| INTERVIEWS |
| Paul Ruffin |
Interview with George Garrett |
| Hank Nuwer |
Maurice Sendak Q & A |
| ESSAYS |
| James L. Skinner |
Hugh Holman: From Goldville to Clinton |
| James B. Meriwether |
Simms' "Sharp Snaffles" and "Bald-Head Bill Bauldy": Two Views of Men - And of Women |
| Daniel J. Orsini |
Hopkins' Monastic Sonnets: A Revaluation |
| Robert F. Fleissner |
Markin' the Frost Line: On Robert Frost and Edwin Markham |
| FICTION |
| H. E. Francis |
The Other |
| Elizabeth Searle |
Dogs Chase Cars |
| Ernest J. Finney |
Bed of Roses |
| Stephen Dixon |
Package Store |
| Mark Steadman |
Second Semester |
| Jill Ciment |
The Biography |
| Jeffrey Couchman |
Willy |
| POETRY |
| Salvatore Salerno |
A Potter Has His Say |
| Jeanette Blair |
Three Poems |
| Rebecca Brown |
The Cars |
| Edward Willey |
Back Then |
| Marc De Baca |
Elliptical Wheels |
| David Tillinghast |
The Autumn Deer |
| REVIEWS |
| Ron Rash |
Why Poe Drank Liquor by Marion Montgomery |
| Paula R. Feldman |
Northern Lights by Susan Ludvigson |
| Frank Day |
The letters of Gamel Woolsey to Llewelyn Powys, 1930-1939 edited by Kenneth Hopkins |
| John Idol |
My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein by Suzanne Stutman, and Beyond Love and Loyalty: The Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell, edited by Richard S. Kennedy |
| Leonard T. Perry |
Eugerio Montale: Poet on the Edge edited by Rebecca J. West |