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7 / Challenge, an editor's note, Robert
Stewart |
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62 / Our Awards Judges |
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P
O E T R Y |
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11 /
Waiting for Mail From Ramallah, Tyler Caroline Mills |
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12
/ Three Poems, Eric Torgersen |
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16 / Two Poems, Robert Sims Reid |
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Four Poems, first place, The New Letters Award for
Poetry, Laurie Zimmerman |
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101 /
Two Poems, Elizabeth Schott |
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104 /
Three Poems, Alice Friman |
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Dance, Willis Barnstone |
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My Father Dancing, Tony Barnstone |
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130 /
Three Poems, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Dan Turčll |
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Two Poems, Victoria Chang |
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142 /
Two Poems, translated by Tom Priestly, Cvetka Lipuš |
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Two Poems, Teddy Macker |
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Hearts and Mouths, Jay Neugeboren |
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177 /
Two Poems, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi |
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Masters of the Plein Air, Bruce Bond |
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M Theory and the Apothegm of Bones, Christopher Buckley |
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S S A Y S |
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27
/ The Commuter, Primo Ventello |
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37 / Hammock Variations, James Bogan |
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82
/ Three Hooks, first place, The Dorothy C. Cappon Award for the
Essay, Robyn Anspach |
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127 / Uncle Danny Comes to America, introduction to poet
Dan Turčll, Thomas E. Kennedy |
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153 / When Gladiolas Surprise the Nasturtiums, Mary Hower |
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161 / The Night Shift, Ben Fountain |
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210 / The Perils of Poetic Film Making, James Bogan |
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F
I C T I O N |
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21 / Haints at Noon, Marlin Barton |
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63 / Dirt Men, first place, The Alexander Cappon
Award for Fiction, Tim Johnston |
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187 / Layover, Matthew Pitt |
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N T E R V I E W |
| 112
/ The Split Life, conducted by Robert Stewart,
Victoria Chang |
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R
E V I E W S & A R T I C L E S |
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222
/ Alice Friman, "Aiming Straight," on the poetry of Ruth
Stone. |
| 226
/ H.L. Hix, "Stays Against Insularity," on
translations of Darwish, al-Massri and others.. |
| 233
/ Ed Minus, "Expressionist Jazz," on Coltrane and ben Ratliff's
jazz writing. |
| 237
/ Peter Wolfe, "Updike's Feminism." We'll need a
long time to take his measure. |
| 241
/ Catherine Browder, "Where Have All the Parents Gone?"
On the short fiction of Molly McNett. |
| 244
/ Toni M. Holland, "Spiritual Conversations," on new work
by Mary Oliver. |
| 246
/ Robert Stewart, Seven Notices. |
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A
R T W O R K |
| James
Bogan, photographs,
front cover,
pages 20, 36, 61, 76, 206, 207, 208, 209. |
| Martin
Desht, photographs, pages 10, 26, 200, 160, 171, 172, 182,
186. |
| John
Howard, photographs, pages 146, 148, 151, 152. |
| James
Proffitt, photographs of fishing shacks, pages 145, 147, 149,
150. |
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New Programs: New Letters on the Air |
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Celebrations: News from our Authors |
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Visitors' Log: The New Letters Guest Book |
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/ NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE |
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Honor Roll: The 2008 New Letters Literary Awards |
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Guidelines: The 2009 New Letters Literary Awards |
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New Letters Writing Conference |
