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FictionFiction

• Omar S. Castañeda
  On the Way Out
• Norman Wong
  Cultural Revolution
• Gabrielle Daniels
  Fear of Hair
• Beth Brant
  A Death in the Family
• Reginald McKnight
  Quitting Smoking
• Kyoko Mori
  Winter Sky
• Deborah Najor
  Painful Discourse
• Paule Marshall
  Primus and Estelle

EssaysEssays

• Henry Taylor
  Gwendolyn Brooks: An Essential Sanity
• Barbara DiBernard
  Zami: A Portrait of an Artist as a Black Lesbian
• Toi Derricote
  From the Black Notebooks

PoetryPoetry

• Wendy Rose
  Do You See Her Alone on the Mountain?
• Quincy Troupe
  Reflections on Growing Older
• James A. Emanuel
  Sittin’-Log Blues
• Tyrone Williams
  Election Night
• Tyrone Williams
  Woman Troubles
• Wendy Rose
  Remember Waking up with Me
• Indran Amirthanayagam
  The White Piano
• Colleen J. McElroy
  Heavy in the S Curves
• Tyrone Williams
  Busy Signals
• Vince Gotera
  Newly Released, Papa Tells Me What It’s like Inside
• Vince Gotera
  Halloween 1963
• Colleen J. McElroy
  Trompe l’Oeil: Slovenia
• Stephanie Byrd
  A Birthday Deserves a Handsome Surprise
• Anita Endrezze
  Perceptions of Three Birches
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
  The Lesson of the Tongue
• Allison Joseph
  The Idiot Box
• Anita Endrezze
  The Migration of Trees
• Marilyn Chin
  Tienanmen, the Aftermath
• Duoduo
  Residents
• Colleen J. McElroy
  A Little Traveling Music
• Allison Joseph
  Dolls
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
  A Legion of Dark Angels
• Antonia Quintana Pigno
  Boulevard Dreams
• James A. Emanuel
  Haiku: Ksenia’s Paintings
• Joy Harjo
  The Myth of Blackbirds
• Anita Endrezze
  La Llorona, the Crying Woman
• Adrian C. Louis
  After Long Silence Marilyn Returns
• Quincy Troupe
  Conjuring against Alien Spirits
• Tyrone Williams
  Tribute
• Stephanie Byrd
  War and Eggs
• Clarence Major
  Train Stop
• Martín Espada
  City of Coughing and Dead Radiators
• Ray A. Young Bear
  The Reptile Decree from Paris
• Roberto R. Calderón
  American Queque
• Adrian C. Louis
  Sometimes a Warrior Comes Tired
• Adrian C. Louis
  Sunset at Pine Ridge Agency
• Michael S. Weaver
  Pearl Bailey: An Elegy
• Cyrus Cassells
  Life Indestructible
• Indran Amirthanayagam
  There Are Many Things I Want to Tell You
• Lawrence Joseph
  Some Sort of Chronicler I Am
• Rosa Maria Arenas
  Mother of Shrines
• David Williams
  Come down with Me from Lebanon
• Lawrence Joseph
  Generation
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
  An Early Mystery
• Michael S. Weaver
  The Spanish Lesson
• Marilyn Chin
  Turtle Soup
• Rosa Maria Arenas
  Mother of the Historical Tree
• Rosa Maria Arenas
  Mother of the Long Good-Bye

ReviewsReviews

• Jewelle Gomez
  Homeward Bound
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  A Multitude of Dreams

FictionFiction

• Nadja Tesich
  Girls from Elsewhere
• Alberto Alvaro Ríos
  Waltz of the Fat Man
• Alfred Corn
  from Part of His Story

EssaysEssays

• Alicia Ostriker
  Esther, or the World Turned Upside Down
• Terry Castle
  First Ed
• Sandra M. Gilbert
  “But Oh! That Deep Romantic Chasm”: The Engendering of Periodization
• William Holtz
  Cradle Song, 1939: A Memoir
• Scott Russell Sanders
  Dust

PoetryPoetry

• Werner Aspenström
  Revisiting
• Carole Simmons Oles
  She Who Was Once the Helmet-Maker’s Beautiful Wife
• Andrew Hudgins
  Salt
• Julie Fay
  Bicentennial Bastille
• Linda Bierds
  Audubon’s Border Boy
• Jennifer Nelson
  Beulah the Maid Asks for Help
• Martha Collins
  Her Mother Said
• Marie Ponsot
  Ghazals for Djuna Barnes: The Fall Back
• Gillian Conoley
  Bedrock
• Eric Pankey
  Formal Concerns
• Suzanne Gardinier
  To the Tribunal
• Richard Garcia
  The Story of Keys
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  Vespers
• Tomas Tranströmer
  April and Silence
• Suzanne Gardinier
  To the Strangers
• Richard Garcia
  Los Amantes
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  Matins (2:30 A.M.)
• Suzanne Gardinier
  To Justice
• Carole Simmons Oles
  The Caryatid Fallen Carrying Her Stone
• Rafael Campo
  The Love of Someone
• Sophie Cabot Black
  Tonight
• Jennifer Nelson
  Me and Marilyn in Beulah’s Mind
• Andrew Hudgins
  Tree
• Werner Aspenström
  After the Storm
• Herbert Morris
  Joyce on the French Coast Waiting for the Dark
• Marie Ponsot
  All Wet
• Karl Kirchwey
  Stanzas from the Life of George Fox, 1651-57
• Martha Collins
  Exposure
• Gillian Conoley
  The Birth of a Nation
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly
  Dead Doe: I
• Sophie Cabot Black
  Next
• Ricardo Pau-Llosa
  Frutas
• Jennifer Nelson
  Why Beulah?
• Pam A. Parker
  Anatomy Lessons
• Linda Bierds
  From Blakesware: Mary Lamb
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  Psalm
• Richard Schramm
  Arrangement in Gray
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  Incomplete Renunciation
• Eric Pankey
  The Deposition
• Rafael Campo
  El Curandero
• Eric Pankey
  Eschatology
• Mauricio Rosencof
  Conversations with My Sandal
• Suzanne Gardinier
  To Peace
• Jennifer Nelson
  Beulah the Maid in the House of Love
• Gillian Conoley
  Beauty Queen
• Stephanie Strickland
  Milk in Glass Bottles
• Karl Kirchwey
  For the Assassins
• Elizabeth Rees
  Unfinished Grief
• Elizabeth Rees
  Layman’s Psychiatry

Book ReviewsBook Reviews

• Steve Kronen
  Earthly Quires
• Gay Wilentz
  Affirming Critical Difference: Reading Black Women’s Texts
• Marian Janssen
  Portrait of a Lady: Isabella Gardner
• David Baker
  Framed in Words

FictionFiction

• Reynolds Price
  Long Night
• Arnošt Lustig
  Colette

EssaysEssays

• Willard Spiegelman
  Heirs and Heirlooms: The Legacy of Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill
• Ray Carney
  The Adventure of Insecurity: The Films of John Cassavetes
• Rachel Hadas
  Morose Confusion
• Paul Breslin
  Two Cheers for the New Formalism

DramaDrama

• Joan M. Schenkar
  The Universal Wolf: A Vicious New Version of Little Red Riding Hood. A Faux French Comedy of Menace
• Janet Neipris
  Brussels Sprouts

PoetryPoetry

• T. R. Hummer
  Greek
• Ira Sadoff
  Resurrection
• Marilyn Hacker
  Her Ring
• Brendan Galvin
  Draggers
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Fleshing-out the Season
• Lee Harlin Bahan
  Drilling the Troops
• Dorothy Coffin Sussman
  Hiroshima
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense
• Marilyn Hacker
  Quai Saint-Bernard
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  History Lessons
• Brendan Galvin
  Skylights
• T. R. Hummer
  Philadelphia Sentimental
• Lee Harlin Bahan
  Hope
• Lee Harlin Bahan
  Last Bard in Wales
• Robert Cording
  Hummingbirds
• Josephine Jacobsen
  The Thing about Crows
• Josephine Jacobsen
  The Minor Poet
• Josephine Jacobsen
  I Have Something to Declare
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  Silent in the Valleys
• T. R. Hummer
  Confusion in the Drought Years
• Kevin Stein
  Creatures Who Must Know Better Have Taken Me for a Blossom
• Marilyn Hacker
  Letter on June 15
• James McKean
  House Wrens
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  In God’s Night
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  Another Love Poem
• Colleen J. McElroy
  Lifting the Morning
• Josephine Jacobsen
  Survivor’s Ballad
• Carol Frost
  Modern History
• C. D. Wright
  The Box This Comes In
• Melvin Dixon
  And These Are Just a Few…
• Richard Howard
  For Matthew Ward, 1951-1990
• Ira Sadoff
  I Forgive the Sparrows
• C. D. Wright
  The Provisional Life

ReviewsReviews

• Leslie Ullman
  Solitaries and Storytellers, Magicians and Pagans: Five Poets in the World
• Hilda Raz
  Birth, Death, and “Captivity”
• Charles H. Adams
  Versions of Revision: Conflict and Community in the American Canon

FictionFiction

• Gwen Strauss
  The Lesson
• Marilyn Sides
  Temporary Tattoos
• Peter Taylor
  The Witch of Owl Mountain Springs: An Account of Her Remarkable Powers
• Alyce Miller
  Death by Vending Machine
• Paul Willems
  Requiem for Bread
• Devon Jersild
  Elena
• Zvi Jagendorf
  Geller’s Last Chance

EssaysEssays

• G. Douglas Atkins
  In Other Words: Gardening for Love: The Work of the Essayist
• Paul B. Armstrong
  Play and Cultural Differences
• John Rodden
  “The Responsibility to Tell You”: An Interview with Isabel Allende

PoetryPoetry

• James Harms
  When You Wish upon a Star That Turns into a Plane
• Debra Hines
  The Monarch of Meritocracy
• Leonard Nathan
  Ragged Sonnets: LXXXI
• Charles Wright
  Thinking of David Summers at the Beginning of Winter
• Linda Pastan
  At Gettysburg
• Michael Burns
  Beginnings
• William Olsen
  Cruising
• James Harms
  Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn
• Robert J. Levy
  Sleeping Together
• Angela Ball
  Sky
• Lynda Hull
  Carnival
• Jim Barnes
  After the Great Plains
• Gary Young
  Four Days: Earthquake
• Lynda Hull
  Lost Fugue for Chet
• Galway Kinnell
  The Auction
• Leon Stokesbury
  Fall
• Cathy Smith-Bowers
  Men
• Linda Pastan
  Guilt
• Penelope Austin
  Dancing after Oswiecim
• Aleda Shirley
  Fourth and Magnolia
• David J. Rothman
  How to Eat
• Andrea Hollander Budy
  Just
• Linda Pastan
  Bed
• T. Alan Broughton
  Improvisation
• Jim Barnes
  Night Flight
• Susan Hahn
  Susan Hahn
• Angela Ball
  Text
• Carl Dennis
  Tuesday at First Presbyterian
• Donald Morrill
  The Feast
• James Harms
  Serious Affection

ReviewsReviews

• Julie Fay
  Cathars, Kids, and Catharsis: Three Poets
• Steven Helmling
  Twilight of the Idols
• Ronald A. Sharp
  Creation and the Courtesy of Reading
• David Baker
  Recent Poetry

EditorialsEditorials

• Marilyn Hacker
  On NEA, Editors, and Others
• Lewis Hyde
  The Freedom to Talk Dirt

PoetryPoetry

• Lawrence Raab
  The Shakespeare Lesson
• Lawrence Raab
  Happiness
• Lawrence Raab
  Lies
• Lawrence Raab
  The Other World
• Tom Andrews
  Three Purgatory Poems
• Robert Pack
  The Dwarf and Doctor Freud
• Robert Pack
  Watchers
• Marvin Bell
  Initial Conditions
• Sandra McPherson
  Center: Strip and Medallion Quilt, 1890, by Mrs. Longmire, African-American Seamstress for Her Town in Maryland
• Sandra McPherson
  Suit and Tie
• Marcia Southwick
  Fear of Angels
• Marcia Southwick
  Notes from the Tower*
• David Huddle
  The Birds
• David Huddle
  Thinking about My Father
• Mark Halliday
  Already in 1927
• Maurya Simon
  Los Angeles, Fin de siècle
• Maurya Simon
  Random Silences
• Frank X. Gaspar
  Where Do You Sleep?
• Leslie Adrienne Miller
  Ungodliness
• Judith Berke
  Cries and Whispers
• Judith Berke
  Old Eight-by-Ten Glossy

DramaDrama

• S. L. Wisenberg
  To Be Read Aloud, Preferably with a Stranger

FictionFiction

• Elizabeth Denton
  Generations
• Sanjay Kumar Nigam
  Levitating
• Margot Livesey
  The Midnight Feast
• Linda Bamber
  Pacific Wish
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  Bill Weisler
• Vicki Lindner
  Die for Love
• James Vladimir Gill
  Ianvar

EssaysEssays

• Arnošt Lustig
  Return to Czechoslovakia: Snapshots of a Revolution
• Bruce Bond
  An Abundance of Lack: The Fullness of Desire in the Poetry of Robert Hass
• Robert Pack
  The Long View
• Jacques Barzun
  Onoma-Onomato-Onomatwaddle
• Gerald Early
  Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant

ReviewsReviews

• David Cowart
  Continuity and Growth

PoetryPoetry

• Alice Fulton
  Aunt I
• Sherod Santos
  On the Liberation of Women
• Sherod Santos
  Approaching Middle Age
• Sherod Santos
  The Morning the Doctor
• Randall Bondurant Jones
  Sonogram of Padre Island, Texas
• Larry Levis
  The Spell of the Leaves
• Larry Levis
  Kind of Blue
• Larry Levis
  “Coney Island Baby”
• Patricia Goedicke
  The Other
• Patricia Goedicke
  The Verdict
• Elizabeth Spires
  The Nap
• Julia Alvarez
  Mami and Gauguin
• Stephen Corey
  Making the Mouth
• Jeannine Savard
  Gauze Landing
• Jeannine Savard
  The Hospital Room
• John Witte
  Pilgrimage
• Richard Frost
  Fifteen
• Renée Ashley
  Salt
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
  They Never Grew Old
• Charlie Smith
  The Dogwood Tree
• Charlie Smith
  Stare
• Lollie Groth
  The Dare
• Lollie Groth
  Acupuncture
• Lollie Groth
  The Worry Dolls
• Eric Trethewey
  Central Lock-Up
• Saskia Hamilton
  A Mouth Full of Hair
• Jack Myers
  How?
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
  The Altar Needlework
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
  How Morning Comes, out of Sleep
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
  The Sunny Day
• Suzanne Paola
  For Lily
• Suzanne Paola
  The World Rising as a Mirror (sunrise through the window, October, 1988)
• Ron Smith
  Learner’s Permit on Skyline Drive
• Ron Smith
  Repairs
• Alberto Ríos
  Mexico, from the Four Last Letters
• Alberto Ríos
  Indentations in the Sugar
• Jared Carter
  Seed Storm
• Gregory Donovan
  Rural Electrification
• Lynn Emanuel
  Domestic Violence
• Lynn Emanuel
  The Planet Krypton

FictionFiction

• Larry Levis
  Roulette
• Gladys Swan
  Tooth
• Jack Matthews
  Begotten Spirits
• Sharon Sheehe Stark
  The Gift
• Debra A. Woodruff
  Big Fish Water
• Abby Frucht
  Steps Out
• Coleman Barks
  Small Talk

EssaysEssays

• John Rodden
  George Orwell, Pickwickian Radical? An Ambivalent Case

ReviewsReviews

• Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
  On the Cutting Edge
• Steven Helmling
  Harold Bloom’s Critical Sublime
• Fred Chappell
  Attempts upon Delight: Six Poetry Books

IntroductionsIntroductions

• T. R. Hummer
  Introduction: Impure Form
• Albert Goldbarth
  ‘Imp Your, Dahlink?’

• Antler
  Bubble Hubbub
• Robert Atwan
  ‘… Observing a Spear of Summer Grass’
• Stephen Berg
  Three from Shaving
• Norbert Blei
  Midwest Haiku
• Lucie Brock-Broido
  Unholy
• Lucie Brock-Broido
  From the Proscenium
• David Clewell
  Lost in the Fire
• Dewitt Clinton
  Europe in 1914
• Bernard Cooper
  Dreaming Aloud
• George Dardess
  From “Song of Myself”: The Comic Book

• Annie Dillard
  Found Poems: Observations and Experiments in Natural History
• Annie Dillard
  Found Poems: Class Notes on Painting and the Arts
• Jack Driscoll
  The Trap
• Jack Driscoll
  Voices of Ice
• Donald Finkel
  The Times and Trials of Moses Austin
• Albert Goldbarth
  Delft: An Essay-Poem
• Pamela White Hadas
  Losers, Keepers: The Opus of Wilhelmina Scrowd
• Louis Jenkins
  The Wristwatch
• Louis Jenkins
  Out-of-the-Body Travel
• Robert Kelly
  The Meaning of Something
• Kenneth Koch
  Sea
• Kenneth Koch
  The Life of the City
• Margaret Lally
  From the Story of Anna Swan

• Sydney Lea
  The Hitchhiker
• David Lee
  Willie and the Water Pipe
• Laurence Lieberman
  Lifestyles Prince
• Robert McDowell
  Sisters
• Jim Moore
  A Week and a Day with Fra Filipo Lippi’s Frescoes in the Cathedral at Spoleto
• Jim Moore
  Mira
• Dave Morice
  Love Po | Rose
• Jack Myers
  The Bambutti: Pygmies of the Congo
• Opal Louis Nations
  Profane Language among the Tribes of the Upper Tangi
• Joyce Carol Oates
  I Stand before You Naked
• Joyce Carol Oates
  The Maker of Parables

• Gregory Orr
  Tarleton Oak
• Alicia Ostriker
  The Wisdom of Solomon
• Holly Prado
  Guidance
• Holly Prado
  Requiem
• Jason Shinder
  The Notebooks of Pablo Picasso
• Jason Shinder
  The Notebooks of Norman Rockwell
• Charles Simic
  Two Untitled Pieces
• Louis Simpson
  The Mysterious Strangers
• Annie Sprinkle
  Section 4 of Andrea Dwarkin’s Anti-Pornography Civil Rights Law Cut up with a Paragraph from “Screw” Magazine
• George Starbuck
  Films Trip Comicstrip Column vs. Krazy Kael

• Dennis Tedlock
  From “The Archaeology of Dreams”
• Paul Violi
  Catalogue of the New Wonderment
• Eleanor Wilner
  Leda’s Handmaiden
• Jim Woodring
  … The Meat That Changed Me …

PoetryPoetry

• Richard Howard
  Theory of Flight: 1908
• Leon Stokesbury
  Glendower Ponders the Vasty Deep
• Leon Stokesbury
  City Lights
• Leon Stokesbury
  The Royal Nonesuch
• Edward Hirsch
  After the Last Practice
• Edward Hirsch
  Roman Fall: In Memoriam
• Maxine Kumin
  Fat Pets On
• Maxine Kumin
  The Green Well
• Patricia Goedicke
  The Periscope of the Eye
• Robert Morgan
  We Are the Dream of Jefferson
• David Wojahn
  Matins: James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the South, 1958
• David Wojahn
  ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll but I like It’: The Fall of Saigon, 1975

FictionFiction

• Arnošt Lustig
  A Man the Size of a Postage Stamp
• Cheryl Pearl Sucher
  The Ornithological Café
• Gerald Shapiro
  Levidow
• Leslie Fiedler
  What Used to Be Called Dead
• Hilary Masters
  Hall of Mirrors
• Gladys Swan
  Do You Believe in Cabeza De Vaca?
• Peter Taylor
  Cousin Aubrey
• John Chioles
  Things That Come to Be and Not Be
• Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
  The Flood

EssaysEssays

• Emery George
  The Allegory of Spandau
• Carolyn See
  Barbara Tuchman
• Stanford Pritchard
  My Friend B

ReviewsReviews

• Steven Helmling
  A Postmodern Jeremiah
• Paul Mariani
  Reinventing the Comic Sublime
• Ron Smith
  When Failure Is Not the True Test

PoetryPoetry

• Philip Levine
  Agnus Dei
• Philip Levine
  Innocence
• Corinne Hales
  Testimony
• Philip Terman
  The Used Car Lot
• Paul Mariani
  Photograph of Oldest Son, Postulant in the Society of Mary, Taken with Proud Parents at Beacon, New York
• Paul Mariani
  Road Kills
• Linda Pastan
  The Happiest Day
• Linda Pastan
  An Old Song
• C. G. Hanzlicek
  Primitive Sand
• Eamon Grennan
  Diagnosis
• Eamon Grennan
  Breaking Points
• Eamon Grennan
  Deceptions
• Christopher Buckley
  After a Theme by Vallejo, after a Theme by Justice
• Jay Parini
  Good Friday in Amalfi
• Claire Bateman
  If Worst Came to Worst
• Jim Daniels
  Night Light
• Maura High
  The Etiquette of Grief
• Maura High
  To the Tune of ‘Danny Boy’
• Maura High
  A Kind of Aubade
• Robert Wrigley
  Sinatra
• Jonathan Holden
  First Day of School
• Jonathan Holden
  Pope’s House
• Bruce Weigl
  The Confusion of Planes We Must Wander in Sleep
• Katherine Soniat
  Distance and Design
• Sydney Lea
  Six Sundays toward a Seventh (21 February-3 April, 1988)
• Albert Goldbarth
  Burnt Offering
• Albert Goldbarth
  Radio Baseball
• Albert Goldbarth
  Toil,
• Norman Dubie
  Radio Sky

FictionFiction

• Lee K. Abbott
  How Love Is Lived in Paradise
• Ewing Campbell
  Conveniences
• J. R. Jones
  The Twin
• Joyce Carol Oates
  The Handclasp
• Melissa Lentricchia
  I’ve Got You under My Skin

Nonfiction ProseNonfiction Prose

• Brooke Hopkins
  Keats and the Uncanny: ‘This Living Hand’
• David Young
  High Talk: The Voice from The Tower
• E. P. Walkiewicz
  ‘and Agassiz for Gestalt seed’: Pound’s American Taxonomy
• Philip Levine
  Part of the Problem
• Richard Jackson
  The Long Embrace: Philip Levine’s Longer Poems

ReviewsReviews

• Paul Mariani
  Keeping the Covenant
• Amy Clampitt
  Purloined Sincerity

PoetryPoetry

• James Solheim
  The Lost Kings of Maryville
• Cynthia Huntington
  Bill the Landlord Learns to Fly
• Cynthia Huntington
  Breaking
• Cynthia Huntington
  Passing through Hometown
• Angela Ball
  A Language
• Robert Morgan
  Audubon’s Flute
• Robert Morgan
  Land Suture
• Robert Morgan
  Podington Air Field
• Robert Morgan
  Shadow Matter
• Wyatt Prunty
  Playing by Ear
• Lynne McMahon
  Swingset
• Wyatt Prunty
  The Wild Horses
• Lynne McMahon
  Personal History
• Wyatt Prunty
  With Others
• Stephen Corey
  Hunger
• Lynne McMahon
  Hopkins and Whitman
• Dixie Lane
  The City Speaks
• Rodney Jones
  A Blasphemy
• Rodney Jones
  Meeting Bobby
• Rodney Jones
  Meditation at Home
• Rodney Jones
  Serious Partying
• Rodney Jones
  Dangers
• Hayden Carruth
  Ideal
• David Baker
  Cardinals in Spring
• Dave Smith
  The Canoe in the Basement
• Dave Smith
  Before Ground Roses
• Charles Wright
  Early One Morning in the Teatro Romano
• Charles Wright
  Sunday at Home at the Beginning of Winter

FictionFiction

• Reginald McKnight
  The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
• Barbara Croft
  A Little Piece of Star
• P. F. Kluge
  A Call from Jersey
• Robert Shapard
  At the Back Door
• Devon Jersild
  In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond
• Salvatore La Puma
  Inside the Fire

Nonfiction ProseNonfiction Prose

• James McMichael
  James Joyce Speaks
• David Haward Bain
  A House and a Household
• Ron Powers
  “Don’t Think of It as Art”: Nonfiction and the Inflected Voice

Block Prose ParagraphsBlock Prose Paragraphs

• Robert Hill Long
  From “The Effigies”

ReviewsReviews

• Steven Helmling
  Still Playing Possum after All These Years
• Miriam Bailin
  The Music of Fatality
• Devon Jersild
  The World of Bobbie Ann Mason

FictionFiction

• Mark Edmundson
  Infancy
• W. Scott Olsen
  A Winter Date
• Pamela Painter
  Fermentation
• Kent Nelson
  Black Stars
• Francois Camoin
  Awkward Angels

Nonfiction ProseNonfiction Prose

• Samuel Pickering
  These Essays, My Life
• Brett Candlish Millier
  Modesty and Morality: George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Elizabeth Bishop
• Ellen Pifer
  Shades of Love: Nabokov’s Intimations of Immortality
• Anita T. Sullivan
  The Secret Garden
• Reynolds Price
  A Normal, All but Fatal, Childhood

PoetryPoetry

• Robert Wrigley
  Sea Flower
• Robert Wrigley
  Quail
• Susan Sindall
  The Wake
• Susan Sindall
  White Skiff
• Jane Kenyon
  We Let the Boat Drift
• John Engels
  Poem on My Birthday
• John Engels
  Moonset
• John Engels
  Black Dog
• John Engels
  Brooding Duck
• Robert Pack
  Place
• Robert Pack
  Cosmic Recycling
• Peter Balakian
  Jersey Fog
• George Looney
  No Matter the Weather
• N. C. Germanacos
  Makers
• N. C. Germanacos
  Sanctity
• Darrell Stafford
  Communion at Coldwater Baptist Church
• Darrell Stafford
  Horses
• Darrell Stafford
  Travis Cox Dies on a Light Pole
• Nancy Willard
  A Hardware Store as Proof of the Existence of God
• Roger Weingarten
  Dance of the Mourning Child
• Roger Weingarten
  A February Thaw Should Be Played Slowly
• Roger Weingarten
  From the Temple of Longing
• Anthony Sobin
  Epithalamium Catalogue of the Folklore of the Origins of the Double Wedding Ring Quilt
• Anthony Sobin
  Painter’s Light: Long Island
• Sidney Burris
  Flamingo, Frog, and Aunt
• Sidney Burris
  The New Bicycles
• Sidney Burris
  The Death and Life of Jesse James
• Ted Benttinen
  The Breath of Whales
• Ted Benttinen
  Prayer and Vision in the Stave Church at Røldal
• Adrian C. Louis
  Farewell to Synthesis

ReviewsReviews

• Anthony Libby
  Rat-Rhymers, Shit-Burners, Transformation, and Grandpa Dave
• Ewing Campbell
  Indelible Otherness
• Steven Helmling
  The Theorist as the Letter ‘T’
• Martin Lebowitz
  Religious Immoralism

PoetryPoetry

• Donald Finkel
  Campus Dogs
• Donald Finkel
  At Roxy’s Topless
• Jordan Smith
  Calling
• Jordan Smith
  Witness
• Jordan Smith
  A Song of Dowland’s on the Stereo
• Jordan Smith
  On the Resemblance of Poetry to Prayer
• Michael J. Rosen
  Groundwork, a New House
• William Collins Watterson
  On Reading Cavafy
• William Collins Watterson
  Teaching My Son to Talk
• William Collins Watterson
  Thinking of Jackson Pollock
• Jim Barnes
  La Plata, Missouri: Bandstand
• Jim Barnes
  La Plata, Missouri: Santa Fe Depot, Sundown
• Michael J. Bugeja
  Man in the Kitchen
• Michael J. Bugeja
  How to End a Romance
• John Repp
  For Fanny Goldberg, Who Asked God to Bless Me
• Robin Shectman
  The Death of a Friend
• Robin Shectman
  The Comet Visits the City
• Robin Shectman
  House of the Black Glass
• Sydney Lea
  Spite: Her Tale

FictionFiction

• Erin McGraw
  A Thief
• Joseph H. Wessling
  A Very Fishy Story
• Frank Manley
  An Errand of Mercy
• Nicholas Delbanco
  Everything

Nonfiction ProseNonfiction Prose

• James Applewhite
  Postmodernist Allegory and the Denial of Nature
• Thomas Van Nortwick
  Flores Mali: Catullus and Baudelaire

Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War YearsSpecial Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years

• P. D. Church
  Introduction: Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
• Eliseo Vivas
  The Legacy of Sigmund Freud*: Philosophical
• Lionel Trilling
  Literature and Power
• John Crowe Ransom
  Ubiquitous Moralists
• John Crowe Ransom
  Muses and Amazons
• Rushton Coulborn
  The American Culture: Studies in Definition and Prophecy
• Eleanor Clark
  Death of a Thinker: A Note on the French Novel 1925-40
• Marten Ten Hoor
  The Nazis Purge Philosophy
• John Crowe Ransom
  War and Publication
• Philip Blair Rice
  Notes on a Democratic Philosophy
• Van Meter Ames
  Art and Science
• John Crowe Ransom
  Artists, Soldiers, Positivists
• Herbert Marshall McLuhan
  The Analogical Mirrors
• Austin Warren
  Instress of Inscape