Vol. 74 no. 4
Summer 2008
EDITOR’S NOTE
Take This Seriously, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Black Step, Daniel Woodrell
In Africa, Edward Hoagland
Mixed Breeding, Scott Solomon
Honesty, Ellen Wilbur
Yesterday, Ellen Wilbur
ESSAY
Why I Write Now, Kelly Cherry
Authority, Kelly Cherry
How to Succeed in Po Biz, Kim Addonizio
POETRY
Flying With Father, Rawdon Tomlinson
Two Poems, Rika Lesser
Two Poems, Nancy White some other god, Michael Joyce
Shelley at Lerici, Ann Snodgrass
Thin Places, Patricia Clark
Forward to The Inferno, I-V, translated by Mary Jo Bang, Robert Stewart
The Inferno of Dante Aligheieri, Cantos I-V, translated by Mary Jo Bang
Nine Poems, Willis Barnstone
Four Poems, Albert Goldbarth
As Autumn Goes, Bill Ellison
Two Poems, Leon Stokesbury
Diary of a Sentence, Leslie Adrienne Miller
INTERVIEW
Writing Urban Renewals, an interview with Major Jackson, conducted by Robert Stewart
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Love, Violence & Masculinity, on the poetry of Benjamin Percy, Sharon McGill
Loveliest Grotesque, on the poetry of Sandra Lim, Kristina Marie Darling
A Little Light: Mary Jo Bang and the State of the Elegy, Hadara Bar-Nadav
ARTWORK
Photographs by Deanna Dikeman and Gloria Baker Feinstein
Ink drawings by Willis Barnstone