Fall 2007
New Series · Volume XXIX Number 4

contents

FRONT MATTER

• David Lynn • Editor's Notes
• André Bernard • The Casual Reader
• Roger Rosenblatt • Just Not for Us

2007 Patricia grodd poetry prize for young writers

• David Baker • (Commentary) On the Fourth Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
• Hanna Irvin • For My Father
• Rebekah Latour • Twisted Like Dogwood
• Frankie Romano • The Night You Questioned the Purpose of Flowers

FICTION

• Lynn Ahrens • Babka
• Kirk Nesset • The Painter's Wife
• Anne Panning • ALL-U-CAN-EAT
• Steven Schwartz • Absolute Zero
• Hugh Sheehy • The Invisibles
• Don Waters • Mormons in Heat

NONFICTION

• Nancy Honicker • 'Douce France' . . . Growing Rough around the Edges?
• John Rodden and John Rossi • Kultur Clash at the White House

Poetry

• Margo Berdeshevsky • Of the Songbird
• David Biespiel • The Husband's Tale; The Wife's Tale; Pound
• Deborah Digges • Haying; The House That Goes Dancing; Dance of the Seven Veils; Don't Cut Your Hair
• Stuart Dischell • Backwards Days; This Time in the Sky
• Kathy Fagan • Road Memorial
• Debora Greger • Complaint of the Rain in English
• William Heyen • Publicity; Anthem
• Adrie Kusserow • Skull Trees, South Sudan
• Harriet Levin • Key
• Jayanta Mahapatra • At Times a Man Growing Old
• D. Nurkse • Letter from Solange; Hitching to Mount Hebron

INTERVIEWS

• Nancy Zafris • A Conversation with Rebecca McClanahan