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Editorial

Robert S. Fogarty, “Funny Bird Sex” and Other Miscellaneous Tales

Essays

John Nelson, Funny Bird Sex

Gorman Beauchamp, The Black Genteel Tradition

Robert A. Rosenstone, A Muslim-Jewish Pilgrimage

Kenneth King, Forgotten Masterpiece? Marguerite Young’s Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

Ralph Keyes, Edith Tries to Smile

Daniel Harris, The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate

Fiction

Rick DeMarinis, Sparrow’s Tale

Mika Seifert, What We Found in the Earth

Kathleen Ford, Buried Alive

Maura Stanton, The Canals of Mars

Julia Phillips, Galya

Kent Nelson, Scottsbluff
 

Poetry

Richard Howard, Pansy, That’s for Thoughts

George Witte, The Way Back

Garret Keizer, “My First Escape”

Jacqueline Osherow, My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple

Jacqueline Osherow, Sonnet for My Backyard Crickets, Two Weeks Gone

Hailey Leithauser, Eminent Worm

Adam Giannelli, Hush

Adam Giannelli, On a Line by Proust

Gérard Macé, translated by Judith Bishop, Two Poems

Lucia Cherciu, Teaching Romanian to My Two-Year Old
 

From Our Archives

Ihab Hassan, Saul Bellow
 

Et Cetera

John Taylor, Poetry Today: Blue as a Remembrance of Green: Three German Poets Discovered in Dresden