Tom Dowe 21 Legitimation Crisis

Bliss Broyard 22 Snowed In

Emily Carter 43 Hampden City

Steve Malkmus 46 Bennington College Rap

Matthew Milford 47 Civil Servants

David Berman 56 Two Poems

Ryan Kenealy 60 Yellow and Maroon

Diane Mehta 71 Rezoning in Brooklyn

Hal Sirowitz 73 Chicken Pox and Other Stories

Will Oldham 78 Untitled

Sam Lipsyte 79 Old Soul

Victor Pelevin 95 Who By Fire

Elizabeth Macklin 107 Two Poems

Howell Davies 116 The House Where I Was Born

Jimmy Raskin 120 The Diagram and the Poet

Joseph Salvatore 127 Practice Problem

Peter Henry 136 Thrift

Mary Gaitskill 137 The Rubbed Away Girl