FICTION

Pierre Delattre: Closing Night at the Follies

Elizabeth Evans: Relics

James B. Hall: The Fissure

Don Hendrie Jr.: from Beautiful Daughters

Beverly Lowry: Smith and Rita Press On

Jack Matthews: “The Moment Is Ours Alone”

Robert M. Olmstead: Burying Dogs

Kurt Rheinheimer: Visiting Thack

NONFICTION

Doris Betts: The Fingerprint of Style

Allen Wier: William Goyen: Speech for What Is Not Spoken

POETRY

Joan Aleshire: The Man from the Restaurant

John Bensko: Watching TV, the Elk Bones Up on Metaphysics  |  On Halloween the Elk Turns Detective

Michael Burkard: Strangely Insane  |  I Entered a House

William Carpenter: Love

Patricia Clark: Trees at Dusk

Wyn Cooper: Marriage

Bruce Cutler: A Way of Seeing  |  Going Blind 

Jackson Davis: James

Stephen Dobyns: Dancing in Vacationland

John Engels: A Discovery of Lovers in the Fall

Albert Goldbarth: A Spider  |  The Theory of Absolute Forms

Debora Greger: No  |  Natural History

Jane Hirshfield: Toward the Infinite

David Ignatow: Whether  |  In the Graveyard  |  No One

Louis Jenkins: Black Spruce

Judson Mitcham: Night Ride, 1965

Larry Moffi: Bringing Home the Dog

Lisel Mueller: Into Space

Robert Pack: Sculpting in Stone

Thomas Rabbitt: Five Poems

David Rigsbee: The Next I Know

L.M. Rosenberg: Snowbound in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania

Mary Ruefle: Eight Poems

Vern Rutsala: Bravado and Rage

James Sallis: P.S.

Barry Silesky: Working on the Roof

Lee Upton: Book of Seasons  |  Window Seat at the Paradise  |  You Are Not a Child

Carolyne Wright: Josie Bliss, October 1971

FEATURE

Interview

Wright Morris

ART

William A. Christenberry: 5¢ Demopolis, Alabama, 1978 (cover)