Table of Contents

Features

Five Faces of the English Department

• Donald R. Gallehr, “Rose Summers”
• Jeff Hammond, An Interview with Gerald Hamilton
• Peter Klappert, “La Belle Époque”
• Peter Klappert, “Internal Foreigners”
• Roger Lewis, Worms (a novel)
• Susan Richards Shreve, excerpt from Children of Power

A Look at GMU’s Writing Conference

• Symposium on Fiction
• Conversation with John Gardner
• Integration of Genres
• Contagious Enthusiasm
• Genesis of a Novel
• Germ of Bridge to Teribithia
• Poem in Four Movements for my Sister Marina

Inside Virginia State Penitentiary

• Five Paragraphs and a Poem on the Prison Poet and Poetry as a Weapon
• George Mosby, Jr., “The Voodoo Lady of Cumberland,” “a-run-on-the-butterfly,” “The Face of Liza,” “The Walls of Cell 228-B: The Protector,” “I Found These Lines,” “Inside the Soft Machine,” “The Poet in Blue”
• A Prison Sketch

Experimental Photography

Survey of Literary Magazines

Fiction

• Dorothy Langdon, “And The Cow Jumped Over the Moon”
• Faith S. Holsaert, “The Body Spiritual”
• Margi Berkowitz, “Ernie Sadler’s Ghost”
• Joyce Renwick, “Rongers”
• Carmen John Maiocco, “The Hostages”
• Jeff Richards, “Mercy Be Kind to the Indians”
• Richard Bausch, “Do Something”
• Roberta Gupta, “The Switch”

Poetry

• Bob Karnes, “Patty to the Point of Panic”
• David Lieberman, “Second Sleep”
• Ellen Kirvin Dudis, “Seeing Eye Dog”
• Michael Greer, “Sean at Fourteen”
• Bernell MacDonald, “Suspicion,” “stronger,” “Mirrors”
• Edgardo Padin-Rivera, “Uptown New York,” “Pre-Dawn”
• D.D. Wightman, “Except for Granny”
• Tom Hansen, “Like the Fingers of Sleeping Children,” “To a Young Wife:Nine Months Pregnant Asleep on Her Half of the Bed”
• Steven Riddle, “For My Father”
• Robert Flanagan, “Vicarious Hero,” “Sleight of Hand,” “Pastorale”
• Gabriele Glang, “Sipping Darjeeling,” “The Jekyll and Hyde of #2B,” “Summer of Discontent,” “Rilke’s Fountain of Youth,” “Rain,” “From Your Fathead”
• Edward C. Lynskey, “Wrough Iron”
• W.E. Gorriles, “(Untitled)”, “(Haiku)”
• Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr., “Letter North,” “The Old Bench in Spring,” “Poem for Jesus”

Art

• Jo Ann B. Arnold
• Mike Colgan
• Roger E. Goetze
• Jeff Hammond
• Robert Sheard
• Noel Middlecamp
• Irene Fink

Photography

• Marylyn Lazarus
• Robert Flanagan
• Paul Watters
• Mike Holland
• Steven Lautermilch
• Esta Gladstone
• Ken Kelly

Other

• My Bike & Other Friends, reviewed by Richard Peabody, Jr.
• A Risk of Green, reviewed by Loretta P. Cassidy
• Loveletters, reviewed by Patty Summers
• Sores and Roses, reviewed by Patty Summers
• The Coming of Willie C. Wood, reviewed by Patty Summers
• Contributors