The publication of this journal is made possible in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

The editors also wish to thank the following people and institutions: Robert DeMott, Marsha Dutton, Roderick McDavis, Daphne Metts, Joseph McLaughlin, and Dinty Moore. Special thanks to the Creative Writing Program and Department of English Department at Ohio University for their extraordinary support in recent years.>>>

Volume 16

The Many Deaths of Myrna Roebuck / Amy Bradley

Concerning the Way You Taste in the Morning / Gregory Sherl

The Man in Black / Matt Dennison

Ann Walters / Cage

Interview, with Impasse / M. T. Fallon

All I Want You to Say / Patrick Stuart

Possession / Jendi Reiter

The Death / Homa Zaryouni

Woman Is a State / Excerpt from The Butterfly Nail / Amy Wright

I Don't Know Why / Andrew Farkas

Our Hero Writes Home / Of Justice, Which Punishes, of Mercy Which Pardons (Playing the Chicken Little Card) / Kristin Abraham

Five Erasures / On Erasure /
Mary Ruefle

Duet / Coral Smart

The General (A Translation from the German) / Suzanne Wise

The Late Bloomer / Doug O'Connor

Joe's Cafe / Andrew Pryor

"If I Say It Is": An Unscientific Survey in Response to the Question "What Is (If There Is) Midwest Poetry?" / John Bradley

An Interview with David Shields

Taboos / Here's the Thing /
Robin Hemley

Like You / Jack Garrett

Cabinets / Kathleen Kirk

Mist Nets at Manomet /
Cherie Hunter Day

My Half / Chris Gavaler

Tears 101 / Lance Larsen

The Most Best American Poetry / John Thomas Murphy