Table Of ContentINDEX Volume 92, 1997-98
Number 1: Spring Number 3: Fall
Number 2: Summer Number 4: Winter
(Note: Page numbers are preceded by issue number)
A Rural Hymn for the Holy Women Late of Ruma, Robert Bense, 3-30
A Woman at a Party, Adrie S. Kusserow, 1-39
Aerie, Naton Leslie, 2-29
After an Ice Storm, Dixie Partridge, 4-33
Albert Einstein at Fallingwater, Carolyn Luck, 3-32
Alice Writes Her Memoirs, Mary Ann Samyn, 1-47
American Nighthawks, Rachel Levine, 4-49
Anderson, Mark, The Visitor, 4-53
Annucci, Marilyn, Buddha Becomes Three Bras and One Answering Machine, 4-63
Any Stunner Can Happen in Snow, Mark Taksa, 4-54
Arrival, Brian Barker, 4-7
Athey, David, Everyone and the Sea, 4-17
At Our Appointed Hour, Julia Wendell, 4-61
Aubade, Carolyn Stoloff, 2-23
Baker, June Frankland, The Jackets, 2-27
Baratier, David, Roadside Stand, 1-10
Barker, Brian, Arnval, 4-7
Barrack, Jack, The Nursing Home Lawn, 3-6; The News at Six, 3-7
Barrett, Nick, Putting On Her Face, 4-27
Bartok-Baratta, Edward, What God Revealed on Tuesday, 3-8; Our Lives, 3-9
Bats, MatthewJ . Spireng, 3-16
Beggs, Marck L., Letters to the Man in the Green Stationwagon, 3-41
Bellinger, Celia, Threads, 2-28
Bend in the River, Kevin Bowen, 1-17
Bense, Robert, A Rural Hymn for the Holy Women Late of Ruma, 3-30; The Object of
Their Desire, 3-31
Between a Bullet and Its Target, Elisabeth Murawski, 3-45
Beyond Blue Bayou, Errol Miller, 3-29
Boswell, Marta, Trepassing in the Sculpture Garden, 4-29
Bouquets, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, 2-15
Bowen, Kevin, Bend in the River, 1-17
Boy,J .R odney Karr, 4-38
The Boy with the Oversized Head, David B. Prather, 4-35
Bruise, Becky Rodia, 1-15
Buddha Becomes Three Bras and One Answering Machine, Marilyn Annucci, 463
Budy, Andrea Hollander, What the Married Man Dreamed, 2-12
Byrd, Gregory, Writing the Rosetta Stone, 2-22
California Chardonnay, Ann B. Knox, 3-23
Calypso IT, Douglas Spangle, 2-5
Cancer, Kate Funkhouser, 1-18
The Capture, Laura Krauss Melmed, 1-19
Carousel, Jean H. Johnson, 1-20
Chaff, Sandra L., Spindle Whore, 4-8
Chapman, Robin S., The Daughters of Scientists, 2-31
Chorlton, David, Householders, 4-67
The Circle (or Making 80), Robert Lauder, 2-20
The Circus Fat Lady and Her Dog, Laura Lee Washburn, 1-6
Clompus, Brad, Woman Bathing in the West River, 4-57
Coe, Dina, Funeral Through Clouds, 2-7; Rabbit, 2-9
Confessions of aS ewer Boy, James O’ Keefe, 1-13
Conjugation ofa Mirror, Paul Perry, 4-5
Conservation, Paul Grant, 4-20
Copperhead, M. A. Schaffner, 1-45
Cottonweed, Judit Pinczesi (tr. Len Roberts and Maria Kurdi), 3-37
Craft, Kevin, PersonAda lfo r the Muse, 3-26
Crill, Hildred, Remote Control, 4-16
Creation Story, Theodore Worozbyt, 1-37
Crown Heights, 1953, Rachel Levine, 4-47
Dancing with the One-Armed Man, A. P. Davidson, 3-5
Davidson, A. P., Dancing with the One-Armed Man, 3-5
The Daughters of Scientists, Robin S. Chapman, 2-31
DellaRocca, Lenny, The Healer, 1-11
“Die Dicke Wirtin,” David McAleavey, 1-12
The Difference Between Lonely and Alone, Timothy Monaghan, 4-39
Dinner Table, Claudia March Reder, 4-42
Dougherty, Sean Thomas, Pantoum of the Working Classes, 2-17
Drinker, Robert Kunkle, 4-37
Duehr, Gary, On Keuka Lake, 2-16
Duhamel, Denise, Egg Rolls, 3-11
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Early Warning Signs, Walt McDonald, 2-32
Eggs Rolls, Denise Duhamel, 3-11
Ehrhart, W. D., Visiting My Parent’s Grave, 3-47
Emerson, Jocelyn, Equinox, 2-43; The Rivers We're Eyeing, 2-44
Endright, Sean, Revision, 1-43
Etter, Carrie, Five at a Table, 2-45
Etter, Carrie, The Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, 4-63
Equinox, Jocelyn Emerson, 2-43
Evening Fire, Christine Sneed, 1-35
Everyone and the Sea, David Athey, 4-17
Five at a Table, Carrie Etter, 2-45
For Better or Worse, Dave Medlinsky, 4-19
Formula, Janet St. John, 2-47
Fried, Philip, Rajasthan, 4-25; Keoladeo, 4-26
Frogs, John Grey, 2-19
(from The Deer), Jim Quinn, 2-33
The Funeral Director, Jeff Hardin, 4-9
Funeral Through Clouds, Dina Coe, 2-7
Funkhouser, Kate, Cancer, 1-18
Ghost in the Socket, John Hennessy, 4-65
Gizzard Stones, Mary-Beth O’Shea-Noonan, 3-50
Goldbarth, Albert, The Morning Paper, 2-21
Grant, Paul, Conservation, 4-20
The Grasshopper, Mary T. Lane, 4-52
Grey, John, Frogs, 2-19
GrossmanJ,a n C., The Wallet, 1-33
Gutstein, Daniel, The Night Shift, 4-11
Gurley, James, Summer Journey Down the Delaware, 3-27
Hardin, Jeff, The Funeral Director, 4-9
The Healer, Lenny DellaRocca, 1-11
Heat, Norma Richardson, 4-34
Heldrich, Philip, Hotline, 2-6
Hennessy, John, Ghost in the Socket, 4-65
The History of the Alphabet, Mary Winters, 2-39
Horsting, Eric, Muse, 2-41; Taking Off, 2-42
Hotline, Philip Heldrich, 2-6
Index
Householders, David Chorlton, 4-67
Hurwitz, Lisa, Sleeping with Monsters, 4-45
The Jackets, June Frankland Baker, 2-27
Jenks, Allison Eir, The Little Red School House, 3-15
John Deere Letter, Deborah Warren, 421
Johnson, Jean H., Carousel, 1-20
Juan Marichal, Topps Card #330, 1974, Frank Van Zant, 2-26
I Argued for Her Overcoat, Kristen Tracy, 4-23
The Imperial Palace of Hue, Vietnam, Barbara F. Lefcowitz, 1-21
Infidelity, Georgia Kreiger, 3-24
Inheritance, Robert J. Oberg, 3-39
Inside the V.A. Dictaphone Typing Unit, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, 1969, Maria
Terrone, 4-58
Karr, J. Rodney, Boy, 4-38
Knox, Ann B., California Chardonnay, 3-23
Keoladeo, Philip Fried, 4-26
Kraushaar, Mark, Thinking of Enid, 4-59
Kreiger, Georgia, Infidelity, 3-24
Kunkle, Robert, Drinker, 4-37
Kusserow, Adrie S., A Woman at a Party, 1-39; Rites of Passage, 1-41
Lane, Mary T., The Grasshopper, 4-52
The Last Spanking, Daniel M. Nester, 1-49
Late One Night in Heavy Weather, a Literary Critic, Afraid of Flying, Gets Tired Rehears-
ing His Paper Aboard the San Francisco Zephyr, Bernard Quetchenbach, 2-49
Lauder, Robert, The Circle (Or Making 80), 2-20
Lefcowitz, Barbara F., The Imperial Palace of Hue, Vietnam, 1-21
Legaspi, Joseph O., My Grandmother, in Increments, 4-55
Leslie, Naton, Aerie, 2-29
Letters to the Man in the Green Stationwagon, Marck L. Beggs, 3-41
Levine, Rachel, Crown Heights, 1953, 4-47; American Nighthawks, 4-49
Lightness of Being, William F. Van Wert, 1-23
The Little Red School House, Allison Eir Jenks, 3-15
Luck, Carolyn, Albert Einstein at Fallingwater, 3-32
Index
Martin, Patrick, Weldon Kees is Alive and Well and Living in Ohio, 4-43
McAleavey, David , “Die Dicke Wirtin”, 1-12
McDonald, Walt, Early Warning Signs, 2-32
McFarland’s Cove, Elizabeth Rees, 2-38
Medlinsky, Dave, For Better or Worse, 4-19
Melmed, Laura Krauss, The Capture, 1-19
Miller, Errol, Beyond Blue Bayou, 3-29
Miller, Sarah, Taking Aim, 2-13
The Mirror, Elaine Preston, 3-38
Monaghan, Timothy, The Difference Between Lonely and Alone, 4-39
Monaghan, Timothy, Reunion, 1-32
Mooney, Alicia, We Met for Brunch, 3-46
Moonshine, Ken Waldman, 4-22
The Morning Paper, Albert Goldbarth, 2-21
Murawski, Elisabeth, The Rehearsal, 3-44; Between a Bullet and Its Target, 3-45
Muse, Eric Horsting, 2-41
My Grandmother, in Increments, Joseph O. Legaspi, 4-55
Nagy, Agnes Nemes (tr. Len Roberts), Town in Winter, 3-33
Nester, Daniel M., The Last Spanking, 1-49
The News at Six, Jack Barrack, 3-7
Night, Heather Smith, 2-37
The Night Shift, Daniel Gutstein, 4-11
Nobles, Edward, She Had Many Orders to Be Filled, 1-46
Nocturne, Scott Withiam, 3-17
North Woods, Todd Smith, 4-18
The Nursing Home Lawn, Jack Barrack, 3-6
Oberg, RobertJ. , Inhentance, 3-39
The Object of Their Desire, Robert Bense, 3-31
October in Thunder Bay, Ontario, John Spauiding, 4-31
O'Keefe, James, Confessions of A Sewer Boy, 1-13
On Keuka Lake, Gary Duehr, 2-16
OQ’Shea-Noonan, Mary-Beth, Gizzard Stones, 3-50
Our Lives, Edward Bartok-Baratta, 3-9
Outside, Theodore Worozbyt, 1-36
Pantoum of the Working Classes, Sean Thomas Dougherty, 2-17
Partridge, Dixie, After an Ice Storm, 4-33
Perchik, Simon, (Untitled), 3-10
Perry, Paul, Conjugation of a Mirror, 4-5
Personal Ad for the Muse, Kevin Craft, 3-26
Pinczesi, Judit (tr. Len Roberts and Maria Kurdi), Cottonweed, 3-37
Prather, David B., The Boy with the Oversized Head, 4-35
Preston, Elaine, The Mirror, 3-38
The Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, Carrie Etter, 4-64
Putting On Her Face, Nick Barrett, 4-27
Quetchenbach, Bernard, Late One Night in Heavy Weather, a Literary Critic, Afraid of
Flying, Gets Tired RehearshingHis Paper Aboard the San Francisco Zephyr 2-49
Quinn, Jim, (from The Deer), 2-33
Rabbit, Dina Coe, 2-9
Rajasthan, Philip Fried, 4-25
Reder, Claudia March, Dinner Table, 4-42
Rees, Elizabeth, M-Farland’s Cove, 2-38
The Rehearsal, Elisabeth Murawski, 3-44
Remote Control, Hildred Crill, 416
Reunion, Timothy Monaghan, 1-32
Revision, Sean Enright, 1-43
Richardson, Norma, Heat, 4-34
Rites of Passage, Adrie S. Kusserow, 1-41
The River We're Eyeing, Jocelyn Emerson, 2-44
Roadside Stand, David Baratier, 1-10
Rodia, Becky, Bruise, 1-15
Ron Bryant, Topps Card #104, 1974, Frank Van Zant, 2-25
Royce, Lindsey, The Tao of Wheat, 1-48
Sajé, Natasha, Wanting to Drink the Whole Family, 2-11
Samyn, Mary Ann, Alice Writes Her Memoirs, 1-47
Schaffner, M. A., Copperhead, 1-45
She Had Many Orders to Be Filled, Edward Nobles, 1-46
Sievers, Kelly, To the Girls of My Neighborhood, 2-18
Silence, Bryan Walpert, 3-25
Sleeping with Monsters, Lisa Hurwitz, 4-45
Smith, Heather, Under Trebevica: Sarajevo 1994, 2-35; Night, 2-37
Smith, Todd, North Woods, 4-18
Sneed, Christine, Evening Fire, 1-35
Spangle, Douglas, Calypso I, 2-5
Spaulding, John, Tableaux: Four Nineteenth Century Photographs, 4-30; October in
Thunder Bay, Ontario, 4-31
Spindle Whore, Sandra L. Chaff, 4-8
Spireng, MatthewJ. , Bats, 3-16
St. John, Janet, Formula, 2-47
Stoloff, Carolyn, Aubade, 2-23
Summer Journey Down the Delaware, James Gurley, 3-27
Swan’s Anatomy, Paula Tatarunis, 4-13
Tableaux: Four Nineteenth Century PhotographJso,hn Spaulding, 4-30
Takacs, Zsuzsa (tr. Len Roberts and Maria Kurdi), You Who So Much, 3-36
Taking Aim, Sarah Miller, 2-13
Taking Off, Eric Horsting, 2-42
Taksa, Mark, Any Stunner Can Happen in Snow, 4-54
The Tao of Wheat, Lindsey Royce, 1-48
Tatarunis, Paula, Swan’s Anatomy, 4-13
Terris, Susan, Wing by Wing, 3-19
Terrone, Maria, Inside the V.A. Dictaphone Typing Unit, Division of Outpatient
Psychiatry, 1969, 4-58
Thinking of Enid, Mark Kraushaar, 4-59
Threads, Celia Bellinger, 2-28
To the Girls of My Neighborhood, Kelly Sievers, 2-18
Town in Winter, Agnes Nemes Nagy (tr. Len Roberts), 3-33
Tracy, Kristen, J Arguedfo r Her Overcoat, 4-23
Trespassing in the Sculpture Garden, Marta Boswell, 4-29
Under Trebevica: Sarajevo 1994, Heather Smith, 2-35
(Untitled), Simon Perchik, 3-10
Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae, Bouquets, 2-15
Van Zant, Frank, Ron Bryant, Topps Card #104, 1974, 2-25; Juan Marichal, Topps
Card #330, 1974, 2-26
Van Wert, William F., Lightness of Being, 1-23
The Visitor, Mark Anderson, 4-53
Visiting My Parent’s Grave, W. D. Ehrhart, 3-47
Index
Waldman, Ken, Moonshine, 4-22
The Wallet, Jan C. Grossman, 1-33
Walpert, Bryan, Silence, 3-25
Wanting to Drink the Whole Family, Natasha Sajé, 2-11
Ward, Thom, Wind and the City, 3-21
Warren, Deborah, John Deere Letter, 4-21
Washburn, Laura Lee, The Circus Fat Lady and Her Dog, 1-6
Weldon Kees is Alive and Well and Living in Ohio, Patrick Martin, 4-43
We Met for Brunch, Alicia Mooney, 3-46
Wendell, Julia, At Our Appointed Hour, 4-61
What God Revealed on Tuesday, Edward Bartok-Baratta, 3-8
What Ought to be Currency, Mary Winters, 2-40
What the Married Man Dreamed, Andrea Hollander Budy, 2-12
Wind and the City, Thom Ward, 3-21
Wing by Wing, Susan Terris, 3-19
Withiam, Scott, Nocturne, 3-17
Winters, Mary, The History of the Alphabet, 2-39; What Ought to be Currency, 2-40
Woman Bathing in the West River, Brad Clompus, 4-57
Worozbyt, Theodore, Outside 1-36; Creation Story, 1-37
Writing the Rosetta Stone, Gregory Byrd, 2-22
You Who So Much, Zsuzsa Takacs (tr. Len Roberts and Maria Kurdi), 3-36
PROSE
Allen, Frank, reviewer, Dog Road Woman, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke; Tales from a
Child of the Enemy, Ursula Duba; Crown of Weeds, Amy Gerstler; Glass Lunch,
Robert Hunter; Drawing the Line, Lawson Fusao Inada, 2-56
Allen, Gilbert, reviewer, Dragonfly Tie, John Millett, 3-53
Appleman, Philip, New and Selected Poems, reviewed by Daniela Gioseffi, 2-51
Balaban, John, reviewer, The Women Carry River Water, Nguyen Quang Thieu, 3-61
Brennan, Matthew C., reviewer, The Old Life, Donald Hall, 3-67
Butts, W.E., reviewer, The Falling Hour, David Wojahn, 2-65
Carper, Thomas, From Nature, reviewed by Madeleine Mysko, 2-71
Cavalieri, Grace, reviewer, A Life Set for Two, Robert Kendall, 3-64
Index
Chorlton, David, reviewer, The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase, Lisa Fishman; A Hog
Slaughtering Woman, David Marlott; Traveling at High Speeds, John Rybicki, 1-60
Coke, Allison Adelle Hedge, Dog Road Woman, reviewed by Frank Allen, 2-56
Duba, Ursula, Tales from a Child of the Enemy, reviewed by Frank Allen, 2-56
Ellis, Anne, reviewer, Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American
Poetry, edited by Keith Gilyard, 2-68
Etter, Carrie, reviewer, Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum, Michael Waters, 3-51
Fishman, Lisa, The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase, reviewed by David Chorlton, 1-60
FitzPatrick, Kevin, Rush Hour, reviewed by GregaryJ . Racz, 1-51
Fleming, Bruce, reviewer, Ezra Pound's Early Poetry and Poetics, Thomas F. Grieve,
3-70
Fry, Nan, reviewer, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo; Little Girls in Church,
Kathleen Norris, 1-55
Galvin, Brendan, Sky and Island Light, reviewed by John Kennedy, 3-57
Gerstler, Amy, Crown of Weeds, reviewed by Frank Allen, 2-56
Gilyard, Keith, editor, Spirit @ Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American
Poetry, reviewed by Anne Ellis, 2-68
Gioseffi, Daniela, reviewer, New and Selected Poems, Philip Appleman; Crazy Horse in
Stillness, William Heyen; The Body Mutinies, Lucia Perillo, 2-51
Gonzalez, Ray, The Heat of Arrivals, reviewed by GregaryJ . Racz, 1-51
Grieve, Thomas F., Ezra Pound’s Early Poetry and Poetics, reviewed by Bruce
Fleming, 3-70
Hall, Donald, The Old Life, reviewed by Matthew C. Brennan, 3-67
Hamer, Forrest, Call © Response, reviewed by Natasha Sajé, 2-56
Harjo, Joy, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, reviewed by Nan Fry, 1-55
Heyen, William, Crazy Horse in Stillness, reviewed by Daniela Gioseffi, 2-51
Houchin, Ron, Death and the River, reviewed by Gregary Racz, 4-69
Hunter, Robert, Glass Lunch, reviewed by Frank Allen, 2-56
Inada, Lawson Fusao, Drawing the Line, reviewed by Frank Allen, 2-56
Kendall, Robert, A Life Set for Two, reviewed by Grace Cavalieri, 3-64
Kennedy, John, reviewer, Sky and Island Light, Brendan Galvin, 3-57
Index
Marlott, David, A Hog Slaughtering Woman, reviewed by David Chorlton, 1-60
Millett, John, Dragonfly Tie, reviewed by Gilbert Allen, 3-53
Mysko, Madeleine, reviewer, From Nature, Thomas Carper, 2-71
Norris, Kathleen, Little Girls in Church, reviewed by Nan Fry, 1-55
Perillo, Lucia, The Body Mutinies, reviewed by Daniela Gioseffi, 2-51
Racz, Gregary, reviewer, Rush Hour, Kevin FitzPatrick; The Heat of Arrivals, Ray
Gonzalez, 1-51
Racz, Gregary, reviewer, Worldling, Elizabeth Spires; Odd Mercy, Gerald Stern;
Death and the River, Ron Houchin, 4-69
Rybicki, John, Traveling at High Speeds, reviewed by David Chorlton, 1-60
Sajé, Natasha, reviewer, Call & Response, Forrest Hamer; The Presence of Things
Unseen: Giant Talk, Chezia Thompson-Cager, 2-61
Short, Gary, Flying Over Sonny Liston, reviewed by D. James Smith, 1-65
Smith, D. James, reviewer, Flying Over Sonny Liston, Gary Short, 1-65
Spires, Elizabeth, Worldling, reviewed by Gregary Racz, 4-69
Stern, Gerald, Odd Mercy, reviewed by Gregary Racz, 4-69
Thieu, Nguyen Quang, The Women Carry River Water, reviewed by John Balaban,
3-61
Thompson-Cager, Chezia, The Presence of Things Unseen: Giant Talk, reviewed by
Natasha Sajé, 2-61
Waters, Michael, Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum, reviewed by Carrie Etter, 3-51
Wojahn, David, The Falling Hour, reviewed by W.E. Butts, 2-65
