Summer 2023 (Volume LXXVI, No. 2)

Edmund Keeley’s Poems of Age

by David Mason

A Meditation on Ariel’s Song

by Karl Kirchwey

He Cannonballed

by Cary Holladay

Steps

by Mark Jacobs

Not Dark Enough for Fireflies

by Rachel Hadas

“The Trojan War Will Not Take Place”; Lao-Tse and the Louse; Firefly; Night Letters

by Kevin Hart

Mouths

by Bruce Lawder

The Critic

by Robin S. Chapman

Untold Lives of Ancient Greece; Tide Pools

by Maurya Simon

Ghost Apples

by Ellen Kaufman

last summer i dug two graves i hope never to fill

by John Sibley Williams

My Mother’s Menagerie

by Peter Schmitt

Milk and Honey

by Paula Bohince

Postscript: Post-COVID

by Allen Braden

My Mother’s Outside

by Kate Northrop

To a Deer Tick

by Joyce Wilson

Phenomenology of Ocular Migraine; Quantum Cat

by Brian Swann

The Little Donkey of Missolonghi

by Stamatis Polenakis, Nick Moschovakis, Trans.

Thank You, T. S. Eliot; The Scalping of Emily Dickinson

by Susan Gubernat

Youth

by Brooke Allen

At the Galleries

by Karen Wilkin

Two Classics: Reaffirmation and Reinvention

by Erick Neher

Goofy, Like All Genuine Poets

by Bruce Whiteman

Dryden’s Correspondence

by William H. Pritchard

“Such hap as I am happed in”

by Lorna Knowles Blake

Endless, Right? Endless? Write

by Michael Thurston

Kafka Agonistes

by David Mason

Essential Art

by Louise Marburg

Of Mere Being: Five Poems by Wallace Stevens

by Mark Jarman

Notes on Contributors