Craig Lesley	Introduction
ESSAYS
Ron Carlson	The Shopping Bag: Using My Notes
Melissa Pritchard	From the Deep South to the Desert Southwest
FICTION
H. Lee Barnes	A Lovely Day in the A Shau Valley Winner of the 1997 Spring Fiction Contest
James Manuel	The Stuffed Dog Man
Robert Stubblefield	Lateral Moves
Mat Coffey	A Place in the Trees
POETRY
Naomi Shihab Nye	My Friend's Divorce
	Keep Driving
	Why the Silence Still Hangs Over Eastern Oregon
Verlena Orr	Break in the Cloud Cover Winner of the 1997 Spring Poetry Contest
Walt McDonald	Boys and Collie Dogs
Paul Morris	Landscape with Ocean
	Listening to Early Duke Ellington
Gary Thompson	Precious Days
	God's Interest
Amanda Kaplan	First Words
Thomas R. Smith	Questions on the Road at Sunset
	The Painted Turtle
Paul Berg	Humpback
Pamela Uschuck	The Night My Father Became an Aborigine
Edward Dougherty	Cemetery
John Bradley	Trophies of War
Dan Raphael	If It's Summer All Around Me
M.J. Iuppa	Sometimes the Atmosphere Closes In
Eileen Tabios	Auguste Rodin's "The Three Shades"
Gregory Sellers	What the Wind Says
	Death Rattle
Pamela Rice Porter	Georgetown, Guyana and the Moments Musicaux
Paulann Petersen	Architecture
	Beginning with And
George Kalamaras	And the Music Comes