Vol. 77 no. 2
Winter 2011
EDITOR’S NOTE
Power, Robert Stewart
FICTION
A Country of Shoes, Gabriel Welsch
Revolver, Heidi Naylor
ESSAY
She Don’t Lie, Harmony Neal
Phil Miller, in memoriam, Robert Stewart
The Currency of Love, Linda Lancione
The Secret Revealed: How James Earl Ray Got His Money, John J. Dunphy
Keith Douglas, Desert Warrior, Conger Beasley, Jr.
George Whitman’s Ninety-Seventh, Margo Berdeshevsky
POETRY
Ripe, Michaela Carter
I’m Not sure the Cherry Tree is the Loveliest of Trees, Wendy Barker
3 Poems, Albert Goldbarth
Motel, a New Letters Retrospective, Phil Miller
3 Poems, Josephine Yu
On the Day of Mandela’s Release, Thomas Russell
4 Poems, Kim Addonizio
Love Poem for Ted Neeley in Jesus Christ Superstar, Carrie Shipers
2 Poems, Alice Friman
3 Poems, Charles W. Pratt
She Stole the British Romantics, Amy Anderson
Day Care, Deborah Bacharach
Canzone on the High Desert, Judy Ray
Louisa May and the Transcendental, Lorraine Schein
Oarfish, Terita Heath-Wlaz
My Father’s Guitars, Fredrick Zydek
Contra Chekhov, Michael Salcman
The Word Damn and the Word God, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
INTERVIEW
Wonderful Places, Desperate Lives, an interview with Walter Cummins, conducted by Joyce J. Townsend
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
A Life in Verse, on the selected poems of the late Robert Dana, Richard Holinger
Giving Voice to Others, on new poems by Vivian Shipley, William Wright
Backyard Nuclear War, on the nonfiction occupations of Steven Church, Linda Burnett
ARTWORK
Paintings by Lisa Grossman
Photographs by Terrie Wahling, Suzanne Garr, Margo Berdeshevesky, & Thomas Pirel