Autumn 2023 (Volume LXXVI, No. 3)

Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest 2023

by David Mason

First Prize: Lute Man; I Still Hold Memories

by Chiwenite Onyekwelu

Second Prize: Understory; This

by Othuke Umukoro

Third Prize: The Light at Dusk; Pines

by John Mulcare

Honorable Mention: Harvest

by Lenna Mendoza

Honorable Mention: Sighting

by Timothy Nolan

Stories, Seen and Unseen

by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Guillermo Bleichmar, Trans.

The Winter’s Tale? A Life of Anthony Hecht

by Robert Archambeau

Cake

by Louise Marburg

Love, Life & Death on the Oregon Trail: A Play by Krista Robinson, Age 11 2/3

by Leslie Pietrzyk

Evening

by Jayanta Mahapatra

Silence Sounds Different Now; A Good End

by Rebecca Foust

Dominant Harmony; A Mirror at Holy Name

by D. Nurkse

A Pair of Glasses

by David Ives

Coda to Sappho

by Robert Schultz

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

by William Virgil Davis

Advice

by Brendan Galvin

Behold Thy Mother

by Elisabeth Murawski

Confluences

by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh

Acid Permanent; Red Speaks

by Cara Dees

The Blank Museum

by Diane Thiel

Cy Twombly’s Leda; Úbeda

by Lewis Meyers

Four Summer Films

by Erick Neher

At the Galleries

by Karen Wilkin

Manhattan on Empty

by Joseph Giovannini

The Lessons of 1848

by Brooke Allen

The Summer’s Best Fiction, Hands Down

by Susan Balée

On Richard Ford

by William H. Pritchard

Artifice and Artistry

by Mark Jarman

The Example of Seamus Heaney

by David Mason

Compensation

by Sydney Lea

Obituaries

Notes on Contributors