Table Talk
Thom Gunn
Poem: The Dump
John Berryman
Books: Shakespeare’s Reality
Anne Carson
Poem: Oedipus’s Nap
Vivian Gornick
Books: Reluctantly by Hayden Carruth
W. S. Di Piero
Poem: Leaving Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia
Brian Henry
Books: Going Fast by Frederick Seidel
Joshua Weiner
Poem: Connecting Flight
James Campbell
James Baldwin and the FBI
Monica Drake
Fiction: The Folly of Loving Life
Richard W. Pearce
Poem: Repo Man
Lisa Michaels
Miscellany: At the Auction House
Eric Paul Shaffer
Poem: Untitled
Cornelia Nixon
Fiction: By the Shining Big Sea Waters
Allison Bennis
Poem: Recycling
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Perspectives: At a Certain Age
Arthur Lubow
Film: Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness
C. K. Williams
Poem: The Cup
August Kleinzahler
Art: Stanley Spencer
Elizabeth Macklin
Poem: Only Children
Meera Nair
Fiction: The Lodger in 726
Clifford Thompson
Boxing: Sugar, Muhammad, and Me
Virgil (tr. David Ferry)
Poem: Tenth Eclogue
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