Table of Contents

Table Talk

Sharon Olds
Poem: My Face in Transition from Girl to Woman

Caryl Phillips
Reflections: Why Read?

Oyéshiku Carr
Perspective: Traveling with Burgess

Philip Schultz
Poem: The Big Story and the Little Story

Roberto Ontiveros
Fiction: Closed Caption

Jack Hanson
Miscellany: Laughter in the Dark

D. Nurkse
Poem: A City with No Name

Jim Powell
Books: Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems

Clemonce Heard
Poem: Geography IV

Leah Kosyakovsky
Medicine: My Grandfather’s Caviar

Catherine Goldhammer
Poem: Astronomical Winter

Phillip Lopate
Memoir: In Remission

Nancy Hechinger
Poem: Knots

Steve Vineberg
Film: An Officer and a Spy

Brian Seibert
Theater: Vanya and The Picture of Dorian Gray

Shiyang Su
Poem: Dido to Her Sister Before Suicide

Jackson Arn
Art: Walton Ford

Jennifer Peterson
Poem: Redemption, Day Fifteen

James Marcus
Music: Gustav Mahler

Andrea Cohen
Poem: Holding Pattern

Billy O’Callaghan
Fiction: Cowboy

Cover Art: Andrea Modica, Sicily, Italy, from her collection Lentini.

Cover Art: Andrea Modica, Sicily, Italy, from her collection Lentini.

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