| ESSAYS | |
| Virgil Suárez | The Anatomy of a Poetry Contest |
| Melissa Pritchard | The Near Impossible |
| Steven Winn |
Keeping Silence |
| Steve Heller |
Walking through the Moon |
| Lisa D. Chavez |
Chicken |
| Peter Van Gelder |
Rocky Mountain High |
| H. Lee Barnes | Changing Hands |
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| INTERVIEW | |
| Teresa Leo |
Breaking Silences: An Interview with Martín
Espada |
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| FICTION | |
| Jim Nichols | The Slow Monkeys
Winner of the 2000 Willamette Award in Fiction |
| Judith Slater | Chester, Resurrected |
| Osvaldo Sabino | Smoke and Steel: Three Tales for the End
of the Century |
| David Kranes | Walking Towards Boise |
| Clint McCown | Some Assembly Required |
| Christopher Meeks | Academy Award Afternoon and Evening |
| Stacy Thieszen | Riding |
| Catherine Brady | The Last of the True Believers |
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| POETRY | |
| Gaylord Brewer | Ode to Leonard Cohen and Yogi Berra
Winner of the 2000 Willamette Award in Poetry |
| Martín Espada |
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen |
| Virgil Suárez | Los Murcielagos/The Bats |
| | La Noche |
| Elton Glaser | Incompatibles in the Wild Light |
| JoAnne Reyes-Boitel | Everyday Mambo |
| Yvonne V. Sapia | What It is Like to be Gone |
| Bart Edelman | Your Father's Ghost |
| Kathleen Flenniken |
Elisabeth
Reads Poetry |
| Stella Johnston | Not a Step |
| | War Stories: Memorial Day: 1989 |
| Marilyn Johnston | Taking Count |
| Ruth Thompson | My Father Lived in Silence |
| Kate Gale | What I Did Not Tell Anyone |
| | Urban Gorillas |
| Heather Brittain Bergstrom | Geraniums
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| Peter Henry | What Follows: Self-Portrait, Palimpsest and
the Iamb "For Sure" |
| Anthony Russell White | Counting My Feathers |
| Susan Terris | States of Mind: A Meditation on Places I've
Never Been |
| Colette Inez | Documentary |
| | Double Tankas for Chiang Ching |
| Stephen Haven | Blossom |
| | Sun Wukong, Monkey King |
| | Ultrasound |
| James Hoggard |
Louisiana Dawn |
| Rob Whitbeck | The Night Work |
| | Flensberger Bahnhof |
| Brian Daldorph | Parnell's Daughter |
| | Young Molloy |
| g. anna sanchez | great serpent |
| Stephen Wallin | Spelunking the Skull |
| | After Thereafter |
| Christopher Howell | The Thirteenth Interval |
| Beth Ellen Anstandig | The Last Stop Disco |
| Sue Allspaw | Going to the Seal Rodeo |
| | What Happens During Whiteouts in
Antarctica |
| Jennifer Grotz | Mind of Winter |
| | The Heart |
| | The Air We Breathe |
| William Sheldon | Catching My Breath |
| | Fecund July |
| | After the Zoo |
| Miles Garrett Watson | What We Never Want |
| Rigoberto Gonzalez | Crooked Man |
| Ryan Van Cleave | Garbage Truck, Hearse Driver |
| Demetrice Anntía Worley | White Lines |
| Pearl Karrer | Baja Meditations |
| Roseann Lloyd | Santa Clara Convent, Antigua, Guatemala |
| Lois Rosen | Our Daily Bread |
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