24.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 1998

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Christopher Chambers                       MANAGING EDITOR: Laura Didyk

FICTION EDITOR: Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis     POETRY EDITOR: Alan May

DESIGN EDITOR: Shari DeGraw

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Jill Christman, Laura Didyk, Angela Fountas, Lainee Frizzo, Denise Haver, Christopher Manlove, Matt McDonald, Melissa Sorongon, Eliot Wilson

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: T.J. Beitelman, Finley Bullard, Melanie Carter, Matt Doherty, Tim Earley, Stuart Flynn, JoLee Gibbons, Susan Goslee, Margaret Hermes, Maurice Manning, Leah Nielsen

FICTION

Sharon Dilworth: Agnes, 1950

Julia Elliott: Strange Flickerings

Edward Falco: At Fifty

Barry Hannah: Unlost, Undead

Dev Hathaway: Lake Larry

William Kulik: Hypereducated  |  The Triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite  |  Resumé

Max Steele: The Playhouse

William Tester: Where the Dark Was

POETRY

John Colburn: like night through England

Matthew Cooperman: Waking or Sleeping

Mark DeFoe: Please Select Your Alternative Childhood

Martín Espada: Pitching the Potatoes  |  For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks  |  What My Father Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock

Ted Graf: Playing Dead

James Baker Hall: Gravity  |  Moonlight  |  The Owl

Henry Israeli: The Bicycle Ride  |  Sonnet with a Silent Last Line

Meg Kearney: What She Told Me

Sjohnna McCray: His Face Is as Far Away as the Light of a Farmhouse Across Dark Fields

Jack Martin: Dear Muse, 

Simon Perchik: W 1

Linda Taylor: Wheatfield and Van Gogh

Marlys West: Edward

Andrew Zawacki: Heresy

FEATURE

Interview

Rob Trucks: A Conversation with Barry Hannah

Reviews

Timothy Geiger  |  Jennifer Horne  |  Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis

Jeanne M. Leiby  |  Alan May  |  Eliot Wilson

ART

Deborah Luster: Photographs

John Westmark: cover art

CHAPBOOK

C.D. Wright: Deepstep Come Shining