2005
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
Udaipur
by Betsy Aaron
A Party of Widows
by Nin Andrews
Land, Sky, and Sea
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Bartók’s Bagpipes
by Ronald Frame
The Reception
by Nathan Hill
Anecdotal Spores: Progeria
by Matt Hughes
Anecdotal Spores: The Character Actor
by Matt Hughes
Anecdotal Spores: The Crazy Uncle
by Matt Hughes
Anecdotal Spores: The Lesson
by Matt Hughes
Anecdotal Spores: Walking on Words
by Matt Hughes
The Importance of Form in Sketching
The Portrait
by Krishangini
Chrome
Five Serrated Dreams
Work
Essays
Tobacco Road
To the New World and Back
What I Know, What I Don’t
Milosz, Simic, and the Mask of the Prodigal
Popeye Hemingway
by Dirk Leach
Cross Threaded
The Last Haircut
Weldon Kees & Robinson: Portraits in Absentia
by Jay Robinson
Poetry
Adjusting the Depth of Field
Standstill [Stagnation]
by Jan Lee Ande
Lingua
On the Bus
At the Shipping Port
by James Arthur
The Kitchen Weeps Onion
by James Arthur
Spring Lures
by Nicky Beer
Melodeon
by Lisa Beskin
Someone in Chicago
For the Makers
by Don Bogen
Adoration of the Easter Lamb
What Tolstoy and Paleopathologists Have in Common
from “The Myth of Photography”
by Rick Bursky
Sheds
The Snowfields at Lone Fountain
Rosy-Fingered Whatever
Tokyo: A Parable
Snakes and Ghosts
Visit to a Vietnamese Jail, 1953
When the Whole, As If Many, That Message
How Now Kowtow?
Masaccio’s The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Lyre
Letter from a New World: 1492
In Memoriam: Ginger
Great Basin
by Ian Harris
In Defense of Los Angeles
The Shape of Things
Self-Portrait as Amputation
12 Lines After Leadbelly
by Jason Labbe
Prayer
by Jason Labbe
Mum
After Uncle Fred Nearly Dies, We Send the Tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos
Basin Camp
Signs
Anubis
Standing Where the Colossus Stood
by Timothy Liu
Airing
The Swamp Trail
by Gail Mazur
The End
Heart Attack
by Tyler Meier
You Can See How the Waves
Bonsai I
by Bern Mulvey
Bonsai II
by Bern Mulvey
Longing for a sense of history
by Lynette Ng
Jubilate
The Cut of Diamonds
by Liza Porter
How to Use a Single-Lens Reflex
by Mary Quade
It has nothing of its own, but seizes hold on everything.
A Kind of Camera
Mandarin Peach
Two Views of Performance Budgeting
Portal
by Rob Schlegel
Feast of the Trumpets, Warsaw, 1884
by Floyd Skloot
Superstition
Afternoon 1
Afternoon 3
Dry Lake, Nevada, 1983
Positive
Reentry
Eight Count
Movements
The Evening Shows
Conversations
On Language and Embracing Failure as a Writer: An Interview with Ha Jin
Notes Toward a New Duty Now for the Future: An Interview with Thomas Sayers Ellis