Volume 88, Numbers 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2021)
Contents
Erratum
The Art of Reinaldo Gil Zambrano
Special Section
The Poetry of Don Quisenberry
Paul Worley
Baseball Cards
Vocations
Time to Quit
Words
Grasping at the Poet Rumi
What If
Don Quisenberry
Fiction
1967
Peter D. Gorman
An Arcane Saga
Cynthia Graae
Protective Instinct
Kasey Peters
The Famous Patient
Talia Deitsch
Earache
Trudy Lewis
The Story I Tell Myself
Ian Woollen
Essays
Pilgrim at Fifty-Third and Fifth
George Choundas
In Praise of Grass
Judith Fetterley
The Kid’s Last Stand
Steve Wing
Teach a Girl to Make a Fire
Serrana Laure
Reviews
Finding Self in the Bakken North Dakota Oil Boom
Richard M. Rothaus
Whither Sun Ra?
William Caraher
Poetry
the mitt
Corbett Buchly
The Book Lady
Nolo Segundo
Cold Grapes
Danny P. Barbare
Blood Orange
Hollie Dugas
Street Talk
Lolalee Walke
Office Above a Busy Sidewalk
Riding the Tiger’s Head
Robert Tremmel
Psychic Overload: The Watchman Considers
Mark DeFoe
The Shower
Your June
Day Job
A Whittenberg
Going to Ruin Is Silent Work
Andrew Gent
Aftermath
Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri
Archaeology of Rumors
Tom Daley
Temporary Measure
Original Lesson
Autumn Schraufnagel
Jackrabbit Round Up
Stephen Barile
Not the First
John Krumberger
Plain Living
John Zedolik
July 20, 1969
Susan Michele Coronel
Off-Road Diner: Panhandle, Oklahoma
Red Oklahoma Cries
Susan Kates
By the Roadside
Bog Jumping
Jeanine Stevens
Whatever is going on
Ibis
Twixt
An invitation to workers
Learning the time and the alphabet
Spartakos Anganostaras
I reckon a move to Cuba
Ron L. Dowell
Tidal Wave
Outside
Kye Woodward-Ganz
Portrait
Brenton Booth
Hard Times
The Persistence of Memory
Snapshots of Brighton
Robert McNamara
Thanksgiving, 1993
Preservation
Mallory Nygard
Collaborators
Euchre
David Sapp
Winter Ghazal
D.S. Waldman
Glass
Matthew J. Andrews
The Tree in Our Garden
Milton P. Ehrlich
Christmas
Clint Bowman
What Winter Brings
Trailblazing
What Else Have You Got?
What Is Done
When My Valentine Explains the Universe
Helen Marie Casey
Through the Plane Window
Hannah Whiteman
Vigil
Lore
Kareem Tayyar
Ode to the Glass Slipper
Stephanie L. Harper
Salting the Driveway (With Help)
Robert Fillman
Tears
Laura Zucca-Scott
Grief
My mom is not
Emma Charlton
North Dakota Gold
Garland Strother
hummingbird in my hollyhocks
Bonnie Larson Staiger
Cardinals
Birdcalls
Cameron Morse
Robin
A Word for Crow
John Minczeski
Hell Was Full, So I Came Back
What Seems to Be My Life
J. Tarwood
Host
Holding
Hawk
Becky Kennedy
Brief Delight
Frederick Wilbur
Finishing My First Agatha Christie Novel over Breakfast, Then the News
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
Earth
Dana Holley Maloney
Birds After a Fashion
Rebecca Lilly
Anderson Elv
James Gifford
Sleep
Friday Namaz
Faiz Ahmad
for the evil eye
conversations
Kashiana Singh
Sonnet on being truly lucky
William J. Joel
The Howl
My Daughter and I Gather Stones at Empire Beach
Kimberly Ann Priest
Robins Revisited
Song for Curtis Hayes
John Steven Beauchamp
Christ Came Down to Capel Celyn
Tobacco Offering in a Welsh Graveyard
Brett Evans
A Little Coat of the Metaphysical
Wordt
Mark Wagenaar
Almost
Front
Dragonflies Hunting
Matthew J. Spireng
That Lighter, Brighter World We Sleep In
Boomerang Poem
Deborah H. Doolittle
That Moment
Anthony DiMatteo
“Dust (Singapore Galaxy)”—Ni Youyu
Peter J. King
Tenebrists
Timothy Dodd
Making Room
Bruce Cohen
Even with Eyes Open
Letter to Terwilliger from Nowhere
The Spreading Wide
Robert Okaji
Sick and Sad
Janelle Cordero
Desolate
Olaitan Humble