Barometric Readings (William Heyen, Geoffrey Hill, William Matthews, Ben Howard, Brian Swann, Reginald Gibbons, and others)

JOHN R. REED, a frequent OR contributor, has recently completed a study of H. G. Wells\u27 work. His first collection of poems, A Gallery of Spiders, will be published in the fall by The Ontario Review Press. He teaches at Wayne State University

Bible Studies, By Huron

John R. Reed has published two books of poetry, as well as several scholarly books. His poems and short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, Paris Review, and many other journals. A contributing editor to OR, he is a Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit

Love Poem

JOHN R. REED teaches English at Wayne State University and is the author of many poems, critical essays, and reviews, which have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Modern Poetry Studies, and Poetry. His books include Old School Ties and Perception and Design in Tennyson\u27s Idylls of the King

Instructive Alchemies [Reviews of Philip Levine, Daniel Hoffman, George Keithley, J. Michael Yates, Annie Dillard]

JOHN R. REED teaches English at Wayne State University and is the author of many poems, critical essays, and reviews, which have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Modern Poetry Studies, and Poetry. His books include Old School Ties and Perception and Design in Tennyson\u27s Idylls of the King