| ESSAYS |
| Will Gravely |
Reliving
South Carolina's Last Lynching: The Witness of Tessie Earl Robinson |
| David Robertson |
The Gray Eyes of Timrod |
| J. O. Tate |
Chandler in the Canon: The Case of "Red Wine" |
| FICTION |
| Dinty W. Moore |
For Sol |
| Peter Rondinone |
Lenin Falling |
| Mary Anderson Eberhart |
Hooked |
| Regina Villiers |
Only A Matter of Time |
| Ronald Wallace |
Logjam |
| John Birchler |
1040 |
| Jeffrey Couchman |
The Accident |
| David Galef |
And Dwelt in a Separate House |
| Rhonda Pressley |
Herbert Helms and the Dirty Joke |
| Laurie Hertzel |
Wheels |
| POETRY |
| Robert Cooperman |
The General, After Destroying His Enemies • Flute Practice • An Incident at the University of Istanbul |
| Peter Wild |
Aldo Leopold |
| Annie Finch |
Ancestor • Pearls |
| Beth Simon |
Earth and Heaven |
| Bernard D. Morris |
Speak Only True • You Smell of Ink • Dead in the Water • Do Me No Favors |
| Marion Montgomery |
Rambling Wordsworth Country • A Complaint |
| Lyn Lifshin |
Why the Charcoal in Grainy World War 2 Movies Always Seems More Blue Than Black • Jack the Ripper Goes to the Mall • Getting the Goods • Burning Poems |
| J. W. Rivers |
How First-Emperor Zheng Inspected Work on the Great Wall, Chastened Wrong-Thinking Scholars and Found A Whale • Sennacherib Lays Siege to a City...701 B.C. • Letter to His Wife from Major Duncan Hastings Heath, Commanding, Fifth Prince of Wale's Own Gurkha Rifles 10th August, 1916 |
| Robert Watson |
Teresa and the Spear of Time |
| Rick Lott |
Ode to the Children • Weather Report |
| Paul McRay |
The Last Mastodon |
| Raul Petrie |
The Inheritors • The Visit • Air Sickness |
| Jeff Humphries |
Words • Screech Owl |
| Hank Manning |
Dry Clay |
| Samuel Maio |
Love Song • The Jack London Nuthouse |
| Len Blanchard |
The Answer to a Riddle |
| Floyd Watkins |
J. H. Braziel: Fair Prices |
| Louis Daniel Brodsky |
The Mutoscope • Collision Course • Their Song |
| Hilary Holladay |
The Great Snows of Our Childhood |
| Robert Parham |
The Heat Wave in Sardis |
| THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS |
| David Mulroy |
Politics and Great Books |
| REVIEWS |
| Hallman B. Bryant |
The Return of King Arthur: The Legend Through Victorian Eyes by Debra N.
Mancoff |
| Guilford H. Walpole |
Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others by Sally Wolff with Floyd C. Watkins |
| Ron Rash |
Circling by Paul Ruffin |
| John L. Idol, Jr. |
Dictionary of American Regional English Ed. by Frederick G. Cassidy and John Houston Hall |