General 1 — Alaska Quarterly Review

About the Cover

Firewood seed pod, Noatak River, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.
© 2016 Richard J. Murphy

AQR Vol. 33, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2016

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Dedication, Ronald Spatz

Essays

White Horse, Eliese Colette Goldbach
If I Could Touch You, Andrew D. Payton
Origin of Light, Mary Kudenov
Not Knowing: The Rock & Roll of Drinking, Richard Schmitt
Capricci, Thomas Mira y Lopez

Novella

Over There, Debbie Urbanski

Stories

Go Tell Messiah, Jason Manganaro
Wild Places, Teresa Burns Gunther
Pleasantville, George Choundas
Williamsville, Gerri Brightwell
The Rod, Castle Freeman Jr.
Footnote, Jill Logan

Poems

Field Guide to the Bears of New Jersey, John Bargowski
Scat, Nicky Beer
Goat’s Milk, Todd Davis
Edenic, Michael Homolka
House, Charles Douthat
Concrete, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Before the Fall, Mercedes Lawry
Red Canoe Having Ideas, Jeanne Emmons
Almost Every Time (translation by Jesse Lee Kercheval), Idea Vilariño
I Would Like (translation by Jesse Lee Kercheval), Idea Vilariño
The Red Suitcase, Cynthia Marie Hoffman
What Remains, Margaret Levine|
Weeping Glass, Susan Rich
To Guilt, Kurt Olsson
Getting Through the A’s in Angels: Their Names and Meanings, Tina Kelley
On Seeing The Embroiderer, or Mette Gauguin, Nancy Chen Long
Vermeer: The Lacemaker, Joan I. Siegel
Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Pastel, 1901, Nicole Pekarske
As California Edges Towards Alaska, Colette Inez
Homesickness, Judith Skillman
Three Times on the Trail, I Looked Back for You, Kate Partridge
Summer Apples, Cathryn Essinger
Mildred’s Pancake Village, Mark Kraushaar

Special Feature

Special Feature – Sparks: A Conversation in Poems and Paintings, Kesler Woodward and Peggy Shumaker