Vol. 85 no. 4
Summer 2019
EDITOR’S NOTE
Whispering or Kissing, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Wind Phone, Catherine Browder
The Game, Gary Gildner
ESSAY
The Burning Door, Dennis Finnell
Back at You, an editorial interlude, Robert Stewart
Breathe, J. Malcolm Garcia
Life as Crossing Borders, Sergio Troncoso
Remembering Gil Orlovitz & Others, Jack Anderson
POETRY
Two Poems, with Returning After Our War, John Balaban
Two Poems, Dion O’Reilly
Five Poems, Albert Goldbarth
Even the Alchemists, Marilyn Kallet
Two Poems, Michael Waters
Innocence, Patricia Traxler
Two Poems, Patricia Clark
Three Poems, Gary Young
Two Poems, Roy Bentley
. . . for us, again . . ., Margo Berdeshevsky
Two Poems, Willis Barnstone
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
“Wild Consciousness,” on the poetry of Carolyne Wright, Lillo Way
“Introspective Territory,” on the poetry of Marilyn Hacker, Annie Finch
“The Essay Canon,” an anthology of women essay writers, Natalie Johansen
“Something Must Be Said,” on Robert Bly’s Best American Poetry 1999, Robert Stewart
ARTWORK
Photographs by Bob Barret & Margo Berdeshsevsky
Paintings by Carol Zastoupil