Volume 1, Issue 1, Fall 2008

Steve Almond, Jenna Bush: Off the Grid

Jozef Baran, Woman with Cancer

Erinn Batykefer, The Artificial Heart

Erinn Batykefer, Horizontal Horse's or Mule's Skull with Feather

Tom Bissell, Punishment

William Bradley, Dislocated

Abraham Brennan, One of the Seven Deadly Sins (or Proud to be an American)

Linda Burnett, A Very Small Woman

Cindy Clem, Blonde Joke II

Scott Diel, Bewitched: My Shaman Wife

Anthony DiRenzo, Lunch with Trimalchio

Eugene Gloria, Tea Bowl

Eugene Gloria, Monsoon Season

John Grey, On the Fly

Juan Felipe Herrera, The Return of Jake Condor

TR Hummer, Nothing Beautiful Except that Which Does Not Exist

TR Hummer, Everything in the Past Is a Particle

TR Hummer, Everything in the Future Is a Wave

Cheryl Klein, Virgins

Elizabeth Langemak, Lost Earring

Dorianne Laux, Foster Child

Dorianne Laux, Somewhere a Dog

Philip Levine, Destiny

Philip Levine, The Last Word

Patrick Madden, Of Eagles, Goats and Spacemen

Joeseph Millar, Labor Day

Joeseph Millar, Social Security

Dinty W. Moore, 44 Reasons Why You Absolutely, Positively Should Never Write that Book

Duncan Murrell, Back When We Lived Here

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, The Sick Diet

Laura Prichett, Painting the Constellations

Ron Rash, My Wife Left Me Last Night and the Mail is Running Late

Austin Ratner, Darker Shadows

Michael Schiavo, from The Mad Song: Kansas Is the Same Wherever You Go

Su Smallen, Hawking's Cup

Carol Test, The West in You

Gary Young, The Earth Submits