| Poetry | |
| Indran Amirthanayagam | The Diplomat’s Fairwell |
| Old Mother Beer | |
| Mime | |
| Kevin Bowen | Pho Hai Ba Trung |
| Adrian Oktenberg | Devotion |
| In the Distance | |
| Michael Ruby | For Eugenio Montale |
| We Never Said Goodbye | |
| Mari L'Esperance | After Reading of the Expatriate Writer’s Death by Shipwreck |
| Forgetting | |
| Finding My Mother | |
| Jaquelyn Pope | Rain Diary |
| Strange Weather | |
| Combahee | |
| The Spirit Guide | |
| Julie Carr | Hunger Stories |
| Ben Mazer | Our Gang |
| M. Smith Janson | Lying on a Hill Under Stars |
| Gary Duehr | Sleep, Smoke |
| Diane Mehta | India |
| Playbill | |
| Pam Bernard | The Gift |
| Nighthawks | |
| Elizabeth Kirschner | Night Swimmers |
| Ruy Cinatti, trans. by A. Levitin | In the Rosy-Posey Bar, Down at the Docks |
| Amazement | |
| Fiction | |
| Peter Ho Davies | <em>from</em> A Union |
| Marc Bookman | A Transcript of Auden Hope's Last Request Before Being Shot by the Police |
| Memoir | |
| Rebecca McClanahan | Two Autumns, One Story |
1997



