Table of Contents
Alexander Pepple
Editorial / v
ESSAYS
Stella Pye
Responding Formally: A British Poet Replies to American Women Formalists / 5
Michael Cohen
The Maltese Falcon and the Great American Novel / 25
Sam Aaron Morgan
Awestruck / 108
FEATURED POET
Matthew Buckley Smith
An Interview by Joanna Parson / 77
POEMS
Elizabethan / 99
Orpheus Posthumous / 100
Egg-and-Dart / 101
To Erato / 105
Anacreon’s Grave / 106
Political Ode / 107
BOOK REVIEWS
Brooke Clark
Two Books: / 120
Charles Martin, Future Perfect
Adam Tavel, Catafalque
FEATURED ARTIST
A Couples Theme
A Photographic Exhibit
From Artists Worldwide / 44
ARTWORK
Love Bugs / 45
Lion Share / 46
Finger Links / 47
Holidays Links / 48
Moon and Butterflies / 49
Roseate Spoonbills Flyby / 50
Parroting Love / 51
Tango Tangle / 52
A Couple of Drinks / 53
In the Dark / 54
Hammer Nailed It / 55
Bend the Knee / 56
Two Bells at Sunset / 57
Footsies / 58
Rabbit Friending / 59
Aping Care / 60
Aping Care Too / 61
In the Neighborhood / 62
Craning Together / 63
Still Together / 64
Race against Sunset / 65
FICTION
2018 Write Prize for Fiction ▪ Winner
Anthony J. Otten
The Vigil / 41
2018 Write Prize for Fiction ▪ Runner-Up
Claudette E. Sutton
A Man of Fewer Words / 21
POETRY
Alexis Sears
Objet d’Art / 1
Heinrich Heine
(translated by Terese Coe)
In the Dream / 19
New Spring / 20
Andrew Firsardi
Solitude / 23
Maryann Corbett
Polling Place / 39
Amit Majmudar
The Red Oak / 115
The Metamorphosis / 116
The Musical Aphasia of
Maurice Ravel / 118
2018 Write Prize for Poetry ▪ Winner
Lynn Marie Houston
Wildfire / 66
2018 Write Prize for Poetry ▪ Finalists
Gabriel Spera
A Cormorant in Yangshuo / 38
2018 Write Prize for Poetry ▪ Runner-Up
D. R. Goodman
Moorings / 24
2018 Write Prize for Poetry ▪ Shortlist
Ann M. Thompson
Connecticut, After Dark / 17
Melissa Cannon
Memento Mori / 33
David Allen Sullivan
Zheduo Pass, Sichuan Province / 36
Rob Wright
Somerset, 1972 / 114
T R A N S L A T I O N N O T E S / 129
C O N T R I B U T O R N O T E S / 137
I N D E X / 147
