Summer 2003 | Volume 55.3

ROBERT DAWSON
The Museum of Modern Hurt | 6

JOHN GOULET
Reviving Pater | 16

ELLYN BACHE
The Soup of Human Kindness | 20

JANE CARTER
Falling Dream | 28

BEN MILLER
Aunt Ice Pick and Uncle X | 44

CRAIG CURTIS
A Peak in Darien | 50

POETRY

LYNN POWELL
Garden Passages | 13

THOMAS LUEDTKE
Elevator | 18

LEIGH ANNE COUCH
Spring Monologue | 41
Human History | 41

ROBERT KING
You Can Never | 48

MICHAEL O’SIADHAIL
Concertina | 60

MIKE SMITH
Conversation with the Poet | 62

GEORGE HOVIS AND TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Old Times on the Haw: An interview with Dale Ray Phillips | 63

JONATHAN D’AMORE
Comments from a Modest Man: An Interview with Calvin Trillin | 74

REVIEWS

ADAM TARLETON
Kingdom of the Instant by Rodney Jones | 83

JOHN CRUTCHFIELD
The Search for Wonder in the Cradle of the World by Anthony S. Abbott | 86

MICHAEL LEONE
The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson | 91

TARA BETTS
When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering by Ruth Ellen Kocher | 93

MELISSA USSERY INTINTOLO
Costly Habits by Peter Makuck | 93

AMY WELDON
Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South by Trudier Harris | 94

ILLUSTRATIONS

GRACE LING WANG
Nude 2 | Cover
Face | 12
Filed | 18