Editor’s Note
Fiction
CHARLES BAXTER Gershwin’s Second Prelude
ANN BEATTIE Octascope
RAYMOND CARVER If It Please You
JENNIFER EGAN Sacred Heart
LOUISE ERDRICH The Plunge of the Brave
JOYCE CAROL OATES The Crying Baby
GRACE PALEY Anxiety
W.D. WETHERELL Nickel a Throw
Poetry
JORGE LUIS BORGES Things that Might Have Been
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Elective Mutes
HAYDEN CARRUTH Eternity Blues
RAYMOND CARVER Alcohol
AMY CLAMPITT Keats at Chichester
STEPHEN DOBYNS Cemetery Nights II
RITA DOVE The Oriental Ballerina
NORMAN DUBIE A Dream of Three Sisters
STEPHEN DUNN Kansas
RICHARD EBERHART A Dream
JOHN ENGELS Autumn Poem
TESS GALLAGHER Black Pudding / Ebony
ALBER GOLDBARTH Donald Duck in Danish
JORIE GRHAM An Atichoke for Montesquieu
ROBERT HASS Calm / Shunga
SEAMUS HEANEY Field Work / The Birthplace
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
EDWARD HIRSCH My Father’s Back
GARRETT KAORU HONGO Village: Kahuku-Mura
RICHARD HUGO Piping to You on Skye from Lewis
DAVID IGNATOW Sleepy
MARK JARMAN Lost in a Dream
RODNEY JONES The First Birth
DONALD JUSTICE In the Attic / Thinking About the Past
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Imagining Their Own Hymns
RICHARD KENNEY The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT To Remain
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Starlight Scope Myopia
MAINE KUMIN Shelling Jacobs Cattle Beans
STANLEY KUNITZ Route Six
SYDNEY LEA Wedding Anniversary
PHILIP LEVINE Belief / Above Jazz
LINDA MCCARRISTON Second Marriage
WILLIAM MATTHEWS Bmp Bmp
JOHN MONTAGUE Foreign Field
SHARON OLDS Parts of the Body
MARY OLIVER A Poem for the Blue Heron
ROBERT PINSKY Flowers
STANLEY PLUMLY Waders and Swimmers
CHARLES SIMIC Navigator
DAVE SMITH Crab
GERALD STERN All I Have are the Tracks / My First Kinglet
LEON STOKESBURY Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain
ROBERT PENN WARREN Weather Report / Snowshoeing Back to Camp in Cloaming / Timeless, Twinned
ROSANNA WARREN Antietam Creek
C.K. WILLIAMS Artemis / The Dirty Talker, Boston / Shame
CHARLES WRIGHT Self-Portrait
Essays
ROBERT CANTWELL He Shall Overcome: Pete Seeger
ELEANOR CLARK Under the Sign of The Bison
TERRENCE DES PRES Self/Landscape/Grid
ROALD HOFFMANN Natural/Unnatural
JONATHAN HOLDEN Postmodern Poetic Form: A Theory
PHILIP LEVINE The Holy Cities: Detroit, Barcelona, Byzantium
SAMUEL F. PICKERING Taking the Night Plane to Tulsa
NANCY WILLARD Close Encounters of the Story Kind
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman