Ackerson, Duane
In the Shadow of the Education President;
Metaphysical Remark Overheard at Starbucks

Arnold, Richard
Divorce

Axe, David
Manhattan

Betts, Kristie
Camera Obscura

Britton, Iain
The Snowman;
Melinda's House

Brodsky, Louis Daniel
Beast;
Man's Ways;
Chickens and Hogs

Carpenter, Carol
Camellia

Case, Susan H.
Night Driving

Cocchiarale, Michael
August is Young

Conley, Carla
Moon Animals;
Inside;
When Zacko Draws Mama

Conway, Jack
The Philosophical Weather Report

Davidson, Michael
Ocean Beach

DeCarteret, Mark
Good as Saved

Dempsey, Gryfyd
Revision

Ewing, Wain
Platter or Dish

Gaponenko, Marjana
September
(transl. from the German by Miria Kraemer)

Girling, Alan
Brothers on a Train

Gonzalez, Ray
Three Prose Poems

Granja, Helder
Rockwell's Frame

Harris, Lizzie
Parallax;
Heaven's Vault

Heston, Jim
Manufacturing With Precious Metals

Hodges, Sojourner
Heat;
Early Summer in Southwest Georgia

Hooper, Ian
Fourth of July

Ingersoll, G. A.
Harry and Myrtle

Johnson, Joseph D.
Italian Wine

Krauss, Carol Parris
Picture This

Leake, Alexandra
Exactions

Levato, Francesco
Kimono Tattoo

Lindow, Sandra
Love and the Polar hand Shake

Locke, Duane
Another Aubade;
Green Shutters and a Dress;
Each Spool Has a Certain Length of Thread

Markus, Peter
Girl Breathes a River, or, In The Garden With Brother;
Girl Breathes a River, or, In The Garden With Brother: Revisited

McCurry, Jim
To Kiss Miss Adelaide Crapsey

Mead, Stephen
Ringings6

O'Connell, Daniel
Calling

Pancamo, Pietro
Due Variazioni Sul Tema
(transl. from the Italian by Arlene Ang)

Peet, Christian
DNA;
Unscrewed

Sheehan, Tom
Flesh of an Unwanted Fish

Spring, Michael
Sunflowers;
Submerged

Swihart, R. L.
Nottiteln #25

Vilhotti, Jerry
All the Green-eyed Monsters;
Melting Away

Voigt, Jeremy
Ophelia's Dress;
Truck for Sale

Wray, Tara
The Hermit

Jeffrey Alfier
Early April: War Funeral in the Midwest

Arlene Ang
To M.M.

Iain Britton
A Biographical Detail Nobody Counted On

Louis Daniel Brodsky
Just Jazz

Wilma Dague
Bar Band Blues
Why Trumpet Solos Make Me Cry

Heather K. Dooley
What I Know About Time

Alison Eastley
Pipe Dreams

AnnMarie Eldon
Convertices

Kathleen Gardner
Altered State

Martin Hendrickson
Magic

Sojourner Hodges
Variations for a Convalescent
In the Shower

Amanda Laughtland
Out to Dinner

Rebecca Loudon
Instructions for Recalcitrant Patients
The Cellist Cut Her hair

Ella McCrystle
Death with a Pipe in the Living Room

Jim McCurry
Just Past August
A Mess of Shadows in the Dragon Night

Rita Moe
Neighborhood Song for the Say, Hey Kid

Pietro Pancamo
Two Musical Variations

Nathan Parker
A Minor

Max Socol
Una Mosca Muerte

Michael Spring
Port na bPucai (Music of the Fairies)

E.J. Stone
Polaroids

Sharon M. Taylor
Main Street Gallery

Mark Young
Bach's Arioso
Now's the Time

Featured Artist: Faruk Ulay
Introduction
Why a New Place

David Ayers
Every Sandcastle Ends With a Wave

David Barringer
Inspirations

Harold Bowes
Cruise

Ptim Callan
Jokester

Alan Catlin
The Professor in Love With Byron

Richard Chwedyk
An Unfortunate Absence of Ghosts;
On a Morning Flight to Anaheim;

K. R. Copeland
Random Walk

Alison Daniel
The Language of Water;
And I Really Don't Care

Thom Didato
Tasty

Michael Flanagan
Dream Week in the Adirondacks

Apryl Fox
A Man Mourns to the Tune of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"

Soren Gauger
The Cellar/Cellarium

Jason Gortney
Untitled Planet

Helder Granja
Grandfather's House;
Boy Ghost

Gavin Grant
Like Peaches

Glenn Ingersoll
Sink;
Small House;
Dogs Will Not Return

Karl Koweski
My Watery Grave

Terry Lowenstein
Two Haiku

Bryan McCarvey
If It Wasn't For The

Seth McMillan
Too Much Saki

Corey Mesler
A Marriage of Rue;
Fog

Scott Neumyer
Please Never Stop Doing Exactly What You're Doing

Bryson Newhart
Familiar Winter Dwelling;
Sky cycle

B. Z. Niditch
Earth Day

Benjamin Reed
Sammy's Place

M Sarki
Beyond the Glass at All;
Contours

Tobias Seamon
The Forge;
Sublimation, Conjunction, and Raising Up a found poem;
Hades Walks His Policies

Kevin Sweeney
Sacraments

Denis Taillefer
A Star is Born

Joel Van Noord
Somber 22

Richard C. Williams
Dark Doves;
Alms

Mark Wisniewski
The Man With the Wife

Mark Young
For Icarus/The Last Mirror;
Cinema Sepia;
Time Lapse

"Chapter 1 of the Anemone Sidecar"

Sascha Akhtar
Tribunal

Brian Ames
My Stillborn Brother's Life

Richard Arnold
haiku

David Ayers
Kenosis

Pete Balestrieri
nothing stops

G.O. Clark
Fortune Cookies

C.A. Conrad
she was exotic company…
Frank yawns…

Alison Daniel
The Cult of Osiris

Gryffyd Dempsey
Atlantic City x 11

Jim Dewitt
When Starlight Slides Across

Wain Ewing
Counterclockwise
artwork

Soren Gauger
from The Cellar/Cellarium

Helder Granja
dark red

Martin Hendrickson
In the Beginning

Ian Hooper
Demi-sonnet No. 11

Marc Kipniss
Fusiformation

Duane Locke
Peaceful Kingdom's Aubade
A Journal, Life in 2003

Pasha Malla
The Flattening Earth

Peter Markus
Mud Boys
The Moon is a Brother

Jim McCurry
39 Anns, Ruth and Tina

Seth McMillan
Decades of Romance

Steve Mueske
Nocturne

Stephen D. Rogers
Electron Music

Donald Ryburn
Piedra

M Sarki
Forward: An Interview with God Gavelkind

Andrew Topel
The Doctor

Thomas Wooten
p.s.

"Gustatory in Nature"

Aaron Belz
Ginkgoes

Harold Bowes
2 tankas
haiku

John Burgess
untitled

Joel Chace
Ultimate Diet

Christiel Cottrell
Late September, Sunnyside

Jason DeBoer
The Flavor of Absinthe

Robert Gibbons
The Tavel Rosé
Butter Feast

Gavin J. Grant
Like Peaches

Kit Kennedy
Still Only This

Marc Kipniss
Not a Wrong Glass

Frank Matagrano
Which Part of Oregano Means Joy

Jim McCurry
background: Chopin
Shilly-Shally Chez

Bryson Newhart
Time to Move Again

Kathryn Rantala
Green
Chianti

Tobias Seamon
Country Home

Brandon Shimoda
Notes from the Lake #1
Notes from the Lake #16

Joel Van Noord
Perfection Ideal

James R. Whitley
Crepuscular

Lori Williams
Friday Evening Commute

William Woolfitt
Our Time in the Grove

Thomas Wooten
Two Stories of Starting Over in the Tabloid City
Two Stories of Being There in the Tabloid City

Featured Writer: Jeanne Lohmann
Introduction
Beginning Autumn
Accompaniment
Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge
Beach at Maui
Halaconia
To Set the Record Straight
Trees Walking Into Poems

Devon Apple
Primogeniture

Aaron Belz
A Violent Visigoth

John Bennett
Givers & Takers

Paul Benton
Red Like the Wind
1957

Robert James Berry
A Crossing to Jura

Andrew Bomback
Poolhopping

Eric Bosse
Onion Ring

Louis Daniel Brodsky
Speaking for the Survivors
Johnny Jihad
Democratic Vistas

Joseph Carcel
Sunday at the Zoo

Joel Chace
Uncovered
Riposte

Richard Denner
What Where is Here

Matthew L. M. Fletcher
An Iranian in De Gaulle

Jamey Gallagher
Lightness

Rachel Gladstone-Gelman
As Allistair Said

Annalynn Hammond
Savasana

Cralan Kelder
Tall Stories
Subtle Art

Frank Matagrano
Victoria's Secret Catalog, Page Seven
Admitting How Much I Feel

Jim McCurry
What I've Learned
The "I" Postpones Nirvana

Pam McNew
Visiting Mama

Josh Melrod
The Last Best Men

Michael Metz
What the Hell
I & Thou and Krazy Glue

Michael Meyerhofer
In Answer
Napping

Stephen Oliver
Mapping the Terrain

Brian Ray
UPS Blues

David Ruslander
Winter Morning

Mikal Trimm
She Becomes the Storm

Jamie Wasserman
Isis in Light
The Sword Swallower Explains

R. F. Williams
From Behind Sunglasses
Candy Bar

Featured Writer: John Burgess
Introduction
8 untitled poems

Zett Aguado
Hold Your Breath

Jim Amos
A Warning

T. E. Ballard
Copulation;
Vein

Ace Boggess
Dust;
Old Woman Wrong Way on a One-Way Road

Daniel Borzutzky
An Almost Saucy Pantomomime;
A Cure For Impotence

Jason Lee Brown
Waiting for the Belt;
Comforting Breath;
Saturday Morning Cartoons

A. J. Bruey
The Man Who Watched the Church Parking Lot

Benjamin Buchholz
Songs in the Key of Ibo

Luke Buckham
An Eclipse of My Old Legs

Jack Cannon
Buildings I've Built

C. A. Conrad
selections from the FRANK pieces

Joshua Edwards
Philosophy Column;
Uncivilized Neon Landscape

Shelley Ettinger
Sitting on Top of the World

Paul Felsch III
Quiddity's Whereabouts
Caricature

Rich Furman
In Hand

Laura Gomez
A Boy In Venice

J.P. Dancing Bear
Prospero on Ariel's Return

Sandra Katuri
Carnaval Perpetuel

Michael Ladanyi
The Corpse of These Things

Michael Mastrofrancesco
Paragraph 175;
'99 Winter Solstice

Rochelle Hope Mehr
Morning

Michael Meyerhofer
Choose the First or Last Line and Begin

Steve Mueske
The Poet Writes About Finding a Lottery Ticket in a Junk Drawer

Bryson Newhart
Flutterby

Michael Northrop
Thin Dogs at Night

Allan Peterson
Stars Before Our Eyes;
Nothing in This Hand

Anthony Robinson
Lover's Prayer;
Geneva Convention;
Lyrics for a Slow April

Dave Ruslander
Chiaroscuro

Tracy Scarpino
Scratch

Tobias Seamon
Charon Considers the Loosestrife;
Seeds

Andrew Shelley
Shell

Brandon Shimoda
Notes From the Lake, #'s 1, 4, 16

Alex Stolis
Arts & Entertainment

Daniel Sumrall
untitled poem

Larry Sawyer
Clocks

J. Marcus Weekley
Painting the Bridges at Normandy

Lori Williams
The visitor

William Woolfitt
The Aeronaut, Centrifuge

Bill Wunder
Caribou

Featured Writer: David Thornbrugh
Introduction
Champagne Bubbles;
Barely Autumn;
Construction Site;
Apologia for Love Poems I Have Written;
Japanese Monster Movies

M Otis Aavenue
The West Was Somewhere Under All Those Gray Clouds in 1999

Jeffrey Alfier
Lindens;
A Bar Called Open Sky;
Strangers Within the Gate

Brian Ames
Blackbody Sequence

Nick Antosca
At The Reunion

Rusty Barnes
Down in the bottom, No Runnin' Shoes

Dylan Bryan-Dolman
The Fear of Not Existing

Carol Church
Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare

C. A. Daly
Gothic

Patricia Ducey
At the 9.11 Photo Exhibit

Richard Fox
The Ark That Sailed Toward the Ark;
The Bamboo

Suzanne Frischkorn
Legs;
The Protestor Buys Curtain Rods

Elizabeth P. Glixman
The Creator;
The Power of Sound

Rose Gowen
The Dog

Katherine Grosjean
A Letter, in Twenty-Six;
Eleven Minutes

John V. Haynes
I Tried to Make You Ulysses

D. H. Henry
Tequila Sunrise

J. D. Heskin
Lost

Lori Kean
Where Matter Adjoins

Christine Boyka Kluge
Minestrone Tsunami

Dave Malone
On You and a Little on Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago;
Softer

Mia
Gravity

J. B. Mulligan
Crushed Beneath a Morning Sky;
Waves

J. D. Nelson
Tomorrow Mind;
A Funky Burner

Nathan Parker
Worldliness

Lois Peterson
Baby Beluga

Sirrus Poe
Lonely Fish Without Oxygen

Nanette Rayman
At The New School

Behlor Santi
I Hate Communists Too

Augustus Shinhyonphil
Juliana

Maryanne Stahl
Lies

R. L. Swihart
Selective Memory;
Mallarme

Paul A. Toth
Upstairs Packing Diva

Broeck Wahl
Window

Dennis Walikainen
Summary

Derek White
Breaking in the Shadow Puppets

A. D. Winans
Returning Home From Panama

Thomas Wooten
Pale Rider;
Turn Left Whenever You Can

"To the Music of Mid-November Rain & Snow"

Featured Writer: Robert Gibbons
Introduction
To the Music of Mid-November Rain & Snow

• A Calligraphy
• The Black Rock
• How to Get it Out!
• That Face
• Pavese's Diary, the Effects of his Suicide?
• To the Music of Mid-November Rain & Snow
• Written in End Papers of a Used Book on Li-Po,
  Purchased for $1 Long Ago

Aaron Belz
The Day I Pretended I Was a Tailor

Daniel Borzutzky
My Lover, My Entomologist

Harold Bowes
Columbia River Gorge

Claire Cowan-Barbetti
To Be Given, To Be Broken, To Be Shared

Joshua Edwards
Fin

Paul Felsch
Itemized, Suburban & Astronomical

Deborah S. Greenhut
What is Fair

Marcy Jarvis
Synovia

Ilya Kaminsky
from Natalia

Marc Kipniss
The Occasion of a Table

Jim McCurry
Moonlight

Bryson Newhart
A Conspiracy of Water

Allan Peterson
Natural Conditions

Tobias Seamon
Atlas

Lynn Shipley
The Mill

Thomas Wooten
Rapture, Raptor