Jeff Knorr & Tim Schell	Introduction
ESSAYS
Walt McDonald	Advice I Wish I'd been Told
FICTION
Stephen Dobyns	Kansas
Lionel de Maine	The Leopard Skin Winner of the 1998 Fall Fiction Contest
Alberto Rios	The Orange-woman, the Walnut Girl
Rick Christman	Listening from the Beginning
Suh-Jung Lee	The Day of the Dead
Bret Anthony Johnston	Smoke
POETRY
Walt McDonald	Sipping Iced Tea in Silence
	Pronghorns Show Us the Way
	A Thousand Miles of Stars
Vivian Shipley	Driving with My Father in Winter Park, Florida Winner of the 1998 Fall Poetry Contest
Rick Noguchi	The Ocean in Two Seasons
Kevin Sullivan	By Barbed-wire Fences
Verlena Orr	Sorting Through Sister
	Lake of Jealous Women
Paulann Petersen	Half the Telling
	Driving Back
Gregory Sellers	Elegy with a Bird's Shadow
	Holes in Heaven
Allison Joseph	A Visit from the Poetry Police
	How to Prepare for Your Affair
Marc Jacksina	A Variation on Tu-Fu's Meandering River
Laura Lee Washburn	Women in Photos
Carol Fröme	Le Bal a Bougival
Carlos Reyes	After Listening to a Poem by Lisel Mueller
Diane Averill	In Answer to New Arrangements
	Egret Temperatures
Virgil Suárez	Half Time
Gaylord Brewer	Bones
Edward Byrne	Anniversary
	Spring Morning: Descending an Abandoned Mountain
James Hoggard	Storm Watch
	Sea Watchers
Alberto Rios	At the Street Parties for the 16 de Septiembre
	Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
Oliver Francisco de la Paz	In the Year of the Rat
Gary Thompson	The Fathers
	Camp Cup