Vol. 79 nos. 3 & 4
Spring/Summer 2013
EDITOR’S NOTE
Obligation to Endure, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Ten Seconds in Two Lives, Alberto Alvaro Rios
Fugitive Spaces, Noor Hashem
Slugger and the Fat Man, Douglas Trevor
ESSAY
Keeping Dogs, Micah Dean Hicks
My White House Days, Thomas E. Kennedy
Peggy Noand: Introduction to the Art, Elisabeth Kirsch
Rabid, Linda Hasselstrom
Linda M. Hasselstrom: Buffalo Grass and Graves, Ruby R. Wilson
I Can’t Stop Thinking Through What Other People Are Thinking, David Shields
Wind Dancers, Conger Beasley Jr.
Roth’s Complaint, Walter Cummins
POETRY
Into It, Rebecca Baggett
A Piece of My Mother, Sabina Grogan
Four Poems, Stephen Dobyns
Two Poems, Kathleen Hellen
Three Poems, David Clewell
Five Choruses for George Salisbury, Jazz Musician, Dan Jaffe
My Father’s Quiet Friends in Prison, 1958-1962, Claudia Serea
After the Ball, Joseph Bruchac
Two Poems, translated by Michael Thomas Taren and the author, Tomaz Salamun
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
“To Live Like a Warrior,” on fiction by Mo Yan, Peter Tieryas Liu
“Jazz Through the Screen Door,” on the life of Ahmad Alaadeen, Dan Jaffe
“How to Kill a Wolf,” on the poems of dg nanouk okpik, Denise Low
“Spycraft Today,” observations of John le Carré, Peter Wolfe
“It Ain’t Heat, It’s Language,” on new poems by Elton Glaser, Robert Stewart
ARTWORK
Artwork by Peggy Noland and Garry Noland