Issue 18: Fall 1997

“It is [the poet’s] privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.” — William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Features include "The Homesick Letters of William Faulkner," by Padgett Powell and Donald Kartiganer. Fiction by Mark Richard. Other contributors include Steve Yarbrough, Diane Roberts, Bern Keating, Vladimir Nabokov, William C. Ordiorne, and others.