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What It All Means (on The Force of Spirit by Scott Russell Sanders; Shaped by Wind and Water: Reflections of a Naturalist by Ann Haymond Zwinger; and Writing the Sacred into the Real by Alison Hawthorne Deming)

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Doug Carlson

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The Personal Essay in the World (on My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum; Cold Snap as Yearning by Robert Vivian; and Halls of Fame by John D’Agata

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Joe Bonomo

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on In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today by Aleks Sierz

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Myles Weber

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American Theater Watch, 2001–2002

Available in our Fall 2002 issue.

By Gerald Weales

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Interlude (on Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems, 1951-2001 by Madeline DeFrees; Waterborne by Linda Gregerson; Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee; The Holy Worm of Praise by Philip Schultz; and Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey)

Available in our Winter 2002 issue.

By Judith Kitchen

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Supporting Roles (on Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling by Maura Stanton; The Price You Pay by Ellen Winter; Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories by Lucy Ferriss; & The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus)

Available in our Winter 2002 issue.

By Kathleen Snodgrass

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Contrasting Memories of Escape and Survival (on Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt; Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm by David Hamilton; Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas by Odette Larson; and A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel)

Available in our Winter 2002 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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Provision and Perfection (on Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New And Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Stanley Plumly)

Available in our Winter 2002 issue.

By David Baker

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Taste and the Open Door (on The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young; Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962, edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young; and Poets of the New Century, edited by Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson)

Available in our Spring 2003 issue.

By Jeff Gundy

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

By Patrick Pittman

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

By Jacqueline Kari

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

By Felice Arenas

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

By Toby Altman

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

By KaToya Ellis Fleming

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

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on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

By Ben Rutherfurd

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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

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

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

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Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

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)

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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...

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...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

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)

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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