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Sacks, Oliver,
--The Case of Anna H., October 7, 2002. (loss of reading comprehension)
Salinger, J. D., (1919- )
--A Perfect Day for Bananafish, January 31, 1948.
--Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, 1953.
--Just Before the War with the Eskimos, 1953.
--The Laughing Man, 1953.
--For Esmé - With Love and Squalor, 1953.
--Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, 1953.
--Teddy, 1953.
Salter, James,
--Last Night, November 18, 2002.
Salter, Mary Jo,
--A Leak Somewhere, July 27, 1998. (poem)
--Mr. X, February 22 & March 1, 1999. * (poem)
--Deliveries Only, August 20 & August 27, 2001. * (poem)
--Peonies, December 16, 2002. (poem)
Saunders, George,
--Winky, July 28, 1997.
--Sea Oak, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999.
--I CAN SPEAK!TM, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
--The Barber's Unhappiness, December 20, 1999.
--Pastoralia, April 3, 2000.
--Johnny Tremain, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (article)
--My Flamboyant Grandson, January 28, 2002.
--Jon, January 27, 2003.
Schickler, David,
--The Smoker, June 19 & June 26, 2000.
--Jamaica, January 7, 2002.
--Wes Amerigo's Greatest Fear, March 17, 2003.
Schjeldahl, Peter,
--The Sphinx, April 16, 2001. (article about Vermeer)
--Warhol in Bloom, March 11, 2002. (article about Warhol and the Tate Modern)
--French Postcards, July 29, 2002. (article about Gauguin and the Met)
--Hitler in Vienna, August 19 & 26, 2002. * (article about Hitler, the artist)
Schlink, Bernhard,
--Girl with Lizard, August 6, 2001.
Schultz, Philip,
--The Displaced, October 16 & 23, 2000. (poem)
--On First Hearing of Your Conception, September 13, 2000. (poem)
--The Silence, March 5, 2001. (poem)
--Free Mercy, January 21, 2002. (poem)
--The Truth, March 10, 2003. (poem)
Schuyler, James,
--Along Overgrown Paths, April 24 & May 1, 2000. (poem)
Seabrook, John,
--Letter from Skywalker Ranch: Why Is the Force Still with Us? January 6, 1997. (article)
--The Tree of Me, March 26, 2001. (article on DNA and genealogy)
--The Tower Builder, November 19, 2001. (article on the World Trade Center and Leslie E. Robertson)
--The Slow Lane, September 2, 2002. (article on traffic)
Sebald, W. G.,
--Dark Night Sallies Forth, June 17 & 24, 2002. (poem)
Sedaris, David,
--Who's the Chef? March 10, 2003. (short short)
Segal, Lore,
--The Reverse Bug, May 1, 1989. O. Henry: Third Prize
Seibold, J. Otto,
--Work Station, Play Station, December 6, 1999. (cover art)
Seidel, Frederick,
--Chiquita Gregory, April 16, 2001. (poem)
Seidman, Hugh,
--Macy's Elegy, April 22 & 29, 2002. (poem)
Semanski, David,
--Night, June 18 & 25, 2001. (poem)
Sempé, J. J,
--Intrepid, April 8, 2002.
--Scherzo, October 28, 2002. * (cover art)
--Silence of the Night, January 6, 2003. * (cover art)
Seshadri, Vijay,
--Locus Solus, March 11, 1996. (poem)
--The Scholar, December 2, 1996. (poem)
--The Disappearances, October 8, 2001. * (poem)
--The Long Meadow, June, 10, 2002. * (poem)
Seuss, Dr.,
--see Art, Spiegelman, July 12, 1999. (article)
Shanahan, Danny,
--Freudian Slapstick, November 11, 2002. (cover art)
Sharma, Akhil,
--Prosperity, June 19 & June 26, 2000.
--Surrounded by Sheep, December 10, 2001.
Shattuck, Jessica,
--Bodies, September 30, 2002.
Sheehan, Susan,
--Envelope Art: Letters from Edward Gorey, July 8, 2002. (album)
Shepard, Sam,
--An Unfair Question, March 11, 2002.
Shteyngart, Gary,
--Shylock on the Neva, September 2, 2002.
Silver, Marisa,
--The Passenger, June 19 & June 26, 2000.
--What I Saw from Where I Stood, October 30, 2000.
--Gunsmoke, June 4, 2001.
Simic, Charles,
--Odd Sympathies, October 26-November 2, 1998. (poem)
--Private Eye, April 5, 1999. (poem)
--The One to Worry About, December 13, 1999. (poem)
--The Secret of the Yellow Room, December 20, 1999. (poem)
--Dog on a Chain, March 6, 2000. (poem)
--Roadside Stand, July 24, 2000. (poem)
--Street of Jewelers, October 16 & 23, 2000. (poem)
--To the One Tunnelling, January 15, 2001. (poem)
--Gray-Headed Schoolchildren, July 16, 2001. (poem)
--The Secret Doctrine, January 7, 2002. (poem)
--Late September, September 16, 2002. (poem)
Simon, Maurya,
--Alone, September 6, 1999. (poem)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, (1904-1991)
--The Safe Deposit, 1980. *
--Burial at Sea,
--Disguised,
--The House Friend,
--The Recluse,
--Two Stories: He Wants Forgiveness from Her & A Guest in the Shtibl, August 21 & August 28, 2999.
Singer, Mark,
--Court Buff, December 15, 1980. (Profile of Benjamin Shine)
--What Are You Afraid Of? (on Stephen King), September 7, 1998. (article)
--Court Buff, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
--The Man Who Forgets Nothing, March 27, 2000. (article about Martin Scorsese)
--More Clinton Scandals, March 19, 2001. (short short)
Slansky, Paul,
--The Year 2000 Quiz, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (puzzle)
--The First Hundred Days: The Quiz, May 7, 2001. (about W)
--The Second Hundred Days: The Quiz, August 20 & August 27, 2001. (about W)
--Nixon on Tape: The Quiz, April 15, 2002. (about Richard Nixon)
--The Fifth Hundred Days: The Quiz, June 17 & 24, 2002. (about W)
--Eminem: The Quiz, December, 2, 2002. (about Slim Shady)
--2002: The Quiz, December 23 & December 30, 2002. (about W among others)
Smith, Charlie,
--Straight, March 29, 1999. (poem)
--Yellow Poppies, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (poem)
Smith, Dave,
--Red Dog, October 11, 1999. (poem)
Smith, Owen,
--Brace Yourself, September 13, 1999. (cover art)
--Nighthawks New Year, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (cover art)
--The Witching Hour, November 6, 2000. * (cover art)
--New Year's Resolutions, January 7, 2002. (cover art)
--Signs of the Times, March 31, 2003. (cover art)
Smith, Zadie,
--The Wrestling Match, June 17 & 24, 2002.
--The Trials of Finch, December 23 & December 30, 2002.
Sontag, Susan,
--The Way We Live Now, 1987. *
--Where the Stress Falls, June 18 & 25, 2001. (article on novelists' lives)
Sorel, Edward,
--Ghouls Rush In, February 17, 1997. (cover art)
--Fifty-fifty, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (short article on Theodore Dreiser)
--Rumor of the Week, January 20, 2003. (backpage art)
--Tourist, March 3, 2002. (cover art)
Spark, Muriel,
--A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur, June 5, 2000.
--My Madeleine, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (article)
--The Empty Space, February 4, 2002. (poem)
--Holidays, December 16, 2002. (poem)
--That Bad Cold, March 10, 2003. (poem)
Specter, Michael,
--The Nobel Syndrome, October 5, 1998. (article)
Spencer, Elizabeth,
--The Finder, 19xx. *
Spencer, Scott,
--Lights! Camera! Rapture! September 10, 2001. (article on Christian cinema)
Spiegelman, Art,
--The Plastic Arts, April 19, 1999. (cover Art)
--Comix 101: Forms Stretched to Their Limits, April 19, 1999. (article about Jack Cole and "Plastic Man")
--Horton Hears a Heil, July 12, 1999. * (article about Dr. Seuss)
--Abstract Thought Is a Warm Puppy, February 14, 2000. (article about Charles Schultz)
--The Writing Pen, June 18 & 25, 2001. (cover Art)
--In Their Own Image, June 17 & 24, 2002. (cover Art)
--Fears of July, 2002, July 8, 2002. (cover Art)
--Comix 101: Ballbuster, July 22, 2002. * (article about B. B. Krig, aka Bernard Krigstein, 1919-1990)
Spires, Elizabeth,
--Snail Revisited, November 25, 2002. (poem)
Stafford, Jean, (1915-1979)
--Children Are Bored on Sunday, February 21, 1948. * Best American Short Stories of 1949
--A Summer Day, September 11, 1948.
--The Warlock, 1955. *
Steig, Jeanne,
--The Golden Touch, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)
Steinberg, Dan,
--Brainteasers: The Aftermoth, February, 3, 2003. * (short short)
Stern, Gerald,
--Oskar, November 17, 1997. (poem)
--March 27, March 29, 1999. (poem)
--Alone, January 22, 2001. (poem)
--Winter Thirst, February 12, 2001. (poem)
--Apocalypse, June 11, 2001. (poem)
Stewart, James B.,
--Mousetrap, July 31, 2000. (article on Time Warner vs. Disney ABC)
Stone, Robert,
--Helping, 1987. *
--Dominion, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000.
--Fun with Problems, July 15, 2002.
Strand, Mark,
--A Piece of the Storm, January 5, 1998. (poem)
--Hour, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. * (poem)
--The Other Rose, May 28, 2001. (poem)
Sullivan, Robert,
--If You're Thinking of Living In ..., January 13, 2003. (short short)
Suri, Manil,
--The Seven Circles, February 14, 2000.
Surowiecki, James,
--The Credit-Card Kings, November 27, 2000. (article on Capital One)
--The Paranoia Principle, November 26, 2001. (article on Microsoft)
--Righting Copywrongs, January 21, 2002. (short article on copyright)
--Big Money, Weird Science, January 28, 2002. (short article on ImCLone)
--Guns vs. Butter, February 11, 2002. (short article on military spending)
--TV on the Cheap, March 4, 2002. (short article on TV salaries)
--Ageism in Advertising, April 1, 2002. (short article on TV ads)
--The Goldilocks Effect, May 27, 2002. (short article on rightsizing)
--Turf War, June, 10, 2002. (short article on Nike, Calloway Golf, and Titleist)
--L'Affaire Messier, July 15, 2002. (short article on Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi)
--In No One We Trust, July 29, 2002. (short article about positive reciprocity)
--Short and Distort, August 12, 2002. (short article about rumors)
--The Buffett of Baseball, September 23, 2002. (short article on the Oakland A's)
--The Bribe Effect, October 7, 2002. (short article on Wall Strett)
--The Talking Cure, December 9, 2002. (short article on Wall Street)
--The View from the Top, December 23 & December 30, 2002. (short article on CEOs and CFOs)
--The Tastemakers, January 13, 2003. * (short article on Starbucks)
--The Culture Excuse, January 27, 2003. (short article on AOL Time Warner)
--The Way We Watch, February 17 & 24, 2003. (short article on TV sweeps)
--The Wages of War, March 10, 2003. (short article on economics of war)
--Decisions, Decisions, March 24, 2003. * (short article on decision markets)
Swartz, Mimi,
--Family Secret, November 17, 1997. (article: John Salvi)
Szymborska, Wislawa,
--The Ball, January 13, 2003. (poem)
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Tan, Amy,
--Immortal Heart, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001.
--My Mother, December 24 & 31, 2001. (article)
Tanning, Dorothea,
--Destinations, May 27, 2002. * (poem)
--Secret, September 2, 2002. * (poem)
--Figure Approaching, Opposite, January 6, 2003. * (poem)
Tate, James,
--Cricket Cricket, September 10, 2001. (poem)
--The Promotion, March 11, 2002. * (poem)
--Ancient Story, December 9, 2002. * (poem)
Taylor, Peter
--The Old Forrest, 1979. *
Thiebaud, Wayne,
--Jolly Cones, August 19 & 26, 2002. * (cover art)
Thomas, James Ellis,
--The Saturday Morning Car Wash Club, July 10, 2000. (author's first publication)
Thompson, Hunter S.,
--The Price of Rum, September 7, 1998.
Thurber, James, (1894-1961)
--The Catbird Seat, November 14, 1942. * Best American Mysteries of the Century
Tobar, Héctor,
--Book Learning, October 15, 2001. (culture fragment)
Tolstaya, Tatyana,
--The Snow Collectors, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. * (short short) (translated by Jamie Gambrell)
--White Walls, January 17, 2000. (translated by Jamey Gambrell)
Tomkins, Calvin,
--Can Art Be Taught? April 15, 2002. (about Ellen Phelan at Harvard)
Tomorrow, Tom,
--Immortality for Achievers, July 2, 2001. (back page cartoon sequence)
Toobin, Jeffrey,
--The Counting House, December 4, 2000. (article on Presidential election)
--Shotgun Eviction, December 11, 2000. (article)
--Ashcroft's Ascent, April 15, 2002. (article)
--The Bench: A Prosecutor Speaks Up, December 2, 2002. (short article about Linda Fairstein)
Trevor, William,
--Big Bucks, February 10, 1997.
--The Mourning, September 8, 1997.
--A Friend in the Trade, February 8, 1999.
--The Hill Bachelors, November 8, 1999.
--Traditions, December 18, 2000.
--Sitting with the Dead, July 30, 2001.
--A Bit on the Side, October 29, 2001.
--Justina's Priest, January 14, 2002.
--Sacred Statues, July 22, 2002.
--On the Streets, March 24, 2003.
Trillin, Calvin,
--Oh Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has to End This Way?, December 13, 1999. (poem)
--An Outtake from "Antiques Roadshow," October 29, 2001. * (short short)
--Unpublished Letters to the Ethicist, November 4, 2002. * (short short)
Tuck, Lily,
--Hotter, December 21, 1998.
Turow, Scott,
--To Kill or Not to Kill, January 6, 2003. (article)
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Ulriksen, Mark,
--Center of the Universe, January 10, 2000. (cover art)
--Dog Show, June, 10, 2002. (cover art)
Ungaretti, Giuseppe,
--Outcry, June, 10, 2002. (poem, translated by Andrew Frisardi)
--Resting, October 14 & 21, 2002. (poem, translated by Andrew Frisardi)
Updike, John, (1932- )
--Pigeon Feathers, 1961. * Best American Short Stories 1962
--The Christian Roommates, 1964. American Short Story Masterpieces
--Marching through Boston, 1966.
--The Witnesses, 1966.
--The Pro, 1966.
--The Taste of Metal, 1967.
--Museums and Women, 1967.
--Man and Daughter in the Cold, 1968.
--Bech Takes Pot Luck, September 7, 1968. *
--The Corner, 1969.
--The Day of the Dying Rabbit, 1969.
--I Will Not Let Thee Go, Except Thou Bless Me, 1969.
--One of My Generation, 1969.
--The Hillies, 1969.
--The Deacon, 1970.
--The Orphaned Swimming Pool, 1970.
--The Carol Sing, 1970.
--Plumbing, 1971.
--The Baluchitherium, 1971.
--Jesus on Honshu, 1971.
--Solitaire, 1972.
--The Chaste Planet, 1975.
--Leaf Season, October 13, 1986. *
--Deaths of Distant Friends, 1987. *
Updike, John, (continued)
--The Afterlife, 1994.
--Brother Grasshopper, 1994.
--Conjunction, 1994.
--The Journey to the Dead, 1994.
--The Man Who Became a Soprano, 1994.
--Short Easter, 1994.
--A Sandstone Farmhouse, 1994.
--The Other Side of the Street, 1994.
--Tristan and Iseult, 1994.
--Farrell's Garden, 1994.
--Falling Asleep Up North, 1994.
--His Mother Inside Him, 1994.
--Baby's First Step, 1994.
--Playing with Dynamite, 1994.
--The Black Room, 1994.
--Cruise, 1994.
--Grandparenting, 1994.
--Country Music, March 8, 1999. (poem)
--Robert Frost, March 15, 1999. (book review)
--A Sense of Change, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (nostaglia)
--"How Was It Really?," May 17, 1999.
--The Hedge, June 7, 1999. (poem)
--E. B. White and Charlotte's Web, July 12, 1999. * (article about E. B. White)
--Metamorphosis, August 9, 1999.
--Jesus and Elvis, December 6, 1999. * (poem)
--Personal Archeology, May 29, 2000.
--Oz Is Us: Celebrating the Wizard's Centennial, September 25, 2000. (article about L. Frank Baum)
--Nelson and Annabelle (Part I), October 2, 2000.
--Nelson and Annabelle (Part II), October 9, 2000.
--Optical Hypertension, November 27, 2000. (poem)
Updike, John, (continued)
--Free, January 8, 2001.
--The Guardians, March 26, 2001.
--Early Inklings, April 23 & April 30, 2001. (short autobiography)
--Survivor/Believer, December 24 & 31, 2001. (article about Czeslaw Milosz)
--No Brakes, February 4, 2002. (article about Sinclair Lewis)
--The Laughter of the Gods, February 11, 2002.
--March Birthday, and After, August 5, 2002. (poem)
--Sin: Early Impressions, December 9, 2002.
--To a Well-Connected Mouse, January 6, 2003. (poem)
Ursu, Liliana,
--Life Underground, translated by Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin, February 10, 1997. (poem)
--In the City of What Once Was, translated by Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin, February 10, 1997. (poem)
--The Purification of Space for Dorothy, August 23 & August 30, 1999. (poem)
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Valentine, Jean,
--Sheep, December 11, 2000. (poem)
--My Old Body, August 12, 2002. (poem)
van Innis, Benoit,
--Endangered Species, September 23, 2002. (cover art)
--Autumn, November 18, 2002. (cover art)
Vollmann, William T.,
--The Saviors, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
von Reis, Siri,
--Fitting, April 19, 1999. (poem)
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Wallace, David Foster,
--Asset, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Walton, Anthony,
--Gwendolyn Brooks, December 18, 2000. (poem)
--The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues, May 6, 2002. (poem)
Ware, Chris,
--Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, June 19 & June 26, 2000. (cartoon)
--Situation Comedy: These New Fall Colors Don't Run, November 11, 2002. (cartoon)
Warren, Rosanna,
--Island in the Charles, September 21, 1998. (poem)
--Travel, October 4, 1999. (poem)
--Simile, April 10, 2000. ** (poem)
--Hellenistic Head, June 12, 2000. (poem)
--Nightshade, August 14, 2000. (poem)
--From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, August 19 & 26, 2002. (poem)
Wechsberg, Joseph,
--A Very Late Pilgrim, September 4, 1948.
Weiner, Ellis,
--My Goals, September 2, 2002. (short short)
Weiner, Jonathan,
--Lord of the Flies, April 5, 1999. (article about Seymour Benzer)
West, Jessamyn,
--Then He Goes Free, January 24, 1948.
--Road to the Isles, February 21, 1948. * Best American Short Stories of 1949
Wetzsteon, Rachel,
--Love and Work, July 12, 1999. (poem)
White, E. B.,
--Farewell, My Lovely! May 16, 1936. (Onward & Upward with the Arts)
--The Door, 1939.
--see Updike, John, July 12, 1999. (article)
--Farewell, My Lovely! February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Wilbur, Richard,
--This Pleasing Anxious Being, December 21, 1998. (poem)
--The Gambler, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)
--Mayflies, June 14, 1999. (poem)
--Crow's Nests, November 22, 1999. (poem)
--Man Running, March 11, 2002. (poem)
--Asides, November 18, 2002. (poem)
--Tanka, December 2, 2002. (poem)
--In Trackless Woods, March 31, 2003. (poem)
Wilkinson, Alec,
--A Hole in the Ground, September 4, 2000. (true crime)
--My New Friend, September 17, 2001. (short short)
Willard, Nancy,
--At Tivoli Bays, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (poem)
--In the Salt Marsh, August 6, 2001. (poem)
Williams, C. K.,
--This Happened, February 5, 2001. (poem)
--War, November 5, 2001. (poem)
--The World, January 28, 2002. (poem)
--The Doe, November 11, 2002. * (poem)
--Night, January 20, 2003. (poem)
--The Hearth, March 3, 2002. (poem)
Wilson, Gahan,
--Flying Leaves, November 4, 2002. * (cover art)
Wilson, Sloan,
--Drunk on the Train, January 3, 1948.
--The Reunion, March 6, 1948.
Wilson, William E.,
--Goodbye at the Bus Stop, March 13, 1948.
Windolf, Jim,
--My Sexual Fantasies, November 20, 2000. (short short)
--My Associate, May 14, 2001. ** (short short)
Winterson, Jeanette,
--Mother from Heaven, June 17 & 24, 2002. (family history)
Wolcott, James,
--Too Much Pulp (X-Files and Millennium), January 6, 1997. (article)
Wolff, Tobias,
--Nightingale, January 6, 1997.
--Kiss, March 29, 1999.
--In the Hay, June 19 & June 26, 2000. (autobiographical article)
--The Most Basic Plan, November 27, 2000.
--Class Picture, January 6, 2003.
Woo, David,
--The Solitary, August 24 & 31, 1998. (poem)
--My Mother's Hands, December 2, 2002. (poem)
Wright, Charles,
--Autumn's Sidereal, November's a Ball and Chain, October 19, 1998. (poem)
--Indian Summer II, October 19, 1998. (poem)
--Relics, August 7, 2000. (poem)
--The Wind Is Calm and Comes from Another World, September 25, 2000. (poem)
--Whym, It's as Pretty as a Picture, December 4, 2000. (poem)
--Via Negativa, October 15, 2001. (poem)
--Body and Soul, April 8, 2002. * (poem)
--Arrivederci Kingsport, October 14 & 21, 2002. (poem)
--Snake Eyes, February 17 & 24, 2003. (poem)
Wright, Franz,
--Address Search, June 5, 2000. (poem)
--Entry and Prayer, October 9, 2000. (poem)
--From a Discarded Image, January 8, 2001. * (poem)
--Cloudless Snowfall, March 5, 2001. (poem)
--The Word "I," July 9, 2001. * (poem)
--April Orchard, July 9, 2001. * (poem)
--Flight, July 9, 2001. (poem)
--Year One, November 26, 2001. (poem)
--Walking to Martha's Vineyard, February 18 & 25, 2002. (poem)
--The Only Animal, March 31, 2003. * (poem)
Wright, Lawrence,
--The Counter-Terrorist, January 14, 2002. (article on FBI agent John O'Neill)
--Lives of the Saints, January 21, 2002. (article on Mormonism)
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Xingjian, Gao, (1940- )
--The Temple, February 17 & 24, 2003.
| Y |
Yates, Richard, ( -1992)
--The Canal, January 15, 2001.
Young, Kevin, (1970- )
--Langston Hughes, February 8, 1999. (poem)
--Intermezzo, March 25, 2002. ** (poem)
--Busking, January 27, 2003. (poem)
| Z |
Zagajewski, Adam,
--Just' Children, November 5, 2001. (poem)
--Summer's Fullness, January 14, 2002. (poem)
--The Early Hours, January 14, 2002. * (poem)
--Poetry Searches for Radiance, December 23 & December 30, 2002. (poem)
Zapruder, Matthew,
--Tiburon, April 15, 2002. (poem)
Zarin, Cynthia,
--Angelus, April 19, 1999. (poem)
--Bruise, May 31, 1999. (poem)
--Harriet, November 1, 1999. (poem)
Zawacki, Andrew,
--Fermata, February 17 & 24, 2003. (poem)
Ziegler, Jack,
--The Cartoons of Jack Ziegler, November 11, 2002. (cartoons)