21.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 1995

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Mark S. Drew                          MANAGING EDITOR: Mindy Wilson

FICTION EDITOR: Jeanne M. Leiby       POETRY EDITOR: Lisa Spadafora

DESIGN EDITOR: Shari DeGraw

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Brett Baker, Christopher Chambers, Cathy Day, Jim Hilgartner, Melissa Huseman, Michael Mejia, Matthew Miller, Matt Posner, Nina Ronstadt, Kristen Swink, Mitch Wieland

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Amy Benson, Anthony Caleshu, Melanie Carter, Neal Kirchner, Madeline Marcotte, Tom McDougle, Robert McKay, Catie Rosemurgy, David Sorrell, Theodore Worozbyt

FICTION

Julianna Baggott: The Bachelor’s Ball Club

Bear Kirkpatrick: Ties

Paul Scott Malone: When It’s a House

Robert Olmstead: After We Make Love

Sharon Pomerantz: Shoes

Geoff Schmidt: Tangle Apple Flesh

James Tate: What It Is  |  Stove

POETRY

Brandel France de Bravo: Calla Lily

Stephen Dobyns: Education  |  Heaven

Brendan Galvin: Single Malt

Beckian Fritz Goldberg: Lucifer’s Crown

Jalaine Halsall: Don’t Stop  |  Liberace’s Sister

John Kennedy: Matthew: Tax Collector

John Loughlin: The Heart Is a Blue Vegetable That Sings When You Bite It

Thomas Lux: One Meat Ball

William Matthews: Big Tongue

Lisel Mueller: Things  |  In November  |  Gloves

Tessa Rumsey: Big Rig Baroque Sky

Jennifer Snyder: Palm Springs

Sam Witt: Sunflower-Brother

Dara Wier: After the Birds Learned to Count to Eight  |  Reflection Upon Sitting, Along With a Friend, for an Itinerant Painter, Manitoba, 1938

FEATURE

Reviews

Robert C. Jones  |  Tod Marshall  |  Jeff Mock  |  April Ossmann  |  Mitch Wieland

ART

Barbara Lee Black: Heraldry (cover)

CHAPBOOK

Rodney Jones: Sentience