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