Introduction / Russell Banks
The day I met Buddy Holly / Kim Herzinger
On the Zeedijk / Richard Watson
A letter / Albert Goldbarth
Vital signs / Natalie Kusz
Armageddon : Private Gabriel Calvin Wojahn, 1900-1918 / David Wojahn
My mother and Mitch / Clarence Major
The cave / Michael Collier
I'm having trouble with my relationship / Leonard Michaels
Through and through / Joseph Geha
Austerity in Vermont / T.R. Hummer
Field of fire / Will Baker
The center of the story / Lydia Davis
A motiveless malignancy / Barry Callaghan
What I wanted most of all / Daniel Hayes
Hopkins and Whitman / Lynne McMahon
Above the tree line / Kathy Mangan
Installations / Robin Hemley
Snuff dippers / Shay Youngblood
On the life and death of Stan Laurel's son / Walter Pavlich
Hide-and-go-seek / Judith Kitchen
The middle of nowhere / Kent Nelson
Miller Canyon trail no. 106 / Michael Bowden
Believer's flood / Richard Currey
Murphy's angel / Thomas E. Kennedy
For Anna Mae Aquash whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars / Joy Harjo
What the blue jay said / Frankie Paino
More room / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Francis : brother of the universe / Rodney Hale Jones
Dying in Massachusetts / Donald W. Baker
At the I.G.A. : Franklin, New Hampshire / Jane Kenyon
With Pat Boone in the pentlands / Ken Chowder
Miles weeping / Michael Waters
Aliens / Sharman Apt Russell
Because / Christopher Merrill
Cambrian night / James Solheim
Post-Larkin triste / Mary Karr
What is beyond us / Karen Fish
Broken hearts / Sarah Glasscock
The David of Michelangelo / Dennis Vannatta
Captivity : the minks / Toi Derricotte
Apologues of winter light / Christopher Buckley
Ascension on Fire Island / Henri Cole
A vacant lot / Gibbons Ruark
My lord bag of rice / Carol Bly
For the missing in action / John Balaban
Dust (Ars Poetica) / Allen Grossman
The battle of Manila / Laura Kalpakian
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