Winter 2024 (Volume LXXVI, No. 4) ESSAYS The Silencing of Ophelia by Robert Crossley Free Bright Medusas by Beth Gutcheon Free FICTION The Half Hour by Bob Johnson Subscribers Only Book Words; Arch of Flowers by Mark Jacobs Subscribers Only POETRY Shopping; Practicing Death by Robert Mcdowell Subscribers Only The Swifts by Nina Bogin Subscribers Only Sestina on Six Words by Michael Peterson by John Philip Drury Subscribers Only Like Mowing the Grass; Annunciation Triptych by Bruce Beasley Free The Auction by Barbara Craig Adams Subscribers Only Lenape Names in Philadelphia; Gonzalez Grocery by David Livewell Subscribers Only The Attic by Brian Swann Subscribers Only Little Collage; Breakwater Rock by Bruce Lawder Free Living Situation on Thomes Street by Michele Herman Free Reconstructed Sapphic Fragment 24C by Wendy Drexler Subscribers Only Clearing Brush by Robert Cording Free After Snow; “Tell It Slant” by David Hamilton Subscribers Only ARTS CHRONICLES At the Galleries by Karen Wilkin Subscribers Only The Ubiquity of Sondheim by Erick Neher Free Giuseppe Verdi on the First Crusade: Italian Opera and Religious Warfare in the Middle East by Larry Wolff Free Film Chronicle by Brooke Allen Free BOOK REVIEWS Life of a Laureate by Mark Jarman Subscribers Only The Mirror of Poetry by Robert Archambeau Subscribers Only Achilles Hath the Mighty Hector Slain by Bruce Whiteman Free Lord Byron—Seven Takes by David Mason Free Harvest and Reflection by Cary Holladay Free COMMENT The Imaginary Operagoer: A Memoir by Dana Gioia Free NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on Contributors Free Obituary Free
