VQR Online

Spring 2001

Farewell to the Farewell Address? or A Discourse of the Permanent and Transient in American Politics

By Michael Dunne
Summer 1987

Potatoes, October

By Michael Dennis Browne
Autumn 2000

Cancer Suspect

By Debra Bruce
Spring 1987

Good News

By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Summer 2000

Hangman

By R. T. Smith
Autumn 1986

Reprint, Autumn 1986

POETRY / Summer 2002

Playbill

By Mark Halliday
Summer 1986

How I Fled Nazi Germany

By Hans A. Schmitt
Winter 2003

Power Dark, Power Bright: Robert A. Caro, Robert Moses, and Lyndon B. Johnson

By Michael Nelson
POETRY / Summer 1988

I Didn’t Mean To

By Sarah Provost

unbalance the flowers on their stems:
their brute grace fisted me silly. Now
I’m sodden as Sunday. Greeks
couldn’t speak of my feelings, I’m a zoo baby.