Table of Contents

Poetry

• Mary Oliver
  • Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond
  • Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me
• Charlie Smith
  • In July
  • My Wild Nights (Baraka)
  • Picture of the Situation
• Donald Hall
  • Egg Salad Sandwiches
• Louis Simpson
  • The Wow! Factor
  • Wash, Dry, and Fold
• Robert Bly
  • Wanting to Steal Time
  • The Way the Parrot Learns
• Andrea Hollander Budy
  • East Third at Ocean
• Cesare Pavese
  • Translations from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
• Linda Pastan
  • True Confessions
  • Ghiaccio
• Dorianne Laux
  • The Student
• Ann Townsend
  • The Wave
  • They Call You Moody
• T.R. Hummer
  • Erotica
  • Blood Oranges
  • The Ring Cycle

Fiction

• Gail Godwin / Five Passion Monologues for Palm Sunday
• Justin Cronin / Spring Garden
• Scott Ely / Pulpwood
• Lesley Dormen / I Asked My Mother
• Ann Hood / The Rightness of Things

Essay

• Anne Beattie / Melancholy and the Muse

Interview

• Gail Godwin / An Interview with Jane Hill