Table of Contents

POEMS, STORIES, and ARTICLES
The Light Bringers - Eric Nelson
Whitman in Iceland - Sigurdur A. Magnússon
Antler, from Factory - Sigurdur A. Magnússon
The Lonesome Highway - Laura Kalpakian
Marbles - Janet Reno
Out of the Classroom Endlessly Rocking - Richard Radcliffe
Remembering Mr. Martin: A Farmer - Michael Chandler
To Walt Whitman on America’s Birthday, 1978 - Roger Mitchell
Walt Passed By - B.Z. Niditch
At Cranberry and Fulton Street - Elizabeth Searle Lambs
Reading ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ On a Summer Morning - Howard Nelson
from First Street - Martin DiCarlantonio
A Single Spray Still Shines - Diane McColley
Plot of Ground - Michael West
Between Missions - Alan MacDougall
Quiet Man - Alan MacDougall
Toward Scottsdale, Early Morning - Sheila E. Murphy
Sitting on the Porch of the Durant Hotel on a Hot August Afternoon in Chico, Texas - John Appling Sours
Letter Home - Louis McKee
The Idiot - Peter M. Johnson
Ethipoia Saluting the Colors - Michael Covino
Kush: A Wooly-Haired Son of Whitman - Art Goodtimes
On Reading Walt Whitman - Lamont B. Steptoe
Sexual Strategy in ‘I Sing the Body Electric’ - George Klawitter
The Visit Home - Sheila E. Murphy

REVIEWS
From the Diary of Peter Doyle and Other Poems, by John Gill - Geoffrey Sill
A Voice in the Crowd, by Kathryn H. Greenwood - Susan Chromiak
Bazaar, by Susan Wood - Eric Nelson

ARTWORK
Doris Magasiny
Chris Entwisle
Wanda Spina
Beverly Thomas
John Giannotti

Special thanks are due the following writers and presses for permission to reprint previously printed and copyrighted works: Antler, Section III from Factory (City Lights Books, 1980); Elizabeth Searle Lamb, “At Cranberry and Fulton Streets” (Flatbush Magazine, 1965); Howard Nelson, “Reading ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ On a Summer Morning” (Missouri Review).
Cover art: a portrait of Whitman using lines from “Song of Myself.” Designed by John Sokol.