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