Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1995 -- Nicole Brossard -- Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering -- Gerry Shikatani -- Mezquita -- Who Notes: A Particular Pronoun, A Responsibility -- Claire Harris -- Jane In Summer -- Kay In Summer -- Dannabang Kuwabong -- The Guns Of Kigali Are Silent -- Wendy Agnew -- How To Make Love To An Angel -- from The Lillian Lectures -- Matthew Remski -- from dying for veronica -- Patricia Seaman -- from Super Nevada -- Stuart Ross -- Around The Building -- Velvet Curtains -- Eileen O'Toole -- Florist -- Sam's -- Jaymz Bee -- Clint East Woody Allen Alda -- André Alexis -- Pierrot -- Elise Levine -- True Romance -- Untitled, artist's collection -- This Is It -- John Barlow -- The Happy Idea -- 1994 -- Bill Kennedy -- from Apostrophe -- Nancy Bullis -- Linseed Oil -- Death Waits -- Breaking Skin -- Goldfish Loves Wolf -- Lise Downe -- Déja Déja Vu -- Weather I -- Rafael Barreto-Rivera -- from Shredded What: a Whitman Serial -- M. Nourbese Philip -- Discourse On The Logic Of Language -- Nino Ricci -- from I am Salman Rushdie -- Karen Mac Cormack -- Some Miles Asunder -- Al Purdy -- At the Quinte Hotel -- My Grandfather's Country -- Susan Musgrave -- Out Of Time -- Arctic Poppies -- Water Music -- Holy Ground -- Mac McArthur -- We Sat In Open Fields -- Nancy Dembowski -- Mirror Writing -- Borders -- Ghosts -- Steve McCaffery -- Novel 39 -- from Teachable Texts -- K As In Sleep -- Sonja Mills -- I Am So Fat -- Leon Rooke -- Sweethearts -- Stan Rogal -- Personations 21 -- Dark Horses -- Tricia Postle -- Today I'm Going To Be A Man -- Commentary -- Clifton Joseph -- (I Remember) Back Home -- R.M. Vaughan -- Requiem from a Heady Height -- 1993 -- Yves Troendle -- Dead Givaway (re: Robert Rauschenberg) -- Adeena Karasick -- Floruit Retinue -- Christopher Dewdney -- The Clouds -- The Fossil Forest of Axel Heiberg -- Vigilance.

Roo Borson -- Summer Cloud -- The Limits Of Knowledge, Tilton School, New Hampshire -- Steven Heighton -- Nakunaru -- The Ecstasy of Skeptics -- Peter McPhee -- Why The Stegosaurus Is My Favourite Dinosaur -- Barbara Gowdy -- Resurrection (1969) -- michael holmes -- from 21 Hotels -- Christian Bök -- from Crystallization -- Christine Slater -- from The Small Matter Of Getting There -- Paul Dutton -- Kit-Talk -- Shy Thought -- Bark -- Lea Harper -- Weekend Indians -- Birth -- Sky Gilbert -- Why This Poem Is Not Anything Like Broccoli -- Breakfast In Key West -- Lynn Crosbie -- Pearl -- David Donnell -- What's So Easy About 17? -- bill bissett -- i was driving in 2 hundrid mile hous in th karibu northern bc -- who has seen th defisit -- let th watr sit 4 a day n th chloreen evaporates -- Biographies -- Acknowledgements.