Table of Contents

Introduction

POEMS and STORIES
Boat People Will Inman
Inside Invisible Walls Joanne Seltzer
O Walt Whitman Norman MacAfee
O Poets! Kate Britt
Friends Ken Fontenot
To You, Walt, and to Others Judith Saul Stix
The Good Grey Poet Theodore Weiss
Great Principles are Thrown Down by Time Richard Eberhart
Hopkins to Whitman: From the Lost Correspondence Philip Dacey
From the Diary of Peter Doyle John Gill
Calamus Songs of Peter Doyle John Gill
All the Beautiful Singers Jean E. Pearson
The Night Before Yesterday Joseph McCullough
With Walt Whitman at Fredricksburg Dave Smith
New Leaves Frank Allen
In Golden Gate Park Jon Bracker
Visitors Daniel Wolff
Transitions John Appling Sours
Summer Mornings at the Ice House John Appling Sours
Paumanok Joy Walsh
I Hear America Harry Smith
Dear Walt, Martin Itzkowitz

ESSAYS
Remarks at a Poetry Reading Stanley Kunitz
Untitled Alan Brilliant
Walking on the Whitman Side Sidney Bernard

FEATURES
Henderson the Rain King: Bellow's "Song of Myself" Thomas Friedmann

ARTWORK
Robert DiStefano
Doris Magasiny
Peter Watson
Jude Ward
William Hoffman
John Giannotti