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- ISSUE ONE: Dec (00)-Feb (01)
- David Harouni (Featured Artist)
- Painting 1
- Painting 2
- Painting 3
- Painting 4
- Painting 5
- Painting 6
- Painting 7
- Painting 8
- Painting 9
- Painting 10
- Painting 11
- Painting 12
- Painting 13
- Gallery 1
- Gallery 2
- Gallery 3
- Interview with David Harouni
- Stan Rice (Featured Writer)
- African Immigrant Outside Museum of Art
- Alone in Love
- Breaking Light
- Eating Out
- Mr Heade Went to Brazil
- The Rhythms
- Interview with Stan Rice
- Poetry
- Dee Rimbaud - Tranquility
- Dee Rimbaud - Women Singing
- Gilbert Allen - Beyond Barbie
- Gilbert Allen - Good Luck
- Janet Buck - Pocket Change
- Janet Buck - Bird Watching
- Janet Buck - The Laundromat
- Al Maginnes - The Valley of Sleeping Women
- Al Maginnes - Outlasting Elegy
- Al Maginnes - Late Words for the Moon
- Fiction
- Linda Boroff - Everything I Have Is Yours
- Melanie Faith - Kiko
- Michael Jasper - Breathing Trouble
- Michael Laimo - I Exude in Partials
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE TWO: Feb-Apr (01)
- Charlotte Foust (Featured Artist)
- Desert Sands
- Winterlands
- Mystic Waters
- Crimson Abstraction
- Profile
- Single Minded
- Blue
- Abstract Face I
- Abstract Face II
- Disappearing Act
- Red Dye No. 5
- Reflection
- Omen
- Fair Weather Friend
- Dancing With Butterflies
- Gallery
- Interview with Charlotte Foust
- Susan Ludvigson (Featured Writer)
- Discoveries in a Morning Diary
- Where I Go At Night
- Someone Who Believes Herself Native
- Yoko Ono in Bed with Einstein
- Stepping Into a River
- Interview with Susan Ludvigson
- Falling in Love Again
- Poetry
- Chris Tysh - dogma dogs
- Willis Barnstone - Night of No Number
- Willis Barnstone - Fire & Verse
- Amittai Aviram - Programmer's Domestic Partner, Music Scholar, Dashes Poem Off on Napkin While Dinner Cools
- Alan Shapiro - The Old Man
- Alan Shapiro - If I Only Knew Then
- Amittai Aviram - Rainbow Over Bamberg
- Thomas Anthony - Sitting With Questions
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE THREE: Apr-Jun (01)
- Ginger Wagoner (Featured Artist)
- Bless The Children 1
- Bless The Children 2
- Bless The Children 3
- Bless The Children 4
- Bless The Children 5
- Bless The Children 6
- Bless The Children 7
- Bless The Children 8
- Placement Center 1
- Placement Center 2
- Placement Center 3
- Placement Center 4
- Placement Center 5
- Placement Center 6
- Placement Center 7
- Placement Center 8
- Interview with Ginger Wagoner
- Sharon Olds (Featured Writer)
- What if God (from The Gold Cell, 1987)
- Possessed (from The Dead and the Living, 1984)
- Waste Sonata (from The Father, 1992)
- The Planned Child (from The Wellspring, 1996)
- The Death of St. Peter on the Late Show (new)
- The Talkers (from Blood, Tin, Straw, 1999)
- Interview with Sharon Olds
- Satan Says (from Satan Says, 1980)
- To One Who Wrote Me, "I, Too, Am an Incest Survivor" (new)
- Poetry
- David Starkey - Still Life
- William Borden - Dead Ends
- Chocolate Waters - Pushing Fifty
- Christopher Macli - Da Da Da
- Chocolate Waters - Not Even Death Moves Me
- Sarah Lindsay - Mound Digger
- James Longenbach - Sleepless Night
- Laurie Kuntz - The Anniversary
- James Longenbach - Overhead
- Barry Spacks - Making Songs
- Sarah Lindsay - Slow Butterflies in the Luminous Field
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE FOUR: Jun-Aug (01)
- James Michalopoulos (F. Artist)
- 2 Tone
- Auto Neurve
- Buds Bias
- By Georges
- Cryptic
- Dontfencemein
- Heart Right Out of Sight
- Last Find
- Luxotta
- Puntuality
- Slam Fam
- Trois Trees
- Unfound
- Untitled
- Michael McClure (Featured Writer)
- Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Two)
- Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Three)
- Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven (Part Four)
- Zazen #1
- Zazen #2
- Zazen #3
- Zazen #4
- Zazen #5
- Zazen #6
- Zazen #7
- Zazen #8
- Zazen #9
- Interview with Michael McClure
- Poetry
- J.P. Dancing Bear - The Lonelier Moon
- Frank Anthony - Four BRIK Poems
- Mark Budman - Dear Nicholas
- Andrena Zawinski - I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
- Janet Buck - The Teapoy
- John G. Nettles - Tango Sinistre
- Kathryn T.S. Bass - Small Art in Artichoke
- C. J. Sage - When We Played The Song of Eros
- Fiction
- ISSUE FIVE: Aug-Oct (01)
- Willis Barnstone (Featured Writer)
- And Through Our Closed Eyelids We Are Light: Spiritual Ways of a Godless Poet
- Interview with Willis Barnstone
- Poetry
- Jack Fisher - Downstream Dreams
- Barbara Hendryson - The Wedding
- Austin Alexis - Powwow
- Amy Schrader - Eve Avoids the Work
- Walt McDonald - For Friends Missing in Action
- Corrine De Winter - The End of Desire
- Gary Earl Ross - Transparencies
- Katy Whittingham - The Bird
- Priscilla Atkins - The Woman at the Bel Air Sands
- Corrine De Winter - Idle Fire
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- GAK (Featured Artist)
- ISSUE SIX: Oct-Dec (01)
- September 11, 2001 (Writings)
- Monica J. O'Rourke/Lest We Forget
- Sharon Esther Lampert/Spiraling Downward, Upward We Stand United
- B.J. Smith/An American
- Michael O'McCarthy/An American Apocalypse
- Cathy McArthur/Paint Over This Poem
- Tammy A. Callahan-Callanan/The Eagle Will Soar Again
- Judith Laura/Air Cover Over DC
- Joel Young/Three Poems
- Mary Jane Beaufrand/Other Abnormalities
- Elizabeth Lowry/The Tower People
- Barbara Hendryson/Take Your Balmy Afternoons
- Alyssa Lappen/Paper, Smoke, and Ash
- Rochelle Ratner/Dear Diary
- Marisa Rosenfeld/Today
- Christina Sng/Postwar
- Paul Kloppenborg/Twist of Steel (09-09-01)
- Wendy Carlisle/American Air
- Charlotte Jones/911
- Margaret Price/Revenge
- Greg Braquet/Three Poems
- Jeremy Schultz/Two Writings
- Rochelle Mass/Four Writings
- Lenore Weiss/Two Poems
- Margaret Ellis Hill/Eruption
- Vicki Hudspith/Four Poems
- Pam Chillemi-Yeager/A Poem
- Austin Alexis/Three Poems
- Reva Sharon/From Jerusalem to America
- Alan Gann/Two Poems
- Helen Dixon/The Enemy
- Dorothy Ryan/Meditation on Loss
- Tom Anthony/September 12 Writing
- Frank Anthony/Four Poems
- Mark Siegel/Bad Week
- Megan Breiseth/I Do Not Think We Choose
- Marcia A. Borell/A Short Piece
- Karin Beuerlein/No Soot Carries Here
- Cristina Lopez/Eyes Half-Opened
- Tamara Kaye Sellman/Three Poems
- Korkut Onaran/Two Poems
- Miki Magyar/11 September, 2001
- Joan Payne Kincaid/Six Poems
- Karen A. Romanko/Two Poems
- Beth Boettcher/Residual Haunting
- Corrine De Winter/Two Poems
- Lyndall Hare/Inauguration: September 11, 2001
- Michael Christen Smith/Everywhere They Are Asking
- Margaret M. Smith/Towers
- Everette Bell/9/11/01
- Cara Bahir/Twins
- Amber Harlow/Evil's Identity
- Ken Whitmore/Two Poems
- Lyn Neil/9/11/01
- Amy Harke-Moore/Suicide Bombings, Day Two
- Jamie Proctor/Icarus: 9/11/01
- Leanna Bartram/We Crumble (New York)
- Stephen D. Rogers/Firefighter Death
- Shelia M. Goss/Times of War
- Tony Leather/Images of Pain
- Farida Mihoub/False Ambitions
- Michael Guinn/Freedom Rings
- Scott Lindberg/Events of September 11, 2001
- S.J. Thonn/We Are Humans
- Christine G. Richardson/Prophetic Footnote
- Matthew Pasca/The Closing of a Nation
- Richard Mayer/9/11/01
- Tammy A. Callahan-Callanan/The Eagle Will Soar Again
- Janet Buck/Two Poems
- Timothy C. Davis/How To Spot a True Believer
- Deborah Miller Rothschild/Mr. Yamamoto's Painting
- James H. Albury, Jr./Awakening the Slumbering Giant
- Pat Poggi/Going Home
- Juanita Torrence-Thompson/Three Writings
- Deborah P. Kolodji/Wake-Up Call
- Gregory Phillips/The Crash
- Chris Saade/An Existential Reflection On The Latest Tragic Events
- Karl W. Bokelmann/What Was I Doing?
- Dana Imperatore/The Flight Heard Around The World
- Jean Kiser/This Is Not Hollywood
- Margaret A. Robinson/9.11.01
- Elizabeth Kerlikowske/Coffee Cake
- John G. Nettles/Thinking with the Wrong Hemisphere
- Anika Gupta/Martyr's Shadow
- The Intentional Living Institute/An Expression of Solidarity
- Phyllis Jean Green/Our Sales Staff Is Already On It
- Terry Lowenstein/Four Poems
- Susan K. Droney/Terror
- Kristyn Y. Reid/Unholy Terror
- Jude Rittenhouse/Letter from Planet Earth, September 2001
- Virginia Boshears/The Red, White, and Bruised
- Larry Winters/Two Writings
- Annette Marie Hyder/Five Poems
- Barry Sherman/Extraordinary Times Inspire Extraordinary Measures
- Gretchen L. Jameson/Response to The World Trade Center Tragedy
- Howard Camner/Infamy
- J. Marcus Weekley/A Haiku Sequence
- Margaret Dornaus/The Mourning After
- Mary Dezember/Frozen Music
- Melissa Lamberton/Three Poems
- Robert Bohm/Beyond the Sentimental to the Real
- Roy L. Post/Six Poems
- Poetry
- Meredith Stricker - Reading the Blank Spaces
- Suzanne Frischkorn - Limited Range of Motion
- Karen White - Evening at Evangelo's
- Tony Barnstone - Flight of the Gimps
- John Grey - The Sides in This Relationship
- Frank Van Zant - The Slingshot and the Sweetgum Tree
- Charles Fishman - Learning to Dance, 1956
- Bruce Boston - Shells: The Next Generation
- Carly Svamvour - Foxes
- Michele F. Cooper - Entrail #10
- Martina Newberry - Spreading Sand in Abdullah's Garden
- Joan Payne Kincaid - Natives Used to Call Them Ghosts
- Jacqueline Seewald - On The Nature of Things
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- September 11, 2001 (Photography & Artwork)
- Jay Boucher/WTC 2
- Jay Boucher/WTC 3
- Jay Boucher/WTC 5
- Jay Boucher/WTC 11
- Jay Boucher/WTC 20
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 1
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 2
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 3
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 4
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 5
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 6
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 7
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 8
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 9
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 10
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 11
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 12
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 13
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 14
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 15
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 16
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 17
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 18
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 19
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 20
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 21
- Lew Hirschberg/Photo 22
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 1 Collapse
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 2 Collapse, Photo 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 2 Collapse, Photo 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Towers After Crash, Before Collapse
- Sara K. Schwittek/Assist Heroes
- Sara K. Schwittek/Blood Drive
- Sara K. Schwittek/Bridge Smoke
- Sara K. Schwittek/Bus
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candle 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 3
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 4
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 6
- Sara K. Schwittek/Candles 7
- Sara K. Schwittek/Daisies
- Sara K. Schwittek/Evening 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Explosion 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Firehouse
- Sara K. Schwittek/Tower 1 Collapses
- Sara K. Schwittek/Flag
- Sara K. Schwittek/Flag Promenade
- Sara K. Schwittek/Flowers 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Gerber 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Interview
- Sara K. Schwittek/Liberty
- Sara K. Schwittek/Michael
- Sara K. Schwittek/Missing
- Sara K. Schwittek/Morning After, Photo 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/Morning After, Photo 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Phone Blood
- Sara K. Schwittek/Police 2
- Sara K. Schwittek/Read God's Word
- Sara K. Schwittek/Rescue Lights 3
- Sara K. Schwittek/Triage
- Sara K. Schwittek/View After, Photo 1
- Sara K. Schwittek/View After, Photo 2
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 1
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 10
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 11
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 12
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 2
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 3
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 4
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 5
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 6
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 7
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 8
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti/Image 9
- Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- ISSUE SEVEN: Dec (01)-Feb (02)
- Francis Eck (Featured Artist)
- Travel with The Wind
- Unknown Treasures
- Looking for Absolute
- Glacier Vatnajokull
- Provence
- Icebergs - Iceland
- Iceland
- Boreal Spring - Iceland
- Gold of Harvest Time
- The Perseides
- America Always
- A Tragic Day
- Fred Chappell (Featured Writer)
- The Persistence of Origin
- A World of Difference
- Universe Exhibit
- Nocturne
- Aubade
- Interview with Fred Chappell
- Poetry
- Eugene Gloria - Reading Langston Hughes
- C.J. Sage - Narcosis Song
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa - sacrament
- Kathleen Dale - Morning Glory
- Lois Marie Harrod - Lucky Seven
- Phyllis Jean Green - Aliases Tackle Philosophy 101
- Jen Cullerton Johnson- Under O'Malley's Roof
- Pam Bernard - Covenant
- Andrena Zawinski - Writing Lessons
- Ed Lynskey - Another Song for Clarissa
- Christopher Locke - North Star
- Chocolate Waters - Knocking Around Hell's Kitchen
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE EIGHT: Feb-Apr (02)
- Kathleen Ward (Featured Artist)
- The Music Lover
- The Hotel Room
- The Music Lover
- Rose Tattoo
- Thief of Hearts
- East of Eden
- Dark Wing
- Aphrodite-Girl On The Beach
- Flight Over Salem
- July Sixteenth
- Point Counterpoint
- Salem Dawn
- Sheherazade
- Poetry
- Ward Kelley - Clear Knowledge
- Robert Lietz - Keeping Touch #3
- Rochelle Mass - Baptism Doesn't Happen When You're Afraid
- Rayn Roberts - Letter to a Longtime Companion
- Janet Buck - The Sketch
- Ruth Daigon - Ghost Music
- Sharon Shahan - In Some Countries It Is Illegal to Call This A Dream
- Radu Andriescu - Tudor (translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Radu Andriescu)
- Suzanne Burns - Hysteria
- Eric Bliman - Another Reason I Won't
- matt robinson - beer & the lazarus eye
- James Owens - The Way Things End
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Nikki Giovanni (Featured Writer)
- Nikki-Rosa (from Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, 1970)
- Ego Tripping (from Re: Creation, 1970)
- [Untitled] (from My House, 1973)
- Night (from The Women and the Men, 1975)
- Woman (from Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day, 1978)
- Sky Diving (from Those Who Ride the Night Winds, 1983)
- Desperate Acts (new)
- A community of clouds (new)
- Interview with Nikki Giovanni
- ISSUE NINE: Apr-Jun (02)
- Tantra Bensko (Featured Artist)
- Reality Is A Conspiracy
- White Grove
- Bright Playa
- Approach
- Absolute
- Scene From A Poem
- Bestiary Of Truth
- Prepared By Quantum Dreams
- Rose And Miracles
- Subtle Bodies
- Angles Of Desire
- Steps Leading To An Enigma Which Could Also Be A Coffin
- They Speak But Their Words Are Guardians
- These Times End
- In The Blue Of The Woods
- Thomas Lux (Featured Writer)
- Tactile (from a chapbook, Merry Bones; fameorshame press, 2001)
- Thus, He Spoke His Quietus, (from a chapbook, Merry Bones; fameorshame press, 2001)
- The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association (from a broadside released by fameorshame press, 2001)
- Rather (appeared previously in The Greensboro Review, 2001)
- National Impalement Statistics (new)
- Dogsbody (new)
- Interview with Thomas Lux
- Reject What Confuses You (from a chapbook, Merry Bones; fameorshame press, 2001)
- Poetry
- Susan Terris - Michael Mazur: Ice Glen, 1993
- Martina Newberry - Dead Poet's Memorial
- Charles Fishman - Wheeler Avenue
- Suzanne Frischkorn - Panther & Bathing Suit
- Sheila K. Smith - Langston's Tune
- Richard Jordan - To the Schoolgirl On the Amusement Ride
- Jessica Smucker Falcon - The Rivers Turned to Blood
- Susan Ludvigson - When the Flag Goes Up
- Bruce Boston - Hypertexts
- Barbara Hendryson - Wicked Grace
- Carol Carpenter - Betrayal
- Susan Ludvigson - Amnesia
- Corrine De Winter - Swallowing Light
- Carolyn Adams - Flowers
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE TEN: Jun-Aug (02)
- Gary Soto (Featured Writer)
- Poetry
- Kathryn T.S. Bass - The Headaches (After Ashbury)
- Rhonda J. Nelson - Criminal
- Liam McKee - Suite Paraclete
- Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein - Loving Ghazal
- Donald Levering - Boy -- Reprise
- Sonia Pereira - The Bath
- Toni La Ree Bennett - You'll Kick a Flattened Can
- J.P. Dancing Bear - Fertile Crescent
- Khadijah Queen - Ghazal for My Ancestors
- Sandra Kohler - The New Regime
- C.E. Chaffin - Mall Demolition
- Simon Perchik - *
- William Ford - The Great Yellowstone Fire, 1988
- Karen A. Romanko - Equations in Time
- Walter Bargen - Conversation
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- The Bogside Artists (F. Artist)
- ISSUE ELEVEN: Aug-Oct (02)
- Mike Bohatch (Featured Artist)
- Contorted
- Play Things of the Damned
- Penitence
- A Fatal Revelation
- Spirit of Progress
- Displaced Paranoia
- Transformed
- Revenant Martyrdom
- Laurie A. Carlson (Featured Artist)
- Protean Dawn: Legendary Arts & Dreams of Fusion
- Spume on a Quantum Shore
- Faie, Scientist
- Faery Waterfall
- Return of the Mother of the Sun and Stars
- April Lee (Featured Artist)
- Slawek Wojtowicz (Featured Artist)
- Poetry
- Erin Elizabeth - Crossing the Susquehanna
- Martina Newberry - Secret History
- Janet Buck - Thanatopsis
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa - every body dreams every night
- Suzanne Burns - A Jury Member Dreams of Taking the Manson Girls to Cocoanut Grove
- Adam Clay - Mind of Heaven
- Linda Alexander - After War, We Retreat to Shore
- Marian Kaplun Shapiro - In The Season of Miracles
- Lucy A.E. Ward - Bodies at Hotel Sitsobek
- Nanette Rayman - How She Died
- Bill Yake - Deadhorse Flats
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Bruce Boston (Featured Writer)
- Like an Addict Glowing (new)
- The Slums of Atlantis (new)
- Blood-Simple as a Thorn (new)
- The City and The Stars (new)
- Interstellar Tract (from Poly; Ocean View Books, 1989)
- In Far Pale Clarity (appeared as a limited edition broadside; Quixsilver Press, 2002)
- Interview with Bruce Boston
- Interview with Octavia Butler
- Interview with Tantra Bensko
- ISSUE TWELVE: Oct-Dec (02)
- Maxine Kumin (Featured Writer)
- Grace
- Strut
- The Food Chain
- Going to Jerusalem
- The Lovers Leave by Separate Planes
- Interview with Maxine Kumin
- Kelly Billette (Featured Artist)
- Radium
- Primative Thought
- Edge
- Allegory
- Superstitious Reality
- Subtrahend
- Wallow
- Meaning and Discontent
- Surface Gliders
- Secret Saints
- Shelley Eichholz (Featured Artist)
- Anasazi
- Haunt
- Sober
- The Nursery
- While It Sleeps
- Gemini
- Torn
- Shelley Eichholz and Craig Morey/Peril
- Skin Depth
- The Hive
- Poetry
- Barbara Hendryson - The Wounding
- Wesley Biddy - Shakespeare's Sister
- Steve Mueske - An Apologetic
- Sheila Black - Playing Dead
- Charles Fishman - Jake, Sleeping
- Susan Wheeler - In Your House, the Platitudes
- Brandy Sejeck - The Voyage
- Corrine De Winter - Close to Holiness
- Richard C. Williams - The Sun Dodger
- Michelle Gibson - The Rim of a Canyon
- Jnana Hodson - Blue Rock LXXII, LXXIII
- Michael Leary - Saguaro
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE THIRTEEN: Dec (02)-Feb (03)
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Irene Livingston - Still Here
- Jackie Bartley - Two Portraits with Sushi and Light Bulb
- Erik Vatne - Poem 112
- Marge Simon - Primal Menagerie
- Sandra Kohler - Sojourn
- Ouyang Xiu (translated from the Chinese by David Lunde) - Lyrics to the Tune "Die Luan Hua"
- Suzanne Frischkorn - Jim Sings the Blues
- Carol Carpenter - Continuing View
- Ruth Daigon - The Young Dead
- Nancy A. Henry - On the Edge of the Village
- Joanna Catherine Scott - Typhoon's Approach, Manila
- Janice Moore Fuller - Like the Call of an Endangered Bird
- Florence Weinberger - Marrowbones
- Christine Boyka Kluge - One Claw into the Dream
- Sharon Gee - Featured Artist
- Dancing Daffodils
- A Moment in Time
- Amantia
- Discovery
- Kumaro
- Land of Hope
- Mahala
- White Sands
- Blue Deep
- Crimson Deep
- Inner Vision
- The Knowing
- Dancing in the Moonlight
- Desert Morning
- Guitar Man
- Last Crusade
- Stuart Dybek - Featured Writer
- Non-Fiction
- ISSUE FOURTEEN: Feb-Apr (03)
- Robert Mezey - Featured Writer
- Touch It (from White Blossoms)
- How Much Longer? (from The Door Standing Open)
- To Be a Giant (from Small Song)
- The Grave (from Glosses and Variations)
- The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words: A Cento (from Evening Wind and Other Poems)
- Hardy (from Evening Wind and Other Poems)
- Tea Dance at the Nautilus Hotel (1925) (from Evening Wind and Other Poems)
- VARIATION ON A THEME (from Collected Poems 1952-1999)
- Interview with Robert Mezey
- For Edgar Bowers (new)
- A Sleeper in the Valley (new)
- Long Lines, Beginning with a Line Spoken in a Dream (new)
- Poetry
- Bruce Boston - Two Nightstands Attacking a Cello
- Lucy A. E. Ward - Subject: File Classified
- Tobias Seamon - Exeunt the Heroes
- Bernadette Geyer - The Naming of Bones
- Stephen Newton - we went away from the things we knew
- Vicki Hudspith - Were We Drowning?
- Sarah Fay - End November
- Willis Barnstone - Full Moon Over a Two-Note Man
- Gilbert Allen - Outlook for Temporal Creatures Bleak
- Richard Sassoon - Reflections on Alchemy (Part 1)
- Michael Salcman - Looking at Kline
- Michael Spring - Dendrocalamus Asper
- Fiction
- David Alan Goldberg - Feat. Artist
- Dream Nude
- La Strada
- Happy Man
- Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face
- Anita Loos: Loos as a Goose
- Billie Holliday
- Rimshot and Corkscrew: Bitching and Moaning
- Don DeLeaumont
- Alice Takes Her First Bus Trip
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Vanity Fair, 1925
- Shake It, Girl
- Whadizzit?
- Non-Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE FIFTEEN: Apr-Jun (03)
- W.S. Merwin - Featured Writer
- Anabasis (I) (from A Mask for Janus)
- The Drunk in the Furnace (from The Drunk in the Furnace)
- Is That What You Are (from The Lice)
- Plane (from The Carrier of Ladders)
- Inauguration (from The River Sound)
- Star (from The Pupil)
- To the Coming Winter (new poem)
- Interview with W.S. Merwin
- E. W. Lane - Featured Artist
- 73 Tears
- The Grove
- Chakra Figures
- By My Calculations
- Horses on Yellow
- Written on the Body
- House with Yellow Door
- The Corridor
- Past Life
- Red Jack
- It's a Game
- King and Queen
- On Target
- Alone
- Poetry
- Charles Fishman - A Field in Virginia
- Donald Levering - The Night the Millennium Changed,
- kris t kahn - The Bacchante
- Rochelle Mass - They Said He Was Living With #4
- Amy Small-McKinney - Body of Surrender
- Carol Parris Krauss - La Catrina; Puerta del Diablo
- Chanda Wakefield - Fusion
- Alain Sherter - Strange Teacher
- John Capista - Fleur du Mal
- Sheila Squillante - Hard Parting
- J.T. Ledbetter - In Mid-Winter
- Elisha Porat - Birds of Pain (Translated from the Hebrew by Asher Harris)
- Alan Catlin - night trains: an elegy
- Janet Buck - Double Vision
- Andrew Boobier - Différance
- Fiction
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE SIXTEEN: Jun-Aug (03)
- Featured Writer - Ai
- Featured Artists
- Barbara Rachko/He Just Stood There Grinning
- Barbara Rachko/He Was So In Need of Botany
- Barbara Rachko/In Reality the Frogs Were Men
- Barbara Rachko/Scene Seven: Living Room
- Deb Ramsay/River Began to Melt
- Deb Ramsay/Hold the Place
- Deb Ramsay/Forget and Then Remember
- Deb Ramsay/Ability to React
- Deb Ramsay/Sprinkling of Immortality
- Anne Stickel/Door #6
- Anne Stickel/Door #7
- Anne Stickel/Door #8
- Anne Stickel/Door #9
- Brian Zegeer/Animus 2
- Brian Zegeer/Harvest
- Brian Zegeer/PYT
- Poetry
- Khadijah Queen - Because there are no lakes,
- Christa Kongslie - At the Truckstop
- Theresa Boyar - Apocalypse Documentaries
- Jeffrey Alfier - Aguila, Arizona
- C.E. Chaffin - Mr. Z Goes Fishing
- Marge Simon - Language of Scorpions
- Michael Ladanyi - Humming Riddles
- Walter Bargen - Scorched
- Clayton A. Couch - state holiday blues
- Barbara Hendryson - To Show Me the World
- Phyllis Jean Green - Pot Calls Kettle
- Bill Yake - Watching for Signs
- Kristy Bowen - Cassandra
- David Lunde - The Social Fabric
- Robert Edward Levin - My Last Place
- Donora Hillard - Brothers
- Corrine De Winter - The Virgin in the Alcove
- Jason Heroux - Summer
- Polly Weiss - 7 Sonnets for 7 Brides
- Reviews
- Charles Fishman's Time Travel Reports...reviewed by William Neumire
- Alan Shapiro's Song and Dance...reviewed by Kara Candito
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE SEVENTEEN: Aug-Oct (03)
- Featured Writer - Philip Levine
- Zero for Conduct (first appeared in The Forward)
- Shadow Boxing (first appeared in First of the Month)
- Above the Angels (alternate version first appeared in Poetry International)
- Godspell (new)
- Down Under the Manhattan Bridge (new)
- Interview with Philip Levine
- Featured Artist - Ula Einstein
- altering landscape
- swimming in the depths
- his memory in my head
- evolutionary tension
- addressing the past
- restoration
- untitled #11
- emerging and receding
- late to blossom
- untitled #12
- awakening
- Poetry
- Lyn Lifshin - Past the Abandoned Railroad
- Collin Kelley - Self
- Irene Livingston - Moisty Green Summer of 1950
- Annalynn Hammond - I Beg You
- Ace Boggess - Do You Want the Usual
- Michael Johnson - Bread of Vengeance
- Greg Braquet - Mardi Gras Indian
- Lyn Lifshin - Hardly Anyone in My Family Could Sew
- Richard Newman - Commerce
- Donna Spector - Our Old Hillegass House
- Candy M. Gourlay - Emotion Jars
- Peggy Ann Tartt - Sin Eater
- C.J. Sage - For Food
- Ahn Behrens - New York Fever
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Sarah Lindsay's Mount Clutter...reviewed by William Neumire
- kris t kahn's arguing with the troubadour...reviewed by Bill Wesse
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE EIGHTEEN: Oct-Dec (03)
- Featured Writer - Ruth Stone
- Almost the Same
- Cause and Effect
- Chasuble Plausible
- Border
- Interview with Ruth Stone
- In the Next Galaxy...reviewed by Lindsay Penelope Sloane
- Reviews
- Michael Spring's blue crow...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Janet Buck's Tickets to a Closing Play...reviewed by Sam Sacks
- Featured Artist - Khalid Al-Tahmazi
- Man & Woman, II
- Five Sisters
- Blue Sky
- Is It Still There?
- Diary of the Diviners
- Winter Festival
- Magic Space
- The Red Bird
- Conversation
- Sweet & Love
- The Dreamer
- Visualizing Montreal
- Poetry
- Charles Fishman - At the Levittown Pool, 1952
- Hezy Leskly - Remains (translated from the Hebrew by Gilad Maayan)
- Ryan Masters - In Freefall
- Carly Svamvour - Return Fire from the Cello
- Donald Levering - The King of Coal Carnival
- Carol Carpenter - From My Watchtower in the National Forest
- Arlene Ang - Decline of the Victorian Period
- Carrie Etter - Not Wings
- Andrea Defoe - Gallery
- William Neumire - Odysseus
- David Cazden - Poison Ivy
- Beth Partin - Five Dreams of Revenge
- Estelle Villas - Mercy
- Chocolate Waters - Spelling Bee (a performance poem)
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE NINETEEN: Dec (03)-Feb (04)
- Featured Writer - Alan Dugan
- From Poems: "This Morning Here"
- From Poems Two: "From Rome. For More Public Fountains in New York City"
- From Poems Three: "On Zero"
- From Poems Four: "Saint Monday"
- From Poems Five: "Summer Gale"
- From Poems Six: "Love and Money"
- From Poems Seven:
"On Not Working and Then Working
On Working and Then Not Working" - Reviews
- Collin Kelley's Better to Travel...reviewed by Kathy Vogetanz
- Juanita Torrence Thompson's Celebrating a Tapestry of Life...reviewed by Barbara Hantman
- Michael Ladanyi's Spelling Crows of Winter...reviewed by Bernadette Geyer
- Sandra Kohler's The Ceremonies of Longing...reviewed by William Neumire
- Rochelle Mass's The Startled Land...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Poetry
- Ben Passikoff - Arrangement in Black
- Ruth Daigon - Invocation
- Janet Buck - The Last Tango Is Here
- Susan Terris - Two-week Suitors
- Donna Spector - A Devil's Bargain
- Barry Spacks - Drawn to the Rhythms of the Floating World
- Rochelle Ratner - Purim 2003, The Day After Bush Gives Saddam an Ultimatum
- Simon Perchik - *
- K. A. McGowan - Don't Ask
- Sonia Pereira - On Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
- Rane Arroyo - Radio Evangelist
- Bruce Boston - Severed Yellow Children
- Alan Catlin - Panopticon
- Tammy Armstrong - Bugbears
- Molly Herrick - Poem (backwash one)
- Featured Artists -
Three Lowe Gallery Artists - Maggie Hasbrouck - Birdcage
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Queen
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Sailboat
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Violin
- Maggie Hasbrouck - Yellow Dress
- Harry Paul Ally - Cain and Abel
- Harry Paul Ally - Eunuch
- Harry Paul Ally - Icarus
- Harry Paul Ally - Pieta
- Harry Paul Ally - Standing Figure with Stick #3
- Lita Cabellut - El Nino
- Lita Cabellut - Los Ombros
- Lita Cabellut - Paysajf
- Lita Cabellut - Trashemante
- Lita Cabellut - Triptico
- Atlanta Gallery #1
- Atlanta Gallery #2
- Atlanta Gallery #3
- Atlanta Gallery #4
- Santa Monica Gallery #1
- Santa Monica Gallery #2
- Santa Monica Gallery #3
- Santa Monica Gallery #4
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Daniel James Wood...Alan Dugan, Poems Seven
- William Neumire...Alan Dugan: the naked truth
- Lindsay Sloan...Untitled: A Retrospective Look at the Life and Work of Alan Dugan
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY: Feb-Apr (04)
- Poetry
- Willis Barnstone - Night Café
- Willis Barnstone - Café Zero
- Sandra Kohler - Scenarios for a Deathbed
- Charles Fishman - A Summer Night
- Michael Johnson - Waterwalker
- Richard Newman - The Silence of Men
- Michael Paul Ladanyi - Stretched into Disappearance
- Estelle Villas - Sparrow
- Angela O'Donnell - Lies
- Rachel Dacus - War News
- Kristy Bowen - Sometimes, Mary
- Steven Brodsky - Riverbed
- J.D. Smith - Epilogue
- C.E. Laine - A Meadow on Change
- Arlene Ang - Tea with Miss Marple
- Art
- Charlotte Foust - Ascension I
- Charlotte Foust - Ascension II
- Charlotte Foust - Time Loop I
- Charlotte Foust - Time Loop II
- Aja- The Enthusiastic Response to a Dull Question
- Aja - Tigerlillies
- Aja - Babylon
- Aja - Mardi Gras
- Aja - Monsoon
- Julio Mateo - Ode to Nature: XII
- Julio Mateo - Ode to Nature: IV
- Julio Mateo - The Rhapsodies: V
- Julio Mateo - The Birth of Venus, XVII
- Reviews
- Michelle Cameron's In the Shadow of the Globe...reviewed by Jim Boring
- J. Timothy Lovelace's The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry...reviewed by Jeffrey C. Alfier
- Stuart Dybek's I Sailed with Magellan...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Bruce Boston's Pitchblende...reviewed by David Lunde
- Another South: Experimental Writing in the South (Ed. Bill Lavender)...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- Barbara Hendryson's Luminosity...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Non-Fiction
- Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-ONE: Apr-Jun (04)
- Poetry
- David Mills - Fool's Gold
- Andrew Boobier - Imagining America
- C.E. Chaffin - Be Still
- Andrea Defoe - It Has a Red Head
- Andrea Defoe - If Jesus Were Navajo
- Carolyn Howard-Johnson - Olvera Street Tutorial
- Kathryn Butler - Drown
- Pat Hegnauer - Elegant Shambles
- Jill Van Epps - Requiem
- Marge Simon - The Seasons of Death
- Barbara Hendryson - Stars
- Peg Duthie - Da Capo Senza Fine
- Ava Leavell Haymon - The Gold Underpainting Is a Given
- Johnson Cheu - Apricots
- Wang Yun - Country Scene (translated from the Chinese by David Lunde)
- Art
- Andrey Doukhan - Alter Ego
- Andrey Doukhan - Moon Lovers
- Andrey Doukhan - Claustrophobia
- Andrey Doukhan - Protect Me From What I Want
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #1
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #2
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #3
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #4
- Uzeyir Cayci - Illustration #5
- Susan Graves - Nebulous Clouds
- Susan Graves - Ripples
- Susan Graves - Volcanic Smoke
- Valentin Panaitof - Morning of Chimeras
- Valentin Panaitof - Thirst
- Valentin Panaitof - Isaac
- Fiction
- Reviews
- Amy Small-McKinney's Body of Surrender...reviewed by Jeff Stumpo
- Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer's Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present...reviewed by Gerard Meister
- American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Eds. Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr)...reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough
- Nathan Leslie's A Cold Glass of Milk...reviewed by Barbara M. Simon
- Cecilia Woloch's Late...reviewed by William Neumire
- Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-TWO: Jun-Aug (04)
- Poetry
- Terri Brown-Davidson - The Neighbor's Drawing
- kris t kahn - Sappho's Shadow
- Irene Livingston - Gloom Goon
- Catherynne M. Valente - Suzuri
- Eric Paul Shaffer - Black Light
- Tobias Seamon - The Contract
- Liz Dolan - Picking Up Steam
- Scott T. Summers - Twin
- Joanna Catherine Scott - Adoption Anniversary
- Leslie Goerner - Medicine Man
- Susan Culver - And Then, She Opens Her Eyes
- Carol Carpenter - The Puzzler
- Janet Buck - Carrots in Dirt
- Fiction
- Ellen Birkett Morris - Lost Girls
- John Vanderslice - A Desert Has No Exits
- Katherine Olga Huether - Wise Woman
- Judith Cox - Snow on Lambs
- Nathan Leslie - Introduction to the Fiction Section
- Featured Artist - Lynne Taetzsch
- Eye on the Dawn
- Tokyo Fantasy
- Feathered Nest
- Categorical
- Looney Tunes
- Night Songs
- Ghost Story
- Talk to Me Now
- In the Gloaming
- Hidden Grace
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Charles Fishman's Country of Memory...reviewed by Barbara Crooker
- Alan Catlin's The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre...reviewed by Charles P. Ries
- Walter Bargen's The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences...reviewed by Gilbert Wesley Purdy
- S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.'s You Should Get That Looked At...reviewed by Henry Berne
- Barbara F. Lefcowitz's Photo, Bomb, Red Chair...reviewed by Laurel Johnson
- Editor's Introduction
- ISSUE TWENTY-THREE: Aug-Oct (04)
- Poetry
- Ruth Daigon - A Watch That Waits
- Bonnie J. Morris - The Trigger Fish
- Diana Pinckney - The Artist Speaks to Her Unborn Paintings
- John O'Dell - What Fish Think
- Michael Johnson - The Story of Lightning
- Phillip Sterling - Li Po in America
- Rosemary Clark - Waltz
- Nancy Kenney Connolly - Monologue for a Massage
- Thomas Dorsett - Venus and Adonis
- Fiction
- Courtney Zoffness - Lump Sum: A Chinese Dinner Divided
- Kathryn Kulpa - Palm Sunday
- Tim Myers - That Night
- Loren Jenks - The View from the Throne
- R.T. Smith - Woodwork: How the Rustic Art Placation Ended with Howling Hounds
- Book Reviews
- Suzanne Frischkorn's Red Paper Flower...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- Bill Yake's This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain: Poems 1970-2003...reviewed by Terri Brown-Davidson
- David Chorlton's Return to Waking Life...reviewed by Laurel Johnson
- Erin Murphy's Science of Desire...reviewed by Jeff Stumpo
- New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best...reviewed by Nathan Leslie
- Featured Artist - Eduardo Recife
- lost paradise
- caution
- happier
- expo arte digital
- the boy
- what a beautiful world
- loneliness
- change yourself
- build size fast
- superego
- everything is connected to each other
- we're trapped
- welcome
- Editor's Introduction
- THE POLITICAL ANTHOLOGY
- Poetry
- Tony Barnstone - Alladin in Oakland
- Joseph Alexander - Milk, Not War
- George Wallace - A Prayer in Time of American War
- Stacie Barry - I Sold You, You Sold Me
- Orville Lloyd Douglas - I Am Not Black
- John D. Smith - On Pacifism
- Ellen Hopkins - Ugly in Black
- Rosemary Musachio - Twenty-four Hours a Day
- Michelle Gibson - Prayer after 9-11-01
- Lisa Harrison - The Answer
- Randy Lofficier - I Heard It on the Evening News
- Eddie Coletti - Torture
- Geoff Tims - The Voter Speaks
- Michele F. Cooper - The Way the War Gets Born
- Vernyce Dannells - Names Have Been Changed
- Frances Ruhlen McConnel - Where Have You Gone, You Glistening Guardians of the Air?
- Helen Buckingham - Gardener's World
- Braxton Younts - Old Glory
- Stephen B Grant - In the Wake of America's Storm
- Daniel Thomas Moran - White on Rice
- Joel Mathew Hegberg - Essence Distilled
- E. Louise Beach - After Battle
- Joyce Meyers - Jenin's Daughter
- Eileen Malone - Refugee Camp
- Alan Shapiro - Dog and Owner
- Miriam Axel-Lute - Counter/Protest
- Magdalena Ball - The Modern World
- Bob Bradshaw - Monster in the Twenty-first Century
- Victor Camillo - The Newspaper
- Ann Cefola - Portrait of My Country
- Deborah Ferber - The Sweet Fruit of Revenge
- Gerry Nicosia - The Dead Bid George Farewell
- Martin Kich - Homely Metaphors for Slaughter
- Georgie Lee Blalock III - Not Sure They Got It Right
- Harry R. Wilkens - Real World
- Radomir Luza Jr - Yo (I Liked Ronald Reagan)
- Curtis Carroll Rice - Strong Enough
- Christopher J. Jarmick - Crazy Talk
- John Dooley - Slave Killer It
- Mike Sekuloff - Rage Plagues
- John Tiong Chunghoo - Political Haiku
- Samuel Nicholson - Everyday Heroes
- John J. Mundt - What We Have on Our Hands
- Davina Rhine - Three Days and Four Nights
- Chris Major - I See
- Janet Butler - Iraq
- David Michael Jackson - I Knew Nothing of the War
- Matthew D'Abate - Another One for the Grizzlies
- Barbara DeCesare - What You Say Goes
- M.A. Internicola - Bombs Over Baghdad Wednesday Morning
- Terri Lyn Kenepp - Stars
- Frank Anthony - Bless US American Bums
- Corrine De Winter - Why Not to Vote for Bush
- Nina Corwin - Telling Time
- Dawn M. Lang - Golden Eggs are for Pantyhose
- Ulrike Gerbig - Ice Age
- Christopher Kendalls - Your Electoral Vote
- Robin M. Buehler - Sons of the Father
- Keith Berry - American Detox
- Arthur Ford - At Least Half
- Gabrielle S. Faust - Desert War
- John Francis Missett - These Dead of Yours
- Scott Withiam - Government Dependence
- Samuel Minier - Radiant Jesus
- Jan Oscar Hansen - War Is Coming Our Way
- Craig Kirchner - Baghdad Dream
- Martin Bennett - September, 1972
- Barry Ergang - We Regret to Inform You
- Vadim Bystritski - Off The Twin Tower
- L. Ward Abel - In Another Country Now
- Anne Harding Woodworth - Tulip Control
- Jeanpaul Ferro - Talking to Yahweh at Raudhatain
- Teresa White - Long Hot Summer of 2004
- Lynn E. Cohen - Pearl Sky Days
- Suzan Lustig - Fatal Reports on the Low-Carb Lifestyle
- Susan O'Neill - Licensing Requirements
- Jim D. Babwe - My Candidate Is an Honest Politician
- Rachel Webster - Anti-war
- Jerry Chambers - Morality Lost
- Howard Camner - Everything Changed Under Cromwell
- Ellen Birkett Morris - The Decision
- Gretchen Fletcher - Some Things Never Change
- Rachel Barenblat - No Alternatives
- Michael Morical - Cento: By the Earth's Corpse
- Alana Merritt Mahaffey - Televising Tel Aviv
- June Saraceno - A Sudanese Mother, 2004
- Corey Mesler - President W
- Sandra J. Lindow - A Crow in Wartime
- Bruce Williams - Bombs Away
- Hazel Wilcox - Communist America
- Derek Tellier - Terror's Variables
- Tony Word - A Poem Of Gratitude
- Enriqueta Rodriguez Carrington - To Those Who Have Been Disappeared
- Albert Russo - If Truth Be Told
- Sheila Nixon - Iraq, Safe For Democracy!
- Jake Vagus - A Cardinal in the Rain (Elegy to Reagan)
- Tom Moore - Rich Herds in Flames
- Ed Wolverton - God Bless America
- Jessica Pankratz - Cloning a Nation
- Lyn Lifshin - A Wet Cold Winter to Come
- Jayne Jaudon Ferrer - Conventional Behavior
- Kate Bernadette Benedict - The Pledge
- Liz Riseden - A Woman Smiles
- D. Breeden - History; Duty: A Song for Conservatives
- Donnie Cox - American Business Card
- John Bradley - Exorcism of the Word
- Japheth Brubaker - Economy
- Jerry Cunningham - Coming Home
- Barbara Hantman - New Year's 2003
- Laurel Lamperd - Special Relationships
- Robert Cohen - Palestinians
- Lenore Weiss - Free Speech Zone
- Tanner McSwain - Requiem for Dust
- Donna Spector - When the Storm Comes
- William R. Stoddart - A Tale of Two Presidents
- Cynthia Yates Alderman - A Salute To Our Troops
- John E. Simonds - People of Commitment
- Nick Brown - the government above...
- Mary Bass - Your Servant From The Front
- Dorothy Laurence - Winter of 2004
- Morrigan Benton-Floyd - Body Count
- Joan Payne Kincaid - Policies of Deceit
- Philip Reyth - America: A Prophecy
- Justin Barrett - My Political Poem
- Mark Nensel - Wrong
- Kenneth Pobo - Cannibals
- Elisha Porat - In Netanya, above the Cliff
- Cheryl Stiles - Gulf
- A.D. Winans - Written on the Bombing of Iraq
- Mark McKain - American Charm
- Liz Dolan - Air Raid Drills
- Francis Masat - A Clod of Dirt
- Tolkacz - American
- Steven E. Brown - Sandy Koufax
- Kathryn Allen - Broken Bullet-Proof Vests
- Stephen Oliver - The Desert as Palimpsest
- Judy Z. Kronenfeld - First Salvo
- Steve Alan Gerber - Distance
- Michael Lohr - The Ghosts Of War
- Jerry Schaefer - Right?
- Karren Alenier - You Can Tell 'em I'll Be There
- Mark Sealey - After Life
- Desirae Souverville - Lost Intentions
- Sandy Crimmins - I'm Sicka His Shit
- Drew DeFinis - The Fix
- K. L. Jones - World Sight
- Jack Cooper - No Longer
- Anthony Fedanzo - Beggars in the Butcher Yard
- Marge Simon - Patriots' Day
- Stephen Mead - Rice
- Amy Trussell - Life Preservers
- Ellen Sander - Bloodlines
- Shelley Ettinger - Blood Sport: a Geography
- John Bennett - Ymafni
- David E. Howerton - American faith
- Sahar Delijani - There is no Forgetting
- Ted Hedden - Indian Summer Breeze
- Calvin Weaver - Deacon Dragon’s Duty
- Estelle Villas - Onoma
- Richard Hahn - Exit Strategy
- Giselle L. Betts - And Now a Word on Our Government
- Gaille Merrill - Still Waving
- Pat Brodie - Letter to Iraq
- Jean M. Welch - Inferno
- Margaret Rozga - Estuarian Politics
- Yvonne Morris - News and Weather
- Steven Sher - Far from the War
- M. Brisbin Miller, II - Tirades
- Donna Nocera Miller - State of the Union
- Rosalie Calabrese - Oil
- Laura Crews - Death of the Yamana or Yaghan
- Isabelle Ghaneh - Crazy Sounds, Coming Loud
- Andy Larter - A Bullet For Everyone
- Elizabeth Kerlikowske - State Of The Union
- Chris Faiers - The fire has come down from the mountain
- D. E. Green - Continental Divide
- Lorraine Stark - A Band of Sisters
- Ralf Smart - The Hoeing Song
- James Grinwis - The Violent Emotions of
- Eliza Kelley - Sudan Report
- Dorothee Lang - Tipping the Scales
- Robin Leslie Jacobson - Stars and Stripes
- Justine Pena - Our Men and Women in Service
- Patricia Brody - Riverside Park: Battle Scene with Cherries
- Sravana Reddy - Yes, the People
- Bren Gentry - I Approve this Message
- Griffin Irving - Soldier Boy
- Brett Axel - George W
- Sandy Knauer - No Soul
- William John Watkins - Convention Coverage
- Albert Russo - If Truth Be Told
- Scott Compton - Strength
- Valery Oisteanu - Manifesto for the Abolition of Bureaucracy
- Tim Bellows - America
- D.N. Moule - Politically Incorrect
- Dorothy Ryan - The Circle Is Unbroker
- Darby Harn - Santa Monica
- Si Wakesberg - Three Political Parables For Our Time
- Melanie Rivera - Ghazal
- Laurence Loeb - Ars Politica
- Peter S. Griffin - You Can't Fool Them All The Time!
- Sherry Chandler - Rally
- Larry Rapant - Political Speech
- Jeffrey C. Alfier - No-Spin Zone
- Riccardo Giovanni - Invisible (Unseen And Unheard)
- Daniel M. Shapiro - 86% Effective
- Jeffrey Michael Miller - Kerry vs. Kerry
- Anne Montague - Beheading
- Margaret Balch-Gonzalez - Apocalypse
- Ed Cockrell - Heaven's Reward
- Jason Fraticelli - Stromboli's Playground
- Jon Wesick - Why I’m Voting for Kerry
- Dory Hudspeth - Listening Through Politics
- Srinjay Chakravarti - Capitol Hill
- Pamela Pignataro - Political Haiku
- Collin Kelley - AIDS Suite
- Joe McLaughlin - Springtime In Iraq (3 Tankas)
- Megan Webster - A Truck Full of Parts
- Darlene Lancer - War and Peace
- James E. Roethlein - The City
- Lucy Fuchs - Soldier
- Gregory Betts - Effluviad
- Pat Barber - Homefront
- George Held - Patriotism: November 11, 2002
- Roger J. Crotty - George II
- Sarah Levenson - Poem That Morning
- Zach Christian - No Sale; No Sense of Taste
- Alec Whittle - indiana (amy)
- Tony Reevy - Dreaming of Lincoln
- Peter Goodwin - This Land, Your Land
- Tamir Buchshtav - Land
- Allyson Whipple - Evil Either Way
- Barbara Southard - Man On A Bridge
- Gil Allen - Wardrobe
- T. Luis Cox - The Salt of the Moon in the Shadow of Wasson Peak
- Adam Penna - From Ben and I
- Mordecai Marcus - Disaffected
- Jayne Lyn Stahl - A Special Breed
- Gloria Cosgrove - Lament of a Gardener
- Gloria G. Murray - Chopin And President Bush
- Ruth Mark - The final curtain call.
- Carol Williams - Decisive Victories
- Joseph Byrd - Gulf War II
- Elizabeth Penrose - A Pacifist in Wartime
- Darryl Wellington - The Sinister Mind of Fu Manchu
- Jerry Norris - Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
- Sam Grabelle - Government
- Daniel Pantano - Pedigreed Hands
- Marilynn Fuqua - Derelicts
- Roy A. Chávez - Peace has the pale color of a cross
- John Bryan - Surrealerial Killer
- Duane Locke - Al Fresco Cafe Poems #12
- Katherine Murphy - Tambourine Days
- Hal Sirowitz - Home-grown Anger
- Susie Howard - WTHEFM
- Patricia Wellingham-Jones - The Cleanest War in History
- Alan Catlin - Three Views from a Burned Out Building in Iraq
- Jeff Redstone - The Daily News
- Anna Evans - Next to of Course England America I…
- Leonore Wilson - At the Grave of Abedul Hassn, Baghdad
- Phillip Robets - Curds and Whey
- Lisa Haviland - Noose
- Anatoly Tsaliovich - The Pig That Grew Horns
- Gail Goldsmith - Prospect
- George G. Rose - A Long Tale A Wagging
- Sally Buckner - Afternoons
- Richard Newman - What I Carry with Me
- Cheryl Snell - War
- Dee Rimbaud - Atom Dead Latex
- Bruce Boston - Concrete Poem for the President
- Clayton Couch - Combat Poem
- Darlene Estlow - Price Of Peace
- David Salner - Nixon Times (Or Was It Johnson)
- Mary Saracino - Enforcing the Peace
- David B. Axelrod - Ited We Stan
- JB Mulligan - it's worth something
- Michael Meyerhofer - Our Patriotic Conundrum
- Steve Dalachinsky - Beached 2
- Jeannine Hall Gailey - You Misunderstand Republicans
- Arlene Zide - The New Romans Learn Doublespeak
- Danielle Grilli - Soldier Downed By Senseless Act of Violence
- Peggy Landsman - Good Morning, Barstow!
- Bill Roberts - Dreaming of Freedom
- Teresa Peipins - On the Death of a Friend, The Start of the War
- Grey Held - The Beech Tree
- Ram Mehta - Everything‘s under control
- Caroline Washington - Don't Forget About Me...
- Nettie Bozanich - Daydreaming from Canada
- Susan Landon - Airport Screening
- Len Bourret - No 'Freddie the Freeloaders' in the Hamptons
- Jean Lehrman - Kansas
- Brenda Seabrooke - Pay Per View
- Jeffrey Kahrs - Current Events
- GinnaKarla S. Nicolas - I Can’t Eat Enough Oatmeal
- Bill Britton - Electioneering
- Henry Howard - The Boy with the Bomb
- Robert Covelli - Heretic!
- Sharon Esther Lampert - Gay Brotherhood
- Ruth Daigon - The Young Dead
- Paul Utukuru - Our Religion and Our Politics in the Year 2004
- Karen Newman - American Politicians
- Robert K Meyer II - The Fat Tuesday Speech
- Ahn Behrens - Dining in America
- Paul Kloppenborg - World Economy
- Maria Fama - Fireworks On July 4, 2004
- Marte Broehm - Fifty Years Forward: A Prophesy for 2053
- Phillip Corwin - Bush League
- Michael McIrvin - Virgil on Main Street: Poem Presaging War
- Geo Staley - Sioux Victory Day June 25th
- Amy Ritchie - East to West
- Ulf Kirchdorfer - Go for It
- Bryan Thao Worra - What Tomorrow Takes Away
- Kathy Downey - War Gods
- Paul Hostovsky - War & Peace
- Jeffrey Ethan Lee - Surreal (killer) soul in the USA
- Joseph McGreevy - Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Gunther Haas - Poets Against Poets Against The War
- Terry Hertzler - A Dangerous Place
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