Volume 42, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Chester J. Michalik
HIROSHIMA, 1995
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
The Play of Uncertain Ideas, by Robert L. King
Down in the Lab, a poem by Tom Russell
The Travelers, a story by Kathryn Rhett
The Year I Found Myself Under Two Blue Moons, a poem by Colleen J. McElroy
The Salad Diet, Phoca The Waiter and Thrill Of A Good Ride, stories by Susan Johnson
Sierra Leone, a poem by Teresa M. Pfeifer
Heart Rhythms, by Spencer Nadler
Meaning to Eat, by Antonio José Ponte, translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer
Encyclopedia of Ethers, a poem by Tony Hoagland
The Story of My Travels, a story by M.B. O’Connor
Charles Johnson’s “Exchange Value”: Signifyin(g) on Marx, by Linda Furgerson Selzer
Miss Sally’s Wisdom, a poem by Shara McCallum
Naked, Naked Sisters, a poem by Mary Winters
Light, a story by Nicholas Montemarano
Tea Leaves, a poem by Ethan Gilsdorf
Lilly and Hanka, a story by Amy Bordiuk
Before, a poem by Edith Aronowitz Mueller
Guitars, by Debra Anne Davis
House Built on a Hairpin Curve, a poem by Sunshine Glenston
Contributors
Amy Bordiuk was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her stories have appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review and The Florida Review.
Debra Anne Davis received her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Other essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction.
Ethan Gilsdorf lives in Paris. His poems have appeared in Hawai’i Review, Crazyhorse, and Southern Poetry Review.
Sunshine Glenstone has recent poems in Crazyhorse and The Ohio Review.
Tony Hoagland teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent book is Donkey Gospel (Graywolf Press, 1998).
Susan Johnson received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Poetry Northwest, and Quarterly West.
Robert L. King teaches at Elms College. He is a contributing editor to North American Review.
Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica and teaches at the University of Memphis, and the author of The Water Between Us.
Colleen J. McElroy teaches at the University of Washington. She is editor-in-chief of The Seattle Review. Recent publications include A Long Way From St. Louis (travel memoirs), Driving Under the Cardboard Pines (fiction), and Travelling Music (poems).
Nicholas Montemarano received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His novel A Fine Place is forthcoming from Context Books in 2002.
Edith Aronowitz Mueller teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Kalliope, Boston Phoenix, and Sojourner.
Spencer Nadler, a Southern California physician, has had essays published recently in The Missouri Review and Harper’s. His book, The Language of Cells, is forthcoming from Random House in August, 2001.
M.B. O’Connor teaches at Ithaca College. Her work has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly and Nimrod.
Teresa M. Pfeifer is a 1998 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and a frequent contributor to MR.
Antonio José Ponte lives in Havana, Cuba. He is the author of a collection of essays, Las comidas profundas (Meaning to Eat), from which this selection was taken, and a book of short stories, In the Cold of the Malecón (City Lights, 2000).
Kathryn Rhett teaches at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Near Breathing, a memoir (Duquesne University Press).
Tom Russell edits the journal River City. His work has appeared recently in The Northwest Review, The North American Review, and Quarter After Eight.
Mark Schafer is a translator and visual artist living in Boston. He is currently translating La escala de los mapas (The Scale of Maps), a novel by the Spanish writer Belén Gopegui, and Migraciones (Migrations) by the Mexican poet Gloria Gervitz.
Linda Furgerson Selzer is the author of articles on Clarence Major, Alice Walker, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others. Currently she is working on a study of the fiction of Charles Johnson.
Mary Winters is currently studying to be come a reading specialist at Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Quarterly West, Seattle Review, and Seneca Review.