Reading America
NICK LAWRENCE		on Paul Auster
SYMPOSIUM		Richard Armstrong, Kate Braverman, Cris Mazza, Susan M. Schultz, Eliot Weinberger
JACKIE WILLS		on Mark Doty
THOMAS DAY		on Susan Stewart
		Brief notice
		The Chair of Babel Peter Porter at Eighty
PETER PORTER		Five Poems
CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE		Dear Peter,
TIM LIARDET		Two Sonnets
JOHN KINSELLA		Graphology 893
IAN DUHIG		Whistling or Just After
GEORGE SZIRTES		Your Attention Please: A New Porter Folio
PETER GOLDSWORTHY		On First Looking into Penguin’s Porter
ANTHONY THWAITE		Vita Somnium Breve (pt. 2)
PETER ROSE		Two Poems
MARTIN HARRISON		Night (1974)
KEVIN HART		Two Poems
		Back to Babel
KIT FAN		Hero Tree
		China Landscape in the Forecourt of the British Museum
RASHMI VARMA		on Tim Parks
		Brief notice
TIFFANY ATKINSON		on Martin Harrison
HELEN DENNIS		on New Zealand poetry
CHRIS MILLER		on Víctor Rodríguez Nuñez and Eli Tolaretxipi
ALEX SMITH		Glass King
LUCY M. ALFORD		on Mourid Barghouti
IAN REVIE		on Francis Ponge
ROBERT VAS DIAS		The Lascaux Variations
ANTHONY CALESHU		No Whales were Harmed in Making this House
		“Any News from Mocha Dick?”
		A Plea in Behalf of the Sabbath for Whalemen
MICHAEL McKIMM		on Pauline Stainer, Sheenagh Pugh and Michael O'Neill
EMILY HASLER		on recent poetry pamphlets
		Brief notices
MARK A. MURPHY		Chelsea Hotel #2, Reprise
JOHN MUCKLE		on Polish poetry
WILLIAM BEDFORD		on George Szirtes
STEVIE DAVIES		on Gert Hofmann
LOTTE KRAMER		Jam
		Lines from Rilke’s Malte Laurids Brigge
ALEXANDER ADAMS		After Kafka
		Notebook
KEITH BOTSFORD		Elsewhere
		Brief notices
		Notes on contributors