Volume Three

 

1996 QAE Prize in Prose, First Place
In the Belly of the Beast
Walter Bargen

1996 QAE Prize in Prose, Second Place
The Last Bunch
Jeff Goldstein

Right Now, As We Speak
Marilyn Krysl

Whining Prairie
A Story of Stonewall
Maureen Seaton

Doer
Clifford Browder

X-Rays
Corky
William Heyen

first time the construction worker came to the house
far side of the moon
signs of the times
Friedericke Mayröcker (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)

Throwing Stones at Mina
Joe Bonomo

Wild Pennies
Sleeping with the Words
Kathryn Stitt

A Last Letting Go
Sean Thomas Dougherty

Momming It Up With Sylvia Plath
Wendy Dutton

Damascus, March 23
Down to the simplest wire in the human voice
Monday, March 28, Private Dinner Hosted by Bohemian Syrian Writers and Dissidents
Diane Glancy

The Canonization of Madame Arce Saez
Randal Ford

Hank William�s First Vision of the Bhudda
Hieronymus Bosch Drinks from the Petri Dish
David Tomasovitch

Individuation
Haog Holmgren

Raw Nerve
Dion Farquhar

The Theory of Hooks
Little Corrie
Paul Christensen

Inlet
Simulcast
Donald Morrill

 

Spagryic Red
Clayton Eshleman

Wilderness and Witness
John Haines (interviewed by Matthew Cooperman)

Mistress Mary
Kika Bomer

If the Ground Would Open It Would Be Better
Jane C. Blue

an excerpt from Tiny Tales
Ben Miller

Maternity Ward
R. C. Ringer

Permission to Lie: #1
Lee Gutkind

Permission to Lie: #2
Fern Kupfer

What's to Light
Mary Kuryla

an excerpt from The Triumph of the Water Witch (Triumful Parudei)
Ioana Ieronim (translated by Adam J. Sorkin)

Cleaning Kill
Anne-Marie Oomen

an excerpt from The Ghost and the Woman in the Origami Village
Jim Elledge

Pater Noster
Peter Michelson

Two Prisoners
Late-Night TV
Steven Wingate

Looking Forward
Tsipi Keller

Windows: Of Shape and Consequences
Molly Tenebaum

The Loneliness of Art
Thomas David Lisk

Baseball and Poetry
Helen Ruggieri

The Fat of the Land
Peter Szatmary & Joseph McDade

Prepare a Photograph for Framing
My Father, from a Photograph
Shelia E. Murphy

Desperate for the Story
George Yatchisin

Baltic Days
Walter Bargen

Graham Swift and Me: A Reminiscence
John Lloyd Marsden