Vol. 75 nos. 2 & 3
Winter/Spring 2009
EDITOR’S NOTE
Chalenge, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Haints at Noon, Marlin Barton
Dirt Men, Tim Johnston
Layover, Matthew Pitt
ESSAY
The Commuter, Primo Ventello
Hammock Variations, James Bogan
Three Hooks, Robyn Anspach
Uncle Danny Comes to America: introduction to poet Dan Turell, Thomas E. Kennedy
When Gladiolas Surprise the Nasturtiums, Mary Hower
The Night Shift, Ben Fountain
The Perils of Poetic Film Making, James Bogan
POETRY
Waiting for the Mail from Ramallah, Tyler Caroline Mills
Three Poems, Eric Torgersen
Two Poems, Robert Sims Reid
Ski Jumper, Laurie Zimmerman
Four Poems, Laurie Zimmerman
The Art Historian Loses Her Sight, Elizabeth Schott
Landscape, Elizabeth Schott
Three Poems, Alice Friman
Dance, Willis Barnstone
My Father Dancing, Tony Barnstone
Three Poems, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Dan Turell
Two Poems, Victoria Chang
Two Poems, translated by Tom Priestly, Cvekta Lipus
Two Poems, Teddy Macker
Hearts and Mouths, Jay Neugeboren Two Poems, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Masters of the Plein Air, Bruce Bond
M Theory and the Apthegm of Bones, Christopher Buckley
INTERVIEW
The Split Life, an interview with Victoria Change, conducted by Robert Stewart
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Aiming Straight, on the poetry of Ruth Stone, Alice Friman
Stays Against Insularity, on translations of Darwish, al-Massri and others, H.L. Hixq
Expressionist Jazz, on Coltrane and Ben Ratliff’s jazz writing, Ed Minus
Updike’s Feminism. We’ll need a long time to take his measure, Peter Wolfe
Where Have All the Parents Gone?, on the short fiction of Molly McNett, Catherine Browder
Spiritual Conversations, on the new work by Mary Oliver, Toni M. Holland
Notice of seven new titles by different authors, Robert Stewart
ARTWORK
Photographs by Martin Desht, James Bogan, James Proffitt, and John Howard