This issue of Nostos is dedicated to the lyric poetic idea of the Ode. In this edition, we have poetry by Sharon Olds, Troy Jollimore, Karen Poppy, Joan Baranow, Cortney Davis, Laurie Kolp, David Rollison, Joanne Esser, and others. Artwork is presented by June Yokell, whose paintings are odes to Trees, and by Kate Peper, whose watercolors are odes to the Volkswagen Bug!