Winter 2005
Volume 81, Number 1
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — Here Be Monsters
VQR Portfolio
- George Garrett — The Crossover Beard; or, the True Story of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Among Other Things)
- Steve Ryfle — Godzilla’s Footprint
- Edgar Wright — The Church of George
Dispatch
- Stephen Boykewich — Russia after Beslan
Essay
- Steve Almond — Pretty Authors Make Graves
- Margaret Atwood — A Soap Bubble Hovering Over the Void: A Tribute to Carol Shields
- Sven Birkerts — A Weekend at Montauk
- Robert Bly and James Wright — Robert Bly and James Wright: A Correspondence
- Antonio Skármeta — The Infinite Brunette
- Willard Spiegelman — Rita Dove, Dancing
VQR Gallery
- Gene Beley — Folsom Prison Blues
Fiction
- Robert Cohen — Aliens
- Joyce Carol Oates — So Help Me God
- Carol Shields — Segue
Poetry
- Bruce Beasley — Self-Portrait in Ink
- Erin Belieu — After Reading That the Milky Way Is Devouring the Galaxy of Sagittarius
- Allen Braden — First Elk, 1939
- Victoria Chang — Sarah Emma Edmonds
- Chad Davidson — The Last Predicta TV
- Mark Doty — School of the Arts
- Rita Dove — Brightening
- Henry Hart — Fishing Lesson
- Brian Henry — from Quarantine
- Bob Hicok — Hunting season begins in my valley
- James Hoch — Painting of a Cart
- John Lundberg — Penitence
- Cecily Parks — Self-Portrait as Angler’s Damselfly
- Henry Taylor — Vision at Woods' Edge, A Straight Stretch on the Far Side of Coolbrook, and A Trace of Old Road Work
Book Reviews
- Book Notes
- David T. Gies — The King of All Spaniards
- Hugh Ragsdale — Will the Real Mr. Putin Please Stand Up?
- Louis D. Rubin — TR: On Recent Books about Theodore Roosevelt
Humor
- Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic
