| Jeff Knorr & Tim Schell | Introduction |
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| ESSAYS | |
| Carol Sklenicka | Looking for Raymond Carver's Birthplace |
| Ann Copeland | Reading on Water: Reflections |
| Tracy Daugherty | Amarillo |
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| FICTION | |
| Betsy Kulamer | India in a Plague Year |
| Scott Muskin | A Brief History of Species Unknown |
| Martha Gies | To the River |
| Tina Egnoski | What I Saw on the Corner of Guava
and Aurora |
| Ayse Papatya Bucak | Things To Do |
| H. Lee Barnes | Tunnel Rat |
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| POETRY | |
| James Hoggard | Remarks on Translation |
| Oscar Hahn | Litany for a Dead Poet |
| | Rocking Chair |
| | Sigmund Freud Under Hypnosis |
| | At the Nudist Beach of the Unconscious |
| Osvaldo R. Sabino | This Candle Burns |
| | Chameleon Posing with a Passport |
| | Incomprehension of the Interior Landscape |
| | She's Afraid and Believes in her Dreams |
| Pat Cason | Needles and Fronds |
| | Leaving Oregon |
| Douglas Spangle | Tourists |
| | Twenty Below |
| Stephen Herz | Irene Opdyke's Story |
| | Splitting |
| David Axelrod | The Day Stafford Died |
| | Tracking a Mule Deer |
| Ron McFarland | At the Salmon River Cafe |
| Steven Sher | At the Luckiamute River |
| | An End to Winter, Western Oregon |
| Elizabeth Knight | The Last Chapter in the Book of Winter |
| Stephen Dobyns | Old What's-His-Name |
| | Great Job |
| | One Good Turn Deserves Another |
| Theresa Pappas | Whistle |
| Scott Withiam | What It Is |
| Madeline DeFrees | Widows Riding Amtrak |
| | The Maid at the Hotel Doubletree |
| | On Western Avenue behind a Horse-and-Buggy
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| Ruth Kocher | Vicinity |
| | Fire Walking |
| | 33 |
| Fernand Roqueplan | Prayer For Vicente |
| Chris Howell | The Montavilla Reveries |
| | Storm |
| | Sailing Away |
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| REVIEW | |
| Diane Averill | The Effigies by Robert Hill Long
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