Category Archives: From The Archives

Spring 1997 ON HEARING A WOLF’S HOWL This is no coyote’s warble and bark.It soars into the canyon’s very stonesand sets the pine needles quivering.Even the moonlight trembles. Maybe the wolverine, most fearlessand furtive of all these woods’ creatures,does not take note. Maybe the bull moose,placid and massive, merely nods. But the cliffs stand stillContinue reading “From the Archives – Robert Wrigley”

Winter 1999 NOT QUITE THIRTEEN EXCUSES OF A PLAGIARIST —after David Jones (a.k.a. David Sumner, etc.)plagiarized an elegy Neal Bowers wrote for his father —after wondering what Jones would possibly sayto explain himself —with apologies to Wallace Stevens IAfter I read your poem,those two white cups floatedout of the first stanzaand followed me everywhere.Like sheetsContinue reading “From the Archives: Derek Sheffield”

Talking River Review FA 1996: THE ELEMENTARY LABYRINTH  Art Fausel had the swimming pool built while his wife Dottie was doing seventeen days of hiking through the woods of Connecticut for three graduate credits. The Audubon Society had given her a scholarship. All she had to do was drive three hundred miles and sleep in a tent. They didn’t say anythingContinue reading “From The Archives: Gary Fincke”