Editor's Notes

Robin Hemley

49th Parallel Award

George O'Connell, Evening Cremations

Tobias Wolff Award

Susan Williams, Maggie

Annie Dillard Award

Elmar Lueth, Houses

Essays

Billy Collins, The Secret Game of Poetry

Brenda Bell, Ollie May

Kim Todd, Starling

Poetry

Roz Spafford, Equation

Susan Kolodny, Brontosaurus Mechanicus

George O'Connell, MRI

Jane Mead, from Several Scenes in Search of the Same Explosion

Reginald Shepherd, Invisible

Reginald Shepherd, Primavera

Jennifer Atkinson, St. Veronica's Day

Billy Collins, Glass

Billy Collins, By the Strait of Jaun de Fuca

Lisa Russ Spaar, Creche

Fiction

David Borofka, Nessun Dorma

Review

Misti Williams, Keith Abbott: The First THing Coming

Contributors