Volume 9, Number 2 Spring 2008 Table of Contents Maureen Thorson Permanently 1975 Steve McQueen on His Motorcycle The Meat Magi Up She Rises Superman Would Like to Come Down Now David Keplinger My father climbed Walking by myself Nixon peed all over I've been to this station We stripped Judith McCombs Consider Poplar Point The Observers Afterwards, You Learn The Table Fragment Abdul Ali Uptown Looking Down First Poem About Us Fatherhood Poem No. I 41 Breaths for Amadou Diallo Ars Poetica #2 Carleasa Coates Birth The Stoning of Paul Fox, the World Speeds Past What the Deer Know Lucille Clifton Jose Padua Science Fiction The Kamikaze Kid Eve of Celebration Blues On the Far Edge of the European Theater End of the Parade