Vol. 86 nos. 1 & 2
Fall/Winter 2019-2020
EDITOR’S NOTE
That’s It, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Two excerpts from a novel: Lady Lazarus, Cambridge, England, 1956 & Transit: District of Columbia—Columbia, Mo. 1964, Janet Burroway
Captain Elvis, Michael Henson
Jessica touches my guts, winner, the Robert Day Award for Fiction, Angie Sijun Lou
Primates, winner, the New Letters Publication Award, Donna Gordon
ESSAY
Break Down Easy, winner, the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for the Essay, Terrance Manning Jr.
POETRY
Three Poems, Trish Reeves
Three Poems, Gerald Stern
Okra, Peter Balakian
Three Poems, Albert Goldbarth
Contagion, William Trowbridge
Two Poems, George Kalamaras
Two Poems, Karen Kovacik
Too Bad, Carl Dennis
Imuta, translated by Marilyn Hacker, Marie Etienne
Two Poems, Richard Jones
Indianity, Diane Glancy
Two Poems, Emily Ransdell
Two Poems, winner, the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry, Brianna Flavin
Thresholds, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Ode to an Urn, John Moessner
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
“Poetry in Peace & Action,” on the poetry of John Balaban, H.C. Palmer
“Women in Dangerous Waters,” on poems by Sandra Yannone, Deborah Bacharach
“A Low-Water Bridge in High Water,” on two books of poems by Al Ortolani, Denise Low
“Ruthless Empathy,” on the poems of Daniel Lawless, Marilyn McCabe
“To Own the World,” on the fiction of K.L. Cook, Allison Field Bell
“Voices from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire,” on poems by Deborah Woodward, AnnaLee Barclay
ARTWORK
Photographs by Rebecca Ofeish, Gloria Baker Feinstein & Eli Reichman
Paintings by Carol Zastoupil