Month: August 2016

Kwash Babies

By Beth Schrank
From the Summer 1998 Issue
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Near Last Chance

By Robert DeMott
From the Summer 1998 Issue
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Midwest: An Ode

By David Baker
From the Summer 1998 Issue
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Flood Relief

By Brennen Wysong
From the Summer 1998 Issue
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The Owning Stone

By Jim Peterson
From the Summer 1998 Issue
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Jim Peterson is the author of five poetry collections, three chapbooks, and a novel; his newest collection, Original Face, was released by Gunpowder Press in October 2015. Peterson’s poems have appeared widely in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, and Cave Wall. He lives with his charismatic corgi, Mama Kilya, in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Pacific City: Walking the Edge of the Civilized World

By Alison Hawthorne Deming
From the Summer 1998 Issue
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Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress (Counterpoint Press, 2021). Her other recent books include Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven (Penguin, 2016). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and the Walt Whitman Award, she is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson and on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

on Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape by John Miller

By Sanford Pinsker
From the Fall 1998 Issue
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Making Sure There’s Music: Six Recent Chapbooks (on First Hand by Jay Rogoff; The Lazarus Method by Kate Hancock; The Corner of Absence by Lynne Kuderko; Wherever You Want by Douglas Goetsch; This Book Belongs to Eva by Stephen Gardner; and It’s Hard to Get the Angle Right by Bruce Bennett)

By Andrea Hollander
From the Fall 1998 Issue
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Andrea Hollander’s first published poem appeared in the Winter 1982 issue of The Georgia Review. Her first full-length poetry collection won the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize; her fourth was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her many other honors include two Pushcart Prizes (in poetry and creative nonfiction) and two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. After living in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks for thirty-five years, she moved to downtown Portland, Oregon, in 2011.

“Mystery every time”: Memoirs and the Search for “We” (on Space: A Memoir by Jesse Lee Kercheval; The Phantom Father: A Memoir by Barry Gifford; and Snake’s Daughter: The Roads In and Out of War by Gail Hosking Gilberg)

By Joe Bonomo
From the Fall 1998 Issue
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