pt. 1 Fears Within -- Weeping Unfamiliar Tears / Ishmael Beah -- Scared / Debra Spark -- Risk of (Not) Communicating / Lynne Kelly --?Real Risks / Phillip Lopate -- Holding a Little Girl's Hand / Ann Hood -- Safe Passage / Uzodinma Iweala -- Rescuing Fire from the Flood / Sherwin Bitsui -- pt. 2 Writing Risk --?Life Drawings / Beth Alvarado --?Writing Toward the Center / Nancy Johnson --?Like a Syrupy Sweet / John Dufresne --?Apostate in Academe / Ej Levy -- Risks in Writing the Novel, The Rape of Sita / Lindsey Collen --?One Man's Risk / Peter Turchi -- Writing Sucks / Betsy Lerner -- On the Line / J.C. Hallman --?Politics and the Imagination: How to Get Away with Just about Anything (in Ten Not-So-Easy Lessons) / Sarah Stone -- pt. 3 Where I Come From -- That Other World That Was the World / Nadine Gordimer -- Melodious Chimes.