Poetry
DAVID WAGONER Bear / A Pair of Barn Owls, Hunting
JOHN ENGELS A Fly Box / Letter / Green Bay Flies / Hatch / White Miller
RODNEY GOVE DENNIS The Dining Room Through a Doorway
TIM SEIBLES Disappointed
JORDAN SMITH Paper Thin / Poem Remembering Two Lines of Tsvetayeva / Local Color
MARK IRWIN Archbishop of Canterbury Ramsey and the Bishop of Southwick
JOHN MCKERNAN THWUMPH / WITH
CHARLES A. GARDNER Chiapas, Mexico / Dick the Fish
KENNETH ROSEN Bog Girl / The Squirrel
DAVID MOOLTEN The Miles
LEN ROBERTS Obedient
RICHARD CECIL The Thinkers
ALICIA OSTRIKER After Illness
P. HAMILL The Cow-Nose Ray
MINNIE BRUCE PRATT At Deep Midnight
Fiction
PHILIP E. BARUTH two stories from The Dream of the White Village: James / Alison
DON LEE Casual Water
Essays
NORA MITCHELL AND EMILY SKOLER History, Death, Politics, Despair
HILARY MASTERS Disorderly Conduct
Interview
KEITH S. NORRIS An Interview with C. K. Williams
Reviews
DAVE SMITH Can We Talk? The Welcome Poetries of Dunn & Dobyns
STEPHEN DOBYNS McHugh at Mid-Career: Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 by Heather McHugh
ALLEN SHEPHERD The Way of the Road, Part II: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing
LORRIE SMITH The Rhythms of Desire (No Phallus Necessary): They Whisper by Robert Olen Butler
NORMAN WILLIAMS Getting It Down Right: David R. Slavitt’s Crossroads
Photography
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Archbishop of Canterbury Ramsey and the Bishop of Southwick
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman