Lynne Sharon Schwartz, “Heat”
Sheila Kohler, “Casualty”
Floyd Skloot, “Plans”
Abby Frucht, “The Empiricist”
Melanie Rae Thon, “The Long Way Home”
Janice Deal, “Nature”
 

Poetry:

James Tate, from Memoir of the Hawk
David Wagoner, “Aerial Act”
John Hennessy, “Tituba”
Patry Francis, “Naming the Bones,” “Tornadoes Kill 8,” “Summit Hill,” “Bernadette & Layla”
Brooks Haxton, “Teenage Ikon”
Robert Hahn, “In the Open,” “John Ford on His Death Bed,” “On Being Trapped in a Poem”
George Murray, “The Cottage Builder’s Letter
Frederick Feirstein, “The Doctor,” “That Day,” “Oedipus to Laius”
Cortney Davis, “Mother’s Gloves,” “Hurricane Floyd,” “The Brightest Star Is Home”
Oliver Rice, “Il Basso Writes to His Physician”
Stephen C. Behrendt, “Night Life”

Graphics:

Saul Steinberg, “Images of the New World: Memories of an Old”

Essays:

Lawrence Danson, “‘An Heroic Decision’: Saul Steinberg” 
Susan L. Feldman, “Besieged”
 

Cover:

Watercolor by Saul Steinberg, 1943