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Volume 48, Number 1: Spring 2007
Introduction by David Lenson ; Fiction by Jacob M. Appel, Shannon Cain, Lindsay Carelton, David Dodd Lee, Carol Levin, Phong Nguyen, Boomer Pinches, Stuart Ste. Croix, Janset Berkik Shami Poetry by Kazim Ali, Paula Bohince, Marianne Boruch, Wyn Cooper, Patricia Fargnoli, Elizabeth Knapp, Alexandria Peary, Sarah Sawyer, Maxine Scates, Theresa Vincent Essays and Articles by Normand Berlin, Robert Long Foreman, William Giraldi, Darrel Mansell, Noël Valis Cover and Art by Polly Cassel Complete Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 4: Winter 2006
Introduction by David Lenson ; Fiction by Rachel Marston, Alix Ohlin, Ted Sanders, Travis Venters, Dan Ward, Faye Wolfe, Poetry by Sapuel Amadon, Noah Blaustein, Rob Cook, Paul Gibbons, Kevin Goodan, Kurt Heinzelman, Stanley Koehler, Brad Richards, Toamz Salamun--Translated by Ana Jenikar and Joshua Beckman, Amy Scattergood, Joshua Michael Stewart, Rawdon Tomlinson, Lee Upton Essays and Articles by Normand Berlin, Marianne Boruch, C.M. Mayo, Gerald Williams Cover and Art by Gordon Thorne. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 3: Fall 2006
Introduction by David Lenson ; Fiction by Siobhan Adcock, Rusty Dolleman, Nate Haken, Audrey Petty, Poetry by Holly Iglesias, Galway kinnell, Oliverio Girondo, Cynthia Huntington, Inge Pederson, Allen Peterson, David Huerta, George Shelton, Ellen Wehle, Marlys West, Abe Louise Young Essays and Articles by Brian James Baer, Mona baker, Nitsa Ben-Ari, John Milton, Maria Tymoczko Cover and Art by Gordon Thorne. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 2: Spring 2006
Introduction by Jennifer Rosner, guest editor; Fiction by Debra Spark, Ilan Stavans, Faith Adiele Poetry by Diane Ackerman, Beth Ann Fennelly, John O'Donohue, C.K. Williams, Mary Kinzie, Richard Chess, Meena Alexander, Carol Edelstein, Donald Morill Drama by Wendy Wasserstein Essays and Articles by Gayle Pemberton, Jane F. Crostwaite, Patricia Foster, Rebecca Goldstein, Liv Pertzoff, Sarah Buss, Steven Pinker, Huston Diehl, Martha C. Nussbaum Cover and Paintings by Lee Gordon. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 1: Spring 2006
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Carolyn Megan, Erica Funkhouser, Stephen Schottenfeld, Andy Mozina Poetry by Katherine Sanchez Espano, Steve Mueske, Bob Hicok, Mary Buchinger, Jesse Lichtenstein, Geoffrey Detrani, Ingeborg Bachmann, Todd Smith, T. Zachary Cotler, Brad Crenshaw, Carolyn Creedon, Martha Rhodes, Jill McDonough, Alice B. Fogel, Teresa Ballard Drama by Dennis Porter Essays and Articles by Norman Berlin, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Rebecca Emlinger Roberts, Thomas David Lisk, Sara Levine. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 4: Winter 2005/2006
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Elizabeth Searle, Michael A. FitzGerald, Robert Wexelblatt, Lori O’Dea Poetry by Brian Swann, Barbara Ras, Farrah Field, Lesle Lewis, James Doyle, G.C. Waldrep, Douglas Woody Woodsum, Tara Bray Essays and Articles by Richard H. Brown, John Allen, Nance Van Winckel, Sameer Yerawadekar, Faye Wolfe, John Hicks. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 3: Fall 2005
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Zdravka Evtimova, Stephen O'Connor, Emmanuel Boulukos, Heather Sellers, Christine Lanoie, Justine Dymond; Poetry by Kathleen Halme III, Martin Espada, Brian Turner, Simon Perchik, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Bruce Bond, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Myrna Stone, Johnny Lorenz, Jon Kelly Yenser, Georgia Scott; Essays and Articles by Sterling Stuckey, Thomas L. Dumm, Claire Kahane, Kathleen Spivack. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 2: Summer 2005
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by David Wright, L. E. Kimball; Poetry by Annie Boutelle, Dara Wier, Sunshine Glenstone, Leo Hwang, Robert Gregory, Rebecca Black, Anne Love Woodhull; Essays and Articles by Kevin Simmonds, Catherine Reid, Gerald Williams, Bonnie Shullenberger, Dino Enrique Piacentini, John Emil Vincent; Artwork by David Gloman, Katy Schneider. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 1: Spring 2005
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Vincent Czyz, Jennifer Wortman, Kira Salak; Poetry by Billy Collins, Christopher Davis, Stacie Cassarino, Douglas Sanders, Dana Curtis; Essays and Articles by George Wardlaw, Denise Shekerjian, Jason P. Matzke, Mark Johnson, Erick Campbell, Joanna Kadi, Emma Lieber; Artwork by George Wardlaw, Luke Jaeger. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 4: Winter 2005
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Priscilla Turner, Andi Diehn, Richard Spilman, Danit Brown; Poetry by Nance Van Winckel, Anne Marie Macari, Lisa Olstein, Maxine Scates, Kim Hye Sun (translated by Don Mee Choi), Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Jen Currin, Kevin McFadden; Essays and Articles by Cynthia Lewis, Robert Hahn, Grace Glueck, Tama Baldwin, James Myers, Doug Pond (Interviewing Cory Doctorow), Normand Berlin; Artwork by Jean Morrison Becker. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 3: Fall 2004, Special Issue: Food Matters
Introduction by Anita Mannur, guest editor; Fiction by Shymala B. Dason, Sharmila Sen, Malak Roya Hamadani, Roshni Rustomji, Daniel Jernigan, Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson; Poetry by Jane C.H. Park, Johnson Cheu, Purvi Shah, Brian Tomasovich, Rita Wong, Brooke Nelson; Essays and Articles by Sejal Shah, Tiare Rose Bent, Rachael Miyung Joo, Shirley Geok-Lim, Bunkong Tuon, Kim Cohen, Jane Sharon Mizota, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Tonya Becerra, Sharon Heijin Lee, Amy J. Wan, Donna Gelagotis Lee Complete Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 2: Summer 2004
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Stephen O'Connor, Shannon Cain, Gregory Blake Smith, David Rutschman, Malena Watrous Erika Williams Linda McCullough Moore; Poetry by Gerard Malanga, Diane Wald, Kristin Bock, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Annie Boutelle, Catherine Barnett, Darryl Phelps, K.E. Duffin, Fred Yannantuono, Erika Mikkalo Essays and Articles by Paul Marion, Lesley Lee Francis, Robert Erwin, Jerome Richard, A. Sandosharaj, Kerrie Mitchell. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 1: Spring 2004
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by David Crouse, Peter LaSalle, Irving Werner; Poetry by Patrick Donnelly, Tino Villanueva, Kevin Bowen, Leonard Kress, Omoloa Ijeoma Ogunyemi; Essays and Articles by Richard H. Minear, Ilan Stavans, Webb Harris Jr., Thomas Washington, Normand Berlin, Mark Jay Mirsky, Larry Owens. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 4: Winter 2003/ 2004
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Michah Perks, James Janko, Geeta Kothari, Martha Marinara; Poetry by Li-Young Lee, Rane Arroyo, Colette Inez, David Roderick, Mary Quade; Essays and Articles by Thomas Glave, Li-Young Lee (interviewed by Dianne Bilyak), Mike Dockins, Glen Retief, Rebecca Emlinger Roberts, Gerald Williams, Zachary Levin, Richard Trousdell. Complete Table of Contents Volume 44, Number 3: Fall 2003
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Robert H. Abel, Ravi Howard, Melissa Fraterrigo, Robert Vivian, Christy Stillwell, Amanda Brauman King, Victoria Barrett, Evan Shopper, Maxim D. Shrayer; Poetry by Marvin Bell, Selena Flowers, Miguel Hernandez (translated by Daniel Mahoney), Tony Gloeggler, Enis Batur (translated by Clifford Endres and Selhan Savcigil, Anne Silver, Lisa Steinman, Federico Garcia Lorca (translated by Lynn Margulis and Ricardo Guerrero), Adnan Adam Onart, jay Nebel, Kate Greenstreet, Patricia Hill; Essays and Articles by Michael Lenson (interviewed by Harlan Phillips, transcribed and edited by David Lenson), Evelyn Shakir, Normand Berlin. Artwork by Michael Lenson. Complete Table of Contents.
Volume 44, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer 2003: Special Double Issue--A Gathering in Honor of Jules Chametzky: $12
Introduction by The Editors; Fiction by Chinau Achebe, Andrew Lass; Poetry by John Felstiner, Martin Espada, Joseph Langland, Doris Abramson, Paul Jenkins, Carol Potter, Val Vinokurov, Adrienne Rich, James Tate, Ellen Dore Watson, Kadya Molodowsky (translated by Kathryn Hellerstein), Melvin Wilk; Nonfiction by Jerome Liebling, Jules Chametzky/ David R.Clark, Robert Tucker, John Hicks, Esther Terry, Bruce Laurie, Werner Sollors, Hilene Flanzbaum, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Julius Lester, Stephen Clingman, Kwame Ture with Ewueme Michael Thelwell, Daniel Aaron, Florence Howe, Ursula Junk, Sabine Broeck, Emmon Bach, Paul H.D. Kaplan, Alan Trachtenberg, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Dale Peterson, Shaun O'Connell, Gunther H. Lenz, Lewis Fried, Rosette Clementine, Lamont, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller; Artwork by Leonard Baskin, Julius Lester. Complete Table of Contents.
Volume 43, Number 4: Winter 2002/ 2003
Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Christine Sneed, Timothy Scott, Susan Schiff, John Keyes; Poetry by Ed Allen, Billy Collins, Karen Donovan, Garrett Doherty, Roald Hoffman, Naomi Wallace, Virgil Suárez, Monifa Love, John Mann, Victoria Chang, Jane Southwell Munro, John Witte, Judith Berke, Peter Viereck; Essays and Articles by Marianne Boruch, Jon Thompson, Pamela Smiley, Barbara Baer. Complete Table of Contents.
Volume 43, Number 3: Autumn 2002
Fiction by Melvin Jules Bukiet, Molly FitzSimons; Poems by Jan Conn, Jeremy Greenfield, Jennifer Tseng, Kevin Bowen, Tom Wayman; Essays and Articles by Fred V. Bernard, Paula K. Speck, Xiaoda Xiao, Ann Lauterbach. Complete Table of Contents.
Volume 43, Number 2: Summer 2002
Fiction by Valerie Martin, Peter Markus, E.M. Beekman; Poems by Tomaz Salamun, Timothy Liu, Eva Hooker, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller, Agha Shahid Ali, Chris Kingsley, Ogaga Ifowodo, Kate Nothrop, Steven Lapinsky, Terese Svoboda, Joel Brouwer; Essays and Articles by Ernest Allen Jr., Christine Benvenuto, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Gail Hall Howard. Complete Table of Contents.
Volume 43, Number 1: Spring 2002
Fiction by Elizabeth Denton, Claire Tristram, Olga Grushin, Maximilian Schlaks; Poems by Miller Williams, Virgil Suarez, Mary Crow, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Ellen Wehle, Pamela Yensen, Edward Pols, Jimmy A. Lerner, Stanley Koehler, Mary Fister; Essays and Articles by Kathryn Joyce, Lee Stratman, Ketu H. Katrack, Andre Bazin, Lorraine Mortimer, S.G. Miller. Complete Table of Contents.
Volume 42, Number 4: Winter 2001/2002 Special Egypt Issue SOLD OUT
Foreword by Raymond Stock; Fiction by Brooke Comer, Ahdaf Soueif, Naguib Mahfouz, and Ali Salem; Poems by Julian Reilly, Brooke Comer, Robert Dow, Raymond Stock, Peter Marin; Essays and Articles by Jeffrey Hammond, Zahi Hawass, Bojana Mojsov, John Rodenbeck, Christoph Kapeller, Caroline Williams, Peter Theroux, M. Akif Kirecci, and Raymond Stock. Complete Table of Contents, Volume 42 Index
Volume 42, Number 3: Autumn 2001
Stories by Ron Tanner, Stephanie Allen, Michelle Hoover, and Jean Ryan; Poems by Angelo Verga, Anna Meek, Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis, John Witte, Matt Yurdana, George Eklund, Doris Abramson, Marta Petreu, Jennifer Tseng, Christian Hawkey, Betsy Snow Hickok, and DC Berry; Essays by Nancy Klein, George Makari, Alyce Miller, and Robert H. Abel. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 2: Summer 2001
Stories by Susan Johnson, Kathryn Rhett, M.B. O'Connor, Nicholas Montemarano, and Amy Bordiuk; Poems by Tom Russell, Colleen J. McElroy, Teresa M. Pfeifer, Shara McCallum, Mary Winters, Ethan Gilsdorf, Edith Aronowitz Mueller, Sunshine Glenstone, and Tony Hoagland; Essays by Robert L. King, Antonio Jose Ponteé, Linda Furgerson Selzer, Debra Anne Davis, and Spencer Nadler. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 1: Spring 2001
Stories by Susan Steinberg, Brian Ames, Daniel Hayes, Sarah Buttenwieser; Poems by Marianne Boruch, Dick Allen, Jill McDonough, Tama Baldwin, Sarah Getty, Virgil Suarez, Michael Casey, Miles Wilson, John Hennessy, Scott Withiam Tony Hoagland, and Rose-Myriam Réjouis. Essays by Eula Biss, Amy Kolen, Helen Barolini, Edith Shillue, and Normand Berlin. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 4: Winter
INTERVIEW & TRIBUTE Eqbal Ahmad: by David Barsamian; Stories by Elizabeth Porto, Yuri Izdryk, Stephen Guinan, Peter LaSalle, Beth Goldner, and Kyoko Yoshida; Poems by Nathanial Bellows, Inara Cedrins, Jan Conn, and Mary Beth O'Connor; Essays by Rosette C. Lamont, Marietta Pritchard, Brock Clarke, and Mark Jay Mirsky. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 3: Fall
FICTION, ESSAYS & POETRY: Stories by Sam Michel, Martin Cozza, Sandra Miller, and Jim Janko; Poems by Abigail Wender, Dorothea Grunzweig, Andrew Miller, Linda Fader Swenson, Stuart Friebert, John Canaday, Sara Littlecrow Russell, Charles Rafferty, Jody Winer, Paul Celan, and Jorge Luis Borges. Essays by Robert Crossley, Damion Searls, Normand Berlin, David Masello, and Spencer Nadler. Complete Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 2: Summer
PERFORMING ARTS SPECIAL ISSUE. Stories by Robin Lewis Coste, and W. D. Wetherell; Poems by J.P. White, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Katia Kapovich, Matthew Miller, Robert Coles, Ethan Gilsdorf, Eugene Gloria, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil; Essays by Bert Cardullo, Sharon O'Dair, Coppelia Kahn, and Rebecca Emlinger Roberts. Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 1: Spring 2000
Derek Walcott's Omeros: An Essay by Charles Lock; Stories by Juan Tovar, Neal Durando, Rose Moss, Harry Taylor; Poems by Virgil Suarez, Dana Roeser, Claire Malroux, Karen Kovacik, Allison Eir Jenks, John Witte, Tabish Khair, Steve Conway, Luis Pales Matos, Trent Busch, Isaac Goldermberg, Charles Rafferty, Michael Atkinson, and Kenneth Rosen: Essays by Radwa Ashour, Robert King, Jeffrey Heiman, Kathy Larson, Bob Swacker & Brian Deimling, and Charles Lock. Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 4: Winter 1999
40 Years of Diversity--From the Start; Stories by E.M. Broner, Raymond Kennedy; Poems by Jan Freeman, Lis Waldner, Carol Potter, Brigit Kelly, Dara Wier, Ruth Stone, Barbara Ras, Doug Anderson, Agha Shahid Ali, Jean Valentine, Joseph Langland, Nancy Willard, James Tate, Grace Paley, and others; Essays by Leo Marx, Anne Halley, Rosette Lamont, Phillip M. Richards, Carter Revard, Julio Marzan, and others; Memoir by Ilan Stavans; Eight photographs by Jerome Liebling. Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 3: Fall 1999
Four Photographs by Jerome Liebling; Stories by Emind Sevgi Osdamar, Judith Frank, Manuel Munoz, John Salter; Poems by Andrew Salkey, Susan Donnelly, Jill McDonough, Angelo Verga, Michael Teig; Essays by Normand Berlin, James Morrison, Heather Andrade; Interview with Michael Thelwell; Speech by Chinua Achebe. Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 2: Summer 1999
Translation of the Self: Ruskin and Wharton, by Mary Ann Caws. Also in This Issue: Essays by Jane Bernstein, Leslie Morris, Jane Satterfield; Stories by David Shrayer-Petrov, Aida Bahr, Stephanie Rosenfeld, Julia Hanna, Paul Mandelbaum, Sabina Murray; Poems by Ruth Stone, Jennifer Barber, Forrest Hamer, Sharon Kraus, Judith Nacca, Lidia Torres, Cynthia Huntington, Christopher Davis, Betsy Sholl, Ravi Shankar. Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 1: Spring 1999
Harlem Book of the Dead; Stories by Ann Pancake, Joshua Harmon, Claire Tristram; Poems by Molly McQuade, Claire Malroux, Naomi Wallace, Rafael Campo, Lisa C. Beskin, Lola Haskins, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Nance Van Winckel, Mark Irwin; Essays by Winston Napier, Karla F.C. Holloway, Vincent B. Leich, Lawrence P. Jackson, Jamey Hecht, Normand Berlin. Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 4: Winter 1998
The Burden of Sickle Cells, by Spencer Nadler; Also in this issue: Poems by Frank X. Gaspar, Carol Potter, Jasper Bernes, Lia Purpura, Kelly LaFave, Nathanial Bellows, Terese Svoboda and Kurt Henzelman; Stories by Neal Durando, Brennen Wysong, Craig Danner; Essays by Henryk Grynberg, Leslie Gourse; Interview with Donald Hall. Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 3: Fall 1998
Fiction, Essays & Poetry. Essays by Shawn St. Jean, Jeff Westover, David Masello, Robert Fredrickson; Stories by Vern Rutsala, Ly Lan, Castle Freeman, Jr., Emily Cerf, David Yoo; Poems by Carol Frost, Herman Fong, John Frazier, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Tony Hoagland, David Avidan, Sandor Csoori, Elizabeth Alexander, Cortney Davis, Liz Waldner. Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 2: Summer 1998
A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and American Poetry. In This Issue: Meena Alexander, Andrew Lass, Fanny Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Geoff Rips, Bill Berkson, Hayden Carruth, Eileen Myles, Louis Ginsberg, Dara Wier, William G. O'Donnell, Edward Kleinschmidt, Robin Morgan, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Janet Kaplan, Marion Bethel, Baron Wormser, Alan Trachtenberg, Kinereth Gensler, Sheerekha Pillai, Richard Frost, Holly Iglesias, Bill Tremblay, Steve Orlen, Edward Pols, Katayoon Zandvakili. Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 1: Spring 1998
Fred Becker WPA Graphics. Poems, Stories & Essays. In this issue: Spencer Nadler, Joyce Peseroff, Kamila Shamsie, Joshua Beckman, Peter Love, Eileen Myles, Nancy McCabe, Geoff Schmidt, George Kalamaras, Jules Chametzky, Fred Becker, David Williams, Andrew Lopenzina, Karen Alkalay-Gut. Table of Contents
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