selections from

Issue 2, Summer 2003:
North of Boston

EDITOR'S NOTE

Interview:
a portion of
BACK THERE: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID BUDBILL

Poetry:
Geof Hewitt
FOR HAYDEN

John Hyland
THE BARBERSHOP

Marie Harris
FOLLOWING SEA

Neil Shepard
EVERY MORNING

Greg Joly
FIREDRILL

Betsy Sholl
HERE

Peter Money (Illustration by James Sturm)
TEAKETTLES, THE MOON

Feature:
Jim Koller
ON BOB ARNOLD

Bob Arnold
from TINY SUMMER BOOK

intro to A LINE OF TALK


Cover photo by Charter Weeks

Fiction:
Rebecca Rule
opening of HOW THE NEIGHBOR EARNED HIS NICKNAME

Creative Nonfiction:
Wesley McNair
from THE FOREST AND THE TREES

Dispatches:
Julia Shipley
JOHN SAYS

Wyn Cooper
POSTCARD FROM VERMONT

Pat Barnes
a photograph

Archives:
Henry David Thoreau
from MAINE WOODS

William Carpenter
CALIFORNIA