29_3and4Contents

Volume 29, No. 3 & 4

Fall & Winter 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FICTION
National Cherry Blossom Day		Lenore Myka
Local Girl		Jenny Hanning
Night Birds		Amy Sayre-Roberts
A Home Like Someone Else's Home		Victoria Kelly
Grendel's Mother		Katherine Heiny
Other People's Children		Victoria Lancelotta
Rooms Like These Have No Doors		Nicole Miller
Names		Laura Jok
Arya		Dina Nayeri
NONFICTION
Heaven's Chief Musician		Kirk Perry
Thirteen Attempts		Eva Saulitis
The Clock Test		Francesca Mari
The Hitler Fund		Sandra Kobrin
Waiting for Red Dawn		Jesse Goolsby
SPECIAL FEATURE
Urgent Beauties: 30th Anniversary Poems
Introduction		Jane Hirshfield
30th Anniversary Poems: Part One Jane Hirshfield, Guest Editor
About My Father	Robert Bly
Day Sounds		Billy Collins
Alaska Aubade (Summer)		Olena Kalytiak Davis
Lyric Poet Disease		Stuart Dischell
Pomade		Rita Dove
Pescadero		Mark Doty
If a Clown		Stephen Dunn
Ravenswood		Stuart Dybek
Sad Beauty		Nancy Eimers
Small Hut		Tess Gallagher
Healed by Fascination		Patricia Hampl
As the Roots Prepare for Literature		Brenda Hillman
The Stone of Heaven		Jane Hirshfield
What the Living Do		Marie Howe
Sprung Rhythm of a Landscape		Yusef Komunyakaa
Elegy Beginning with Half a Line from Ben Jonson		Maxine Kumin
Juneau Spring		Dorianne Laux
Hidden Hearing		Li-Young Lee
Creole		Robert Pinsky
In General		Pattiann Rogers
Pentimenti		Kay Ryan
The Dog		Michael Ryan
Long Before We Got Here, Long After We're Gone		Peggy Shumaker
Independence Day		Gerald Stern
The Scattered Congregation		Tomas Tranströmer
In the Electricity of Love, Its Lightning Strike		Jean Valentine
The Death of the Magician		David Wagoner
Being As I Was, How Could I Help		Eleanor Wilner
Gravity		Kevin Young
Poem for Delkash		Matthew Zapruder

30th Anniversary Poems: Part Two Todd Boss, Guest Editor

For an Old Runner		Todd Boss
I Don't Suppose We Have Us		Jennifer Denrow
The Why		Alex Dimitrov
Two Story		Jill Alexander Essbaum
Phone Call from My Sister, Who Believes She's Reactivated a Vanished Twin in Her Jawbone		Anna Journey
Newly Arrived in the World		Athena Kildegaard
Hither-and-Yon		Rickey Laurentiis
O2, North Greenwich		Lorraine Mariner
I Was Flying		Malena Mörling
Before the Boat is a Boat		Matthew Nienow
From		Jill Osier
from Bizarre		Nathaniel Perry
With an Old Oar, Light Turning the Fog		Gretchen Steele Pratt
The One We're Falling Into		Derek Sheffield
Lightning Conductor		Jon Stone

30th Anniversary Poems: Part Three Camille Dungy, Guest Editor

Song: Running Away		Dan Bellm
from Rocket Fantastic		Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Nocturne in the Shadow of a Dormant Volcano		Oliver de la Paz
[eh-met tilz feys]		Samantha De Trinidad
Glacial Erratics		Camille T. Dungy
The Whale		Aracelis Girmay
Anaberto Skypes with His Mother		Rigoberto González
Before Blood After Honey		Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Global Studies		James Hoch
The Labor of Stagger Lee: Lion		Douglas Kearney
The Origin of Feathers in My Windshield		Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Wish		Patrick Rosal
Vivarium		Natasha Sajé
Sotto Voce: Othello, Unplugged		Tim Seibles
*occi-moron*		Evie Shockley