Author: Scott LaClaire

The Whirlpool of Image and Narrative Flow (on Second Language by Lisel Mueller; Sometimes Music Rises by Wayne Dodd; The Happy Man by Donald Hall; Unending Blues by Charles Simic; Living Gloves by Lynn Doyle; & Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns)

By Peter Stitt
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Old Frontiers / New Images (on Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians by Wendy Ewald; In the American West: 1979-1984 by Richard Avedon; & Rich and Poor by Jim Goldberg)

By James Guimond
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Laments

By Judson Mitcham
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Judson Mitcham’s most recent collection is A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New (University of Georgia Press, 2007). He is the current poet laureate of Georgia.

Seeking the Truth in Narrative: An Interview with Shelby Foote

By William C. Carter Shelby Foote
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Paul’s Wholesale Florist

By Starkey Flythe Jr.
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Don’t Worry About the Kids

By Jay Neugeboren
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Bluegrass Wasteland

By T. R. Hummer
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Bodies At Sea

By Erin McGraw
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Erin McGraw is the author of six books, most recently the novel Better Food for a Better World (Slant Books, 2013). Her stories and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Atlantic, STORY, the Southern Review, Allure, and other magazines and journals. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, the poet Andrew Hudgins.

 

Circe

By Linda Pastan
From the Spring 1987 Issue
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Linda Pastan’s fourteenth book of poems, Insomnia, will be published by W. W. Norton in the fall of 2015. Recent poems have appeared in the Paris Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and the Gettysburg Review. Her books have twice been finalists for the National Book Award, and in 2003 she won the Ruth Lily Prize for lifetime achievement. She was poet laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995.