Table of Contents

Poetry

• David Baker
  • The Quiet Side Street
  • Midwest Figures
•  Benjamin Busch
  • Moving
  • Passing Phase
•  Paula Bohince
  • L’Atelierde Cézanne
•  Stephen Dunn
  • Mrs. Cavendish and the General Malaise
  • Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer
  • Mrs. Cavendish and the End of Secrecy
  • Mrs. Cavendish and the American Dilemma
  • Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve
• Moya Cannon
  • Viewing the almond blossom
  • Burial, Ardèche 20,000 B.C.
• Ellen Bass
  • Ode to the Pork Chop
• Barbara Hamby
  • Fried Chicken Boiled Peanut Blues

Fiction

• David Park / Catherine
• Sam Allingham / Freddy’s World
• Valerie Miner/Far Enough
• Ethan Chatagnier / Every Face Was in the Crowd

Essay

• Beth Gylys / A Tribute to Maxine Kumin
• Chad Davidson / Not Taking Pictures

Interview

• William Walsh / An Interview with Stephen Dunn

Portfolio

• Vesna Pavlović / Fabrics of Socialism

Special Feature: Hot Rocks #2

• Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez
  • Introduction
• Stephen Burt
  • On Listening to “Tallulah” by Allo Darlin and/or “So Little Deserve” by Heavenly and/or “Heaven is Whenever”  and/or “All the Songs That Will Mean So Much” and/or Elements of Nostalgiain Popular Music, Part MCMLXXXXIV
  • 1988 School Smoking Lounge Stephanie
• Gordon Van Ness
  • James Dickey, The Zodiac, and “thes trange, silent words of God”
• Kirk West as Told to Mike Mattison
  • Shooting the Blues
  • A Conversation with Kirk West & Mike Mattison