Vol. 70 no. 2
Winter 2004
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor’s Note, Robert Stewart
FICTION
You Will Miss Me When I Burn, Jacob White
The Living, Peter Christopher
Creepy Things, John Bensko
Surrogates, Rachel Hall
Wrench, Wayne Harrison
ESSAY
William Metts, American Poet, Paul Zimmer
Lost in Translation, first place, the Essay, Peter Ruppert
POETRY
Two Poems, Colleen J. McElroy
Three Poems, Madeline DeFrees
Brand New Chidii-Mobile, Laura Tohe
Five Poems, Donald Junkins
Two Poems, Victoria Chang
Fragrance, Michael Atkinson
Indelible, Shirley Stephenson
Bareback Pantoum, Cecilia Woloch
Three Poems, Leslie Norman Hubble
Coupling, Millicent C. Borges
Heaven, They Say, Claudia Burbank
Two Poems, Heather Ross Miller
Vermeer, Mark Irwin
Two Poems, Alicia Ostriker
Two Poems, Sunshine Glenstone
Two Poems, Ruth Herschberger
Two Poems, Gerard Malanga
Two Poems, Jo McDougall
Head-to-Toe, John Balaban
Poem of Chemical Residue, David Citino
INTERVIEW
The End of Boredom, an interview with Billy Collins, conducted by Robert Stewart
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Here in the Midwest, a review of In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Hearland, ed. Becky Bradway, H.L. Hix
Women’s Work: From the Kitchen to the Woods, a review of short fiction by Sallie Bingham and Krista McFruder, Catherine Browder
Both Good and Beautiful, a review of poetry by Scott Cairns, Jonathan Holden
The Poet’s Father as Steer Artist, a review of a memoir by Ron Padgett, Conger Beasley Jr.
ARTWORK
Photographs by Richard E. Loftis, Gloria Baker Feinstein, Jesse DeMartino, Keith F. Davis, and Kathy Tracy