Poetry
RODNEY JONES Apocalyptic Narrative
ALBERT GOLDBARTH The Mysteries / The Counterfeit Earth!
ALICE JONES The Cadaver
MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK The Sardine Can / Settled In
DAVID MURA The Blueness of the Day
RICHARD JACKSON While Dancing at the V.F.W., Seductive Melancholy Taps You on the Shoulder
JEFFREY HARRISON Vines
CAROL FROST Away / Concert for Dead Composers
ROBERT CORDING For Rex Brasher, Painter of Dead Birds
NANCY SCHOENBERGER The Wood Corpse / Four for Theodore Roethke
ROBERTA BIENVENU The Dredge / Emerson’s Umbrella
ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Gray / What You Find
WILLIAM OLSEN Burning Houses / The Suicides
SUZANNE PAOLA Death Which Is Natural & Not To Be Lamented, Feared Nor Longed For
PHILIP DACEY Why Jesus Was Crucified / Death and Television
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Art & Science, 1961 / Seasonal: for Ernesto Trejo
JIM SIMMERMAN For Everything We Can’t Put Down
DANIEL HALPERN Postcard
LEN ROBERTS The Power of Numbers
PHILIP BOOTH Terms / Hope
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Bulwark / The Ballad of Garfield John
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Thorn-Apple / Thorn-Apple: Variations
EDWARD HIRSCH Earthy Light (Homage to the 17th-Century Dutch Painters)
Fiction
ALYCE MILLER My Summer of Love
PAUL R. LILLY, JR. Hooks
NICHOLAS DELBANCO Dying for Some Time
GORE VIDAL Live from Golgotha: an excerpt from the novel
JOHN BENSKO Tequila Worms
DENNIS JOHNSON Rescuing Ed
EMILY HAMMOND Wicked
JEANNE LARSEN Aloe Vera
STEVE YARBROUGH Mississippi History
Essays
PHILIP LEVINE The Bread of Time Redeemed
LOUIS SIMPSON A Walk with Basho
JANE BROX from One for the Wind, One for the Crow
Reviews
PETER FILKINS The Lost Boy (on Frank Stanford)
EMILY WHEELER Whodunwhat?
BILL OLIVER Rick DeMarinis, Charles Baxter, and the Art of Surprise
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman