Volume 31 (2022)

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Cover
 Claude Wilkinson (Cover image.)

Marlin Barton
 In the Visionary Company of Love

Ace Boggess
 The Value of Poetry
 Yesterday's Spider
 Visualizer

Catharine Savage Brosman
 Woman with Mop and Bucket
 For Jane, on Her Nintieth
 Kale

Rick Campbell
 The End of the Road: Portal, North Dakota, Part II

Dan Campion
 Galimatias
 Grotesques

Catherine Chandler
 Good-bye Song

Terese Coe
 Here and Now and Then and There
 The Key in Salonika
 You Are Not the Others
 A Bust of Janus Speaks

Barbara Lydecker Crane
 Marie de Valengin
 Rivals
 Imagining Caleb

Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio
 Papi Hubert

Patricia Foster
Correction: This author should be Emily Douglas.
 Silence

Emily Douglas
Correction: This author should be Patricia Foster.
 Christmas, 1988

Ruth Holzer
 Solitary Journey

Charles Hughes
 The Artist

Greg Huteson
 Every Brilliant Thing

Steve Knepper
 Review of Never Enough Already and Sooner or Later, by Jane Blanchard

Jean L. Kreiling
 On the Cusp
 Vertigo
 Mirror Nonet: Madeleine and Lilac
 Unmailed Letters to Old Lovers

Josh Luckenbach
 Spring Poem
 All at Once

Richard Meyer
 In Plato's Cave
 Death Is . . .
 Soliloquy at the Asylum

David Middleton
 Of Literature and Life
 Coda
 Taking Down the Tree
 "Painting with Words": My Life as a Louisiana Poet North and South

Leslie Monsour
 Serious Pleasure. Review of What Remains to Be Said: New and Selected Poems, by Robert B. Shaw

James B. Nicola
 Black Holes II

James Owens
 To Galla, an Aging Bride
 Invocation to Priapus
 The Forlorn Maid in Spring

Steven Peterson
 Iliad in Surburbia
 Elvis at Graceland, 1958
 The Tongue Is a Deadly Arrow

Robert Schechter
 Reaching Six
 My First Snow
 The Empty Boat
 Lights Out

Robert B. Shaw
 Back Story
 A Neighbor's Rooster

Hilary Sideris
 Maria & Tony
 Sophia
 Hyenas
 Posto di Merda
 Vasco
 Chios

J. D. Smith
 Doughnut Holes: An Inquiry

Michael Spence
 Mistake

Daniel Tobin
 The Crown
 Palimpsest
 The Game

Alejandra Vansant
 Review of Keep the Feast, by Stephen Cushman

Wendy Videlock
 And Still
 Given a Choice

Lisa Vihos
 Wind Technicians Needed

Michael Washburn
 Repentance

William Wenthe
 Phalarope and Carp
 Reading in Bed

Donald Wheelock
 Hopper's Gas

Claude Wilkinson
 After James Dickey's "Cherrlog Road"
 Carcass of a Vole
 De la Cite de Dieu
 Roadkill

James Matthew Wilson
 Catullans
 A Prayer to Christ the Lord
 "Starting Out from Such Emptiness . . ."
 For an Anniversary
 Young Red