Cover-Related Essays

Mike Cohen      Frederic Remington's Cowboy:A Glimpse of the Old West on the Old East River Drive
Joe "Hoagie" Hauser     Hero, Loner, Killer: The Celluloid Cowboy

Fiction

Dick Bentley      At the World's Biggest Crucifix, Indian River, Michigan
Gary Percesepe     Why I Did the Grocery Girl
Susan Tepper      Afternoon
William F. Roth     The Break-Up

Poetry

Bernadette McBride      To Tim Russert
Hayden Saunier      Groundhog Wars, Year Three
Louis McKee      Home Improvements
Hayden Saunier      The Mystery of Houses
Joe Chelius      Proofreader and Desk Lamp
Hannah Craig      The Boy Raised by Horses
Joe Chelius      Toys
Louis McKee      Equality
Susan Charkes      In the Wawa
Camille Norvaisas      Amy Told Me
Jon Ballard      Little Ones
Joe Chelius      Green Corduroy
Janice Wilson Stridick      The Hidden Side
Maria Fama      Failing Time and Money: For Gabriella
Marylou Kelly Streznewski      Spring Break
Barbara Rockman      The Clinging
Michelle Tooker      This Ferris Wheel Is Easier Than Talking
Rachel Kann      When I Lie Down Beside You
Rodger Lowenthal      Sanctuary
Amanda Reynolds      A Woman Is Worth Twice That of a Man
Marsha Kroll      Lost
Dan Seifert      Osker’s Chalk Board
Grant Clauser      Settling In
Charles Edward Mann      Old John
Terry W. Ford      All That’s Left of Elysium
David Sullivan      Wolf Brigade, Dragging Detail
Michael Northen      MS
David Sullivan      Home from Iraq
Bill Van Buskirk      Easter 2002
David Sullivan      Collateral Damage
Amanda Reynolds      If This Is the End
Charles Edward Mann      Pullman Car: A Photograph, 1913
Camille Norvaisas      Deism

Featured Poet: Terry Culleton

Anna Evans      Introduction to Terry Culleton

Gazebo
Outside the Mall
Anti-Darwinian
Beach Ball
Subdivision Willow
The Yang
The Innumerable Refusals of St. Crusis the Illuminator
The Novitiate of St. Concentrata
St. Elasticus
The Legend of Saint Apneus the Sleeper

Nonfiction

Joyce Meyers      Loopholes by David P. Kozinski
Bernadette McBride      Tribute to a Remarkable Man: In Memory of Poet Allen Hoey
Louis McKee      Charlie: Wasn’t That A Time
Peter Krok      Richard Moyer and the Quest
Alisa Wolf      Question Seven
Robert Regan      Marking Mark Twain’s Centenary
John Timpane      I Confess to Being a Twainianc