May 1998

Thomas Hart Benton, "Threshing," 1941.

Poem

David Wagoner
- CROSSING A PATH
- THE PRINCIPLES OF CONCEALMENT
Robert Wrigley
- DARK FOREST
Kath M. Anderson
- from Footholds: Escalante Wilderness
Neal Bowers
Lisa Rosenberg
Jorge Carrera Andrade
- Biography for the Use of Birds
- Sunday (tr. by Steven Ford Brown)
Christian Wiman
- The Long Home: Coda
Margaret Mackinnon
- FOR GRANT WOOD
Peter Makuck
- SPRING ON THE MISSOURI
- HURRICANE WARNING: SURFERS
Brad Leithauser
David Baker
- OHIO FIELDS AFTER RAIN
James Kimbrell
- SALVATION
- ON THE ROAD ABOVE JO-YANG BEACH
Maria Luisa A. Cariño
- CITY OF POETRY
Carl Dennis
- NOT THE IDLE