Poetry
MARGARET GIBSON Hymn to Night
SUSAN J. ALLSPAW Swallowing Antarctica/ Riverbed Warnings of Birth by Accident
SARAH MURPHY Prayer; The Past is Treacherous, I Know
IAN GANASSI Virgil’s Aeneid—Book II, Lines 668-804 (End of Book II)
INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM Reminder
REGINALD SHEPHERD You Also, Nightingale
JENNIFER FRANKLIN Samburu Silhouette
MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Snake
JOANIE MACKOWSKI Small Talk/ Directions
KATHERINE LUCAS ANDERSON Norwich Cathedral
CARL PHILLIPS The Clarity; Justice
ROBERT THOMAS Vertigo at Sea Level
MARK IRWIN Three Panels
Fiction
STEVE ALMOND I Am as I Am
DON LEE Domo Arigato
PAUL MANDELBAUM Changeling
IRA SADOFF In the House of the Child
GEORGE SINGLETON My Last Essay
JODI DAYNARD No Survivors
CAROLYN COOKE The Bostons
Revaluations
GORDON BOWKER A Closer Look at Malcolm Lowry’s Stories
Cultural Documents
BROOKS HAXTON Fragments of Heraclitus
Recollections
ROBERT STEPTO A Greyhound Kind of Mood
CAROL FROST Hunting Journals ’98—’00, Excerpts
Provocations
INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM How Politics Becomes Language
MICHAEL MILBURN Poetry for the Classes
Reader’s Notebook
MYLES WEBER David Hare’s Via Dolorosa
Reports from Abroad
VANESSA VAN ORNAM Dog Days in Berlin: A Letter
Art
JUSTIN SPRING Hugh Steers: A Memoir
Rediscoveries
W.P. JAMES On the Naming of Novels
Book Reviews
A.J. SHERMAN Some Little Women
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter