Fiction
Mitch Berman, To These Guys
Alan Cheuse, On the Beach
Stuart Dybek, Cruising / Plato Plato
Diane Glancy, A New Confederacy
Michael A. Griffith, Kidnapped (A Romance)
Matthew Lee, Under the Cross-Bronx
Joyce Carol Oates, An Urban Paradox
Edith Pearlman, Rules
Joan Silber, Bobby Jackson
Gregory Skwira, Night Birds
John Snibbe, War Stories
Poetry
John Balaban, Some Notes on Miami
Jim Daniels, Looking It Up / Outside the Arcade
Mark Doty, Homo Will Not Inherit
Albert Goldbarth, Cityscape
Steve Langan, Omaha
Peter LaSalle, In Other Cities
Mary Oliver, A Summer Afternoon
Alicia Ostriker, A Walker in the City
Linda Pastan, ‘City of Ambition’
Katherine Soniat, Storyville, November 12, 1917: Midnight
Judith Vollmer, My Sublimation
Nonfiction
Richard Currey, The Second World
Bia Lowe, Wings
James A. McPherson, Saturday Night, and Sunday Morning
Peter Najarian, A Window Into Eden
Richard Plant, Coming Out of the OK-City
David Shields, Life Is Elsewhere
Michael Stephens, The Last White Man in Brooklyn
Photography
Mark Steinmetz Chicago Rush Hour