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