Editor’s Note
Editorial
Poetry
REBECCA BAGGETT Lorna Sue Cantrell, Singing in the Choir
NANCY WHITE Going Back, Not Forward, After All
IMARE ORAVECZ It May Have Begun This Way / I Want Only / When It Was Over (Translated from the Hungarian by Bruce Berlind and Mária Körösy)
JAMES SEAY When Once Friends / Night Fires
EAMON GRENNAN Driving North, Early Spring / Station / Driving Through Fog / Two Photographs
SUZANNE PAOLA Ash Wednesday
RICHARD MOORE Fixed Point Theorem
C. G. HANZLICEK Mystery
Winner, Tenth Annual “New England Review” Narrative Poetry Competition
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGHT Judge’s Comments
ROBIN BEHN The Oboist
WILLIAM HATHAWAY Looser Talk
FRANK GASPAR Gall, Wormwood / Old Stories
CAROLE OLES In This Photo, Taken / February 14th, Driving West
SUSAN WOOD Christmas Eve at Rosemound Cemetery
KATHERINE SONIAT In Spite of Forgetting
MICHAEL J. ROSEN Trying to Write You a Poem on Our Anniversary While Downstairs You Roughhouse with the Dogs
STEVE ORLEN Acts of God / A Family of Three / Religious Feeling
EDWARD HIRSCH The Welcoming
Fiction
EWING CAMPBELL Sen-Sen
KENT MEYERS Recruiting the Dead
ANN BEATTIE Such Occasions
ARNOST LUSTIG Infinity
Essays
SAMUEL F. PICKERING Representative
ROBERT CANTWELL He Shall Overcome: Pete Seeger
ROSELLEN BROWN Don’t Just Sit There: Writing as a Polymorphous Perverse Pleasure
ALBERT GOLDBARTH The History of the Universe Is Important to This Story
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman