bread