| FICTION |
| Greg Johnson |
Idols |
| Marlene Youmans |
The Fossil Bed |
| Paul Ruffin |
Drought |
| Michael Wade Simpson |
It's All Luck |
| William Losinger |
Creative History |
| W. S. Doxey |
Dabney Stuart |
| POETRY |
| J. W. Rivers |
The Gertz Family |
| Roseanne Coggeshall |
Advent, 1985 |
| Three Poems by R. T. Smith |
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| Carl Lindner |
Teaching Checkers to My Son |
| Kay Ryan |
Duchamp |
| Two Poems by David Tillinghast |
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| John P. Zanes |
Buddhist Meditation |
| Alice Friman |
Unposted Letter |
| Richard LeMon |
Tea Store |
| Linda Kittell |
Ransom Holcomb |
| Cathy Smith-Bowers |
Markings |
| ESSAYS |
| James D. Boyer |
A Reevaluation of Wolfe's "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" |
| Sidney Poger |
Auden's First Poetic Sequence |
| REVIEWS |
| Ronald Moran |
Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth by George S. Lensing |
| Marilyn R. Farwell |
The Feminine Reclaimed: The Idea of Women in Spenser, Shakespeare, and
Milton by Steve Davies |
| Hallman Bryant |
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood by Jan Marsh |
| Frederick W. Shilstone |
Byron: The Italian Influence by Peter Vassallo; Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia and 19th-Century England by Louis Crompton; Byron the Satirist by Frederick L. Beaty |
| Matthew C. Roudane |
Inner Landscapes: The Theater of Sam Shepard by Ron Mottram |
| Michael G. Moran |
Jane Austin by Tony Tanner |
| Mark Royden Winchell |
Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a Southern Conservative by M.E. Bradford |
| John L. Idol, Jr. |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert |