ESSAYS
Alberto Rios	The March of the Altar Boy Army
Joe Abbott	Guns
Terrance Millet	A Night with Beulah
Amy Sage Webb	Blood
FICTION
James Manuel	Sally Draw Horn Winner of the 1999 Willamette Award in Fiction
Wendell Mayo	A Piece of the Road
William J. Cobb	Marina
Robert H. Abel	Mr. Nice Guy
Ladette Randolph	What She Knows
Chauna Craig	Binocular
Julie Weston	Idaho Surprise
Mark Andres	The Angel of Necessary Losses
Anna Monardo	Our Passion
David Galef	Metafiction
Erin Ergenbright	Burning
POETRY
Thea S. Kuticka	The Seamstress Winner of the 1999 Willamette Award in Poetry
Thom Ward	Bill Puckett's Farm
	When the Mother of the Bride Is Dying
Rodger Moody	With My Sons
Pat Cason	The Difference Between Bury and Plant
Tama Baldwin	The Curving of Familiar Bones
	Iris
Sandra Yannone	Grief
	The Marginal Way
Alison Apotheker	The Art of Keeping House on the Ocean Floor
	Overnight, Snow
Judith Barrington	Quinag
	My Father's Smile
Joe Abbott	Beard
Charles Harper Webb	Wrong Numbers
Reg Saner	Winter Grasses
Mary Winters	Bedsprings
	Not Being There When I Need You
Bart Edelman	Forgiveness
	Bashevis
	In Albany Love
Beckian Fritz Goldberg	Last Erotica
	Darkroom
	The Courtship at the End of the Book
Jack Martin	Son
	What Does Lindbergh Mean?
Susan Allspaw	This is My Mother and a Man Named John Gillis in 1956
Anita Skeen	What Remains
Molly Tenenbaum	Where He Rested
John Thelin	Duets at Dusk
George Kalamaras	Glendive, Montana
	A Theory of Goats as Given in the River's Skin
Jim Fairhall	Hue Blues
Burton Bradley	Prayer to Itzmana, Mayan Sun God
Floyd Skloot	Burning Deadfall
	Wake
Eugénio de Andrade	Sea Gulls
	To a Lotus Tree on My Street
	Rose of Sand
Allison Joseph	In the Spirit: On Seeing the Sounds of Blackness Perform, Riverfront Park
Susan Terris	The Woman on Death Row Watches TV
Jim Murphy	Brokers' Holiday
	The Continental's Gaming Tables
John Bradley	Chronicle of Jesus and the Corn Mothers
	Allen Ginsberg Afterlife Sutra
Cortney Davis	Alchemy
	The Viet Nam Veteran's Wife
	Wilding
Julie Parker	The Last Cut
Oliver de la Paz	Fidelito Takes Flight Up a Ladder
	With the Grace of Basket Weavers
	Grounding
REVIEW
Stephen Wallin	poets in the lower case: Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry