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The Contemporary Long Poem: Minding the Kinds (on The Diviners by Robert McDowell; Middens of the Tribe by Daniel Hoffman; Quartet by Angela Ball; & The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley)

Available in our Spring 1997 issue.

By Fred Chappell

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Telling Lives (on The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff; You’re So Beautiful by Eileen FitzGerald; The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped by Marie Sheppard Williams; and After Rain by William Trevor)

Available in our Summer 1997 issue.

By Erin McGraw

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Nine Recent Chapbooks: A Few Slips of Paper in the Pages (on Wild Peavines by Robert Morgan; Gristle by R. T. Smith; The Keepers of Light by Michele Wolf; Rude Noises by Martha Meek; Holding Ground by Becky Gould Gibson; In Defense of Stones by Janet MacFadyen; The Wave He Caught by Rick Noguchi; Millrat by Michael Casey; and The Tan Chanteuse by Carol Boston Weatherford)

Available in our Summer 1997 issue.

By Ted Kooser

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Still Crazy (or Fuming) After All These Years (on Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz; A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman; For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin; Making Peace with the 60s by David Burner; and Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy by Stephen Macedo)

Available in our Summer 1997 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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What Persists (on Chickamauga by Charles Wright; Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass; Connecting the Dots by Maxine Kumin; Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems by Paul Zimmer; Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller; and Collected Poems by Leslie Norris)

Available in our Summer 1997 issue.

By Judith Kitchen

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The Vigil by C. K. Williams

Available in our Fall 1997 issue.

By Victoria Martinez

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An Animal of the Sixth Day by Laura Fargas

Available in our Fall 1997 issue.

By Diane Mehta

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In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes

Available in our Fall 1997 issue.

By Karen Weekes

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on The Forties by Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel

Available in our Spring 1984 issue.

By Charles C. Nash

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4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

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on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt...

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt...

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

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