Preface
Acknowledgments
Memoir
How Books Changed My Life
Da Chen
Land Ho!
Laurence Carr
Water Babies (published in Chronogram)
Nina Shengold
The Perfect House (from A Place In the Country, Riverhead Books)
Laura Shaine Cunningham
Sandcastles
Werner Hengst
Short Story
Bones Like Ice
James P. Othmer
The 3-Mile Run
Anthony Robinson
Butterfly Kisses
Annecy Baez
Waterloo
Jacob Appel
Mision San Pablo (published in the LA Times Sunday magazine, West)
Steven Lewis
Raised Hearts Hailing: The Poems of Francis Eamon Boyle (1874—1900) (published in Shawangunk Review)
William Boyle
A Supermarket In Upstate New York: Shadowing Allen Ginsberg
Barbara Adams
Hell On Earth; Heaven Comes; Give Peace A Chance
Abigail Robin
Microfiction and Prose Poem
Stars
Roberta Allen
Anneka (published in KGB Bar Lit)
Roberta Allen
String Theory
Guy Reed
Love, Death, Etc. (published in Eclectica)
Howard Good
Imagine
R.E. Rigolino
The God of Falling Objects (published in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics)
Christine Boyka Kluge
The Woman With The Video Camera
Bruce Weber
Poetry: Hudson Valley Views
Swimming In The Hay Barn (from Hapax Legomena, Mellon Poetry Press)
Barbara Adams
The Laws of What Happens (The Lefevre farmhouse, Route 32 North)
Jacqueline Renée Ahl
The Carrion Eaters
David Appelbaum
Rite of Passage
David Appelbaum
Tree Watching
Brenda Connor-Bey
Spring Walks, Mountain Views (published in Thought)
James Finn Cotter
Farewell To Summer
Lynne Digby
Designs (from The Bad Man, Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press)
Dennis Doherty
Feet (from The Bad Man, Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press)
Dennis Doherty
Summer Stage in Winter
Allen C. Fischer
November Kill
Mala Hoffman
Woodstock Mornings
C.J. Krieger
My Hermit (published in Chronogram)
Robert Leaver
Carpentry & Gardening
Phillip Levine
Rt. 44/55 at night
Nadine Lewis
Autumn Vintage
Robert Milby
Sister Scarecrows — Cottekill Fire House Community Garden (published in Wisconsin Review)
Will Nixon
The Life of the Stag — Catskills (published in The Café Review)
Will Nixon
Heron
Jo Pitkin
Stone House
Jo Pitkin
The Dogs and I Walked Our Woods,
Gretchen Primack
Helping My Parents' Friends Get in Hay
Matthew J. Spireng
Brook
Matthew J. Spireng
Cutting the Oak
Matthew J. Spireng
Ulster Heights, New York
Christine Lilian Turczyn
The Boardwalk (from In The Salt Marsh, Knopf)
Nancy Williard
Poetry: Other Realms
Stargazing
Jay Albrecht
Mountain Laurel Children (published in Stonesthrow Review)
Kat Alexander
Sometimes A Buddha Poem
Jerrice Baptiste
Tapestry
Lucia Cherciu
Can the Cactus Know the Salamander
Samuel Claibourne
Magnificent
Suzanne Cleary
Goddess Gone Fishing
Teresa Marta Costa
Untenanted (from Anything You Don't See, West End Press)
Enid Dame
The Best Education (from SOMBER REUNION, Morning Star Press)
Alec Emerson
Villard de Honnecourt
Staats Fasoldt
The Concierge of Hell (published in Poetry Bay)
Howard Good
Sorrow's Rooms (published in The Rose and Thorn)
Howard Good
Paris: Where All Thursdays Go to Die; after "Black Stone Lying on a White Stone" by César Vallejo (published in The Cortland Review)
Anne Gorrick
Mad Evil Times
Sari Grandstaff
Something
Eamon Grennan
Innocence of Things
Eamon Grennan
I Give You Birth (published in Southern Poetry Review)
Carol Graser
The Weight of Snow
Don Haynie
Books
Mikhail Horowitz
Morgan
Mikhail Horowitz
Konghuin (a tune for the lyre)
translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl
Grieving for Yin Yao; Wang Wei (701-761 A.D.)
translated from the Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl
April 1968
Kate Hymes
The Seminar
Kate Hymes
Barrier Canyon Style (published in The Literary Gazette)
Mike Jurkovic
Cattle Map (published in The South Carolina Review)
Mike Jurkovic
The Skies In Their Mouths (published in The Bloomsbury Review)
Christine Boyka Kluge
Self-Improvement
Frank LaRonca
The Ginger Jar
Sharmagne Leland-St.John
Twilight (from Twilight, CRS Books)
Donald Lev
Scene from a Marriage (from Yesterday's News, Red Hill Outloudbooks)
Donald Lev
Autistic Superkid (published in Chronogram)
Brian Liston
What I Ate
Valerie Martin
You Found Her
Valerie Martin
Grand Central - Passing Through on the Way Home after a Long Day
Karen Neuberg
Shooting Star (published in AGNI)
Robert Polito
Three Horse Operas (published in AGNI)
Robert Polito
Freight Trains
Marilyn Reynolds
A Double Life (from My Night With the Language Thieves, Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press)
Tad Richards
Conception
Cheryl A. Rice
American Epitaphs
William Seaton
Boca de Tomatlan (published in The Telluride Watch)
William Seaton
The persistence of ashes (published in Front Range Review)
Kenneth Salzmann
My Mother's Owl Collection (published in Oxalis)
Judith Saunders
The Weaver
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
A Photograph of my Parents in the Catskills, Circa 1937 (published in Shawangunk Review)
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
3 Poems
Sparrow
Ascension (published in The Webster Review)
Margo Stever
Conversation with Bertolt Brecht (published in The New England Review)
Margo Stever
(excerpt from) THE BORROMEAN ISLANDS; For the Posse
H. R. Stoneback
Untitled
Christine Lilian Turczyn
Elements of Style
Pauline Uchmanowicz
Five-Minute Hamlet
Pauline Uchmanowicz
A Valentine in Green Pastures
Bob Wright
Japanese Coasters
Robert H. Waugh
Popinjay in the Japonica (published in Shawangunk Review)
Sarah Wyman
Author Biographies