POETRY
Scott Edward Anderson
Sarolina Shen Chang 
Jennifer Firestone
Rebecca Givens
Leonard Kress
Timothy Liu
R.J. McCaffery  
Ed Pavlic
Joanna Smith Rakoff
Gerald Stern
Jeanne Murray Walker
Robert West
Ian Randall Wilson
Terri Witek

FICTION
Frederick Zackel

BOOK REVIEW
Amy Holman

Sure Closure 

Progress, once
it turns
toward oblivion,

seems to
pick up
the pace—

feels more
inevitable then
than ever.

Ambush  

Last night
the full

moon came
on full

tilt, sulfur
smudge on

the horizon
firing up

to white-
hot spotlight,

dizzy Greensboro
blinking below.