A Note from the Editor
Poetry
ALIKI BARNSTONE Sadness
JENNIFER TONGE Cusp / Night
AGHA SHAHID ALI Stanzas Shaped by a Ghalib Ghazal / There Is No God But
JANE HIRSHFIELD Dark-grained, Surprisingly Heavy / Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body
MARGOT SCHILPP Obsessional
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY The Sparrow’s Gate
DONELLE R. RUWE The Thousandth Night
VIRGIL SUAREZ Carterista / Pickpocket
DEBORAH AGER Night: San Francisco
SUSAN WOOD Letter to Toru from Provincetown
REETIKA VAZIRANI The Dadar School for the Blind
DAVID WOJAHN Poison, 1959
PRESTON MARCHANT Psalm 83
NICK FLYNN Flashback
KHALED MATTAWA For Years I’ve Been Prohibited from Mentioning the Moon
DAVID RICKS Among the Volga Rus, A. D. 921
Fiction
PETER LASALLE Where We Last Saw Time
DWIGHT ALLEN Not Renata
JOANN KOBIN Dr. Leopold Tries to Figure It Out
MICHAEL RUSSELL Smoke on the Water
DAVID PHILIP MULLINS True Love Vs. the Cigar Store Indian
ELLEN COONEY The Whale
LESLEE BECKER Who Started It?
Revaluations
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD Frost in His Letters
EVA BRANN Portrait of a Lady: His Monkey Wife
Recollections
ROBYN SARAH On Seeing: Essay in the Form of Variations
Provocations
KERRY L. TUCKER Letter from the Mouse House
Reader’s Notebook
MYLES WEBER David Mamet in Theory and Practice
Letters from Abroad
GWEN STRAUSS A French Love Affair
Rediscoveries
HEINRICH HEINE A German Poet’s View of London
Book Reviews
RACHEL HADAS You Know More Than You Think You Do: Four Guides to Poetry
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter