New Letters magazine

Volume 85 Nos. 2&3 (Winter/Spring 2019)

• Editor's Note

• 7 /

  Slowness, an editor's note

  , Robert Stewart

• Fiction

• 71 /

  Independence Road, first place, the New Letters fiction award

  , Amy Widmoyer Hanson
• 105 /

  The Day After Christmas

  , Trish Reeves

• Poetry

• 15 /

  At the Hermitage

  , Peter Everwine
• 23 /

  Unless We Can Establish Undeniably the Objective Reality of Ghosts . . .

  , David Clewell
• 40 /

  Three poems

  , Alice Friman
• 46 /

  Two Poems

  , Jim Barnes
• 66 /

  Joseph Sudek (Prague, 1896-1976), first place, the New Letters award for poetry

  , Betty Ritz Rogers
• 122 /

  Three Poems, about jazz & Roethke

  , Richard Terrill
• 125 /

  Four Poems

  , David Thoreen
• 144 /

  Nothing Will Warn You

  , Stephen Dunn
• 145 /

  A Messenger

  , Christopher Howell
• 146 /

  Two Poems

  , Charles Harper Webb

• Artwork

• 10 /

  Peter Everwine in his study, photograph

  , Micha Langer
• 16 /

  Tree of Life, New Orleans, Louisiana, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 32 /

  Rope, Bagotá, Colombia, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 70 /

  My Mother's Dress, Lexington, Kentucky, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 97 /

  Ode to Robert Frost, mixed-media painting

  , Kathryn Jankus Day
• 98 /

  October in Santa Fe, mixed-media painting

  , Kathryn Jankus Day
• 99 /

  Nkuringo, Uganda, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 100 /

  Clothesline, Magoffin County, Kentucky, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 101 /

  Gaston, Kansas City, Missouri, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 102 /

  Walk in the Woods, mixed-media painting

  , Kathryn Jankus Day
• 103 /

  Gold Shoots, mixed-media painting

  , Kathryn Jankus Day
• 104 /

  Red Bathing Suit, Kansas City, Missouri, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 130 /

  Mud wall, Nkuringo, Uganda, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein
• 148 /

  Smoke Bombs, Kansas City, Missouri, photograph

  , Gloria Baker Feinstein

• Commentary & Reviews

• 149 /

  "Work in Progress: The Beginnings of a Biography," on Evan S. Connell.

  , Steve Paul
• 157 /

  "An Anywhere Road for Anybody Anyhow," on the poems of Denise Low.

  , Julia Older
• 161 /

  "A Short History of What Matters," on thepoetry of Jose Padua

  , Robert Stewart

• Contributor Notes

• 166 /

  Notes on Writers & Artists in This Issue

  , Staff

• Memoirs & Essays

• 11 /

  Eulogy for Peter Everwine

  , Christopher Buckley
• 17 /

  The Bachelors, a partial definition

  , Margot Livesey
• 33 /

  Those Scars

  , Patrick Dobson
• 49 /

  Catract Surgery, first place, the Conger Beasley Jr. award for the essay

  , Robert Stothart
• 131 /

  so much depends upon . . . astrophysics?

  , Thomas Stroik
• 152 /

  Pintaric the Town Philosopher

  , Josip Novakovich