Vol. 69 nos. 2 & 3
Winter/Spring 2003
EDITOR’S NOTE
A Tradition of the New, Robert Stewart
FICTION
The Song of Evening, Vincent O. Carter
Songs Without Words, Charlotte Holmes
Kismet, Sarah A. Odishoo
The Amnesty Barracks, Daniel Woodrell
Stone or Water, Janet L. Thompson
The Pleasure of Man and Woman Together on Earth, Thomas E. Kennedy
ESSAY
On Rediscovering Vincent O. Carter, Chip Fleischer
Robert Stackhouse: Artist As Shapeshifter, Elisabeth Kirsch
Real Words, Paul Zimmer
How Many of You Are There in the Quartet?, Brian Doyle
Alice, Judy Ray
Looking Out, Gary Gildner
The Literary Awards, Aleatha Ezra
On the Edge of Ice, Monica Devine
POETRY
Six Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye
Four Poems, Quincy Troupe
Two Poems, Marilyn Hacker
Tools, Joseph Millar
Luminous Blue Variables, Michelle Boisseau
When I Left, Vanessa Sooy
On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise, Joanna Goodman
We are not Creatures of a Single Day, translated by David McDuff, Pia Tafdrup
Two Poems, Judith Berke
Looking for the Man in the Moon, Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
Five Poems, Ellen Bass
The Summer Carnival, Luisa Igloria
Two Poems, Donald Junkins
INTERVIEW
The Subject is Life, an interview with Naomi Shihab Nye, conducted by Angela Elam
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Modes of Sacred Speech: A review of poetry books by Grace Schulamn, Miranda Field, Natasha Trethewey, Jacqueline Marcus, Linda Gregerson, H. L. Hix
Anything Could Occur: A review of Hart Crane: A Life, by Clive Fisher, Conger Beasley Jr.
ARTWORK
Illustrations by Robert Stackhouse
Photographs by Anonymous and Patricia Dougherty