 
| Table of Contents Poetry: Robert Cording, "Attending", "Bearings" John Updike, "Death in Venice", "Corinth, MS", "Reading, PA" Jana Harris, from That Springtime of Her Life David Wagoner, "Alexandra and the Thunder, Rattlesnake Dance" Michael McFee, "The Four Seasons, Gone, The Rich Boy" Rennie McQuilken, "The Naming", "Break Up" J.P. White, "Stone Soup", "To the Black Sailor" Alicia Ostriker, "Wooden Virgin with Child", "RVR: Work and Love" Daniel Halpern, from Something Shining Bruce Beasley, "Hyperlinks: Incomplete Void" Laurence Goldstein, "Scrapbooks" John Hennessy, "Jailbreak: Squeaky Fromm" Denise Duhamel, "A Poet Is the Worst", "No Home-Wrecker" Fiction: Elizabeth Spencer, "Owl" H.E. Francis, "The Private Lives of Children" Anna Schachner, "I Will Give You This" Derek Nikitas, "Do You Know Thom Hoover?" Edmund White, from The Married Man Glen Pourciau, "The Neighbor" Jill Bossert, "The Dig" Satire: Greg Johnson, "Greetings Booksellers" Graphics: Lincoln Perry, A Retrospective Keith Hood, Portfolio Cover: Fishing for Souls, by Lincoln Perry, 1995, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 |