• Letter from the Fiction Editor     Abigail Keller
• Poem I Would Rather Your Mother Not Read ‡     Christina Olson
• Buffalo: One Thousand Feet ‡     Christina Olson
• Dark Bars ‡     Christina Olson
• First Four ‡     Christina Olson
• The Why ‡     Christina Olson
• Little Known Fact Number One     Richard Garcia
• Tickling the Ivories     William Doreski
• Curtsy to the Drain Pipe     Kelly Boyker
• The 37th Secret Love Poem     Arlene Ang
• Jane: 9 June 1997     Morgan Harlow
• Caveat Emptor     Melody Sage
• Vanilla     L. J. Sysko
• Powers     Aaron Shulman
• After Montale     William Doreski
• Lives in Decline     Jayne Pupek
• Orpheus' Head, Still Singing     Brandi George
• No One     Richard Garcia
• letter to me at 22, from me at 52     Margaret Stawowy
• Relic     Arlene Ang
• Gravitational Lens     George Moore
• Their Eyes Were Open § VII     Anne Marie Macari
• Their Eyes Were Open § VIII     Anne Marie Macari
• S & R: 29 June 2000     Morgan Harlow
• Dinner Party     Jayne Pupek
• Thanksgiving Dinner in July     Joanne Edelmann
• lobelia     Nanette Rayman Rivera
• To the Light, Darkly     Ted Jonathan
• Ismene     Brandi George
• Sally: 30 November 2000 †     Morgan Harlow
• This dirty napkin     Arlene Ang

A dagger (†) indicates that the piece was featured on the cover.
A double-dagger (‡) indicates that the piece was selected as a winner of the annual Gerald Stern Poetry Prize. (only present in summer issues)