Articles in this journal issue explore the relationship between the reader and the literature text, and discuss ways that instruction can enhance reader response to that literature. Following an introduction summarizing the nine articles, the titles and their authors are as follows: (1) "It Is the Poem That I Remake: Using Kenneth Burke's Pentad to Help Students Writing about Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall'" (Joseph Comprone); (2) "How Did You Like It? The Question of Student Response and Literature" (Charles R. Duke); (3) "Eliciting Response to Literature" (Joan W. Graham and Robert E. Probst); (4) "A Reader-Response Approach to the Teaching of Literature" (Sandra Harris); (5) "Enhancing Response to Literature: An Inservice Approach" (Susan S. Kissel and Peter M. Schiff); (6)"From Response to Analysis: Strategies for Involving Students in Thinking about Literature" (Kathleen W. Lampert); (7) "Responding to Literature from Within: The Untold Story Game" (Gary M. Salvner); (8) "Clustering for Reader Response to Creative Writing" (Patricia Schatteman); and (9) "The Writer, the Reader, the Poem: An Inquiry Approach to Poetry" (Denny T. Wolfe, Jr.). (HTH)