Walt Whitman's elegy mourns a fallen leader at the moment of victory, setting public triumph against private grief. Its voice of love, loss and reverence opens the Ghosts issue with the haunting presence of memory, sacrifice and unfinished sorrow.

Scotellaro's micro “Big" contrasts the thunderous power of a monster-truck driver's weekend life with the cramped indignities of home, where memory, boredom, grief and irritation shrink him back into ordinary, bruising reality.

Tom Sheehan's FImprisoned by LoveF follows Willie, an escaped German POW in wartime Maine, and Emsie, the farmer’s daughter who shelters and loves him, in a story of desire, danger, family wrath, memory, and hope across the ruins and reckonings of war, time, loyalty, and returning peace and fate too.

Stephen Zelnick introduces Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguay's beloved poet, through biography, criticism, and fresh English translations that trace her lyric gifts, youthful love poems, mature elegies, faith, nature imagery, and lasting place in New World poetry for modern readers and poets today again