Issue #1 Released June 2005

Dwelling by Christine Hoffmann

Excerpt from Simon City by Frank Mort Jr.

El Camino by Aaron Michael Morales

Story I Was Telling a Downtown Audience a Couple Years Ago by Don De Grazia

Character in Nonfiction by Sara Levine

Marvin Tate interviews Iowa's first Poet Laureate Marvin Bell

City, This City by Bill Hillmann

blue / marriage by Della Watson

Unwound / Dutch Troops by Joel Craig

four colored pen / what to do with a fingernail after you've bitten it off / portrait / polaroids / snow men by Marvin Tate

Managna, January 1988 / You Never Know / Poseur / Poem Post 9/11/01: Eastern Long Island by Marvin Bell

Studies of Normal Human Brains / As far as we go by Steffi Drewes

Still Life: Loyola Park by Angela Just

issue #1 cover by Alfonso Nieves

issue #1 cover by Johnathan Crawford