Vol. 76 no. 1
Fall 2009
EDITOR’S NOTE
The Narrow Gate, Robert Stewart
FICTION
But You’re Not, Abby Frucht
Sip of Wine, Sara Pritchard
The Guinea Pig, Clancy Martin
ESSAY
Feremented Milk, Renne Giovarelli
Friends with Fatima, Krista Eastman
POETRY
Two Poems, Maxine Kumin
Interpretation of Tonuges, Afaa M. Weaver
Silent Running, Dennis Finnell
The Book of Wishes, Sam Taylor
Three Poems, Michael Hudson
Downpour, Robert Dana
Constants of Motion, Roald Hoffmann
Like I’m Forgetting, Roy Scranton
Two Poems, Jason Mccall
Alice Paul, Noel Crook
Two Poems, Elizabeth Hoover
The Employee Manual of Standard Policies and Procedures, Terrance Hayes
82Pantoum on Baghdad and Fish, Alexis Sellas
Two Poems, Perry O’Brien
Two Poems, Leslie Ann Minot
Two Poems, Robert Funge
Market Price, Baghdad, Susanna Lang
A Shadow in the Rain, James Brock
Those Holes Were His Eyes, Philip Metres
Doing My Part, Paula Kolek
The Bodies Beneath the Table, W.D. Ehrhart
On the Doctrine of Pre-emption, Steven Kronen
from America, a History in Verse Volume 7, the 18th Century, Edward Sanders
Six Poems, Edward Sanders
INTERVIEW
An American History, Line by Line, an interview with Edward Sanders, conducted by Steve Paul
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Pressure Put on Poems, on the collected poems of Jack Spicer, Stephan Delbos
Carving Out a World, on Mia Leonin’s memoir, Michael Parker
The Need to Keep Walking, on the fiction of A.S. Byatt., Peter Wolfe
A Complicit Loneliness, on a novel by Celine Curiol, Katherine D. Stutzman
Double Word Score, on Kevin McFadden’s poems, Brent Newsom
ARTWORK
Paintings by Ellen Pearce
Photographs by Stephen Grote & Nestor Arenas