15.1 | FALL 1988

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Jeff Mock                                          MANAGING EDITOR: Mark Dawson

FICTION EDITOR: Thomas Alan Holmes     POETRY EDITOR: Michelle Elise

PRODUCTION MANAGER: David O. Benson

EDITORIAL STAFF: Brenda Bryant, John Coley, Mark Dawson, Jennifer Fremlin, Danny Gamble, Alicia Griswold, Betsy Hanzimanolis, Jennifer Horne, J.R. Jones, Matthew Kopka, Charles Laster, David Miller, Juliella Parsons, Dale Prince, Chris Wiewel

PRODUCTION STAFF: Amanda Crowell, Joan Melgaard, Dale Prince, Julie Walsh

FICTION

Rand Bishop: Native Color

John Kenny Crane: The Lone Ranger of Long Nook

Tom Crawford: Family Business

James P. Girard: Toys

Jean R. Matthew: Birthroot

NONFICTION

James Granger: Time and the American Lawn

Greg Kuzma: On Robley Wilson Jr.’s Kingdoms of the Ordinary

George Looney: The Shock of Waking Human: On Scott Cairns’s The Theology of Doubt

Jack Stewart: On Harry Hume’s Ridge Music and Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris

POETRY

Billy Collins: Vade Mercum  |  Aphorism

Albert Goldbarth: All About

Jill Gonet: The Shells

Richard Jackson: The Other Day

Frank Johnson: Delphinium 

Andrew Kaufman: from The Taryn Sonnets: #18

Allan Peterson: Nothing but Scapulae  |  Stars on a Wire  |  Vectors of Change  |  Local Influence

Jorge Teillier: La Ilave  |  Camino rural 

Pamela Wampler: Girls Watching Pubescent Boys in the River  |  The Morning Song  |  Anniversary  |  Words for a Daughter

ART

Vic Reynolds: Mind Dynamics (cover)

CHAPBOOK

Jorie Graham: from The Region of Unlikeness