Spring 2002

CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
Peter Stitt, Editor’s Pages, “The Kingdom of Moroni, Part II,” 8
Norma Marder, “On the Left,” 17
Josephine Pallos, “Coming into Being: An Interview with Pattiann Rogers,” 92
Laura Jean Baker, “Nude Portraits,” 109
Archibald L. Ruprecht, “My Antarctica,” 131
 
FICTION
E. J. Levy, “The Best Way Not to Freeze,” 35
Kellie Wells, “Star-Dogged Moon,” 61
David Griffith, “Neighbors,” 153
 
POETRY
Michael Waters, “Fauns Fleeing before an Automobile,” 31
Dara Wier, “An Early Afternoon in Cummington, Massachusetts” and “To an Escalator,” 32
Justin Bigos, “While I’m Out” and “Photograph of My Parents Exchanging Vows,” 55
Liam Rector, “When the Parents Went,” 58
Sarah Gorham, “Sleeping on Couches,” 75
Peggy Shumaker, “Camouflage,” 76
Elton Glaser, “Toast,” 657
David Keplinger, “Cortez,” 80
Pattiann Rogers, “A Meeting of the Ways” and “The History of Starlight at Night,” 89
Dean Young, “Circles I Travel In” and “Last Words,” 103
Sidney Wade, “A Million Galaxies and a Little Song” and “Un Messaggio per il Corpo,” 107
Max Garland, “Scene from a Window near the Austin Airport” and “What About the Light on the Window?” 124
William Virgil Davis, “The Staying,” “Leaves,” and “The Singing,” 128
Bob Hicok, “Spam leaves an aftertaste” and “Any wrong digit of indignation,” 149
William Trowbridge, “Fool’s Paradise,” “The Consolation of Philosophy,” and “The Right Stuff,” 161
 
GRAPHICS
Steven Katz, Paintings, 81