First Time in Print
Heather Angier: Idiopathic (poem)
Thom Gorman: A Trick I Played (poem)
Alvaro Huerta: La Pistola (memoir)
Edward Mycue: Group Portrait (social history)
Briandaniel Oglesby: Family Kleenex (story)
Doug Rice: Remains of (a Prayer for) Kathy Acker (memoir)
Fiction
Roger D. Coleman: Alien Fusion
Tori Malcangio: Coveting Stucco
Eireene Nealand: When Hitler Gave Stalin a Porcelain Doll
Naomi Williams: Sunday School
Laurence Yep: The Chinese Teacher
Nonfiction
Jeffrey Higa: Wooing Elizabeth
Poetry
Amaranth Borsuk: To Death (The Pine-Eater)
Kate Evans: I Have No
Michael McClure: Nine Elephants
Verónica Reyes: Cholo Lessons por Vida
Matt Schumacher: The Fire
Bucky Sinister: Mistaken Identity
.........................What the Dot-com Years Did
..........................Such a Heavenly Way to Die
..........................Yesterday's Vatos
Works on Paper Originally in B&W
Juan Alonso, Alika Cooper, Paz de la Calzada, Blaine Ellis, Kevin Fletcher, Mitchell Friedman, Jim Goldberg, Merideth Grierson, Paul Kos, Evelyn Lam, Chad Moore, Chris Oatey, David Rathman, Zachary Royer Scholz, Dean Smith, Elisabeth Sunday, Taravat Talepasand, Tara Tucker, William T. Wiley
Covers
Front: Sandow Birk,The Riddle of the Sphynx (after Ingres"Oedipus and the Sphynx"), 2007, acrylic and oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, courtesy: Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Back: Adam Forfang, Feeding Time, 2007, oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches, courtesy: John Pence Gallery, San Francisco