Spring 2009

Poetry

• Matthew Byrne

  Signifying Nothing, So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, You Will Be Mine, Plain English, All Things Reflective, Product Placement

• Hildred Crill

  Document, On the Photograph

• Byron Kanoti

  There is only one space and it contains everything in the world

• Cecily Parks

  The Introspective Vocabulary

Essay

• Daniel Torday

  What Cheever Can Tell Us About Writing Through Another Depression

Fiction

• Robert Arellano

  The Conjurer’s Repository

• Quan Barry

  The impulsive man acts with fierceness

• Jackson Bliss

  Cowboys of My Heart: The Six-DVD Box Set

• Willie Davis

  The Rabid Dog

• Ernesto Quiñonez

  Eggs

• Daniel Torday

  The Duct Tape Brother

• Nance Van Winckel

  Head Case

• Nancy Zafris

  Nothing

Review

• Alfred Corn on Elizabeth Bishop

  Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

• Jason B. Jones on Harry Clifton

  Review of Harry Clifton’s Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004

• David Reynolds on Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher Benfey

  On Joyce Carol Oates’ Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway and Christopher Benfey’s A Summer of the Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade

• Zach Savich on James Longenbach and Donald Revell

  Lenses and Eyes

• David Smydra on Margaret Atwood

  We All Owe: A Review of Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Interview

• Renee Shea with Chimamanda Adichi

  Returning Home: An Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Geeta Kothari with Meghan Kenny

  A Conversation With Meghan Kenny