“An Insider’s Guide to Jailhouse Cuisine: Dining In” by Sean Rowe, from Oxford American, issue 61. Copyright © 2008 by Sean Rowe. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Literary Murder” by Julianna Baggott, from Cincinnati Review, 4.1, Summer 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Julianna Baggott. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Rock Dust” by Stan Badgett, from Minnetonka Review, Winter 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Stan Badgett. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Show, Don’t Tell” by John Griswold, from InsideHigherEd.com, July 29, 2007. Copyright © 2007 by John Griswold. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Rope Swing, the Swastika, the Oldest Whale I Know” by Scott Black from Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Spring/Summer 2007, 5.1. Copyright © 2007 by Scott Black. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Table of Figures” by Brenda Miller, from Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Brenda Miller. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Okahandja Lessons” by Emily Rapp, from Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Emily Rapp. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“No Other Joy” by Christina Olson, from dbdsn (steenablog.blogspot.com), January 25, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Christina Olson. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“First Year” by Laura Bramon Good, from Image: Art, Faith, Mystery. Copyright © 2008 by Laura Bramon Good. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Letter from a Japanese Crematorium” by Marie Mutsuki Mockett, from AGNI, issue 65, 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Irene Skolnick Agency. Reprinted by permission of Irene Skolnick Literary Agency.
“Uncle Moïse” by Edwidge Danticat. First published in PMS poemmemoirstory and reprinted by permission of Edwidge Danticat and Aragi Inc. Copyright © 2008 by Edwidge Danticat.
“The Face of Seung-Hui Cho” by Wesley Yang, from n+1, no. 6, Winter 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Wesley Yang. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The True Import of Present Dialogue, Black vs. Negro” by Nikki Giovanni, from Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment. Copyright © 1968, 1970 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers William Morrow.
“The Poet’s Mother’s Deathbed Conversion” by Jeffrey Ethan Lee, from jeffreyethanlee.blogspot.com, June 28, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Jeffrey Ethan Lee. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Storyteller” by Jay Lewenstein, from planetmexicali.squarespace.com, September 29, 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Jay Lewenstein. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Lavish Dwarf Entertainment” by Alice Dreger, from the Hastings Center Report, March 25, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Alice Dreger. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Chicago Transit Priority” by Matt Wood, from wood-tang.com, July 7, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Matt Wood. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Grasshopper” by Margaret Conway, from Cimarron Review, Issue 164, Summer 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Margaret Conway. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“What Comes Out” by Dawnelle Wilkie, from The Truth About the Fact: An International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, vol. 3, no. 1. Copyright © 2008 by Dawnelle Wilkie. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“(names have been changed)” by Aislinn Doyle, from steal your imagination (web.mac.com/irishdoyle), September 19, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Aislinn Doyle. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Community College” by Tim Bascom, from Witness, vol. XXI, 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Tim Bascom. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Cantata 147: The Final Chorale” by Amy Andrews. Copyright © 2009 by Amy Andrews.
“I Can’t Answer” by Michael Copperman, from Spade’s a Spade, or The Burden of Being Right (open.salon.com), September 23, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Copperman. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“An Open Letter” by Kathy Rhodes, from First Draft: Laying Down the Words (kathyrhodes.wordpress.com), August 3, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Kathy Rhodes. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Perfunctory Affair” by Chris Cobb, from The Believer, no. 52, March/April 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Chris Cobb. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Return to Hayneville” by Gregory Orr, from Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Gregory Orr. Reprinted by permission of the author.