Spring & Summer 2008

Volume 25, No. 1 & 2

Spring & Summer 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

*Dedication: In Memory of Grace Paley*
FICTION
The Other Woman	Kirstin Allio
Birthmark	Matt Bondurant
B & B	Celeste Ng
One Voted No	Shao Wang
Diptych	Michael Hawley
NONFICTION
Looking for an Angle	Deborah A. Lott
No Feeling of Falling	Dustin Beall Smith
The Tricky Thing About Endings	Leigh Morgan Owen
POETRY
Guest Editor: Jane Hirshfield
Second Tornado	David Baker
The Sixth Trumpet	Chana Bloch
The Daily News
An Onion	Robert Bly
Walking Out in the Morning
Creeley	Thomas Centolella
Sunflower		Henri Cole
Childhood	Greg Delanty
Other Answers	Carl Dennis
For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly	Sharon Dolin
Apparition	Mark Doty
Excitement	Stephen Dunn
Lifework	Laura Fargas
Earth, this Firelit Lantern	Katie Ford
Dreaming at the Ballet	Jack Gilbert
South
Neglecting the Kids
Grandmother, Cleaning Rabbits	Samuel Green
The Pilot Light	Rachel Hadas
Epitaph for a Young Man	John Haines
Endearment	Tony Hoagland
The Truth
The Loneliest Job in the World
Captivity Narrative
Ms. Veronina	Ilya Kaminsky
Oh, Mariachi Me	Ted Kooser
The Winking Vulva	Maxine Kumin
Make of Me	Lance Larsen
Western Lit	Dorianne Laux
Learning to Drive
The Other Rhinoceros	Phillis Levin
Not a Prayer
Paradise Came Over Me Once	Anne Marie Macari
Before & After	Morton Marcus
Southwestern Suite	Stefanie Marlis
Anniversary	Linda McCarriston
L'Ancien Regime	Christopher Merrill
The Silence of the Mine Canaries	W.S. Merwin
Far Along in the Story
Fire	Joseph Millar
Quail	Paul Muldoon
An Old Man	Leonard Nathan
Birding	Dennis O'Driscoll
Sibling Unrivalry	Sharon Olds
Winter Trees	Alicia Ostriker
Hiddenness	Michael Palmer
A Dozen Roses	Linda Pastan
Lilacs
Rachmaninoff's Elegy
Shame	Robert Pinsky
Looking for My Father In Aix-en-Provence, Early March	Donald Platt
The Boy Who Became a Man with Pockets	Alberto Rios
A Blind Astronomer in the Age of Stars	Pattiann Rogers
Bomb Fishing	Kay Ryan
The Goat	Umberto Saba (translation by George Hochfield and Leonard Nathan
Marianna	Peter Dale Scott
Bugler, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska	Peggy Shumaker
Checklist
Save the Last Dance for Me	Gerald Stern
Savin Rock	Chase Twichell
Traveller	Jean Valentine
Fire	Rosanna Warren
Bison	Robert Wrigley
Flower
In Praise of Spirit	Al Young
*La Revancha del Tango*	C. Dale Young