8.2 | SPRING 1982

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Michael Pettit                           BUSINESS MANAGER: Shelton Waldrep

FICTION EDITOR: Rick Shelton              POETRY EDITOR: Dev Hathaway

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Barbara Merchant

EDITORIAL STAFF: David Borofka, David Case, Jim Davis, Janet Ellis, Hugh McCombs, Mitch McClure, Sandra Sprayberry, Elizabeth Thomas, Jessica Weber, Martha Wickelhaus

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Alyce O’Sullivan

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Stanley Porter

 

FICTION

Tony Ardizzone: My Mother’s Stories

Ric Dice: from No Sad Stories

Lawrence Watson: Fever

NONFICTION

Annie Dillard: Wish I Had Pie

Dave Smith: from Assays

POETRY

S. Ben-Tov: During Ceasefire, in Jerusalem 

B.H. Boston: Postcard

William Carpenter: New York City

Susan Strayer Deal: October  |  Why Is Love Hungry

Stephen Dobyns: The Room  |  Gottéron Landscape

Debora Greger: Laundry

Janet Kauffman: The Brethren Home  |  Materializing

Leslie Nail: At the Whirler Planetarium, Houston

Alberto Ríos: I Would Visit Him in the Corner

Peter Wild: Painting the Mormon Church  |  Tetons

C.D. Wright: Alla Breve Loving

FEATURE

Interview

W. S. Merwin

Reviews

Elizabeth Thomas  |  David Wojahn

ART

Steve Lamb: from the Cartographic Laboratory, The University of Alabama (cover)