FICTION

Fred Chappell: The Admirer

Alan Cheuse: The Quest for Ambrose Bierce

Philip F. O’Connor: Evolution

Eve Shelnutt: Indigo

NONFICTION

Hank Lazer: In Opposition Is True Friendship: Robert Hass’s Praise

POETRY

Gigi Bradford: Black-Eyed Susans  |  Describe Flounder to Your Daughter

Patricia Goedicke: The Glacier  |  Heart Attack  |  Short Circuitry

Gary Margolis: His Ice House

Lawrence Markert: Animal Incantations

William Olsen: The Watercolorist  | The Short-Order Cook  |  Letter from Mississippi

Michael Pettit: Celestial

Thomas Rabbitt: The Saint & Her Betrayer

Lisa Ress: Belvedere Palace and Favoritenstrasse: Vienna IV

Katharine Rodier: In November

Dennis Sampson: Mountain Dream

Sherod Santos: Sight-Seer  |  The Wait

Vivian Teter: The Hog Slaughtering  |  What I Saw  |  Those in the Window

Lisa Zeidner: Because I Can’t

Fredrick Zydek: Pond

FEATURE

Reviews

John Bensko  |  James Davis Jr.

ART

Katy Rodriguez: cover art