Summer 2023 (Volume LXXVI, No. 2) ESSAYS Edmund Keeley’s Poems of Age David Mason Full Text A Meditation on Ariel’s Song Karl Kirchwey Full Text FICTION He Cannonballed Cary Holladay Full Text Steps Mark Jacobs Full Text POETRY Not Dark Enough for Fireflies Rachel Hadas Full Text "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place"; Lao-Tse and the Louse; Firefly; Night Letters Kevin Hart Full Text Mouths Bruce Lawder Full Text The Critic Robin S. Chapman Full Text Untold Lives of Ancient Greece; Tide Pools Maurya Simon Full Text Ghost Apples Ellen Kaufman Full Text last summer i dug two graves i hope never to fill John Sibley Williams Full Text My Mother’s Menagerie Peter Schmitt Full Text Milk and Honey Paula Bohince Full Text Postscript: Post-COVID Allen Braden Full Text My Mother’s Outside Kate Northrop Full Text To a Deer Tick Joyce Wilson Full Text Phenomenology of Ocular Migraine; Quantum Cat Brian Swann Full Text The Little Donkey of Missolonghi Stamatis Polenakis Nick Moschovakis, trans. Full Text Thank You, T. S. Eliot; The Scalping of Emily Dickinson Susan Gubernat Full Text ARTS CHRONICLES Youth Brooke Allen Full Text At the Galleries Karen Wilkin Full Text Two Classics: Reaffirmation and Reinvention Erick Neher Full Text BOOK REVIEWS Goofy, Like All Genuine Poets Bruce Whiteman Full Text Dryden’s Correspondence William H. Pritchard Full Text “Such hap as I am happed in” Lorna Knowles Blake Full Text Endless, Right? Endless? Write Michael Thurston Full Text Kafka Agonistes David Mason Full Text Essential Art Louise Marburg Full Text COMMENT Of Mere Being: Five Poems by Wallace Stevens Mark Jarman Full Text NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on Contributors Full Text