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1 / Literary Awards
2008 News |
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6 / Readers Awards
Winners |
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7 / The
Editorial Slant: an editor's note, Robert Stewart |
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O E T R Y |
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Two Poems, with one in Spanish, Willis Barnstone |
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/ Two Poems, Michael Blumenthal |
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The Horse in Her, Elaine Sexton |
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My Heart, Kim Addonizio |
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Five Poems, Kevin Young |
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Reading, Adrienne Su |
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Two Poems, Mia Leonin |
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The Cottonwood Lounge, B.H. Fairchild |
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Across the Borderlands, the Wind, Michelle Boisseau |
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The Naming, Mihaela Moscaliuc |
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The Charm of Rabindranath Tagore, two transcreations by David
Ray, Rabindranath Tagore |
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Bronze Horseman by McKenna', Desmond Egan |
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Class Trip: December 1963, Bill Christophersen |
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The First Law of Thermodynamics, David Wagoner |
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Two Poems, Peter Balakian |
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F
I C T I O N |
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/ A Marriage of Convenience, Andrew Plattner |
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/ Three Stories, Kenneth Gangemi |
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Making It to Thirty |
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The Fruit Stand |
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/ Breakfast on the West Side |
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/ Red River Valley, Thomas Fox Averill |
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/ A Tour of the Country, Catherine Browder |
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S S A Y S |
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53 / A Way of Being: Some Observations on the Ends
and Means of Poetry,
B.H. Fairchild |
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80 / Introduction: Inge Genefke's Testimony on
Torture |
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83 / The Anatomy of Torture--Villa Grimaldi, The
Words of Inge Genefke, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy,
Thomas Larsen |
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"Curious Survivals": The Letters of Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell |
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N T E R V I E W |
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/ To Make a Story, conducted
by Angela Elam, Edward P. Jones |
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R
E V I E W S |
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/ Unbowed Books, a New Feature: Robert Day, "Seven Notes of
Advocacy and Affection for John Williams' Stoner." |
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/ Michael Lee, "Novels of Jazz, the Jazz of Novels,"
an essay-review on Thomas E. Kennedy's Copenhagen Quartet. |
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A
R T W O R K |
| Linda
Lighton, ceramics, front cover, pages
49 through 52. |
| Nicole
Emanuel, drawings, pages 16, 88, 106, 121. |
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Photographs of Willa Cather adn Family, Courtesy of Archives and
Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries,
pages 154, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175. |
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Visitors' Log: The New Letters Guest Book |
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Celebrations and Honors |
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New Programs: New Letters on the Air |
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/ NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS |
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