Blake Becker
- thief

Carol Burkhart
- catfish hymns

Kristie Buys
- my life, summed up in cigarettes

Sheryl Carbone
- becoming
- forty nickels
- leaving grand ledge
- mamita chula’s yankee candle miracle
- thirteen ways of looking at mother

Michael Caves
- afterglow
- downtown smokestacks

Angie Crayle
- reclaiming of youth

Richard Francis
- morning symphony
- rain forever
- sideways love
- starry night

Vincent Fricano
- a weekday morning in the life of a 40 year old virgin

Cody Giannotti
- i want and i'd love to
- suppose

Caleb Griffin
- king of poetry
- two car collision

Nancy Hoffman
- ground swell
- in the saddle
- pi

Angela J. Horner
- east winds
- on the edge of a bridge
- taxi
- timing

Kyndell Knopp
- when I turned eight

Gita Ladd
- berryman, sexton, plath

J.S. Lohr
- the birth of a sociopath
- deviant
- eric
- freedom
- girl in the record store
- the goldfish
- in a good way
- writer's block

Stella MacDonald
- day tripping
- just business
- premonition

Jenny McCarroll
- crayola

Joe Phebus
- big brother
- the pusher

Lauren Pilli
- surrendering to the palm trees

Susan Stoler
- destination

Frances Sullivan
- colors

Roberta Warnken
- turtle pondering

Robin Whitaker
- lunch with henry david

artwork by Karen Jesuit

Amaranth 2003
vol. XVIII

Editor
Kristie Buys

Editorial Staff
Mike Di Muzio
Roger Range

Faculty Advisors
Mary Lane
Susan Rosen

Special Thanks
Sally Barba
Bob Erle
Brian Hahn
Mary Lane
Shelly Puhak
Bill Reem
Susan Rosen
Chris Storck