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Issue #92 April 2019

Chu Việt Hà   Hanoi  2016

  • The Heart’s Emissary

    I’m pleased to introduce Doug Anderson as this month’s guest essayist. A veteran of the Vietnam War and now peace…

    Essays and Comment

  • Like by A.E. Stallings reviewed by Devin King

    LOST OBJECTS At the beginning of Book Two of Lucretius’ The Nature Of Things—Book One, you’ll remember, sets up that…

    Book Review

  • Clinton, Sholl, Aronson, et. al.

    Robert Clinton on “Caroline” The woman Caroline was entirely different from the woman described in the poem “Caroline,” except insofar…

    Editors Note

  • We Came This Way to Know the Evening

    Here’s a riddle:

  • Happy Hour

    I wasn’t supposed to touch the two glazed ceramic turtles

  • But-cept

    I recall not wanting my oldest son

  • Hogmanay, Edinburgh

    Past the iron fence on Princes Street

  • Maidendown

    The farm along the Maidendown,

  • Caroline

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he

  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine

  • Blond for All the Boys

    Frank Ocean didn’t mean anything to me till Dave said check

  • A Flash of Lithe White Arms

    A flash of lithe white arms

  • Lost Leaders

    Some say that predatory sin was born of ignorance rather than

  • Rats

    Sudden underfoot, this one cries back

  • Hurdy Gurdy

    Like a grumbler who claims a five year old

  • Soldier’s Wife in the Aftermath

    After the great war I stepped inside

  • Sweet Tooth

    The man in the window is cheesecake;

  • Jeff Friedman interviewed by Nancy Mitchell

    It was like two different people battling for control of the same body.
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