12.1 | FALL 1985

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Lynn Domina                               MANAGING EDITOR: Thomas Alan Holmes

FICTION EDITOR: Tom Chiarella               POETRY EDITOR: Janet McAdams

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Ed Howard     PRODUCTION HEAD: Eric Gwinn

EDITORIAL STAFF: Jon Brooks, Gary Danchak, Michelle Elise, Mary Anne Ellis, John Engels, Jr., Bill Flowers, Richard Giles, Laura Hendrie, Paul Johnson, Jane Kuenz, Karen Lound, Jeff Mock, Bill Reid, Kim Anne Thomas, Rob Trucks, Amber Vogel, Ken Walters

PRODUCTION STAFF: Terrie Byrne

OFFICE MANAGERS: Melissa Hamilton, Amber Vogel

FICTION

Will Baker: Etiquette

Michael Giles: Inflatable Owls

Darrell Spencer: The Planet of Surprise

Nancy Zafris: Cosmetic Surgery

POETRY

Laurie Blauner: A Housewife’s Old-Fashioned Fire

Peter Cooley: Fourteen Lines

Patricia Dobler: The Mill in Winter

David Keller: Going Back to the City

Roberta Kozak: On Brevity

Ricardo Pau-Llosa: The Room  |  What Is a Face?

Ann Snodgrass: First Pieta

Jorge Teillier (translated by Carolyne Wright): Otoño Secreto  |  Para Hablar Con Los Muertos  |  La Ultima Isla  |  Sénales  |  Despedida

Chase Twichell: 400 ASA  |  Heart as Kamikaze 

Liza Wieland: Oil Painting

Theodore Worozbyt: Birthday

FEATURE

Interview

Elizabeth Meese: An Interview with Margaret Atwood

Reviews

John Blair  |  Louie Skipper

ART

Jim Sudduth: Church of Christ, Fayette, Alabama (cover)