Poetry
BARON WORMSER Weather / Squares / It’s a Party (1959) / Dramatis Personae (1957)
TERRI WITEK The Balanced Aquarium
WALTER MCDONALD Rembrandt and the Art of Mercy
KEITH RATZLAFF Leonardo Sketches an Old Man from Memory
ROGER MITCHELL Cardamom
TIMOTHY LIU Elegy
MEREDITH WATTISON Husband Bread
JUDSON MITCHAM The Secret of Humility Is Excellence / A Postcard to My Father / Deadpan
JIMMY CARTER Prosperity Doesn’t Suit Everyone
PHILIP BOOTH Three Awakenings in New England
JIM DANIELS Blood
NICHOLAS SAMARAS Eve Naming Other Animals
STEPHANIE COYNE DEGHETT Fringillirosadae
WESLEY MCNAIR Love Handles / Poem for My Feet
CHARLES BARAW Trouble
MAUREEN SEATON Furious Cooking
DOUGLAS WOODSUM Calm after a Little Madness / No Scion of Daedalus
PHILIP WHITE Wings
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Carib’s Leap
Fiction
MARSHALL BOSWELL Wolfe
KEVIN CANTY King of the Elephants
SARA CORBETT Esperance
MARY CLARK The Plastic Masterpiece
Essays
SYDNEY LEA Democracy and the Demotic: Reflections on the ‘lingua franca et jocundissima’ in American Poetry
JANE HIRSHFIELD Two Secrets
CAROL FROST Berryman at Thirty-Eight: An Aesthetic Biography
RICHARD TILLINGHAST Robert Lowell’s Day by Day: “Until the wristwatch is taken from the wrist”
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Elements of Love
RON POWERS Reclaiming the Word in the Age of the Gun
Reviews
DAVID R. SLAVITT Microcosmos & Macrocosmos
HADLEY HIGGINSON New Myths and an Old God: Searching for the Voice of America in The Best American Poetry 1993
ALLEN SHEPHERD The Perfect Role of the Outsider: Brian Moore’s No Other Life
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Jeff Kaufman