Issue 41: Spring 2005
Staff 2005

FICTION
Rachel Beth Glaser, "Froonday"
Jeff Parker, "The Briefcase of the Pregnant Spylady"
John High, "Hold My Mule"
Pamela Ryder, "Captiva"

POETRY
James Henry, "The Lord and Adam, In the Garden of Eden"
Mary Jo Bang, "Three Poems"
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, "Two Poems"
Quan Barry, "ressurection theory"
Monica Youn, "Ignatz in Pursuit"
Victoria Chang, "Newlywed Ghazal"
Ravi Shankar, "Sea Watchers, Oil Paint on Canvas, 1952"
Robin Behn, "Waves"
Andrew Schelling, "Translations from King Hala's Sattasai"
Vera Krons, "The Body Servant Tends Jin Lien"
Dilruba Ahmed, "Translating Tagore"
Oni Buchanan, "Envelopes of Sky"
Srikanth Reddy, "Voyager"
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "In Praise of Ice Cream Vending Machines at a Greyhound Bus Station"
Carrie Etter, "The Honeymoon of Our Attraction"
A.E. Stallings, "White Noise"
Ryan Flaherty, "Subjoinders to Our Hero"
Ilya Kaminsky, "[So much joy! We have come as close as we dared, Lord]"

NONFICTION
Lara Vapnyar, "Words That Are Not Yours: Learning to read in a foreign language"
John D'Agata, "On Why the Fact Needs Fun: An argument in opposition to nonfiction's police"
Tom Bissell, "Arrival"

CONTEST
Arthur Satlzman, "Reason Not the Need"
Carolina Ebeid, "Vocation: Abel Speaks"
Emily Rosko, "A Sorry Concept, That Town"
Ryan Fox, "The Consolations of Philosophy"
Thea Goodman, "Swimming at Night"

INTERVIEWS
Phillip Lopate and Vijay Seshadri, moderated by Lytton Smith
Brenton Hamilton interviewed by Andrew Seguin

ART
Brenton Hamilton
Dan Estabrook
Jayne Hinds Bidaut

TRIBUTE
Lexi Rudnitsky, "Six poems"