THE HEART OF ALL THAT IS:
REFLECTIONS ON HOME
Introduction, Pamela Mittlefehldt
I. The Amber Wilds of Childhood: In the Beginning
The House Made of Words, James Cihlar
The home stretch, Karen Lynn Erickson
A Home Worth Remembering, Kathleen Weihle
Corn Rows, Morgan Grayce Willow
Thoughts Upon Returning Home to an English Spring, Elizabeth Weir
The Stradivarius in the Locker, Keith Gunderson
Keep Out, Julia Morris Paul
Drawing of My Family: Age Six, Jill Breckenridge
Child with Reader, Elisabeth Murawski
In the Basement, Molly Sutton Kiefer
Prairie World and Wanderer, Margaret Hasse
Prairie Sundown, North Dakota, John Sorensen
Hometown, Robin Chapman
Safe, Catherine Abbey Hodges
Shelling Peas, Penny Harter
Horizon, Cary Waterman
II. Folded Maps of the Past: Far and Away from Home
Going Home, Rosemary Winslow
Leaving, Emily Ruth Hazel
Relearning Home, Heather McGrew
Coming Home, Janet Jerve
Brat, Carol Dunbar
Postcard to Ailene from a Place in the Air, Suzanne Allen
The Ghosts of Abandoned Capacity, David Pitascke
Origins, Andrea Potos
A Distant Ship Tiding Home, Bruce Pratt
Displaced Person, John Manesis
Portrait Without Words, Tami M. Brown
Three Line Bio, Katie H. Leo
A Hundred Things, Emily K. Bright
Provenance, Nadine Pinede
Family Tree, Linda Nemec Foster
Lands of Song, Joseph Bruchac
III. Living a Second Time in Memory: Looking Back at Home
Looking Back, Sarah Brown Weitzman
What Holds Me, Laura L. Hansen
The Portable Singer, Penny Perry
Fixing Potato Salad While the Past Comes and Goes, Sharon Chmielarz
The Hot Corner, John Azrak
Homesick, Drew Lamm
720 Miles from Home, Ellen Shriner
The Avid Heirs of the Farm, Alice Owen Duggan
Paradise Lost, Jan Chronister
Former Tenants, Dan Campion
Porch Light, J. Patrick Lewis
Back in Your Old House in Montana, Judith Waller Carroll
The Meaning of Things, Claudia M. Reder
The Heart of the Matter, Karen H. Wee
Pecans, Connie Wanek
Land, Judith Prest
IV. Seeking Shelter: Without a Place to Call Home
Dear God of H__________, Ethna McKiernan
Chicken Charlie, Fran Markover
Expired Stars, Laura Jean
A Shelter is Not a Home, Linda Kanter
A Fourth Grade Teacher Mourns, Julie Landsman
The Horror of the World Around, Freya Manfred
Passing Through? Squatting is Another Name for Home, Jessica Erica Hahn
The Cul de Sac on Tallman Circle, Roberta J. Hill
Foreshocks, M. J. Fievre
In Poetry Class at the Jail: Derek Talks About the Moon, Deborah Gordon Cooper
V. Where Rain Returns: Claiming Home
Tattooed, Amy Jo Swing
Between, Mary Kay Rummel
Directions Home, Kristina Roth
Blacklock, Vicki Graham
Day 212 (When I am Home), Amy Nash
Toward Moorhead, Minnesota, Thom Tammaro
We Live in Texas, Greg Tuleja
Patterns of Home, Sherry Rovig
Settled, Marjorie Maddox
Buying the Farm, Part B, Karen Donley-Hayes
The Persistence of Ashes, Kenneth Salzmann
Arriving Home, Jill Hinners
75? Bedford Street, The Edna St. Vincent Millay House, Ann McGovern
Two Timing, Sheila Packa
Any Evening in Early December, Marge Piercy
Nesting, Gary J. Boelhower
Looking Out My Bedroom Window, Jane Yolen
A Gay Doll House, Kenneth Pobo
Now It's a House, Lowell Jaeger
My Place, Joseph A. Soldati
The Permeable World, Rachel Barenblat
Five Summer Nights, Susan Elbe
Mending the Net, Martin Willitts, Jr.
Patriotism, Ellie Schoenfeld
VI. The Contours of Private Geography: Musings on the Meaning of Home
Always Home, J.P. White
Home, Gloria Frym
Seeking Sanctuary, Wendy Brown-Baez
Where We Dwell, Felica Dryud
Rituals of December, Joyce Lombard
In Common, Naomi Shihab Nye
Fault Lines, Cynthia M. Baer
Along Highway 1, Keiko Lane
Threshold: Four Steps Toward Home, George Roberts
Home is a Complete Sentence, Miriam Weinstein
Neutralities, M.J. Iuppa
“Where in the World Did You Come From”? Of Traveling, Oz, and Home, Mark Vinz
House of Dreams and Stars and Life, Charlene Langfur
Contributor's Notes
