Contents: Vol. 26, #1 / 2005

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Poetry
WILLIAM LOGAN      Leap Year / Sometimes
KATHERINE LUCAS ANDERSON    Confession  
PATRICK PHILLIPS   The Boy Hitler / At the End of the All-Night Drive /     Everything
REGINALD SHEPHERD  My Father by the Sea, Supposedly
SUSAN HAHN  Bird
EVE ADAMSON   To the Poet / Zeus Spotted Near Suwannee River
SARAH MURPHY  Letter to My Better Self, Neglected, Rejected, Allegedly Dead /   My Whether, My Weather, My Vain, Vein, Vane
SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS  Coming into Lexington, Virginia
ANDREW FELD   Tongue: An Ode
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL     Last Aerogramme to You, with Lizard


Fiction
JAN PENDLETON   Irises for Iris
STEVE ALMOND   Open Up and Say Ow
RONLYN DOMINGUE   Broken Silence
SANDRA LEONG   Coming of Age in Faheete
GREGORY BLAKE SMITH  A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter's Evening, in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap
ALEXEI BAYER  Khrushchev
RENE CREVEL   My Body and I (translated by Robert Bononno)


Testimonies
HELOISE  First Letter   (translated by William Levitan)

Literary Biography
GORDON BOWKER  Orwell's Library 

Interviews
STIG BJORKMAN    Trier on von Trier 

Revaluations
LIZZIE HUTTON   The Example of Antonia White

Provocations
TOM HOUSE     Reading Group Questions
ANN LAUTERBACH   John Currin, Pressing Buttons

Reports
THOMAS WASHINGTON     My Distant Education

Rediscoveries
G. K. CHESTERTON  Questions of Divorce

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