Editors Note
First Time in Print
James M. Bleifus: Mr. Chicago (story)
Kishore Chakravorty: Border (story)
William Kwong: The Unveiling (story)
Nonfiction
Abeer Hoque: Ironed Blue Sky, 88°
Jack Marshall: From Baghdad to Brooklyn
Eve Pell: Deus, Amici, Et Nos
Poetry
Rebecca Hoogs: Spring Grist
Paul Manuel López: Go, Nijinsky, Go
Adrienne Rich: Ritual Acts
Maxine Scates: Vice
Mark Yakich: Brilliant Pebbles
Translation
Hiromi Kawakami: The Kitchen God
translated by Lawrence Rogers
Works on Paper Originally in B&W
Richard Barnes, Gregory Edwards, Charles Guildner, Eirik Johnson, Stefan Kirkeby
Wayne Levin, Zhi Lin, E. Breck Parkman, J. John Priola, Bathsheva Veghte, David Verba
Henry Wessel, Harry Wilson, Albert Winn
Cover Image
Christopher Brown, Sea of Oh, 2001, soapground, spitbite, aquatint, and softground etching
with drypoint, roulette, scrape and burnish, 36 x 27 1/4 inches, courtesy: Paulson Press, Berkeley