AQR - Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2 Spring/Summer 2000

About the Cover

A walrus basks in the summer sun of Kalgin Island in Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Odobenus, the genus name of the walrus, means “tooth-walker,” a reference to its enormous tusks. Although agile in water, they are clumsy on land and must use their flippers for locomotion. These huge mammals also have prodigious appetites, eating as much as 130 pounds of shellfish daily.

©2000 Susan Beeman

Table of Contents

Fiction

The Seventh Experiment of Señora Lopez, Patrick Roscoe
New Shoes for Mrs. Hung, Doris Dörrie
Camille and Amy, Amber Dorko Stopper
Winter, Ellen Cooney
The Interruption, David Means
Bridges Freeze First, Brian David Mooney
A Thing So Clear, Mary Elizabeth Ilg
The Only Course, Danielle Sosin
What She Is, Catherine Sustana
A Kiss, Allen Learst
Talent, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Curling Iron, Lisa Baker
Covenant, Emily Hammond

Essays

When That Day Comes, Sherry Simpson
On Rereading Siddhartha, Nancy Lord

Drama

Syd: Portrait of an Alaskan Artist, Eric Wallace

Poetry

Guest Editor: Billy Collins

After, Stephen Dunn
The Driver, George Keithley
We Run Home Movies Backward, Mary Cornish
Why People Murder, Ellen Bass
Winter Barbeque, D. Rodman Walker
Poet with Baked Goods, Lorene Lamothe
Cast Iron, Daniel Bourne
Bay Meadows Weekend with Robert Herrick, Joseph Millar
I Thought She Said, Henry Taylor
Anecdotal Fencepost, Robert Wrigley
Blue, Ron Houchin
Sleep, Wesley McNair
First Empathy, J. Allyn Rosser
Little Mushrooms, Tomaz Salamun
Wintermouse, Eamon Grennan
Self-Portrait with Swans and a Card Sorter, Gray Jacobik
The Heron, Wally Swist
Werewolf, 1999, Ron Koertge
Louis Zukofsky, Sam Turner
Bookseller with Coffeehouse, Michael Fitzgerald
Settling, Susan Berlin
Truckdrivers, Mark Halliday
It Was Summer, Jack Granath
Along the Columbia at Dawn, David Axelrod
Saint Catherine, Dan Brown
What’s in a Name, Rick Pernod
Three Twelve O’Clocks in a Day, Victoria Redel
Spring Fever, David Simpson
At the Department of Motor Vehicles Division, Thea S. Kuticka
Greys, Hillel Schwartz
Academic Conference at Strawberry Hill, Stephen C. Behrendt
Ghost Warrior, L.S. Asekoff
Be the Worst, Anthony Libby
Department Store, Carl Dennis
Babysitting, Cindy Milwe
What Would Make Me Happy, Douglas Goetsch
Bakersfield, Marc Petersen
A Common Myth, Vincent Cioffi
I Dream My Father Drives on Ice, Jo Sarzotti
In Memoriam, Nick Conrad
Judgment Day, Steve Fellner
Antilamentation, Dorianne Laux