Thanks to Paul Metcalf for permission to reprint his essay, “Whitman and Melville,” which has also appeared in The Third Berkshire Anthology, ed. David Emblidge (Lenox, MA: 1982), and to Alexis Levitin for his translation of Egenio de Andrade’s “Walt Whitman and the Birds,” which appears in the Spring 1983 issue of Modern Poetry in Translation.

Cover: Adapted by John Giannotti from a photograph of Walt Whitman taken in 1889.

Archiving of issue completed on June 1, 2005 by Jesse Merandy and Evan Roskos