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 |