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Volume 37, Issue 2--Summer 2002


Cover design by Louis Ocepek


 
Poetry
Jim Sagel/Red Crane Award Winner
Essays
Fiction
Novel Supplement
The AWP Journals Project: Poetry, Fiction, Essays
Reviews

 PoetryTop 
Elisabeth MurawskiOn Hearing a Lecture on Stars
Jay HoplerThe Frustrated Angel: Conversation No. 1
Jacquelyn PopeBenediction
Kevin A. GonzálezNoche de Bohemia Frente al Mar
Maria McLeodThe B of Betrayal
Ralph Tejeda WilsonGray Stone Upon a Gray Stone
Patrick BizzaroThe Man in the Tree
Joseph O. LegaspiPoem for my Navel
Scott Topper

Educatonal Thursdays

Getting Away

Alan BrittWooden Gate
Priscilla AtkinsA Farewell to Stairs
Amy BeederFrom Vacant Lots, Flowers...

Michelle Vessel

Vacation

Mary

Kaia Sandfrom Progeny
Carolyn HembreeA Couple of Odes on Her
Maureen ClarkTwo-way Radio
Del Marie RogersBlack Cat
Lyn LifshinNow You've Spent a Whole Month in the Ground
BJ WardGravedigger's Birthday
Matt Robinsona winter's affection; radiomimetic
Bruna Moricricket punch, endless

Francisco Aragón

translated by Francisco Aragón

Alaska
Sharon KrausOn my way home from teaching
Athena O. KildegaardExchange
Denisa ComanescuUn Copil
translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Irma GiannettiA Child
Tom DvorskeMathematical
 Jim Sagel/Red Crane Award WinnerTop 
Lisa Lenardexcerpt from Dissonance
 EssaysTop
Antonio LópezXeroxing Culture, Erasing History: The Problem with "Hispanic" Identity and Art in Northern New Mexico
 Marilyn Abildskov Skin That Leads to Private Parts
 Konnie W. AndrewsDesert Rains
Mark KrewatchMouth at Each End
Tom Montgomery-FateSteady and Trembling
Ken LambertonExiles
Cynthia Medford LangleyHope
 FictionTop 
Valerie Miner Greyhound, 1970
Manuel MuñozThe Third Myth
David BorofkaSunday Morning
Duane NiatumYoung Woman Marries a Killer Whale (Qualu-ma-chin)
Tracey Miller GearySting
Alyce MillerShe
Paul F. WolfVotive Candles
Joy CastroOther Women's Jewels
B.A. St. AndrewsThe Troubles Incarnate
Zoe MulleryThe Apology

 Amy Stuber

Your Old Used to Be

Maureen Aitken

Rise
 Novel SupplementTop 

Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón

translated by Beth Pollack

Windward
 The AWP Intro Journals ProjectTop 
Poetry
Samuel Van HorneMalaekahana Beach
Scott A. HeflinThe Flower Carrier: (Diego Riviera's Cargador de Flores)
Elaine FarrugiaA July Night on Hida Street in the Village of Nadur in Malta, Where My Mother Grew UP
Matt AndersonPassages
Alexandra TeagueNotes from the Twelfth Week, May 1676
 Fiction 
Pedro PonceMr. Coleridge
Tyler DiltsThug: Signification and the (De)Construction of Self
Essays 
Glen RetiefThe Chameleon's Home Country
Michele Finn ItellThe Saints and Sinners of St. Pius X
 ReviewsTop 
Gene FrumkinNew Mexico Duende: review of Working on my Duende by Todd Moore
H. Lee BarnesA Ladder Bridge of Time Built over an Estuary: review of Fair Haven by Vivian Shipley