Vol. 69 no. 1
Fall 2002

EDITOR’S NOTE
On Being a Managing Editor, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Family, Frances Sherwood
Bobbing, Helen Barolini
The Birthday, Harry Mark Petrakis
Say When, Roderick Townley
Pine Cones, Scott Ely
Handel’s Father, Bill Oliver
Mistrals, Stephen Ausherman
The Bombing of Tripoli, William McCauley
ESSAY
The Drawings of Laurie Lipton, Janet Burroway
A brief history of hair, Alyce Miller
POETRY
Christmas 2001, Tim Seibles
Five Poems, Nance Van Winckel
What the Body Knows, Alison Townsend
Two Poems, Eric Pankey
Sea Change, Laurie Lipton
The Black Hole, David Ray
In a Season of Absence, Maryfrances Wagner
Some Boys are Born to Wander, Walt McDonald
At Sybaris, Francis Blessington
Spring Fires in Livingston Parish, Alison Pelegrin
Three Poems, Regan Good
The Bar Mitzvah, Alex Horne
The Letter, Walter Bargen
The Skeleton of Roaring Camp Might be a Woman, David Citino
Georgia, Susan Whitmore
Water, Greg Field
On the Undying Political Influence of Frank O’Hara, Saul Bennett
The Swing, Miriam Poeter-Miller The Race, Kurt Brown
ARTWORK
Illustrations by Laurie Lipton
Photographs by Roger Pfingston