14.1 | FALL 1987

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Amber Vogel                    MANAGING EDITOR: Mark Dawson

FICTION EDITOR: Ken Walters      POETRY EDITOR: Jeff Mock

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Ed Howard

ASSISTANT EDITORS: Michelle Elise, Betsy Hanzimanolis, Alan Holmes, Jennifer Horne

READERS: Sara Bullard, Terrie Byrne, Jennifer Fremlin, Valerie Vogrin

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Dale Prince

FICTION

Eileen Drew: The Baobab

Linda Hogan: American Laundry

Paul Lyons: Variations in a German Field

Laurie Schreiber: Balloons

Lynda Sexson: Forgery

Franklin T. Young: The Unseen Riot

NONFICTION

Andre Dubus: Lights of the Long Night

Jonathan Hershey: A Snapshot from Home

POETRY

Tom Absher: Day Poem  |  The End of It All  |  Learning to Sail 

Billy Collins: Pensée  |  Night Sand  |  Come Running

B.H. Fairchild: The City of God

Rita Gabis: Deerfield River in Summer

George Looney: Dark Water Rising

Stefanie Marlis: The Force of His Sadness

Leroy Musgraves: What Is Left  |  I Was Looking

Leslie Nelson: Imagining My Parents Spending a Weekend at the Beach

Howard Nemerov: Crotchets

Daniel E. Shapiro: The Yellow Boat  |  Holland

FEATURE

Reviews

Jack Gilbert: Opening a Door to Ishmael

Marcel Smith: Essentially Non-essential 

ART

Seth Alexander: Portrait of a Boy (cover)

Rachel Dobson: Five Illustrations

Karen Graffeo: Details from Three Photographs

CHAPBOOK

Michael S. Harper: A Po’ Man’s Heart Disease