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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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Modern Writers, Modern Lives (on Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley; Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein; Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi; Flannery O’Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash; Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life by Hubert H. McAlexander; and Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd)

Available in our Spring 2003 issue.

By Greg Johnson

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on Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference by Mark Edmundson

Available in our Spring 2003 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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on It Wasn’t All Dancing and Other Stories by Mary Ward Brown

Available in our Spring 2003 issue.

By Laura Smith

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on Sleeping With The Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

Available in our Spring 2003 issue.

By Heidi Peppermint

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In Trouble (on The Finger Bone by Kevin Prufer; Trouble Lights by William Olsen; Dumb Luck by Sam Hamill; Beyond the Reach by Deborah Cummins; and Still Life with Waterfall by Eamon Grennan)

Available in our Summer 2003 issue.

By Judith Kitchen

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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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