Autumn 2023 (Volume LXXVI, No. 3) FREDERICK MORGAN POETRY CONTEST 2023 Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest 2023 David Mason Full Text First Prize: Lute Man; I Still Hold Memories Chiwenite Onyekwelu Full Text Second Prize: Understory; This Othuke Umukoro Full Text Third Prize: The Light at Dusk; Pines John Mulcare Full Text Honorable Mention: Harvest Lenna Mendoza Full Text Honorable Mention: Sighting Timothy Nolan Full Text ESSAYS Stories, Seen and Unseen Antonio Muñoz Molina Guillermo Bleichmar, trans. Full Text The Winter’s Tale? A Life of Anthony Hecht Robert Archambeau Full Text FICTION Cake Louise Marburg Full Text Love, Life & Death on the Oregon Trail: A Play by Krista Robinson, Age 11 2/3 Leslie Pietrzyk Full Text POETRY Evening Jayanta Mahapatra Full Text Silence Sounds Different Now; A Good End Rebecca Foust Full Text Dominant Harmony; A Mirror at Holy Name D. Nurkse Full Text A Pair of Glasses David Ives Full Text Coda to Sappho Robert Schultz Full Text Sarcophagus of the Spouses William Virgil Davis Full Text Advice Brendan Galvin Full Text Behold Thy Mother Elisabeth Murawski Full Text Confluences Suzanne Rhodenbaugh Full Text Acid Permanent; Red Speaks Cara Dees Full Text The Blank Museum Diane Thiel Full Text Cy Twombly’s Leda; Úbeda Lewis Meyers Full Text ARTS CHRONICLES Four Summer Films Erick Neher Full Text At the Galleries Karen Wilkin Full Text Manhattan on Empty Joseph Giovannini Full Text BOOK REVIEWS The Lessons of 1848 Brooke Allen Full Text The Summer’s Best Fiction, Hands Down Susan Balée Full Text On Richard Ford William H. Pritchard Full Text Artifice and Artistry Mark Jarman Full Text The Example of Seamus Heaney David Mason Full Text COMMENT Compensation Sydney Lea Full Text FROM THE EDITORS Obituaries Full Text NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on Contributors Full Text