Table of Contents
Alexander Pepple
Editorial / v
Richard Wakefield
Guest Editorial / ix
ESSAYS
Edward Lee
The Lines Blur / 27
Tony Whedon
The Train and the River / 102
BOOK REVIEWS
Travis Biddick
A Review of A.E. Stallings, Like / 15
Brooke Clark
A Review of Ange Mlinko, Distant Mandate / 126
FEATURED ARTIST
The Hunt Theme
A Photographic Exhibit
From Artists Worldwide / 73
FICTION
2018 Write Prize for Fiction ▪ Winner
Erin Russell
To the Bottleneck Fiction / 119
ARTWORK
Get Set! / 75
It’s Away! / 76
Scenting It Yet? / 77
One More Pull / 78
Who’s First to a Nibble? / 79
Got It! / 80
I’m Cat, and Mouse You! / 81
It’s Rescued! / 82
Hunt and Gather! / 83
Don’t Loosen and Lose It! / 84
Dribble and I’ll Tackle / 85
On the Ball / 86
Keep Sleeping / 87
No, I’ll Just Skitter Away! / 88
Hey, You’re Not Too Tough for
a Bite! / 89
Peekaboo . . . and Down! / 90
And Snap On! / 91
Aim Too, Please / 92
Disco Eyes / 93
It’s Sony and Sunshine / 94
Kata Sunset / 95
Look Up / 96
Blowing Down the House / 97
Black Paper Wasp Gotcha! / 98
Young Grasshopper versus
Grasshopper / 99
Ready . . . Jump! / 100
POETRY
Daniel Galef
Casey to His Bat / 2
Casey to His Bat / 3
Penelope to the Shuttle of Her Loom / 4
James Matthew Wilson
Halfser Astray / 5
Suzanne Noguere
The Costume Designer as Student / 6
P.S. 183 Let Out Early / 9
Len Krisak
At Ephesus / 14
Katie Hartsock
Eye Cup / 25
When You Were Tracy and I Was Hepburn / 26
Alfred Nicol
Canuck Haiku / 36
Barry Abrams
ESL Class / 38
A Theory / 39
Suburban Seder / 40
John Philip Drury
The Ruined Aristocrat / 111
Hailey Leithauser
Shove Song / 122
Sleeping Dogs / 123
Heart / 124
2018 Write Prize for Poetry ▪ Winner
David MacRae Landon
Waiting for the Angel / 42
2018 Write Prize for Poetry ▪ Finalists
Amy Bagan
Dear Sonnet, / 1
Beth Paulson
Paradox / 12
Miriam O’Neal
Postcard, Vermont / 41
TIM MURPHY TRIBUTE
Tim Murphy Tribute ▪ Poetry
John Ridland
Tim and Feeney / 47
Richard Meyer
A Plea and a Farewell / 48
Terese Coe
Dactyls and Doubles / 49
Amit Majmudar
The Compass Rose / 50
John Beaton
Immortal Memory / 52
Bruce Bennett
Warblers / 56
For Tim Murphy / 57
Len Krisak
Requiescat / 58
A.E. Stallings
Argos, Odysseus’s Dog / 60
Andrew Frisardi
The Poetry of Absence / 61
Rhina P. Espaillat
For Tim, with Love from Old Blue / 62
Wendy Videlock
O Timothy Tim / 63
Timothy Steele
The Mountain Lion of Central Park / 64
Mary Meriam
In This Distance / 66
Catherine Chandler
For Tim, on the Eve of Battle / 67
Tim Murphy Tribute ▪ Essay
Dana Gioia
The Crooked Path of Timothy Murphy / 68
C O N T R I B U T O R N O T E S / 139
I N D E X / 153
