Poetry
CHASE TWICHELL Ladders
BILLY COLLINS Reincarnation and You
SUSAN KOLODNY Koi Pond, Oakland Museum
CATHY SONG Blue
SUZANNE PAOLA In the Realm of Neither Notions Nor Not-notions
ERIC PANKEY Prospero Stays Home from Church / The Dotage of Prospero / The Augury of Prospero
DEBORA GREGER Mass in B Minor
ROBIN SCHECTMAN Century Plant
DAWN CORRIGAN Kingdom of Prose
MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY Winter Botany
TED GRAF First Kill
HA JIN Woman or Man
ROBERT CLINTON Poem / Spring Cleaning
SANDRA MCPHERSON Primaries / From Several Flea Markets in Arkansas
NICHOLAS SAMARAS Telepathy to Paisios Across the Ravine
DAVID CAPLAN “In the World He Created According to His Will”
ALFRED CORN Jaffa / The Unknown Poets
Fiction
ELLEN COONEY Mrs. Moscharelli
JOHN ISAACS The Other House
LUCIA PERILLO Bad Boy Number Seventeen
MICHAEL CARROLL Everything Gets Valuable Given Time
Reports from American Places
MARK SELL Inside Miami: A Letter
Rediscoveries
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER The Dead Are Silent (translated by Kimberly Sparks)
Literary Criticism
MICHAEL MILBURN The Metamorphoses of Prose in Lowell’s Life Studies and Later Poems
ROBERTA REEDER Anna Akhmatova: The Stalin Years
Revaluations
ALLISON STANGER In Search of The Joke: An Open Letter to Milan Kundera
Reader’s Notebook
RACHEL HADAS The Quintessential Cavafy
Book Reviews
WENDY W. FAIREY A Daughter’s Story: Scottie, The Daughter of: The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith, by Eleanor Lanahan
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman