| Jeff Knorr & Tim Schell | Introduction |
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| ESSAYS | |
| Shaun T. Griffin | We Refuse to Let Frost His Fence But Have We
Not a Poetry to Keep? |
| Eileen Tabios | Indran Amirthanayagam Salvages History
Through Poetry |
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| FICTION | |
| Valerie Miner | Chapter 21 from Range of Light |
| Elaine Winer | Summer's End Co-Winner of the 1998 Spring Fiction Contest |
| Mark Andres | Who's Up Next |
| Andrea Masters | The Dancer Co-Winner of the 1998 Spring Fiction Contest |
| Carol Johnson | Flowers for Vada |
| Philip Heldrich | Vocation |
| H. Lee Barnes | Stonehands and the Tigress |
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| POETRY | |
| Vern Rutsala | Thieves |
| | The Muse in a Holding Pattern |
| | Deceptions |
| Theresa Ford | Growing Pains |
| | Rock of Ages |
| Sean Thomas Dougherty | An Iron Spiral |
| | Days of 1984 |
| | On a Winter Night a Thousand Years Deep |
| Thom Ward | What I Like About the Fog |
| | After the Haying |
| | As This is Our Century |
| Michele Glazer | For Sale |
| | What the "Wolf Boy" Doesn't Say |
| Tim Barnes | Winter Text |
| Stephen Herz | Don't Touch |
| Paul Willis | Hot Springs Trail |
| Beckian Fritz Goldberg | Aromatic |
| | The Bluest Movie |
| | Blown |
| Jonathan Vaile | Headline: Boys' Room |
| Gerry LaFemina | The Translation of Want |
| Scott Withiam | And So It Will Be |
| Judith Barrington | Horses and the Human Soul Winner of the 1998 Spring Poetry Contest |
| Jack Martin | Lauren's Wedding Dress |
| Elizabeth Knight | Rachel and The Album of Horses |
| Steven Sher | At the Willamette River |
| | My Father's Cheek |
| Kevin Stein | Inheritance |
| | Rhetoric |
| Allen Braden | Common Field Crane |
| | Listening as Long as Your Credit is Good |
| Linda Elegant | Baker's Pond |
| Peter Johnson | The Apprentice |
| Erik Muller | Your Road to Fort Rock |
| Simon Perchik | 215 |
| Judith H. Montgomery | At the Metolius River, We Walk in
Falling Snow |
| Floyd Skloot | Bedridden |
| Jane Taylor | The Tall Grass Prairie |
| Jana Harris |
The Inclement Weather of the Heart |
| | Lesson Three: Total Eclipse of the Sun |
| Walt McDonald | One Summer Before the War |
| | Fencing the Hardpan |