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Essays

• What We Talk about When We Talk about Food   Siobhan Phillips   
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• Robert Burns's Inspired Clay   David Mason   

• Sugar   Jack Heinz   

Fiction

• A Place in Time: Some Chapters of a Telling Story   Wendell Berry   
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Poetry

• Childbirth, Dove Cottage, the Wordsworths; The Victorian Obsession with the Preservation of Hair   Maxine Kumin   
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• That Night in London; A Cold Call; A Zodiac for the 22^nd Century   David Wagoner   
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• Idiot Moon   Sydney Lea   

• Entryways; The Hedge Weaver; Rehab   Thomas Reiter   

• Death on the Nile   Alan Sullivan   
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• In Etterbeek; Garland of Holy Roses   Colette Inez   

• George Foreman in Zaire; Elvin Jones at Midnight; The Injury Wall   Jack B. Bedell   

• The Chase   Timothy Murphy   

• Pause for Breath; In an Evening Window   Robyn Sarah   

• By August, Surely; The Afterlife   Patricia Hooper   

• Snakes   Helen Conkling   

Chronicles

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• "Somewhere Else First"   Richard Hornby   

• The Epoch Continues   Marcia B. Siegel   

• On the Booing of La Sonnambula   Erick Neher   
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Reviews

• Citizen Milton   Mark Jarman   

• Five Poets   David Mason   

• Forster as Broadcaster and Critic   William H. Pritchard   

• On Location   Thomas Filbin   

Comment

• Letter from Venice: The Biennale   Sergio Perosa   
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