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Volume 32, Numbers 1 & 2

Volume 31, Numbers 1 & 2

Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2

"With My Last 20 Dollars" by Donavon Campbell
"Twice Möbius" by Salvatore Attardo
"Playing for Rabbits" by T. Alan Broughton



 

"Wren" by Michael D. Riley
"Nos Pinokia" by Ewa Chrusciel
(with English Translation)

"The Horatio Alger Story" by Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
 (This version contains an important footnote [2] inadvertently left out of the print edition)
 

Volume 29, Numbers 1 & 2

Volume 28, Numbers 1 & 2

"For The Hell Of It" by John Hodgen
"Laundry" by Cynthia Snow
"Katie and the Poet" by Curt Curtin

"For The Man Who Practices His Saxophone In The Apartment Next Door On Sunday Nights" by Tom Fitzgerald
"My Father at the Bone Factory" by William Neumire
"Across the Street" by Denise Bergman

Volume 27, Numbers 1 & 2

Volume 26, Numbers 1 & 2

"Mary Walks on Water" by Jackie Bartley
"The Wake" by Allison Baker
"A Walk-Off Home Run" by Theodore Deppe

"Touching the Earth" by Fred Ferraris
"Letter to SPC Elycia Fine, Outside Baghdad" by J. Allen Hall
"Requiem for Remembrance" by Frank Miller

Volume 25, Numbers 1 & 2

Volume 24, Numbers 1 & 2

"Irish History Explained in 16 Lines" by Jack McCarthy
"PO Problema" by Fred Yannantuono

"Love" by Michele Wyrebek
"Filling My Pen For Action" by Sam Hazo
"Letter to a Son at War" by Robert Duffy

Volume 23, Number 1

Volume 23, Number 2

Elegy for Denise Levertov

"A Branch of Beach Plum" by Donald W. Baker
"Pulling in the Mirrors" by Jim Daniels
"Ab irata" by Linda Warren

Volume 22, Number 2

Volume 21

"I Owe My Dog Everything" by Peter Harris  
"Icarus" by Brenda J. Cook

"Dust Bowl" by Lee Price
"1924" by Juli Nunlist
 

Volume 20

Volume 19

"Calling" by Mary Fell 
"Recoil" by Dan Lewis
"Dying in Massachusetts" by Donald Baker

"Song for Natalie" by Jonathan Blake
"Near Firenze" by Kathy Solomon
"True Love" by Donald W. Baker

Volume 18

Volume 17

"Motorcycle Prayer VIII" by Michael Hood
"March 10" by Carol Miller Beaudoin

"Today in Bosnia" by Peter Bakowski 
"Life is difficult, part one" by Peter Bakowski 
"The Naming of Rachel" by Shayne Heather Beschta

Volume 16

Volume 15

"Cow-Kisses, Confessions, Calamine"  by Catherine Hartzel  
"Baskile ak Raj" (along with its English translation by Patrick Sylvain)

"Chain-Gang Sonnet" by V. Penelope Pelizzon 
"Boys and the Wars They Train For" by Walter McDonald

Volume 13

Volume 10

"Griechenland" by Friendrich Hoelderlin
( translated by Francis Golffing in German and English) 

"Alma Johanna Koenig" by Johannes Bobrowski
( translated by Francis Golffing in German and English) 

"Search Patterns" by Donald Baker 
"O These Notes" by Dieter Weslowski 
"On Castle Street After Work" by Jonathan Blake

4 poems by Chinese poets which were first translated into English, and then polished by one of TWR editors. The Chinese calligraphy and English translation are located side by side on the page.