Author: Scott LaClaire

Angels

By Robert Wrigley
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Robert Wrigley, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho, lives in the high-mountain woods near Moscow. His eleventh and most recent book of poems is Box (Penguin, 2017).

I Am the Stomach

By Justin Evans
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Against Closing

By Caroline Finkelstein
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Fabric

By Caroline Finkelstein
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Currycombing

By Coleman Barks
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Coleman Barks

Coleman Barks, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, has since 1977 collaborated with various scholars of the Persian language (most notably, John Moyne) to bring over into American free verse the poetry of the thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. This work has resulted in twenty-one volumes, including the bestselling Essential Rumi in 1995. He has also published eight volumes of his own poetry, including Hummingbird Sleep: Poems 2009–2011 (2012) and Winter Sky: Poems 1968–2008 (2008), both from the University of Georgia Press. 

Some of Us Do It Anyway: An Interview with Harry Crews

By Harry Crews Tammy Lytal Richard R. Russell
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Harry Crews (1935–2012), born in Bacon County, was the author of nearly twenty novels, from The Gospel Singer (1968) to An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings (2006). His published nonfiction includes the first volume of his autobiography, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (1978), and three essay collections. His papers are collected in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia; he was the subject of a special feature, including previously unpublished work and letters culled from that collection, in our Winter 2007 issue. Crews lived for decades in Gainesville, Florida, where he taught at the University of Florida. (Inducted in 2002)

The Privileges of Philosophy

By Stephen Dobyns
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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The Gesture

By Larry Baker
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Scott Nearing’s Ninety-Eighth Year

By Daniel Hoffman
From the Fall 1994 Issue
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Daniel Hoffman, a former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1973–74), will publish his thirteenth book of verse, Next to Last Words, in April 2013, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.