ISSUES | fall 2004

Featuring the poem: From the Unwritten Letters of Joseph Freeman

Featuring the poems: Rotation Neighborhood (1) If the Weather Holds First Night of Writing Class

It was an unseasonably chilly day in late September, 1959, when Joe Bill Kendall waved to his parents from the aft deck of the French-flagged freighter Marion Lykes.

Featuring the stories: Jake’s Dog The Rehearsal A Father is Arrested

On a frozen lake a man is fishing. The sun–no warmer than a star–hangs over the spruce. Winter in Montana. The Pintlar Mountains rise to the east.

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A hundred years ago, John Stewart, former judge of the Boone County Court, stood at the edge of the University of Missouri campus and looked west at the rolling hills of his pastureland.

Featuring the poems: The Fat Man Who Stands in the Sea After Rage Countrymen Protecting the Buds

Featuring the following poems: The Telemarketer Basically Enjoys Talking with Goldbarth, Though it Ends Too Soon for Her Preference The Telemarketer Calls a Poet She’s Actually Heard Once on NPR…    read more

A series of poems by Gabriel Welsch in this issue records the conversations of a bored telemarketer with several well-known poets (including one who has been dead for three hundred…    read more

In the spring, I moved from an apartment near the university into a rented house on the scrubby southeast edge of Tuscon. In deciding on the house, I’d focused on small things I liked: white hexagonal tile set in black grout in the bathroom, a bedroom closet I could lie down in.

EVERY MONDAY, Wednesday, Friday, Mr. Lenzen would get a shower and, if necessary, a shave. Baths were easier in a practical sense—if he slipped and fell showering, ankle, wrist and…    read more