Vol. 73 no. 1
Fall 2006/2007
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor’s note by Robert Stewart
FICTION
Ostriches, Susan Tekulve
Sick in London, Mary Gordon
Reason to Believe He Hath Deserted, Michael Pritchett
Tommy Henrich’s a Prick, Paul Zimmer
ESSAY
from Portrait of a Homeless Art History Student, McCarter Andrew
Recovering Robinson, Scott Donaldson
POETRY
The Carpenter, Thom Schramm
Plantation, Lightsey Darst
Two Poems, Gary Soto
The Deer, Michael Chitwood
Finding Bach, Steven Rood
Two Poems, Deborah Ager
Three Poems, Steve Paul
Ode to Clouds, Christopher Buckley
Nighties, Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Except, Robert Dana
Coffee with Cream and Sugar, Richard Jones
A Barbequed Life (1967), Stanley E. Banks
The Blue Angels, John Poch
Boston Evening Transcript, William Logan
poems shaped from the liebeslieder waltzes, John Knoepfle
I Am Still Thinking About This Crow, translated by Iraj Omidvar and Parviz Omidvar, Ahmad Shamlu (A. Bamdad)
The Desert of Christmas, Debora Greger
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
In Dreadful Times, review of recent fiction by John Updike, Peter Wolfe
The Enlightened Recumbent, on the poems of Flyod Skloot and David Citino, Thomas March
No One Gets Out of There Alive, on the poetry of Valerie Nieman, Tom Lombardo
ARTWORK
Photographs by Gloria Baker Feinstein