Table of Contents

POETRY

• Philip Levine
  • The Story
• Gerald Stern
  • Death by Wind
  • My Dear 
  • Rose in Your Teeth 
• Margaret Gibson
  • Face to Face 
  • The Choice 
  • In the Poet’s House 
• Linda Pastan
  • On Seeing An Old Photograph
  • Three Skulls on an Oriental Rug: Cezanne, Oil on Canvas
• John Kinsella
  • Canto of the Patriots (Inferno) 
  • Re-echoing Canto of the Snake Being Run Over (Inferno) 
• Moya Cannon
  • Hands
• Richard Tillinghast
  • Cabbage
  • Hotel Room
• Lauren Watel
  • Coasting
  • The Last Button
• Sarah Gorham
  • Salon
• Barbara Hamby
  • Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego  
• David Kirby
• Big Man’s Got the Blues
• Mark Doty
  • Apparition (Favorite Poem)
    
  • Theory of Beauty (Pompeii)  
  • Theory of Narrative  

FICTION

• Lauren Groff / Amish in a Time of War
• Daniel Wallace / The End
• Paul Lisicky / The Boy and His Mother Are Stuck!
• Anna Selver-Kassell / The Story of the Father
• Lindsay Stuart Hill / Water Running on the Moon

ESSAYS

• Natalie Goldberg / Wild at Heart
• Eleanor Coppola / Notes on a Life

INTERVIEW

• Jeff Rumiano / An Interview with Philip Levine

PORTFOLIO

• Britta Jaschinski / Dark
• Randy Malamud / Commentary