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POETRY
SEAMUS HEANEY   Du Bellay in Rome
CODY HEARTZ   Nor’easter
LAURA KASISCHKE   Green / Nine Herbs / The Owls
DANA LEVIN   The Point of the Needle
ROSS WHITE   Quae Nocent Saepe Docent / Notes on the Oracle
DAVID WOJAHN   Chalk Line
MARK BIBBINS   Grief!

FICTION
NORMAN LOCK   A Theory of the Self
EMILY MITCHELL   Three Marriages
AMANDA HAAG   Little Girl’s Point
LINDSAY HILL   from Sea of Hooks
T. L. KHLEIF   The Damascus Players
CAITLIN HAYES   Rough
MEGAN STAFFEL   Arrogance
STEPHEN DIXON   Cochran

NONFICTION

Literary Lives
PAUL MULDOON   Seamus Heaney’s “Du Bellay in Rome”
GEORGE MONTEIRO   Near Encounters with Elizabeth Bishop

Cultural History
RICHARD TILLINGHAST   From Venice to Tipperary

Art
PETER PLAGENS   Confessions of a (Six-) Figure Painter

Reports from Abroad
ELLEN HINSEY   Putin Cracks Down: The Russian Presidential Election and Its Aftermath
MARIAN CROTTY   It’s New Year’s Eve, and This Is Dubai

Music
GREG VITERCIK   Britten’s Last Major Work and the Echoes of Death in Venice

REDISCOVERIES
CONSTANT   Napoleon’s Nightmare

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

In Memoriam

F. D. Reeve

1928–2013

Poet, Fiction Writer, Cultural Interpreter

A heartening presence in all seasons