17.1 | FALL/WINTER 1990

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Alicia Griswold                MANAGING EDITOR: Dale Prince

FICTION EDITOR: J.R. Jones           POETRY EDITOR: Glenn Mott

PRODUCTION MANAGER: David O. Benson

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Hank Cribbs, Thomas Alan Holmes, Tim Parrish, Nicola Williams

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Jacqueline Duffey, Danny Gamble, James H.N. Martin, Amy Riddell, Roger Scott, Susan Wylie

TYPING AND PROOFREADING: J.R. Jones, Torrance Marbury

FICTION

G.S. Allen: The Atomic Kid

Steven Barza: Claire’s Dilemma

Robert Hiles: The Religion of Love

Steven Rinehart: Funny Cars

Laura White Schuett: The Bones of Fourteen Children

Ray Zacek: Nestor

POETRY

M.L. Aguilar-Cariño: At Hann’s Cliff  |  From the Diary of D. Burnham  |  Arcanum  |  The Secret Language  |  Death Anniversary  |  Dissections  |  Curse  |  Encounter  |  Legend 

Christopher Davis: Voice Against Christ  |  From Inside a Clock Mask  |  Two Dead Marriages  |  Endlessly Rocking  |  Good Friday

Jalaine Halsall: Him 

Bill Knott: Contemporary Outremerican Poetry   |  Poemclone #4  

Mark Levine: Wild West  |  The Polish Shoemaker

Dionisio D. Martinez: Iberia

Michelle Mitchell-Foust: Cat-Headed Bast  |  On the Happiest Day of Your Life

Reynolds Price: First Love, Hayes Barton, 1958

Jane Schapiro: Breath

Rod Tullis: A Fireside Story

FEATURE

AWP Intro Journals Series

Susan Carlsen: Womb Envy

Laurie Lynn Drummond: St. Augustine’s Grass

John Gallaher: Cattle Shooting  |  I Thought I Was a Mailbox

Roxanne Power Hamilton: Thanksgiving

Heather McGehee: From the Journal of a Nineteenth Century Aeronaut

Tracy Philpot: Why You Close Doors Behind Us

Jesus Ramon Rodriguez: What It Is You Feel at Times Like This

Philip Welch: House by Water

Holly Welker: Christian Art

Reviews 

Jeff Hamilton

ART

Sharon Yavis: The Bather (cover)

CHAPBOOK

Linda Gregg: Thirteen Shapes of Desire