Table of Contents

Poetry

• Diane Ackerman
  • A Swooning Couch
• Louis Simpson
  • The Catalogue
  • Lives of the Poets
• Ann Townsend
  • Old-Fashioned Kissing
  • Mindful of You
  • No Shelter
• Ann Marie Macari
  • Annunciation
  • Night Feeding
• Marvin Bell
  • Rampant
  • Louise Braille
• Rick Bass
  • Checkerboard Mountain
• Richard Tillinghast
  • Like One Who Is New in Paradise

Fiction

• Robert Olen Butler / Carl and I
• Daniel Wallace / The Town of Sarah
• Stacy Grimes / Trouble
• Alyson Hagy / How Bitter the Weather

Essays

• Gerald Stern / Vow of Silence
• Ann Pancake / Tough

Interview

• Robert Olen Butler / An Interview with Thomas Bligh

Portfolio

• Ernest G. Welch / An Enduring Vision