Poetry
AMY SCATTERGOOD Laws of Gravity
JULIE CARR I want this corner empty (Persephone speaking)
ROBERT THOMAS Film Noir
DAVID YEZZI Woman Holding a Fox
CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Travel With the Missing
DON SHARE Spiced
SIDNEY WADE Night Air, Bokhara / Lodos on the Bosphorus
TED DEPPE The Proof
VALERIE WOHLFELD Red-Winged Blackbird
MARK RUDMAN “The Secretary of Liquor” (John F. Kennedy’s informal appointment of Dean Martin to his Cabinet)
BOB HICOK Echo
JOHN POCH The Kite / Yeats and the Right Hand
PEG BOYERS Last Words
CARL PHILLIPS Safari Figure
LYNNE MCMAHON Sunflowers / Cicada Invasion
SUE KWOCK KIM The Road to Skye
Fiction
PAUL MCRANDLE From Tikal
SABINA MURRAY The Caprices
NANCY REISMAN Many-Splendored Things
JOANN KOBIN What I Learned From Clara
TOM PAINE Ceausescu’s Cat
SYDNEY LEA How in a Lifetime?
Revaluations
JORGE LUIS BORGES Three Essays: The Last Voyage of Ulysses/ Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny/ Immortality (translated by Eliot Weinberger and Esther Allen)
Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY Memorial in North Hadley
Recollections
TED PERRY My Home Movies
Letters from Abroad
SIDNEY WADE In Istanbul
Testimonies
EFIM ETKIND The Crimes of Joseph Brodsky (translated by Roberta Reeder with Yakov Gubanov)
Interviews
J. MICHAEL LENNON A Conversation with Norman Mailer
Rediscoveries
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Speaking and Writing in Heaven
Literary Criticism
CAROL FROST The Poet’s Tact, and a Necessary Tactlessness
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter