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Autumn 1991

Speakeasy

By Samuel Pickering
POETRY / Autumn 1982

Christ’s Descent Into Hell

By Rainer Maria Rilke ,  Translation by Franz Wright

When it was too much, he went out
of the body’s unspeakable suffering. Rose. Stepped away.

Autumn 1993

Learning Natural Instincts

By Len Roberts
Summer 1991

The Journey to the South: Poe, Borges, and Faulkner

By John T. Irwin
Winter 1983

New Year’s Eve

By David Ignatow
Summer 1993

Given

By Don Colburn
Winter 1991

Epiphany

By Kathleen Norms
Spring 1983

Camping Out

By Marylin Butler
Summer 1996

Miss Savory’s Memorial Museum: Carolina Coast

By Kim Stafford
Autumn 1990

I Join the Sparrows

By Ira Sadoff