RICHARD LEHNERT loves writing poems but often thinks he’d rather spend the rest of his life listening to the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. He prays that, within his lifetime, the missing pages of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 will turn up. He and his wife recently moved to Ashland, Oregon.

The Only Empty Place

by Richard Lehnert, July 2011 (Issue 427)

That Moment

by Richard Lehnert, May 2005 (Issue 353)

Essay On Compassion

by Richard Lehnert, July 2003 (Issue 331)

Heaven

by Richard Lehnert, June 2003 (Issue 330)