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Winter 2009
Vol. XXXI No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2008 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Introduction: Short Fiction Contest -
Cara Blue Adams
I Met Loss the Other Day -
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Afterbirth -
Nick Ripatrazone
The Bearberry Elegies
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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New Voices
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David Baker
On Kascha Semonovitch -
Kascha Semonovitch
New -
Kascha Semonovitch
Birch, Pine, Palm -
Kascha Semonovitch
If -
Kascha Semonovitch
Trio -
Kascha Semonovitch
Postcards
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David Baker
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Fiction
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E. L. Doctorow
All the Time in the World -
Joyce Carol Oates
The Spill -
Robb Forman Dew
All the Time -
Kit Reed
Special
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E. L. Doctorow
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Nonfiction
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Rebecca McClanahan
The Tribal Knot: Ties That Bind and Break Us -
Wyatt Prunty
Making and Taking -
Alfred Corn
Elizabeth Bishop, Critic
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Rebecca McClanahan
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Poetry
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Linda Gregerson
Dido Refuses to Speak -
Paul Guest
A Long Time I’ve Wanted to Say Something -
Carl Phillips
Almost Tenderly -
Carl Phillips
Conquest -
Carl Phillips
Tell Me a Story -
Carl Phillips
Next Stop, Arcadia -
Carl Phillips
The Life You Save -
Kazim Ali
Blue My Promise a Swan -
Michael S. Harper
Leonard Brown, Musician/Teacher -
Aleksandr Kushner
Apollo in the Grass -
Rachel Hadas
Undertow, Memory, Regret, and Silence -
Carol Muske-Dukes
Green River Cemetery -
Carol Muske-Dukes
The Grief Game -
Daniel Mark Epstein
The Sense of Style -
David Bergman
The Man Who Wasn’t Loved Enough -
Ilya Kaminsky
That Map of Bone and Opened Valves
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Linda Gregerson
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Fall 2008
Vol. XXX No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes -
André Bernard
The Casual Reader
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David H. Lynn
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2008 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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David Baker
Young Writers Introduction -
Molly Brown
Terra Incognita -
Weihui Lu
(why) can’t i hear you anymore? -
Samantha Berstler
self-portrait
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David Baker
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Fiction
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George Singleton
The First to Look Away -
W. David Hall
Sandlot -
Gimbiya Kettering
Carryout -
Githa Hariharan
Diablo Baby -
Thomas Glave
The Torturer’s Wife
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George Singleton
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Nonfiction
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Simon J. Ortiz
Memory Is Key -
Marilyn Moriarty
Displaced Persons -
Ann Keniston
‘Balm after Violence’: Louise Glück’s “Averno”
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Simon J. Ortiz
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Poetry
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Charles Baudelaire
Rêve parisien (Parisian Dream) -
Anna Journey
Adorable Siren, Do You Love the Damned? -
Stephen Dobyns
Mourning Doves -
Stephen Dobyns
Nickel -
Nance Van Winckel
My Weight in Ants -
Nance Van Winckel
You Take It from Here -
Mary Szybist
Yet Not Consumed -
Mary Jo Bang
V Is the Diver -
Mary Jo Bang
The Wake Was a Line and We Watched -
John Koethe
The Distinguished Thing -
Dana Levin
Zozo-ji -
Leslie Shipman
Plea to Birds -
Leslie Shipman
Girl on a Hill -
David Bottoms
My Mother’s Abscess
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Charles Baudelaire
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Summer 2008
Vol. XXX No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Holly Goddard Jones
Retrospective -
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Boar Taint -
Elizabeth Lantz
An Unexplained Accident -
Aurelia Wills
Wasps
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Holly Goddard Jones
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Nonfiction
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Ben Miller
Of Squirrels and Men -
Meredith Hall
The Simplest Questions
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Ben Miller
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Poetry
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Willard Spiegelman
‘Tis Yet to Come -
Joseph Campana
Sheltering Bough -
Jill Bialosky
The Skiers -
Kevin Young
I Shall Be Released -
Kevin Young
Grievous Angel -
Kevin Young
Ode to Gumbo -
Steven Ray Smith
They Are People in a Line -
Kerri Webster
Oracle Weather -
Marilyn Hacker
Blasons -
Jonathan Weinert
Her Favorite Book -
C. Dale Young
At Camp Galileo -
Victoria Chang
Elegy with a Dirt Trail -
Victoria Chang
Sparrows -
Beth Ann Fennelly
We’d Been Drinking Champagne When I Found It -
Nicole Cooley
Breach -
Nicole Cooley
I Spy a Hole, a Crack, a Leak -
Brooks Haxton
Song of the Indigo Bunting -
Nadia Herman Colburn
In the Meadow -
Nadia Herman Colburn
Happiness -
Nadia Herman Colburn
Nothing We Say Is Ever the Soul -
Nadia Herman Colburn
Speaking to a Friend Who Speaks of Suicide -
J. D. McClatchy
The Young Fate
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Willard Spiegelman
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Spring 2008
Vol. XXX No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes: Brave New World, and Not -
André Bernard
The Casual Reader
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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M. M. M. Hayes
Meantime, Quentin Ghlee -
Deborah Schwartz
The City and the Moon -
Rahul Mehta
Quarantine -
Carolyn Buchanan
The Road
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M. M. M. Hayes
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Nonfiction
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Brian Doyle
No -
Michelle Richmond
A Life in Pods -
Kate Maloy
Winding Threads -
Jeffrey Meyers
Salter’s Gift -
William Wenthe
The Craft of Thought: The Sentence in Contemporary Poetry
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Brian Doyle
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Poetry
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David Hernandez
Mosul -
Alex Lemon
Patter to Mend -
Doug Sanders
And All the Bells Were Ringing -
J. Allyn Rosser
How like the Heart the Thumb -
Robert Olen Butler
Intercourse -
Jennifer Militello
Personality State: Prophet -
Jennifer Militello
Personality State: Scavenger’s Daughter -
Jennifer Chang
River Pilgrims -
Derek Mong
Equivalents -
Deanne Lundin
What It Cost -
Deanne Lundin
How Tulips Invented Jazz -
Joanna Goodman
Beginning and Ending with Birdcall -
Joanna Goodman
Were This a Wish with a Plea -
Joanna Goodman
Hovering -
Adam Day
Gallows Portraits -
Adam Day
Aubade
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David Hernandez
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Review
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David Wojahn
By Increments
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David Wojahn
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Winter 2008
Vol. XXX No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Roger Rosenblatt
Professor Porterfield’s Class -
Susan Hahn
The Lovers -
Don Lee
UFOs -
H. G. Carrillo
Co-Sleeper -
John Michael Cummings
Marshmallow People -
Gary Fincke
The Visual Equivalent of Pain -
Anne Sanow
Safety -
Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde
The Ariran’s Last Life
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Roger Rosenblatt
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Nonfiction
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Lewis Hyde
Being Good Ancestors: Reflections of Arts Funding since World War II -
James Fleming Jones
Searching Still for Odysseus
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Lewis Hyde
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Poetry
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Ted Kooser
Success -
Ted Kooser
Splitting an Order -
Ted Kooser
Bad News -
Ted Kooser
Spanish Lessons -
Ted Kooser
Two Men on an Errand -
Albert Goldbarth
In Another -
Albert Goldbarth
Secondhand Light -
Albert Goldbarth
Through the Elements -
Judith Hall
Night Heart -
Katherine Soniat
Gravity -
Red Hawk
The Hallelujah Chorus -
Miller Williams
He Gets around to Answering the Old Question -
Abelardo Linares
So Swift -
Abelardo Linares
Love Is Worthy of This -
Paul Otremba
Noise like Wings -
Deema K. Shehabi
The Narrative -
Phillis Levin
Letter to the Snow -
Phillis Levin
Open Field -
Page Hill Starzinger
Alpha Protein -
Page Hill Starzinger
As an Eighteenth-Century Map -
Page Hill Starzinger
Poultice
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Ted Kooser
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Fall 2007
Vol. XXIX No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes: KR Award—New Literary Festival—New Fiction Editor (Whew!) -
André Bernard
The Casual Reader -
Roger Rosenblatt
Just Not for Us: The Writer’s Wife
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David H. Lynn
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2007 Patrica Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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David Baker
Introduction: 2007 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers -
Rebekah Latour
Twisted Like Dogwood -
Frankie Romano
The Night You Questioned the Purpose of Flowers -
Hannah Irvin
For My Father
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Anne Panning
ALL-U-CAN-EAT -
Hugh Sheehy
The Invisibles -
Steven Schwartz
Absolute Zero -
Lynn Ahrens
Babka -
Don Waters
Mormons in Heat - Private: The Painter’s Wife
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Anne Panning
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Nonfiction
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Poetry
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Stuart Dischell
Backwards Days -
Stuart Dischell
This Time in the Sky -
Debora Greger
Complaint of the Rain in English -
Deborah Digges
Haying -
Deborah Digges
The House That Goes Dancing -
Deborah Digges
Dance of the Seven Veils -
Deborah Digges
Don’t Cut Your Hair -
D. Nurkse
Letter from Solange -
D. Nurkse
Hitching to Mount Hebron -
Adrie Kusserow
Skull Trees, South Sudan -
Kathy Fagan
Road Memorial -
Margo Berdeshevsky
Of the Song Bird -
Jayanta Mahapatra
At Times a Man Growing Old -
Harriet Levin
Key -
David Biespiel
The Husband’s Tale -
David Biespiel
The Wife’s Tale -
David Biespiel
Pound -
William Heyen
Publicity -
William Heyen
Anthem
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Stuart Dischell
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Interview
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Nancy Zafris
A Conversation with Rebecca McClanahan
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Nancy Zafris
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Summer 2007
Vol. XXIX No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes -
Roger Rosenblatt
Just Not for Us: Advanced Journalism
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Alan Heathcock
Smoke -
T. C. Boyle
Hands On -
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Clipping -
Lori White
Postcards from the Road -
Gerald Duff
The Way a Blind Man Tracks Light -
Myfanwy Collins
Have You Seen Us? -
Amina Gautier
Girl of Wisdom -
Daniel Torday
Undress
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Alan Heathcock
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Nonfiction
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Atar Hadari
Why the Dead Have Lives -
Jeff Staiger
The Wayward, Enormous, Preposterous Self of Wiley Silenowicz, A.K.A. Harold Brodkey -
Stanley Plumly
This Mortal Body
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Atar Hadari
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Poetry
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John Hollander
Steep Declension -
Maurya Simon
Black Widow -
Marvin Bell
An Apology to the Vietnamese and Iraqis -
Marvin Bell
Bus Stop Essay on Rampant Capitalism -
Marvin Bell
Art Shoes -
Claudia Grinnell
I, Moderate -
Claudia Grinnell
Yard Sale -
William Logan
The Imitation of Things Familiar -
Charles Harper Webb
Sneaker Males -
Arthur Sze
Spectral Lines
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John Hollander
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Interview
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David Lynn
A Conversation with Ian McEwan
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David Lynn
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Spring 2007
Vol. XXIX No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes -
André Bernard
The Casual Reader -
Roger Rosenblatt
Just Not for Us: May I Kill You?
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Janet Peery
No Liquor Sold to Indians past Dark -
Judy Troy
Harold Carlisle -
Rebecca Kanner
Byblis -
Alice Hoffman
Changeling -
Man Martin
Dollywood -
Tara Ison
A Heart, Beating
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Janet Peery
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Poetry
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Campbell McGrath
September 11 -
Carl Dennis
A Visit to West Point -
Peter Cooley
To Christ Our Lord -
Peter Cooley
Afterwords -
Arthur Rimbaud
Le Bateau Ivre -
Joanna Klink
Thoughts on Fog -
Jay Hopler
The History of Solitude -
Jay Hopler
Hearts of the South -
Jay Hopler
Solar Paraphrase -
Linda Gregerson
Prodigal -
Linda Gregerson
Over Easy -
Susan Hahn
The Bells -
Eavan Boland
Letters to the Dead -
Eavan Boland
To Memory -
Tracy Ryan
Junction -
Tracy Ryan
Dislocation -
Khaled Mattawa
Buster -
Kevin McFadden
The Ides of Amer-I-Can -
Natalie Shapero
Pastoral
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Campbell McGrath
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Reviews
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Willard Spiegelman
‘Naked without Line-Ends’: Robert Lowell in His Letters -
Sam Pickering
Came Glancing like an Arrow -
Saskia Hamilton
Listening to the Mourners
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Willard Spiegelman
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Winter 2007
Vol. XXIX No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Patrick Tobin
Cake -
Jordan Mott
The Bends -
Linda Bamber
In the Forest -
Holly Goddard Jones
Life Expectancy
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Patrick Tobin
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Nonfiction
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George Steiner
A New Literacy
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George Steiner
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Drama
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
Sniper Avenue
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
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Poetry
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Shara Lessley
The Countervoice -
Jynne Dilling Martin
Beauty in Its Various Forms Appeals to You -
Jynne Dilling Martin
Life Is Flying By -
Sandra Meek
Fracture and Regelation Theory -
Nance Van Winckel
I Leaned over the Railing -
Ian Harris
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese -
Henry Hart
Naval Weapons Station -
Averill Curdy
When I Was Beautiful -
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Rubato -
Gleb Shulpyakov
Untitled -
Gleb Shulpyakov
Untitled -
Gleb Shulpyakov
Untitled -
Gleb Shulpyakov
Untitled -
Fady Joudah
Ladies and Gentlemen -
Fady Joudah
The Tea and Sage Poem -
Yadollah Royai
Yazdgerd’s Stone -
Yadollah Royai
Fardid’s Stone -
Yadollah Royai
Talāyeh’s Stone -
Yadollah Royai
Tāhereh’s Stone -
Yadollah Royai
Cyrus’s Stone -
Yadollah Royai
Mansour’s Tomb -
Daniel Tobin
Independence Day, 2005 -
G.C. Waldrep
Evensong: All Eyes Sharper -
G.C. Waldrep
Bergson’s Arrow -
G.C. Waldrep
Many of Us Identify with Animals -
G.C. Waldrep
Every Apple, Every Dreamer, Every Prime -
Sarah Gorham
Vague -
Jerry Harp
His Garden Mechanical -
Lilah Hegnauer
Canary Bird Flower in Your Chaste Tree -
Matt Donovan
Audubon Diptych
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Shara Lessley
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Reviews
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André Bernard
The Casual Reader
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André Bernard
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Autumn 2006
Vol. XXVIII No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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David Baker
Introduction: On the Third Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers -
Justine Li
El Norte -
Laura Winnick
A Quantum Leap -
Dan Li
A Heap of Fruits
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Roy Kesey
Wait -
Erin McGraw
California -
Andrea Seigel
Open House -
Eric Gansworth
True Crime -
Lara JK Wilson
Farrier’s Daughter
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Roy Kesey
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Nonfiction
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Steven Helmling
A Martyr to Happiness: Why Adorno Matters
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Steven Helmling
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Drama
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Bret Fetzer
Avalanche
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Bret Fetzer
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Poetry
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Virgil
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – The Death of Priam -
Virgil
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – Dido in the Underworld -
Virgil
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – Aeneas and His Father’s Ghost -
C. Dale Young
Reciprocity -
Meghan O’Rourke
Winter Palace -
Meghan O’Rourke
The Lost Sister -
Meghan O’Rourke
Peep Show -
Meghan O’Rourke
Sandy Hook -
Meghan O’Rourke
War Lullaby -
Jay Rogoff
Sublimated -
Michael Collier
Snow Day -
Michael Collier
Lost Horizon -
Joanie Mackowski
Prayer -
Marianne Boruch
Studying History -
Marianne Boruch
Hello -
Michelle Boisseau
Die Zwei ist Zweifel -
Robert Wrigley
A Photograph of Philip Levine, on the Brooklyn Promenade, May 2000, Lower Manhattan in the Background -
Garrett Hongo
Kubota to Nazim Hikmet in Peredelkino, Moscow, from Leupp, Arizona -
Garrett Hongo
Kubota to the Chinese Poets Detained on Angel Island -
Garrett Hongo
Kubota on Kahuku Point to Maximus in Gloucester
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Virgil
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Reviews
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David Baker
Introduction -
André Bernard
The Casual Reader -
Willard Spiegelman
Jorie Graham Talking -
Susan McCabe
“To Become Something Broken”: Jorie Graham’s Overlord
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David Baker
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Summer 2006
Vol. XXVIII No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Philip F. Deaver
Lowell and the Rolling Thunder -
Bridget Bentz Sizer
Snow Blind -
Don Lee
A Preference for Native Tongue -
M. Allen Cunningham
Twelve Monthly Devotions
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Philip F. Deaver
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Nonfiction
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Randy Fertel
Katrina Five Ways -
William Walsh
When Language Fails: An Interview with Eamon Grennan
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Randy Fertel
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Poetry
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Randall Mann
Breakfast with Thom Gunn -
Aleš Debeljak
Hymn to the Favorite City - Private: The Mill
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Steve Gehrke
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp -
Linda Gregerson
Bicameral -
Linda Gregerson
The Burning of Madrid as Seen from the Terrace of My House -
Barry Hill
Sketches from Lucian Freud Paintings at the Tate, 2003. Apples in State: Two Studies -
Barry Hill
Sketches from Lucian Freud Paintings at the Tate, 2003. Love in the Afternoon -
Barry Hill
Sketches from Lucian Freud Paintings at the Tate, 2003. Woman Smiling (1959) -
Barry Hill
Sketches from Lucian Freud Paintings at the Tate, 2003. Colours of a Breast -
Barry Hill
Sketches from Lucian Freud Paintings at the Tate, 2003. Mother -
Jay Parini
Aristotle in the Middle Ages -
Joy Harjo
Letter to Lawson -
Michael Pettit
Afternoon Nap -
Eamon Grennan
In Bits -
Eamon Grennan
Night
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Randall Mann
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Reviews
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André Bernard
The Casual Reader -
Emery George
On the Several Home Fronts: Song Among Magyar Contemporaries -
Cynthia L. Haven
Uncle Grisha Was Right
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André Bernard
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Spring 2006
Vol. XXVIII No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Courtney Angela Brkic
Departure -
Brad Kessler
“Birds in Fall”: An Excerpt -
Albert Camus
The Adulterous Wife: From “Exile and the Kingdom” -
Daniel Stern
The Advancer -
Ron Rash
Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes -
Elizabeth Altomonte
Being Chandra
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Courtney Angela Brkic
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Nonfiction
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Katharine Coles
Among So Many Others: Dazzling Instructions -
Linda Gregerson
Rhetorical Contract in the Lyric Poem -
Jeffrey Meyers
Malraux’s Demons
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Katharine Coles
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Poetry
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Cathy Song
Cloud Moving Hands -
Tom Sleigh
Blueprint -
Tom Sleigh
Achilles’ Dream -
Tom Sleigh
Persian Miniature -
Tom Sleigh
Song -
Michael Collier
Bird Crashing into Window -
Michael Collier
Confessional -
Michael Collier
The Missing Mountain -
Susan Wood
Husbands and Wives -
Rabindra K. Swain
Susurrus in the Skull -
Tess Gallagher
Heart-Mirror -
Tess Gallagher
Offering -
Tess Gallagher
The Violence of Unseen Forms -
Marilyn Hacker
Le Sancerre: September -
Joan Murray
Funnel -
J. Allyn Rosser
Equilibrium Update -
Quan Barry
Essentialism -
Quan Barry
Deconstructionism -
Wyatt Prunty
Two Views -
Davis McCombs
The Elgin Marbles -
Reginald Shepherd
Kinds of Camouflage -
Erika Meitner
Smile! It’s School Picture Time -
Erika Meitner
Absence -
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Marco Polo’s Dilemma -
Iman Mersal
I Scandalize Myself -
Iman Mersal
Respecting Marx -
Iman Mersal
I Describe a Migraine -
Lisa Russ Spaar
Hermit Thrush
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Cathy Song
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