Vol. 79 no. 2

Winter 2013

EDITOR’S NOTE

The Opposite, Also, Robert Stewart

FICTION

Last Words, Gabriel Welsch 

Cultivation, Thomas Fox Averill 

What the Water Is (Fig. 1-8), Amanda Hartzell 

Barrel Heat, Robert Day

ESSAY

May or May Not, Sandra Gail Lambert 

Confessions of an Actual Mad Man, James McKinley 

Hardware Store, James G. Brueggemann 

Genius of the Word, Willis Barnstone

POETRY

History: Three Poems, B. H. Fairchild 
To a Beach in Spain, Susan Rieke A Myth from the Palm Leaf Manuscript, Josephine Yu 
Two Poems, translated by Valzhyna Mort, Andrej Khadanovich 
“Words Can’t Describe Orbison’s Voice on This Last Show”, Charles Harper Webb
The Birth of Stand-Up, George Economou 
Three Poems, Maxine Kumin  

Sylt I, Valzhyna Mort 
Three Poems, James Capozzi 
Three Poems, Howard Schwartz 
Two Poems, Linda M. Hasselstrom 
Juilliard Cento Sonnet, Philip Dacey 
*, Simon Perchik 
Son, Chris Green 
Four Poems, Willis Barnstone

INTERVIEW

Closer to the Water, an interview conducted by Angela Elam, Valzhyna Mort

REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

“Better Words,” advice on poetry writing by Stephen Dobyns, Trish Reeves 

“Clipboards at the Door,” on a memoir by Kelly Barth, Lisa D. Stewart 

“Remaking Joy,” on the poetry of Karen An-hwei Lee, Jacqueline Kolosov

ARTWORK

Photographs by Dana Fritz, Philip Heying, Matt Rahner & Jon Scott Anderson
Paintings by Eric Zener