Vol. 82 no. 1

Fall 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE

Peace, Robert Stewart

FICTION

Jackalope Walks into a Sherman Alexie Narrative, Denise Low 

God, Is It You Playing the Sax? translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Morten Seifert 

Day Thirty-Five, Sandra Gail Lambert

ESSAY

Prudence and Method: Errands of Life Speeding to Death, Thomas E. Kennedy

COMMENTARIES

The Mockingbird Syndrome, Janet Burroway

I have a problem with “issues”, Robert F. Willson Jr.

POETRY

Two Poems, Margo Berdeshevsky 
Three Poems, Willis Barnstone 
Happy 87th Birthday, to Willis, Stanley Moss 
Two Poems, Sapphire 
Three Poems, William Trowbridge 
Daumier’s Prodigal Son, Bill O’Neill 
Four Poems, Stephen Dobyns 
Two Poems, Trish Reeves 
Two Poems, Michael Harty

NATIVE AMERICAN POETS & THE MIDDLE EAST

A Place of Empathy: Special Section, Staff 
Interview with Diane Glancy, conducted by Robert Stewart
Two Poems, Diane Glancy 
Refugee, poem, Joy Harjo 
Two Poems, Kim Shuck 
To Sugar a Dream, poem, Bojan Louis 
Two Poems, Kimberly Blaeser 
Two Poems, LeAnne Howe

REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

African Poets Book Series, with reviews of Kofi Awoonor & Clifton Gachagua, Ron McFarland 

Interview with David L. Robbins and review of the fiction, Bill Mesce Jr. 

Toward Peace, on the collected poems of Jo McDougall, Gary Dop 

Angling for Trout, on a memoir by Guy de la Valdène, Henry Hughes 

Regular Routines with the Devil, on the poems of Richard Carr, Katie Manning 

Loving Luba, an assessment of poems by Colette Inze, Dacey Philip

ARTWORK

Photographs by Eli Reichman & Margo Berdeshevsky
Illustration by Tim Mayer