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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

GREAT PLAINS POETRY ISSUE 

Humble House 

Age 

If It's Alive, It's Art 

A Man Stands In His Driveway 

Little Man Fox 

Old Men Fishing 

Mangia Italiano With Steve 

Rain On The Prairies 

Woken Abruptly 

Mrs. Thelma Ekstrom, Homesteader, Wisconsin, 1877 

Walking To A Gypsy Village Thinking Of Eva 

Restless 

Doozy 

Floater Beware 

The Black Lagoon 

Wander A Lot 

Family Bible 

Evening Cool 

Sunday Lunch In Ponder, Texas 

Speedboat On Lewis And Clark Lake 

The Rattlesnake Dream 

The Road Back 

Walking Fields At Night South Hampton, Iowa 

Suicide Note 

High Plains 

Space 

Alien Corn 

Grave 

Sharing The Road With The Hell's Angels 

Tower View 

September 

Migration 

Small Town Roller Rink 

Jinx 

Searching, No One Stops Until 

The Ghost 

Theater Of The Field 

Bad Place 

January 19th--Still Thawing, Breezy 

Still Life In A Hangar With A Lion And A Woman 

Rustin Larson 

Turboprop 

In The Country In Love With Color 

A Frankenstein Of The Plains  

Amarillo Peace Ranch, 1991 

The Home Of The Radioactive Cats 

This Night And Others Like It  

Ducks In September  

Weather Report  

Schizophrenic 

Bronislaw And The Devil 

Landed 

In The Round Ruins 

The Old Brucker Place 

Blue, Near-Dawn 

Getting Through The Night In Leavenworth, Kansas 

Premonition 

Imagine What 

Wild Rose/Eclipse 

The Advent  

Making Amends 

'Women Planting Com" 

God's Sabbath 

The Cranes, Texas January 

Raven Haibun  

A Shelter Of Stars 

Elba  

Portents  

Spills  

Habitat 

A Bird 

Old Men On The Benches, Persia, Iowa 

Listening To Miles Davis  

Moon Over Oaxaca  

"Of Dust Thou Art"  

The Debt Collectors 

Untitled 

All ◊ The Usual Sci-fi 

The Answer 

Birthday Ghazal  

Ordering  

Feeding The Possum 

REVIEWS 

John Frederick Nims, translator; The Complete Poems of Michelangelo 

Larry Smith; Working It Out 

John Bricuth; Just Let Me Say This About That 

Donald Wayne Viney; Translation of Works of Jules Lequyer 

Douglas Walton; Ad Hominem Arguments 

Abstract

THE GREAT PLAINS POETS Profiles of the poets assembled for this special issue appear in connection with their work Available following the work of each author is information about the poet's professional career and a statement of philosophy.

CHARLES CAGLE, an award-winning creative writer, is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University. In the broader Pittsburg community, he played an active role in the Stilwell Hotel restoration project. His lecture on the life of Arthur Stilwell was printed and used to raise funds for the project.

RICHARD HOLINGER teaches English at Marmion Academy in Aurora, Illinois. His short fiction appears in numerous publications.

ANITA CHANCEY is a Pittsburg State University alumnus. She is currently employed at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine in the Office of Medical Education and Research.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY, Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University, has authored books and journal articles in his field. His Translation of Works of Jules Luquyer is reviewed in this issue of The Midwest Quarterly.

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