FALL, 2021
Fiction
Caroline Kim: A Hair
Caroline Kim: Self Defense
Interview
Ryan Wilson: “Singing a New Song”: A Conversation with Rock-n-Roll Hall-of-Famer, DION
Meringoff Prize Winners
Poetry
Brian Brodeur: Corn Poppets
Brian Brodeur: Barcode Ode
Brian Brodeur: Space Junk
Fiction
Anca Nemoianu: Truffles and Grapes
Non-Fiction
Oliver Spivey: “The Secret Rhythm of Chance”: The Nabokovian Vision of Tragedy in Pale Fire
A Garland for Willis Barnstone
Aliki Barnstone: Willis Barnstone’s The Secret Reader: A Tour de Force Kept Secret Too Long
Robert Barnstone: Narrative Forest
Robert Barnstone: Narrative Interventions
Tony Barnstone: My Father, Lighthouse Keeper and Priest of the Holy Typewriter
Tony Barnstone: My Father Dancing
Willis Barnstone: Animals Begin on the Porch in Days and Nights of Dark War
Willis Barnstone: Paintings of Poets and Magic Couplets
Willis Barnstone: Three Translations from Charles Baudelaire
Geoffrey Brock: The Secret Reader
Lois Connor: Photographs of Willis Barnstone & Sarah Handler
Maxine Hong Kingston: Dear Diary, dear Willis
Yusef Komunyakaa: On Willis Barnstone
Stanley Moss: Celebration for Willis
Sholeh Wolpé: ABC of Willis Barnstone
Interview
Maurya Simon: Time Sits High on a Throne of Calcium: An Interview with Robert Mezey (pt. 1)
Criticism
Michael Autrey: The Novel Is All That Is the Case
Brian Brodeur: Bidart’s Silences
Dwight Lindley: Light and Darkness in Dickens
Julia Mueller: George R. Stewart Balancing the Scales
Nick Norwood: On Poetry’s Pure Serene
Daniel Tobin: The Gravities of Heaven
Joshua Williams: Pain Management: A Review of John Foy’s No One Leaves the World Unhurt
Poems
Derrick Austin: Pierrot’s Face
John Wall Barger: Trained Bears
John Wall Barger: I Saw Two Beat Poets at an Elks Club with a Girl in My English Class
Lory Bedikian: Syllabics for My Mother
James Brookes: Silvius Bonus, Jobbing Psephologist
James Brookes: Silvius Bonus, Accidental Edgelord
Rachel Hadas: Harvest and Tide
Rachel Hadas: The Labyrinth, the Septic Tank
Jonathan Locke Hart: Ode in Hunan
Samuel Hazo: No Option But One
Ernest Hilbert: Mineral Springs Trail
Ashley Sojin Kim: Whitman in the Ward at Chatham
Richard Newman: Your Mother Sleeping, I Hold You Up to the Dawn
Jane Satterfield: Discarded Books at Flood Tide
Alexis Sears: For My Father: A Sonnet Redoublé
Robert B. Shaw: Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man
Felicity Sheehy: Great Blue Heron
D. S. Waldman: Lightly a God, If He Wished
Translations
John Poch: Connecticut (from the Italian of Pietro Federico)
John Poch: Kentucky (from the Italian of Pietro Federico)
Mary Jo Salter: Anton Van Dyck (from the French of Marcel Proust)
Mary Jo Salter: Chopin (from the French of Marcel Proust)
Mary Jo Salter: For Madeleine Lemaire (from the French of Marcel Proust)
HOT ROCKS FEATURE
I.
Stephen Cushman: Granny Was an Angelfish
Stephen Cushman: Three Sisters, Los Angeles
Stephen Cushman: Pavilion for Washing Away Thoughts
Stephen Cushman: Spitting Distance
Stephen Cushman: Dealey Plaza, November Again
II.
Victor Strandberg: Robert Penn Warren and Democracy
Clare Byrne: A New Deal for All the King’s Men
Gordon Van Ness: James Dickey, Existentialism, and “The thousand variations of one song”
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