Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — A Dream Deferred: Integrated Education In America

VQR Portfolio

• Julian Bond — Interview With Oliver W. Hill
• Susan E. Eaton — Brown’s Faint Revival
• Toni Morrison — The Journey to School Integration
• Roger Wilkins — Doing the Work: Why We Need Affirmative Action
• Mary Zwiep — Affirmative Action and the Idea of A University

Dispatch

• Simone Poirier-Bures — Democracy

Essay

• Michael Collier — On Translating Medea
• David Kirby — Chekhov’s Influence on Shakespeare
• Sebastian Matthews — Song for My Father
• Reuel K. Wilson — Edmund Wilson’s Cape Cod Landscape

VQR Gallery

• Thomas H. Garver — The Last Days of Steam
• Kevin Young — Black Cat Blues, Dirty Deal Blues, Guinea Gall, Hard Headed Blues, Lullaby, Prayer, Quartet, Say When, Watching the Good Trains Go By, Watching the Good Trains Go By: A Suite of Poems to Accompany Collages By Romare Bearden, and West Hell

Fiction

• Steve Almond — Have A Coke and A Bullet
• Aimee Phan — Gates of Saigon
• R. T. Smith — Tube Rose

Poetry

• Betty Adcock — Why White Southern Poets Write the Way We Do
• David Baker — Afterwards and Late Pastoral
• Quan Barry — The Excavated Foundations of the Salem Village Parsonage As Resipiscence and Ultrasound As Palinode
• Linda Bierds — DNA, The Cats, and Vespers: Gregor Mendel and Steam
• Rebecca Black — Midwestern Raptures and The Branded Palm of Captain Walker, Abolitionist
• Debra Bruce — His Own Space and So What
• C. P. Cavafy — For the Shop, January, 1904, Meaning, and When the Watchman Saw the Light
• Peter Cooley — Not Stevens' Florida and Starwork
• Maurice Manning — Eight Bucolics
• Sebastian Matthews — Buying Wine
• William Matthews — A Diner and Reunion In the Recovery Room
• Mekeel Mcbride — Jimmy, Jesus and the Japanese Beetles and Night Story: Window . . .
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil — By the Light of A Single Worm and Touchpool
• Alan Shapiro — Questions for the Soul and The Conversation

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
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• Jennifer Grotz — "Rimbaud" est un Autre
• Cristanne Miller — The Responsibilities of Inclusion and Omission: Editing Marianne Moore’s Poetry
• Sanford Pinsker — Is "Higher Education" an Oxymoron?