• Western Wind by Joseph Somoza
• dream poem: the tightrope walkers by Bill Jones
• 3220 by Jody Ellen Nusholtz
• The Latest Knowledge by Sam Schmidt
• Traps by Gary Blankenburg
• On the First of November by Agnes Osinski

Poems from issue #16: The Min‡s Konsolas Issue

• For My Daughter by L.L. Ollivier
• Cardiology by L.L. Ollivier
• Divorce by Julia Wendell
• January Heart by Kendra Kopelke
• On a Clear Cold Night by Dan Cuddy

Winners of the 1998 Michael Egan Poetry Contest

• The B.H.E.L Vegetable Market by Usha Akella
• Whistle-Bird On A String by June Owens
• Hunger by Bryan Walpert

Winners of the 1997 Michael Egan Poetry Contest

• Marshall Island, Penobscot Bay, 1995 by Douglas Heinrichs
• The Unborn by Tillie Friedenberg
• In the Poem I Am Writing by Meredith Males
• Tipsy by Steven C. Cunningham

Excerpts from reviews in MPR

• One Women's Poetry
  A review of Josephine Jacobsen, The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, And Occasional Prose, Elizabeth Spires, ed., The University of Michigan Press, 1997, 208 pages, $29.95.
  Reviewed by Rosemary Klein
• We Need Not Travel Far To Be In Foreign Parts
  A review of In Foreign Parts, arts & stories by Elizabeth Stevens, 120 pages, Birch Brook Press, PO Box 81, Delhi, NY, 13753, $18.
  Reviewed by Del Marbrook
• Lighter Than Air
  A review of Sojourner, So to Speak by Joseph Somoza, La ALAMEDA Press, 1998, 98 pages, $12.
  Reviewed by Michael Fallon

Read a Statement by Artist Irene Liotis