Ontario Review, Fall/Winter 1993-94, No. 39

Poetry

• Annie Dillard, The Muse and the Poet, The Naturalist at Large on the Delaware River, An Acquaintance in the Heavens, I Think Continually of THose Who Went Truly Ape, Free Fall
• Daniel Halpern, Homage to N. (after Chekhov)
• Alicia Ostriker, Mark Rothko: Three Painting, Woodland Spring
• Hayden Carruth, Folk Song: On the Road Again, Swept
• Nicholas Christopher, Cornelia Street: 6 A.M., Railroad Bridge, Far from Home, Bees
• Greg Johnson, Last Request
• Jana Harris, from Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?
• William Heyen, Among the Stars, Eidolons, The Meeting, The Shopper
• Gray Jacobik, Pace, Stones and Soil, Walking to an Eight O'Clock Class
• Eamon Grennan, Outing, Such a State
• John R. Reed, Bible Studies, By Huron
• Denise Duhamel, Making Money, The Ugly Step Sister
• Constance Urdang, Reincarnation, Goodbye: 1992

Drama

• Joyce Carol Oates, The Rehearsal

Essay

• Cathy N. Davidson, Night Moves

Fiction

• Pinckney Benedict, Prologue to Dogs of God

Photographs

• From Oh How Can I Keep Singing? by Jana Harris

Cover

• Davis Wagon Train en route to the Okanogan Valley, Weed, California, May 1888 (courtesy of Georgene Davis Fitzgerald and the Davis Family)