Vol. 81 no. 1
Fall 2014
EDITOR’S NOTE
Making What Matters, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Where I Was Before, Robert Day
Wind and Rain, Kathryn Schwille
ESSAY
Peace Found in peace, six introductory essays to art in The Books of Common Prayer, Margaret Brommelsiek
Two Writers’ Beginnings, Thomas Fox Averill & Thomas E. Kennedy, Staff
Thirteen Weeks at Mount Hope, writing lessons from the cemetery, Thomas Fox Averill
Hitting the Wall of My Ignorance, from a close reading of Barth’s The Floating Opera, Thomas E. Kennedy
POETRY
Lament, Debra Marquart
Four Poems, Aliki Barnstone
Runoff, Joseph Bathanti
Hail and Farewell, April 2014, Abby E. Murray
Falter, Marjorie Stelmach
Message-Board Poem, Lauren Helmstetter
Five Poems, Albert Goldbarth
Three Poems, a reprise, introduced by Tricia Schaefer, Ted Schaefer
Full Moon Over Long Island Bay, John Kinsella
The Bill Collector at Sunrise, Jon Veinberg
Philip Marlowe, 2012, Erik Campbell
Subjective, Charles Harper Webb
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
“Black and Blue: A Book Review-Interview,” on the prose of Thomas E. Kennedy, Bill Mesce, Jr.
“Thought Through Poetry,” on the poetry of B.H. Fairchild, Robert Stewart
“Subverting Norms,” on the short stories of Jessica Hollander, Greyson Honaker
“Our Foolish, Beastly Hearts,” on the poetry of William Trowbridge, Shanan Ballam
ARTWORK
Fountain pen drawings by Aliki Barnstone
Hand-pieced collage, digitally scanned for archival printing artwork by Margaret Bromelsiek