30.1 | FALL/WINTER 2003

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Dan Kaplan                               MANAGING EDITOR: Aaron Welborn

FICTION EDITOR: Jennifer Gravley        POETRY EDITOR: Braden Welborn

DESIGN EDITOR: Daniel Urban

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Michael Aaij, Kimberly Campanello, Tim Croft, Heather Duerre, Kate Eaton, Sylvia Elliott, Seffen Guenzel, Laura Hendrix, Sean Hoade, Jill Holtz, Paul G. Johnston, Vincent Masterson, Jennifer Pemberton, Jane Sandor, Hugh Sheehy, Cayenne Sullivan, Tara Tyson, Daniel Urban, Kevin Waltman

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Jim Bassett, Kimberly Campanello, Lauren Goodwin, Elizabeth Hogan, Jessica Kidd, Nathan Parker, Jennifer Pemberton, John Pursley III, Daniel Urban, Andrew Wollard

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Sam Harden, Laura Hendrix, Ashley McWaters, Andrew Wollard

FICTION

Allison Amend: The World Tastes Good

Judy Budnitz: Visitors

Matt Burriesci: Knowing William DeSoto: An Interlude for You!

Carrie Hoffman: The Dentist

Wayne Johnson: Meeting Mr. Donatello

Jim Ruland: The Previous Adventures of Popeye the Sailor

Elizabeth Wetmore: How to Lose 30 lbs. in 30 Days!

NONFICTION

Joan Connor: Bone Key

POETRY

Eric Burger: Too Warm for Pants

Chris Cunningham: ’89 Class Notes

Darcie Dennigan: Florid Gestures at Flo’s Grille

Gina Franco: The Earth Without

Tony Friedhoff: Spontaneously Generated Farmer

Dennis Hinrichsen: Fragment

Alison Hoffman: Sleep Study

Alison Pelegrin: Li Po at the Crawfish Boil

Donald Platt: After

Tomaž  Šalamun: Form, Don’t Rush, Begin to Gape Again  |  [again the roads are silent, dark places]

Larissa Szporluk: Mother-of-Pearl Clouds  |  Mr. Punishment  |  Neuro-surgeon 

Tony Tost: [My twin died at birth.]

G.C. Waldrep: Confessions of the Mouse King

Nicole Walker: Scandal 

Lissa Warren: Pigeons in Sleet 

FEATURE

Interviews: The Lives of the Poets

Beth Ann Fennelly  |  Loren Goodman  |  Arielle Greenberg

Joanie Mackowski  |  Aimee Nezhukumatathil  |  Kathleen Ossip

Michael Teig  |  Jonah Winter

ART

Mr. Hooper: The Eavesdropper (cover)

CHAPBOOK

Paisley Rekdal: The Invention of the Kaleidoscope