Issue 6

Arts & Letters Prize Winners

Rachel Pastan Fiction
Sam O’Grady

Peggy Ann Tartt Poetry
Instead of Carnations
The Dying Season

Fiction

Jeff Bens
Fireflies

Ben Miller
Retort of the Bad Tipper

Luke Whisnant
Down in the Flood

Poetry

K.E. Allen
Woman in a Boat

Kathryn Stripling Byer
Hoot Owl
Looking Out

Maria Elena Caballero-Robb
Yellow Fever

A.V. Christie
Chorus
Lullaby for Water

Margaret Gibson
Requiem: A Poem in Five Voices

John Gilgun
Contentment
Horn

Holly Iglesias
The Panic of Ninety-Three

Essays

Fleda Brown
Walls Six Feet Thick

Edward M. Cifelli
Gwendolyn Brooks: Mid-Century American Poet

Janice Eidus
Like Lovers

Dinty W. Moore
Getting Better All the Time

Interview

Margaret Gibson and Marilyn Nelson
Out of the Silence: A Mutual Interview

Translations

Alexandra Newton Rios translates Nestór Groppa
The river passes chañares, thorns and the leaves of the green willows
flower vendor
The world grows complicated when it rains

Book Review

Keith Hendrix
New Poetry from W.W. Norton

Featured Artist

Oscar Jay Gillespie
Eight Prints