23.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 1997
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Mindy Wilson MANAGING EDITOR: Christopher Chambers
FICTION EDITOR: Jim Hilgartner POETRY EDITOR: Anthony Caleshu
DESIGN EDITOR: Michael Fallon
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Nelinia Cabiles, Jill Christman, Andy Duncan, Lainee Frizzo, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Matt McDonald, Michael Mejia, Julia Romberger, Melissa Sorongon, Stan Whatley, Eliot Wilson
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Rick Adams, Melanie Carter, Matt Doherty, JoLee Gibbons, Margaret Hermes, Melissa Huseman, Maurice Manning, Alan May
FICTION
Robert Hellenga: For Sale
Heather L. Hirschi: From There to Here, From Here to There
Edward O’Connell: Crossing Chihuahua
Robert Olmstead: Her Lover
Brennen Wysong: The Sin-Eater’s Tale
POETRY
Billy Collins: I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakely’s Version of “Three Blind Mice”
Jennifer Grotz: The Train
Mark Levine: Mercy | Hello | The Holy Pail
Simon Perchik: *
Laurie Sheck: Escape Velocity | Untitled from Black Series | Untitled from Black Series
Steven Sherill: Mosaic | Psalm of the Malcontent
R.T. Smith: Linen List
Donna Stonecipher: Rainy Sunday | To an Aesthete
Robert Wrigley: X-ray of a Kiss
FEATURE
Interview
Terrence Cheng: A Conversation with Madison Smartt Bell
Reviews
Anthony Caleshu | Jeff Mock | Scott Yarbrough
ART
Kathleen V. Fetters: chapbook cover art
Kathi Rick: cover art
Carolyn Sherer: from Junior Matriarchs of the South
CHAPBOOK
Albert Goldbarth: Travel Notes
Andrew Hudgins: O They Tell Me of an Uncloudy Day