Vol. 82 nos. 3 & 4

Spring/Summer 2016

EDITOR’S NOTE

In the House, Robert Stewart

FICTION

Tragedy of a Clochard on a Bench, Willis Barnstone

The Miner’s Lamp, Edward Hoagland

White Lies, Rachel Hall

POETRY

Three Poems, Melissa Stephenson 
Wifely Duty, Sue Fagalde Lick 
Two Poems, Stephen Dunn 
Three Poems, Dennis Finnell 
Melungeon, John Crutchfield 
In Easgann Wood, Robin Robertson 
My Father Dead in the City, Randolph Thomas 
Two Poems, Hilma Wolitzer 
The Day Before, George Kalamaras 
The Honey Thief, M Ross Henry 
Mr. Thinktwice, Steve Gehrke 
Night Voyage, Noel Smith

INTERVIEW

Introduction to Robin Robertson

At Scraich of Day, conducted by Robert Stewart, Robin Robertson

CUBAN & CUBAN-AMERICAN WRITERS & ARTIST

Introduction: Cuban & Cuban-American Writers & Artists
A Mariel Epistolary, fiction, Chantel Acevedo 
Utopias, poems, translated by Margaret Randall, Alfredo Zaldivar 
For Three Months I Am Alone in La Habana, poem in English & Spanish , Ruth Behar 
Three Poems, Lisiette Alonso 
Berliners Who, two stories, Cristina Garcia 
Two Poems, Orlando Ricardo Menes 
Two Essays: The Rooster That Attacked My Sister & Wandering Creatures, Ana Menendez 
Two Poems, trnaslated by Margaret Randall, Laura Ruiz Montes 
That Dream Again, Pablo Medina

REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

A Modern Defense of Poetry, Thomas Stroik

Writing Love, Robert Stewart

ARTWORK

Photographs by Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Steve Paul & Ramon Williams
Paintings by Maydelina Perez-Lezcano, Carlos Estevez, Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Jose Beida & Marcos Valella