Poetry
MARIANNE BORUCH Crushed Birds / At the Watercolor Gallery / In the Street, Men Working / By the Sea / Sewing
SHEILA P. DONOHUE Angels / Palinode: To a Husband
FRED ZYDEK Three Small Bare-Skinned Swallows
MARY CLARK One Way Love / Your Place / She No Longer Looks at Herself
CHRISTOPHER BURSK A Sudden Draft / Tiny / The Ice Man / Cell Count / The Group
JEFF WORLEY Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern
STEVEN CRAMER The Cloud Chamber
COLETTE INEZ I Clasp Another Woman’s Hand in Mine as if She Were My Child / The Music Box
LARRY RUBIN The Bachelor, Reconsidering
DONALD PLATT Keys to No Doors
MIRIAM VERMILYA Heartwood
MARLON OHNESORGE-FICK The Flood
STEVE ORLEN Shyness
MILLER WILLIAMS Sleeping with Friends / Muse of the Evening
STEPHEN GIBSON Blue Underwear
JEANNE LARSEN The Muse of Sex
CATHY SMITH BOWERS For the Body
LYNNE KNIGHT Dissolving Borders
TED GRAF What He Said to Me without Speaking
MARGARET LLOYD In the Late Evening / The Argument / Beyond the Maples and Pines
DEANNA PICKARD Another Self / Lilacs with One Poppy
LESLEY DAUER The Fat Lady / Elegies for Living People
JOHN ENGELS For Carolyn Kelver, after Forty Years
DAVID CITINO The House of Pain
D.C. BERRY Daddy
LEONARD NATHAN We Took Her Death / Minna / Winter Ode / Faith
JONATHAN HOLDEN Gould / La Nauseé / The Wicked Witch Is Dead
SALLY BALL Pepper Says Put Up Your Dukes
KHALED MATTAWA Bright Yellow, Ketchup Red
DAVID THOMSON Variation on Mingues’s Sweet Sucker Dance / Misterioso
CLYDE TRESSLER Maxine Recalls Singing for the Troops
KATE BARNES The Rhetoric of Fiction
Fiction
WILLIAM MAXWELL A Brace of Fairy Tales / Two Light-Hearted Fables
ANDREA BARRETT The Marburg Sisters
EILEEN POLLACK The Safe
ALICE MATTISON Home Home
PHILIP BARUTH Deep in Oneida Nation
Essays
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Elements of Love
JONATHAN HOLDEN To Wake Up Cold in Fact: The Poetry of Leonard Nathan
Reviews
CAROL FROST Lessons from an Anarchist: The Prose of Philip Levine
DAVID R. SLAVITT Two Queens and a Wild Card
EVELYN TOYNTON The Sorrow and the Pity: Mark Rothko Revisited
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman