Volume 41, Issue 1
Spring, 2000

Stitches; Wake Up, Poetry by John Witte

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros': Echoes from a
White-throated Vase, Non-Fiction by Charles Lock

Beyond a Street Corner in Little Havana, Poetry by Virgil Suarez

London and Berlin, Fiction by Neal Durando

We All Glitter & Shine Here: Codependent No
More, Poetry by Dana Roeser

Arthur Koestler's Moral Logic and Duty to

Know, Non-Fiction by Robert L. King

1937 Citroen, Poetry by Claire Malroux

To Warsaw, Poetry by Karen Kovacik

Table Bouquet, Poetry by Allison Eir Jenks

Vin La Forge, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey Heiman

I Like to See It Lap the Miles; Crossing Brooklyn

Ferry, Poetry by Kenneth Rosen

The Maidservant, Now Married, Poetry by
Tabish Khair


Eyewitness, Scribe and Storyteller: My

Experience as a Novelist, Non-Fiction by
Radwa Ashour


new age teeny bopper ho turns jetset;
there were too few moments how many, Poetry
by Steve Conway


The Forest and the Trees, Fiction by Juan Tovar
Prelude in Puerto Rican, Poetry by Luis Pales Matos

Le Breun Speaks of King Tut, Poetry by Trent Busch

Arraignment, a memoir, Non-Fiction by Kathy Larson

Hunger Invited God to Seder, Poetry by Isaac Goldemberg

A Nineteenth-Century Church for the New
Millennium: The Legacy of Pius IX and John
Paul II, Non-Fiction by Bob Swacker

Crossing a Field of Bees After Being Recently
Stung, Poetry by Charles Rafferty

Six Therapists Resting, Fiction by Harry H. Taylor

Thieving the Gorillas Child; The Death Song;
The Last Autumn of Candice Hilligoss, Poetry by Michael Atkinson


 

Volume 41, Issue 2
Summer, 2000

Standup Comedy and the Prerogative of Art, Non-Fiction by Rebecca Emlinger Roberts

The Bomb, Poetry by J.P. White

She Has Eight Arms, But Only Shows Me Two, Fiction by Robin Coste Lewis

Please, Please, Please, Please, Please; Five Note Range of Sorrow; You Don't Know What Love Is, Poetry by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers


Actor-Become-Auteur: The Neorealist Films of Vittorio De Sita, Non-Fiction by Bert Cardullo


Orpheus in the Subway, Poetry by Katia Kapovich


From Where I Sit Watching, Fiction by
W.D. Wetherell


Like a River on Rails Like, Poetry by
Matthew Miller


Teaching 'Othello' in the Schoolhouse Door: History, Hollywood, Heroes, Non-Fiction by
Sharon O'Dair


Squeeze, Poetry by Joyce Persoff


Sweet Talk, Poetry by Eugene Gloria


The Next Ten, Fiction by Monica Wood


Peacock; Winter Games, Poetry by
Aimee Nezhukumatathil


Returning, Poetry by Robert Coles


Sadness is Fuel, a Nutrient, Poetry by
Ethan Gilsdorf


Caliban at the Stadium: Shakespeare and the Making of Americans, Non-Fiction by Coppelia Kahn


Tango Under The Moon, Cover Art by John Grillo


 

Volume 41, Issue 3
Fall, 2000

Speak You Too; Landscape; With The Persecutted, Poetry by Paul Celan

Year of the Prison, Poetry by Abigail Wender
Natural History, I; Pervical Lowell and the History of Mars, I; Down Hills, Fiction by
Sandra Miller

Travelogue: 1998, Non-Fiction by Damion Searls

Spell, Poetry by Dorthea Grunzweig, Translated from the German by Derk Wynand

For Instances, Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges, Translated from the Spanish by Kurt Heinzelman

Dying Matters, Non-Fiction by Spencer Nadler

1999 Flower Glass, Fiction by Jim Janko

Bertolt Brecht, His Name as is From Tar, Poetry by Andrew Miller

All About Me, Poetry by Linda Fader Swenson

Traffic of our Stage: Chekhov's Mistress,
Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin


Trip to Falls, Fiction by Martin Cozza

Meadow Death, Poetry by Stuart Friebert

The Invisible World, Poetry by John Canaday

A Good Night, Poetry by Sara Littlecrow-Russell

Enormous Languages Were Pitched Against Us, Fiction by Sam Michel

Herons, Poetry by Charles Rafferty

Life Guard, Non-Fiction by David Masello

Light, Poetry by Jody Winer

Fragment, Poetry by Jan Conn

Mars Globe; Seasonal Changes, Cover Art by Percival Lowell



Volume 41, Issue 4
Winter, 2000

Tribute & Interview: Eqbal Ahmad, Non-Fiction by David Barsamian

The Canon of Apologia, Poetry by Yuri Izdryk, Translated by Michael Naydan

Angel City, Fiction by Elizabeth Porto

Why Speak?, Poetry by Nathaniel Bellows

The Triple Courage of Charlotte Delbo,
Non-Fiction by Rosette Lamont


Puzzles and Pilgrimages (Business or Pleasure?), Non-Fiction by Marietta Pritchard

The Queen of Spelling, Fiction by Stephen Guinan

What Literature Can and Cannot Do: Lionel

Trilling, Richard Rorty and the Left, Non-Fiction by Brock Clarke

Talmoon, Poetry by Inara Cedrins

Dahlberg Redivivos, Non-Fiction by Mark Jay Mirsky

Pantoum, Poetry by Mary Beth O'Connor

True Tales, Fiction by Peter La Salle

Plan B, Fiction by Beth Goldner

Kyoto Panorama Project, Fiction by Kyoko Yoshida


 



Volume 42, Issue 1
Spring, 2001

Commericial for a Summer Night, Poetry by
Tony Hoagland


The Price of Poetry, Non-Fiction by Eula Biss

Elegy, Poetry by Marianne Boruch

Fire, Non-Fiction by Amy Kolen

Color Seperation, Fiction by Brian Ames

Winter Semester, Poetry by Dick Allen

What Hell's Really Like, Poetry by Jill MC Donough

Making My Bones, Non-Fiction by Helen Barolini

Easter, Non-Fiction by Edith Shillue

Cathedral, Poetry by Tama Baldwin

Kissing You, Poetry by Daniel Hayes

Lewis Carroll's Last Photograph of Alice Liddell, Poetry by Sarah Getty

Traffic of our Stage: Gielgud, Non-Fiction by
Normand Berlin


Maria Teresa, Poetry by Virgil Suarez

Armorer Male, Poetry by Michael Casey

Stay with me., Fiction by Susan Steinberg

Shit, Poetry by Miles Wilson

Confluence, Fiction by Sarah Buttenwieser

My Father Explains, Poetry by John Hennessy

Fort Funston, Non-Fiction by Susan L. Feldman

Reunion Break, Poetry by Scott Withiam

Starfish Reversing Heaven, Cover Art by
Oriole Farb Feshbach


 



Volume 42, Issue 2
Summer, 2001

The Play of Uncertain Ideas, Non-Fiction by
Robert King


Down in the Lab, Poetry by Tom Russell

The Travelers, Fiction by Kathryn Rhett

The Year I Found Myself Under Two Blue

Moons, Poetry by Colleen McElroy

The Salad Diet; Phoca the Waiter; Thrill of a
Good Ride, Fiction by Susan Johnson

Sierra Leone, Poetry by Teresa Pfeifer

Heart Rhythms, Non-Fiction by Spencer Nadler

Meaning to Eat, Poetry by Antonio Jose Ponte, Translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer

Encyclopedia of Ethers, Poetry by Tony Hoagland

The Story of My Travels, Fiction by M.B. O'Connor

Charles Johnson's "Exchange Value": Signifyin(g) on Marx, Non-Fiction by Linda Selzer

Miss Sally's Wisdom, Poetry by Shara McCallum

Naked, Naked Sisters, Poetry by Mary Winters

Light, Fiction by Nicholas Montemarano

Tea Leaves, Poetry by Ethan Gilsdorf

Lilly and Hanka, Fiction by Amy Bordiuk

Before, Poetry by Edith Aronowitz Bordiuk

Guitars, Non-Fiction by Debra Anne Davis

House Built on a Hairpin Curve, Poetry by Sunshine Glenstone

Hiroshima 1995, Cover Art by Chester Maichalik


 



Volume 42, Issue 3
Autumn, 2001

Olympic Begging Finals (Berkeley, 1994), Poetry by Angelo Verga

My Wife Dreams of Prince Sihanouk, Poetry by Angelo Verga

The Day His Wife's Face Froze, Fiction by
Ron Tanner


In My Son's Cambodia, Non-Fiction by Nancy Kline

The Moose and the Murderess, Poetry by
Anna Meek


Souvenir, Fiction by Stephanie Allen

Across the Free Zone; Mirsada, Poetry by
Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis


The Hurtling, Poetry by John Witte

The Most forgotten Alien Land, Non-Fiction by George J. Makari

Giving the Finger; Waving; Shaking Hands, Poetry by Matt Yurdana

Sausages, Fiction by Michelle Hoover

Gener, Fiction by D.E. Steward

Tuesday at 6; Waiting for the Duchess, Poetry by George Eklund

In Retrospect, Poetry by Doris Abramson

In Chess Season, Non-Fiction by Alyce Miller

To Go Back; Day of Anger, Poetry by Marta Petreu, Translated by Adam J. Sorkin and
Christina Illias-Zarifopol


Paradise, Fiction by Jean Ryan

Exotic Winter, Poetry by Jennifer Tseng

The Cool Life and Death of the Dragon Lady, Non-Fiction by Robert Abel

Goya's Grotesquerie, Poetry by Christian Hawkey

A Perfect Circle, Fiction by Daniel Griffin

The Animal in Life, Poetry by Betsy Snow Hickok

Timex Pugilistes, Poetry by D.C. Berry

Detail from 'Paradise Gate', Cover Art by
Patrick Dougherty


 



Volume 42, Issue 4
Winter, 2001

Foreward/Letter to Brooke Comer, Non-Fiction by Raymond Stock

Fragment From A Work in Progress, Fiction by Ahdaf Soueif

The City Shore, Poetry by Julian Reilly

The Legend of the Pharaoh's Lost Tomb, A Tale from the Valley of the Golden Mummies,
Non-Fiction by Sahi Hawass


The Ancient Egyptian Underworld in the Tomb of Sety I, Sacred Books of Eternal Life, Non-Fiction by Bojana Mojsov

The Mummy Awakens, Fiction by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated by Raymond Stock

Literary Alexandria, Non-Fiction by John Rodenbeck

The Architecture of the New Library of Alexandria, Non-Fiction by Christoph Kapeller

From Amusing Encounters with Genies and Demons, Fiction by Ali Salem, Translated by Raymond Stock

El Bawiti, Poetry by Brooke Comer

Islamic Cairo: A Past Imperiled, Non-Fiction by Caroline Williams

Egypt Photo Insert, Art by Linda Connor

Egypt Photo Insert, Art by Barry Iverson

Egypt Photo Insert, Art by Robert Lyons

Egypt Land, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey Hammond

Life and Death in Bab-el-Louq, Poetry by
Brooke Comer


Anwar Al-Sadat, Cairo, 1981, Poetry by
Raymond Stock

Desert, Poetry by Peter Marin

'
Children of the Alley': A Translator's Tale,
Non-Fiction by Peter Theroux

Political Criticism in the Short Stories of Yusuf Idris: "Innocence" and "19502", Non-Fiction by
M. Akif Kirecci

The Dust Devils of Luxor, Non-Fiction by
Raymond Stock

We Are Lost, Poetry by Robert Dow


 



Volume 43, Issue 1
Spring, 2002

Emigration and Cosmetics: South Africa Now, Non-Fiction by Kathryn Joyce

Psalm of the Bitter Man, Poetry by Virgil Suarez

Lice, Fiction by Elizabeth Denton

Damn Melancholy: A Memoir, Poetry by
Mary Crow


Tornado, Poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky

from Nenana, Fiction by Lee W. Stratman

Notes Toward a Commencement Address, Poetry by Miller Williams

Pray for the Dead, Fiction by Claire Tristram

Zero, Poetry by Ellen Wehle

Changing Traditions: South Asian American and Cultural/Communal Politics, Non-Fiction by
Ketu H. ketrak


Bazin on Post-Neorealistic Rossliini, De Sica, and Vicsonto: Three Original Reviews, Non-Fiction by Andre Bazin, Translated with a preface by
Bert Cardullo


Zipper Trip, Poetry by Pamela Yenser

Our Carnal Nature and Cosmic Flow, Non-Fiction by Lorraine Mortimer

The Meaning of Meaning, Fiction by S.G. Miller

Seven Variation on a Theme of Untied Shoelaces, Fiction by Olga Grushin

At the Churchill Club (Little Dean's Yard, by the Appey, 1944); On White Horse Hill (May, 1944);
Elegy: The Walk Between (July 1944), Poetry by Edward Pols

The New Maid, Fiction by Maximilian Schlaks

And Shapiro's Little Dog Too!, Poetry by
Jimmy A. Lerner


Mulch, Poetry by Stanley Koehler

Parting Shots, Poetry by Mary Fister

Full Moon/Munt Massamont; Drowning Church (Quabbin), Cover Art by Christin Couture


 



Volume 43, Issue 2
Summer, 2002

The Open Door, Fiction by Valerie Martin

Where Do I Crawl; Grace; Peace to the People of the Earth, Poetry by Tomaz Salamun, Translated by Joshua Beckman and the poet

Last Day, Poetry by Timothy Liu

Du Boisian Double Consciousness: The Unsustainable Argument, Non-Fiction by
Ernest Allen Jr.


There Be Phantasies, Poetry by Eva Hooker

Good, Brothers, Fiction by Peter Markus

The Woman in a Purple Coat, Poetry by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller Translated by Agha Shahid Ali with Stephen Clingman and the poet

Conversation with Agha Shahid Ali, Non-Fiction by Christine Benvenuto

The Floating Post Office: Reproductions selected from Agha Shahid Ali's manuscript, Poetry by Agha Shahid Ali

The Floating Post Office, Poetry by Agha Shahid Ali

Dear Shahid, Poetry by Daniel Hales

The Vindication of Fawn Brodie, Non-Fiction by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Flag Etiquette, Poetry by Chris Kingsley

The Agonist, Poetry by Ogaga Ifowodo

Landscape with Abandoned Trash, Poetry by
Kate Northrop


The Price, Fiction by E.M. Beekman

Deer, Poetry by Steven Lapinsky

Crucifixion, Poetry by Therese Svoboda

Father, Poetry by Joel Brouwer

Chicago Spring, Fiction by Gail Hall Howard

Wake Up Call, Cover Art by Nanny Vonnegut


 

Volume 43, Issue 3
Autumn, 2002

Introduction

Lay Thine Hand Upon Him, Fiction by C.M. Mayo

The Flower Carriers, Poetry by Jan Conn

The Question of Race in 'Moby-Dick', Non-Fiction by Fred Bernard

Longitude at Sea: a novel in verse, Fiction by Jeremy Greenfield

Only Opera, Non-Fiction by Paula Speck

The Two Franzes, Fiction by Melvin Jules Bukiet

For My Father; For My Father on Poetry, Poetry by Jennifer Tseng

Devil's Trill, Non-Fiction by Xiaoda Xiao

Helmets, Poetry by Kevin Bowen

It's Friday, Poetry by Tom Wayman

It Loses Its Grandeur, Fiction by Molly Fitzsimons

What Is a Day, Non-Fiction by Ann Lauterbach

It is Enough; Closer Still, Cover Art by Elizabeth Meyersohn


 

Volume 43, Issue 4
Winter, 2002

Poets in Cars, Non-Fiction by Marianne Boruch

A Television Show that Takes Places in California, Poetry by Ed Allen

After; Flock , Poetry by Billy Collins

Clot, Poetry by Karen Donovan

Beth Our Dead Man, Poetry by Garrett Doherty

Immortal, Fiction by Christine Sneed

Dream Corps, Poetry by Roald Hoffman

The Retreating World, Poetry by Naomi Wallace

Ferocious Alphabets: Michael Herr's 'Dispatches', Non-Fiction by Jon Thompson

The Role of the Ideal (Female) Reader in Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried': Why Should Real Women Play?, Non-Fiction by
Pamela Smiley


Liminality, Poetry by Virgil Suarez

Attitude of the Spectator; Listening to Jimi Hendrix Near Lafayette Park, Poetry by
Monifa Love


Things of that Nature, Fiction by Timothy Scott

Mr. Mann Visits the Free Medical Clinic, Pays Good Money for a Skinny Au Lait, Poetry by
John Mann


Preparations, Poetry by Victoria Chang

Dangerous Crossing to a Safe Place, Non-Fiction by Barbara Baer

The Only Snapshot I Have of My Father's Parents. . ., Poetry by Jane Southwell Munro

Genus Loci, Poetry by John Witte

Useful Fictions, Fiction by Susan Schiff

Naked Man on a Bed, Poetry by Judith Berke

Vaginolatry, Poetry by Peter Viereck

Where It Is That Things Go, Fiction by John Keyes

The Shepherd Reproached: The Shepherd Answers, Poetry by Guy Goffette Translated by Marilyn Hacker

Messenger, sculpture, Cover Art by William Tucker


 

Volume 44, Issues 1 & 2
Spring/Summer, 2003

Introduction

A Family Photograph, Brooklyn, 1942, with commentary, Non-Fiction by Jerome Liebling

Jules Chametzky's Memo (October 23, 1958) From Which Sprang the Massachusetts Review, with a note by David R. Clark

June Rain '72, Poetry by Robert Tucker

Early Days, Non-Fiction by John Hicks

For Jules, In Appreciation, Non-Fiction by
Esther Terry


Bruce Laurie Talks Union with Jules Chametzky: An Interview, Non-Fiction by Bruce Laurie

Interview with Jules Chametsky, Non-Fiction
by Bruce Laurie


Broadening the Canon; or Talmudic Faulknerism: Reading Chametzky, Knowing Jules, Non-Fiction
by Werner Sollors


Reflections on Editing Jewish American Literature, Non-Fiction by Hilene Flanzbaum


A Brief History of CCLM/CLMP, Non-Fiction
by Pauline Uchmanowicz


Four Faces from SNCC, photographs, Art
by Julius Lester


Music of New Orleans, Non-Fiction
by Stephen Clingman


Oriki: Ancestors and Roots, Non-Fiction by Kwame Ture From the autobiography 'Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)' by Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Salzburg, Non-Fiction by Daniel Aaron

From Race and Class to the Feminist Press,
Non-Fiction by Florence Howe


Four Radio Scripts, Non-Fiction by Ursula Junk

Kleist Drawings, Art by Leonard Baskin, 11 drawings, with commentary by Anne Halley

Travelling Memory; The Middle Passage in German Representations, Non-Fiction by
Sabine Broeck


Postcolonial (?) Linguistic Fieldwork, Non-Fiction
by Emmon Bach


Contraband Guides: Twain and His Contemporaries on the Black Presence in Venice, Non-Fiction by Paul Kaplan

The Intellectual as American: Richard Rorty on "Achieving Our Country", Non-Fiction by
Alan Trachtenberg


Carribean Writers and Language: The Autobiographical Poetics of Jamaica Kincaid and Patrick Chamoiseau, Non-Fiction by
Rose-Myriam Rejouis


The American Academic: Immigrant Bard of Diversity, Non-Fiction by Dale Peterson

That Much Credit: Irish-American Identity and Writing, Non-Fiction by Shaun O'Connell

"The riffs, runs, breaks, and distortions of the music of a community in transition"-- Redefining African Modernism and the Jazz Aesthetic in Langston Hughes' 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' and 'Ask Your Mama', Non-Fiction by
Dr. Gunter Lenz


Henry Hurwitz, the 'Menorah Journal', and the Last Years of an American Romance, Non-Fiction by Lewis Fried

Edward Bond's DE-LEAR-IUM, Non-Fiction by Rosette Lamont

Salt Women, Non-Fiction by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller, Translated by the author, edited by Agha Shahid Ali and Stephen Clingman

20 Questions I wish I'd asked my Father, Poetry by John Felstiner

Ghazal For Open Hands, Poetry by Martin Espada

Paula Executes the Angels; The Scissor-Tailed Swallow, Poetry by Madeline DeFrees

Madman, Fiction by Chinua Achebe

Recognitions & Recollections, Poetry by
Joseph Langland


Julius, Fiction by Andrew Lass

Aging Amelia, Poetry by Doris Abramson

Walt Whitman in Chile, Poetry by Paul Jenkins

The Confusion About What It Means To Be Human; Fourth of July on the Deerfield, Poetry
by Carol Potter


The Way God Must Feel; Atlantis, Poetry
by Val Vinokurov


The Eye, Poetry by Adrienne Rich

I Never Meant to Harm Him, Poetry by James Tate

All We Have, Poetry by Ellen Dore Watson

Ne'ilah, Poetry by Kadya Molodowsky, Translated by Kathryn Hellerstein

The Distant Town of Luniniec, Poetry by
Melvin Wilk


Portrait of Jules Chametzky, Cover Art by Jerome Liebling


 

Volume 44, Issue 3
Autumn, 2003

Soft Targets, Fiction by Robert Abel

Ways of the World, Fiction by Ravi Howard

Watch, Poetry by Marvin Bell

Before the fall of Saigon; Birthplace of My Brother, Poetry by Selena Flowers

51, Poetry by Miguel Hernandez Translated by Daniel Mahoney

The Way a World Can Change , Poetry by
Tony Gloeggler


The High Pastures, Poetry by Enis Batur Translated by Clifford Endres and Selhan Savcigil

Interview with Michael Lenson, Archives of American Art, Nutely, New Jersey, October 30, 1964, Non-Fiction by David Lenson Transcribed and edited by David Lenson

The Fog Sleepers, Non-Fiction by Robert Vivian

I Love Fraud, Poetry by Anne Silver

Guardian Spirits, Poetry by Lisa M. Steinman

Revere Beach, Non-Fiction by Evelyn Shakir

Fam da Sham, Fiction by Amanda Brauman King

Gustavo's Wedding, Fiction by Victoria Barrett

The Unfaithful Wife, Poetry by Lorca Federico Garcia Translated by Lynn Margulis and
Ricardo Guerrero


Bozturgay, Poetry by Adnan Adam Onart

The Witness, Poetry by Jay Nebel

If I Have to Hit One of You, I'll Hit You Both, Fiction by Evan Shopper

Lives of the Saints, Poetry by Kate Greenstreet

In Lieu of Elegy, Poetry by Patricia Hill

Traffic of Our Stage: Shakespeare in Oregon, Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin

Baggage, Non-Fiction by Maxim D. Shrayer

History of Newark, Cover Art by Michael Lenson


 

Volume 44, Issue 4
Winter, 2003

These Blocks, Not Square, Non-Fiction by
Thomas Glave


On the Difficulty of Confiding, with Complete Love and Trust, in Some Heterosexual "Friends", Non-Fiction by Thomas Glave

Become Becoming; Earth Unsung, Poetry by
Li-Young Lee


Interview with Li-young Lee, Non-Fiction by
Dianne Bilyak


Rudy, Poetry by Rane Arroyo

The Gracious Daughter and the Man by the River, Poetry by Colette Inez

We Are the Same People, Fiction by Micah Perks

Excavation of the John Alden House, Poetry by David Roderick

Stalking the Bumblebee: An Exploration of "Cruelty" in Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, Non-Fiction by Mike Dockins

Buffalo Boy, Fiction by James Janko

I Brake For Moose, Fiction by Geeta Kothari

Kitsch and the Art of Wildlife Painting,
Non-Fiction by Glen Retief


Abandoned House Near Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Poetry by Mary Quade

Holding Cells, Fiction by Martha Marinara

Hair Rules, Non-Fiction by Rebecca Emlinger Roberts

The Patriarch, Poetry by Rynn Williams

Drinks at Sonia Orwell's, Non-Fiction
by Gerald Williams


Diana Makes the Rounds, Non-Fiction
by Zachary Levin


Ingmar Bergman's Maria Stuart: A Jungian Reading, Non-Fiction by Richard Trousdell

Triangle; Beach; Night, Art by Cathy Osman

Adrift, Cover Art by Cathy Osman


 

Volume 45, Issue 1
Spring, 2004

Introduction

English 2340: World Literature, Poetry
by Tino Villanueva


'World Book' Apocalypse, Non-Fiction
by Webb Harris


The Forest of Titles, Fiction by Peter LaSalle

E.B. White Takes His Leave or Does He? 'The Elements of Style', Six Editions, Non-Fiction by Richard Minear


My High School Library, Fiction by
Thomas Washington


Eight True Maps of the West, Poetry by
Kevin Bowen


Code, Fiction by David Crouse

The Second Going, Poetry by Patrick Donnelly

Elsa, Fiction by Irving Werner

Zimbabwe, 1981, Poetry by
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi


Traffic of Our Stage: Long Day's Journey into Night, Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin

Overalls, Poetry by Leonard Kress

Tableaux In Motion, Poetry by Liliana Ursa, Translated by Sean Cotter

Kennedy on the Mount of Olives, Non-Fiction by Mark Jay Mirsky

The Cat and the Bullet: A Ballistic Fable,
Non-Fiction by Larry Owens


Dance , Cover Art by Graydon Parrish


 

Volume 45, Issue 2
Summer, 2004

Introduction

This is How it Starts, Fiction by Shannon Cain

Musings , Poetry by Gerard Malanga

The Hipster's Hopper, Fiction by Stephen O'Connor


'Alentour': One of the Lost "Little Magazines" (1935-1943), Non-Fiction by Paul Marion

the corgis of queen elizabeth, Poetry by Diane Wald Winner of 2005 Anne Halley Poetry Prize

Robert Frost and the Child: 'Mother Goose' and "The Imagination Thing", Non-Fiction by
Lesley Lee Francis


Missing, Believed Wiped, Fiction by
Gregory Blake Smith


Windscape, Poetry by Kristin Bock

Valentine's Day, Poetry by Hadara Bar-Nadav

The Critic of Progress, Non-Fiction by Robert Erwin

Leslie Fiedler -- An Appreciation, Non-Fiction by Jerome Richard

The Rage of Caesars by Arthur Rimbaud, Poetry by Arthure Rimbaud, Translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown

From A Childhood; I Love You Darkness, Poetry by Rilke Rainer Maria, Translated by Annie Boutelle

Boom-Boom Whoop, Fiction by David Rutschman

Ghetto Proclivities, Non-Fiction by A. Sandosharaj

Refusal, Poetry by Catherine Barnett

A State of Grace, Fiction by Kerrie Mitchell

Done in by a Bad Leg, Fiction by Erika Williams

Cameta, Poetry by Jan Conn

Nat, Poetry by Darryl Phelps

Last Rites, Fiction by Linda McCullough Moore

Taking the Chinese Ferry, Poetry by K.E. Duffin

Salt, Poetry by Fred Yannantuono

This Might be Real, Fiction by Malena Watrous

Some Villain, Poetry by Erika Mikkalo

Living Together, a Letter, Fiction by Eula Biss

Old Neck, Cover Art by Anne Harris


 

Volume 45, Issue 3
Autumn, 2004

Introduction, Food Matters, Non-Fiction by
Anita Mannur, guest editor


Kinship, Cousins, & Khichidi, Non-Fiction by
Sejal Shah


All the Necessary Things, Fiction by
Shymala B. Dason


Looking for Doubles in the Caribbean, Non-Fiction by Sharmila Sen

Tribute, Poetry by Jane C. H. Park

Bran Affection, Non-Fiction by Tiare Rose Bent

Looking for Shahbazi, Fiction by
Malak Roya Hamadani


Chamoe, Non-Fiction by Rachael Miyung Joo

Pomegranate, Poetry by Johnson Cheu

Identifying Foods, Identifying Selves, Non-Fiction by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The Country Inside Myself; On being a vegetarian in Puerto Rico; As you try to clean a near-empty Indian can of patra leaves, Poetry by Purvi Shah

American Dhansak and the Holy Man of Oaxaca, Fiction by Roshni Rustomji

Cambodia: Memory and Desire, Fiction
by Bunkong Tuon


Aunt Adelaide's Recipe Cards, Non-Fiction
by Kim Cohen


Farmers Set Foot in Our Town, Poetry
by Bryan Tomasovich


On Leftovers, Non-Fiction
by Sharon Mizota


Los Chicharrones, Drama
by Daniel Jernigan


Prairiescapes: Mapping Food, Loss and Longing, Non-Fiction by Martin F.
Manalansan, IV


canola queasy, Poetry by Rita Wong

A Sow of Violence, Fiction by Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson

By Way of Tongue, Non-Fiction by Tonya Becerra

The Story of 'Gimchi Chigae',
Non-Fiction by Sharon Heijin Lee


Psalm 23, Poetry by Brooke Nelson

The little orange way to know my mother, Non-Fiction by Amy J. Wan

First Night in Athens, Poetry by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

Kitchen With Olive, Cover Art by Katy Schneider


Volume 45, Issue 4
Winter, 2004

Introduction

Sporting Adam's Rib: The Culture of Women Bodybuilders in America, Non-Fiction
by Cynthia Lewis


Casting the Wrong Shadows, Poetry
by Nance Van Winckel


Caught in the Act: Looking at Tintoretto's Susanna, Non-Fiction by Robert Hahn

Elegy For a Girl Singer, Poetry by
Anne Marie Macari


I Am Listening, Fiction by Priscilla Turner

Jean Morrison Becker, Art by Jean Morrison Becker Color art insert, with introduction by Grace Glueck

Windy Today, Poetry by Lisa Olstein

Morality and Orality in Isaak Babel's 'Red Cavalry', Non-Fiction by Val Vinokur

A Hundred Miles, Non-Fiction by Tama Baldwin

Wounded, Poetry by Maxine Scates

Dying to Live, Non-Fiction by James Myers

Father is Heavy, What Do I Do?; A Dream the Moon Is Dreaming, Poetry by Kim Hye Sun Translated by Don Mee Choi

Walking Circles, Fiction by Andi Diehn

Interview with Cory Doctorow, Non-Fiction by Doug Pond

Nebraska, Poetry by Kelly Madigan Erlandson

At the Concert of Alternative Music, Fiction by Richard Spilman

Traffic of our Stage: Albee's 'Peter and Jerry', Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin

Chanting Indoors, Poetry by Jen Currin

Ask for a Convertible, Fiction by Danit Brown

Mode, Edom, Poetry by Kevin McFadden

Suburban Buildings, Cover Art by Jean Morrison Becker


 

Volume 46, Issue 1
Spring, 2005

Introduction

Arif's Refusal to Bargain, Fiction by Vince Czyz

Artwork, Art by George Wardlaw, Drawings and essay by George Wardlaw

Aubade, Poetry by Billy Collins

Cure For A Hangover, Non-Fiction
by Denise Shekerjian


Her Renaissance, Poetry by Christopher Davis

Seminar, Fiction by Jennifer Wortman

The John Brown Way: Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoureau on the Use of Violence, Non-Fiction by Jason P. Matzke

Early December, Vermont, Poetry
by Stacie Cassarino


Keep Looking: Mary Oliver's Emersonian Project, Non-Fiction by Mark Johnson

1978 (Ladies & Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones), Art by Luke Jaeger

The Death of Satan, Non-Fiction by Erik Campbell

Crivelli's Madonna col Bambino, Poetry
by Douglas Sanders


A Recipe Card Is Far Too Small, Non-Fiction
by Joanna Kadi


Retreat, Poetry by Dana Curtis

St. Petersburg Portraits, Non-Fiction
by Emma Lieber


Turning of the Dead, Fiction by Kira Salak

Gurdian of the Light, Art by George Wardlaw

The Gospel Truth About Japan, Non-Fiction
by Kevin Simmonds


 

Volume 46, Issue 2
Summer, 2005

Introduction

The Gospel Truth About Japan, Non-fiction by Kevin Simmonds

What I Learned, Continued; Bridge Street Cemetery, Poetry by Annie Boutelle

Getting Hitched v. theTrashing of Marriage,
Non-Fiction by Catherine Reid


So On, Fiction by David Wright

A Stick, a Cup, a Bowl, a Comb, Poetry
by Dara Wier


Inside Out, Art by Katy Schneider and David Gloman



The Struggles of Shrimp and Squirrel, Poetry
by Sunshine Glenstone


Near Prodigy, Poetry by Leo Hwang

Ted's Dead, Hushing the Fuss, Non-Fiction
by Gerald Williams


Much Affliction and Anguish of Heart: 'Story of O' and Spirituality, Non-Fiction by
Bonnie Shullenberger


With and Without, Poetry by Robert Gregory

Passing through Paris, Non-Fiction
by Dino Enrique Piacentini


My Only Golem, Poetry by Rebecca Black

Space Dwellers, Fiction by L. E. Kimball

All My Hair on the Floor, Poetry
by Anne Love Woodhull


Pinnacle of No Explanation: Jack Spicer's Exercise of the Novel, Non-Fiction
by John Emil Vincent


 

Volume 46, Issue 3
Autumn, 2005

Introduction

The Brain Tells Us What Is Real, Poetry
by Kathleen Halme III


Time to Mow, Fiction by Zdravka Evtimova

You Got a Song, Man, Poetry by Martin Espada

Atufal, Aranda's Skeleton, and 'Moby Dick',
Non-Fiction by Sterling Stuckey


Who Is Ishmael?, Non-Fiction by Thomas L.. Dumm

Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Bosch); In the Leupold Scope, Poetry by Brian Turner

*, Poetry by Simon Perchik

Powers and Principalities, Fiction by
Stephen O'Connor


The Mortician: On the Art of Coming to Rest, Poetry by Morgan Lucas Schuldt

The Re-vision of Rage: Flannery O'Conner and Me, Non-Fiction by Claire Kahane

Exile's Song, Poetry by Bruce Bond

Bulletin Board, Poetry by Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Presence, Absence, Fiction by Emmanuel Boulukos

Here We Are, Poetry by Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Find Your High School Classmates!!!!, Fiction by Heather Sellers

Voluptuary Instruction, Poetry by Myrna Stone

Cities Beneath Them, Fiction by Christine Lanoie

Education by Windows, Poetry by Johnny Lorenz

Conceal/Reveal: Passion and Restraint in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop, Non-Fiction by
Kathleen Spivack


Penultimate Opus, Poetry by Jon Kelly Yenser

Directions to Warsaw, 1984, Poetry
by Georgia Scott


Cherubs, Fiction by Justine Dymond


The Book of Love, Cover Art by Amy Johnquest Created Exclusively for 'The Massachusetts Review'


 

Volume 46, Issue 4
Winter, 2005

Introduction

Sick Play, Fiction by Elizabeth Searle

Birds in the Woods, Poetry by Brian Swann, Winner of the 2006 Anne Halley Poetry Prize

Not Well and Not Sick of the Chickahominy Fever: Hollis Wrisley's Civil War, Non-Fiction
by Richard H. Brown


Noisy Bird, Poetry by Lesle Lewis

Tinderbox, Fiction by Robert Wexelblatt

The Godchild and the Doll, Non-Fiction
by Nance Van Winckel


Paintings by 'Christin Couture', Art by Christin Couture color insert of artwork with commentary
by Faye Wolfe


Wild Blue Yonder, Poetry by Barbara Ras

Shame, Fiction by Lori O'Dea


Dear Farrah, Poetry by Farrah Field

Toxoplasmosis; Or the Beginning of Things You Can't Take Back, Fiction by Michael A. FitzGerald

Bony Mares, Poetry by James Doyle

Anniversary, Non-Fiction by John Hicks

Ghost Hymn, Poetry by G.C. Waldrep

The Manifesto of the Short Man, Non-Fiction by Sameer Yerawadekar

Fourteener 279, Poetry by Douglas Woody Woodsum

For Good, Poetry by Tara Bray

Orifice in the Undieworld, Non-Fiction by John Allen

Seated Baby with Whip, Art by Christin Couture


 

Volume 47, Issue 1
Spring, 2006

Introduction

Towards a Language of Desire, Fiction
by Carolyn Megan


The History of Writing, Poetry
by Katherine Sanchez Espano


On Poetics, Poetry by Steve Mueske

Traffic of Our Stage: Boxing as Theater,
Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin


First Do No Harm; Angels of Mercy, Poetry by Bob Hicok, Winner of the 2007 Anne Halley Poetry Prize

Snapper, Fiction by Erica Funkhouser

Redeem/The unread vision in the higher dream, Poetry by Mary Buchinger

She with a Flower in Her Hair, Poetry by Jesse Lichtenstein

Waterloo, Non-Fiction by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Room, Poetry by Geoffrey Detrani


I Step Outside Myself, Poetry by Ingeborg
Bachmann, Translated from the German
by Peter Filkins


The Shiva, Fiction by Stephen Schottenfeld

Welcome to Dementia: Twelve Questions and Two Stipulations (Found Poem), Poetry
by Todd Smith


The Cables, Poetry by T. Zachary Cotler

Set Piece, Drama by Dennis Porter

In Praise of Complaint, Non-Fiction
by Rebecca Roberts


Nude Reclining, Poetry by Brad Crenshaw

Ganges Ophelia, Poetry by Carolyn Creedon

The Arch, Fiction by Andy Mozina

The Casualties: Thrombosis, Poetry
by Martha Rhodes


Walt Whitman's Attic, Non-Fiction
by Thomas David Lisk


November 11, 1831: Nat Turner, Poetry
by Jill McDonough


Variation 18: Baker, Poetry by Alice B Fogel

I Am Thinking of My First Deer, Poetry
by Teresa Ballard


The Body of a Cow, Non-Fiction by Sara Levine


 

Volume 47, Issue 2
Summer, 2006

The Messy Self: An Introduction, Non-Fiction
by Jennifer Rosner, guest editor


A Strange Disorder, Poetry by Diane Ackerman

My Tourette's, Non-Fiction
by Gayle Pemberton


Conservation, Fiction by Debra Spark

The Mommy at the Zoo, Poetry
by Beth Ann Fennelly


Prologue to Psyche, Non-Fiction by Jane Crosthwaite

Psyche in Love, Drama by Wendy Wasserstein

Since You Came, Poetry by John O'Donohue

The Clause, Poetry by C.K. Williams

The Last Place on Earth, Non-Fiction
by Patricia Foster


Facing North, Poetry by Mary Kinzie

The Fiction of Self and the Self of Fiction,
Non-Fiction by Rebecca Goldstein


The Real Story, Non-Fiction by Liv Pertzoff

The Superficial Unity of the Mind, Non-Fiction by Sarah Buss

Kidding Ourselves, Non-Fiction by Steven Pinker

The Disappearance, Fiction by Ilan Stavans

With Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Poetry
by Richard Chess


Gifts, Fiction by Faith Adiele


Self-Portraits, Art by Lee Gordon

Song of the Red Earth, Poetry by Meena Alexander

We 're All Colored, Fiction by Huston Diehl

Winnicott on the Surprises of the Self, Non-Fiction by Martha Nussbaum

Buried, Poetry by Carol Edelstein

(You, There, listening . . . ), Poetry
by Donald Morrill


The Chocolate Eater, Cover Art by Lee Gordon


 

Volume 47, Issue 3
Autumn, 2006

Introduction

Sex, Poetry by Galway Kinnell

Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba, Fiction by Nate Haken

Imaginary Island, Poetry by Holly Iglesias

Soundtrack, Fiction by Audrey Petty

Jacob Wrestling All through the Night, Poetry
by Ellen Wehle


Algerian Funeral, Poetry by Abe Louise Young

Translation: Ethics, Ideology, Action, Non-Fiction by Maria Tymoczko

Translation and Activism: Emerging Patterns of Narative Community, Non-Fiction by Mona Baker

Biarritz, Poetry by Oliverio Girondo, Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Coudriet

The Resistant Political Translations of Monteiro Lobato, Non-Fiction by John Milton

Kitchen of Paradise, Poetry by David Huerta, Translated by Mark Schafer

Suppression of the Erotic: Puritan Translations in Israel 1930-1980, Non-Fiction by Nitsa Ben-Ari

Chimneysweep, Poetry by Inge Pedersen, Translated by Marilyn Nelson

Literary Translation and the Construction of a Soviet Intelligentsia, Non-Fiction by Brian Baer

Studies for the Woman--Condi & The Search for a Newer World Order, Art by Gordon Thorne

The World Is but a Place of Language, Poetry by Marlys West

Cheer Me Up, Pony-Dog, Poetry by George Shelton

Nice Guys, Fiction by Siobhan Adcock

Ago, Poetry by Allan Peterson

Cut Flowers, Poetry by Cynthia Huntington

Winter Break, Fiction by Rusty Dolleman


Condi Nader, Cover Art by Gordon Thorne


 

Volume 47, Issue 4
Winter, 2006

Introduction, by David Lenson

Killing the Messenger, Non-Fiction
by Sean Thomas Dougherty


Plauge Time, Poetry by Lee Upton

There'll Be a Full Recovery, Poetry by Paul Gibbons

Rahoo, Fiction by Faye Wolfe

A Necromancer's Guide to Child Rearing, Fiction by Rachel Marston

Hang Up Please and Try Dialing Again, Poetry by Kurt Heinzelman

Barbour Street, Poetry by Samuel Amadon

Production, Churches, the Concrete of Chaos,Flames, Poetry by Tomaz Salamun, Translated by Ana Jelnikar and Joshua Beckman

From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion, Non-Fiction by C.M. Mayo

Untitled (white days, a passion for the
winter-birds), Poetry by Kevin Goodan

My Heart, Fiction by Dan Ward

Night Lessons: A Writing Assignment, Poetry by Brad Richard

Seeing Things, Poetry by Marianne Boruch

Anniversary, Poetry by Travis Venters

campaign speech, Poetry by Rob Cook

Traffic of Our Stage: A Touch of the Poet,
Non-Fiction by Normand Berlin


Clay, Poetry by Stanley Koehler

39145, Poetry by Noah Blaustein

Momentary, Fiction by Ted Sanders

A Covenant and a Busted Tooth, Poetry
by Joshua Michael Stewart


Elegy for Francoise Vatel, Poetry
by Amy Scattergood


Lolita, Who's Your Daddy?, Non-Fiction
by Gerald Williams


Camp in the Pines, West of Alexandria, LA, Summer 1863, Poetry by Rawdon Tomlinson

In Trouble with the Dutchman, Fiction
by Alix Ohlin


Decaying Hallway 2004, Cover Art by John Gray


 

Volume 48, Issue 1
Spring, 2007

Introduction, by David Lenson

The Queer Zoo, Fiction by Shannon Cain

The Body, Hiding, Poetry by Paula Bohince

Unstrung: Some Notes on Depression and Literature, Non-Fiction by William Giraldi

In June, Poetry by Marianne Boruch

The Astronauts, Fiction by Boomer Pinches
Intimacy, Poetry by Elizabeth Knapp

Speak, Walking Stick, Non-Fiction by Robert Long Foreman

This Morning, Poetry by Sarah Sawyer

Phoning Home, Non-Fiction by Jacob Appel

Portal, Poetry by Maxine Scates

Everything I Have Made or Bought or Become, Fiction by Lindsay Carleton

Delivery, Fiction by Janset Berkok Shami

The Crying Woman, Poetry by Alexandria Peary

Traffic of Our Stage: DruidSynge, Drama by Normand Berlin

The Genius of Bees, Poetry by David Dodd Lee

Man Bites Dog, Fiction by Phong Nguyen

Barge Men's Beds Smell of Lavender Elixer and Red China Silk, Poetry by Carol Levin

Fear and Torment in El Salvador, Non-Fiction by Noel Valis

His People, My People, Poetry by Theresa Vincent

How to Feel, Poetry by Wyn Cooper

The Problem with Bright Fires, Fiction by Stuart Ste. Croix

Prepositions toward a Definition of God, Poetry by Patricia Fargnoli

Chasm, Poetry by Kazim Ali

Aria Amid the Ruins of Language, Non-Fiction by Darrel Mansell

Nora's Bathing Suit, Cover Art by Polly Cassel


Volume 48, Issue 2
Summer, 2007

An Introduction, by David Lenson

Out of the Blue, Fiction by Elizabeth Denton

Perpetual Youth Lost by Humankind, Poetry by Daisy Fried

Genesis, Poetry by Michal Lando

Chord Changes, Non-Fiction by Carl Vigeland

My Coeval Archtop, Non-Fiction by Thomas O’Grady

Cahoon Hollow, Wellfleet, Poetry by Robert Dow

The Stars Threw Down Their Spears, Fiction by Aaron Parrett

The Father of the Bride, Fiction by Doris Dörrie,
Translated by Gustav A. Richar


Apologue (1); Apologue (2), Poetry by Maggie Smith

This Charming Man, Fiction by Jacob Wegman

On Looking, Non-Fiction by Randon Billings Noble

Apples, Poetry by Jessie Julian

Space for Name: Printing a 1920s Little Magazine, Non-Fiction by Walker Rumble

Flowers for Benny Black, Fiction by Ari Lieberman

Violence, the Word, Poetry by Alessandra Lynch

The Secret Climate the Year I Stopped Writing, Non-Fiction by Phyllis Koestenbaum

The Dead of Winter, Fiction by Elinor Teele

The twin, Poetry by Michael Klein

Levers, Fiction by William Williams


Volume 48, Issue 3
Autumn, 2007

Introduction, by David Lenson

The Bone Spa, Fiction by Lisa Vogel


On the Death of a Next Door Neighbor, Poetry by Billy Collins

Kar'oush: What Grows in Hard Places,
Non-Fiction by Margaret MacInnis

Ballistic, Poetry by Elyse Fenton

The Survivor, Fiction by Jessica Lang

On Being Asked If I'm Related to Alice Munro, Non-Fiction by Jennifer D. Munro

Skitter, Fiction by Anca Szilagyi

The Gods Are Waiting For You, Fiction by Richard Harvell

Winter Prarie, Poetry by Kate Northrop

Pints & Quarts, Fiction by Brian Baldi

[Statue of Liberty], Poetry by Ann Killough

Paper Route, Non-Fiction by Shaun O'Connell

Centralia, PA, Poetry by Dawn Lonsinger

The White Bird of Siauliai, Fiction by
Daniel Menasche


Action, Poetry by William Delman

Love in the Time of the Serial Dater, Poetry by Andrea Werblin

Martin Hellinger, Fiction by Ashley Clifton

21st Century Lecture, Poetry by Ralph Black

Suzan-Lori Parks' Hester Plays, Non-Fiction
by Rena Fraden


Bathing, Poetry by Christina Clark

Getting By, Fiction by Robert J. Nelson

Letters to the Husband, #23, Poetry by
Mary Koncel


Mussels, Muskrats, and Juncos: Instability in Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost, Non-Fiction by
Mike Freeman


On a Sonnet by Leah Goldberg, Poetry by Anna Kamienska, Translated from the Polish by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon

The Story, Fiction by Ian Miller

Hello Earth, Poetry by Stephanie Johnson

Brynteg Lights/Calennig, Front Cover Art by
Hanlyn Davies


Brynteg Lights/The Chorus, Back Cover Art by Hanlyn Davies


Volume 48, Issue 4
Winter, 2007

Introduction, by David Lenson

Terra incognita; The forecast; and Troubled times, Poetry by Bob Hicok

The Insurance Adjuster, Fiction by T.L. Toma

The evening, Poetry by John Emil Vincent

Sergeant Pepper's Meter Maid: Letters on Parenthood in Present-Day Berkeley, Non-Fiction by Ramsey Scott

For the Sightsingers, Poetry by Muriel Nelson

The Skeleton, Fiction by Wendy Rawlings

Incantation to Raise the Dead, Poetry by Brian Hayter

Language, Non-Fiction by Kathleen Spivack

Window Sill, Poetry by Nina Payne

King of the Gypsies, Fiction by Lenore Myka

Word Vitrines, Art by Bethan Hews

Immigrant Song, Poetry by Fady Joudah

Burning at Nooksak, Non-Fiction by Janet Yoder

Lady Macbeth in the Caucasus, Poetry by Katherine Young

Infestation, Fiction by Amy Bordiuk

Inspiration, Poetry by Nancy Sherman

Traffic of Our Stage: A Moon for the Misbegotten, Non-Fiction by Normand Be