Issue 072

In Conversation

• Fairly Ordinary Lives: A Conversation with Michael Crummey

Nonfiction

• A Kitchen Chat, of Sorts: Reflections of a Word-Chaser
• A Letter to the Editor
• Once Upon A Reading Dreary

Fiction

• Gompertz Remembered
• The Savage God
• House of Feasting
• Donuts Are Empty in the Middle
• Empty Gardens

Postscript

• The Stain
• Notice
• Discovery
• A Lucky Girl
• Blue Heaven

Poetry

• Tactics
• Entropy
• Comfort
• Dostoevsky
• Arson
• Naked
• Seduction
• Narcissus at the Pool
• Swimming with Apollo
• The Birdhouse
• Like the Birdhouse Itself, the Narrative Is Only Seamless From a Distance
• The Coming of the Birds
• Concerto for the Left Hand
• Honky Tonk Poem
• Spirit Rock, Wiarton, Ontario
• Lake Huron
• Springhole II
• August Sun
• Rain on the Mountains: Ghazals
• I n , .
• Defense of Poesy 1.1
• Articulate Skeleton
• Words In Spite Of

• Contributors

• New Quarterly News