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January/April 2000


E D I T O R ' S   N O T E

Chad Driscoll
· An Informal Introduction


P H O T O G R A P H Y

Gene Bednarek
· Planted Pine after Fire, Palm Coast, Florida, July 7, 1998
· Lawtey Correctional Institution, Florida:
    William Dietz - The Chapel - The Gang Room - A. C. Clark


F I C T I O N

Joseph De Quattro
· Angus in Extremis

Stanley Jenkins
· Beyond the Piney Wood

Rick Levin
· No Anchorage

Kevin McGowin
· Journal No. 3

Allegra Wong
· The Lake


P O E T R Y

James Broughton
· Last High Kuku

George Elliott Clarke
· Homage to Hardial Bains (1939-1997)
· To Juanita Pleasants

Cid Corman
· Six Poems

Miles Efron
· Pollen
· Well
· Wrens

Michael Estabrook
· Old Habits Die Slow (or is it slowly)
· Note from my Brother Kerry to Athena, his Sister-in-Law

Charles Fort
· Through William Blake's Eyes

Damion Higbie
· Fishing at Midnight to Hide from the Dashboard Saviors
· A Sparrow Dying of Jazz

Lyn Lifshin
· Cat Women
· September 26, 1996

Jim Massey
· Eudora's Neighbor

Thomas Meyer
· Trakl

M. A. Roberts
· Convert
· Curse


R E V I E W S

Jeffery Beam
· Read & Recommended

Miles Efron
· So There: Poems 1976-1983 by Robert Creeley

Lucy Harrison
· The Daiquiri Girls by Toni Graham

Zoe Francesca
· Heartbreak Hotel by Gabrielle Burton

Lindsay Martell
· Stone Cowboy by Mark Jacobs

Jessica Mersky
· Dating Miss Universe: Nine Stories by Steven Polansky

Jill Meyers
· The Driftless Zone by Rick Harsch
· King of the Roadkills by Bucky Sinister

Robert West
· Taking Up Our Daily Tools by Al Miginnes


C O N T R I B U T O R S