Volume 41, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Tria Giovan
Remedias Cuba
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Table of Contents
Stitches; Wake Up, Poetry by John Witte
Derek Walcott’s Omeros: Echoes from a White-throated Vase, Non-Fiction by Charles Lock
Beyond a Street Corner in Little Havana, Poetry by Virgil Suárez
London and Berlin, Fiction by Neal Durando
We All Glitter & Shine Here: Codependent No More, Poetry by Dana Roeser
Arthur Koestler’s Moral Logic and Duty to Know, Non-Fiction by Robert L. King
1937 Citröen, Poetry by Claire Malroux, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Commandments, Fiction by Rose Moss
To Warsaw, Poetry by Karen Kovacik
Table Bouquet, Poetry by Allison Eir Jenks
Vin La Forge, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey Heiman
I Like to See It Lap the Miles; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Poetry by Kenneth Rosen
The Maidservant, Now Married, Poetry by Tabish Khair
Eyewitness, Scribe and Storyteller: My Experience as a Novelist, Non-Fiction by Radwa Ashour
new age teeny bopper ho turns jetset; there were too few moments how many, Poetry by Steve Conway
The Forest and the Trees, Fiction by Juan Tovar, translated from the Spanish by Leland H. Chambers
Prelude in Puerto Rican, Poetry by Luis Palés Matos, translated from the Spanish by Roberto Márquez
Le Breun Speaks of King Tut, Poetry by Trent Busch
Arraignment, a memoir, Non-Fiction by Kathy Larson
Hunger Invited God to Seder, Poetry by Isaac Goldemberg, translated from the Spanish by J. Kates and Stephen A. Sadow
A Nineteenth-Century Church for the New Millennium: The Legacy of Pius IX and John Paul II, Non-Fiction by Bob Swacker and Brian Deimling
Crossing a Field of Bees After Being Recently Stung, Poetry by Charles Rafferty
Six Therapists Resting, Fiction by Harry H. Taylor
Thieving the Gorillas Child; The Death Song; The Last Autumn of Candice Hilligoss, Poetry by Michael Atkinson
Contributors
Radwa Ashour is Professor of English at Ain Shams University in Cairo. Her work includes three books of criticism, a collection of short stories, and five novels, the most recent of which, Atyaf (Shadows), was published in 1999.
Michael Atkinson‘s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1993, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, andMichigan Quarterly Review.
Trent Busch has placed poems in Poetry, The Hudson Review, and The American Scholar.
A former editor of Denver Quarterly, Leland H. Chambers has published scholarly articles on Gide, Cervantes, Henry Vaughan and Richard Crenshaw. His short story translations have appeared in many publications, including Manoa and Colorado Review.
Steve Conway‘s recent chapbooks include Poems To Wrap Your Lover In (a collaborative work with Jennifer Heims), Living Like Tomorrow Has Died, and Catastrophe.
Brian Deimling is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University.
Neal Durando lives in Chicago.
Editor of the bilingual literary journal Brújula/ Compass, Isaac Goldemberg is a novelist and poet whose books include Hombre de Paso and La Vida al Contado.
Marilyn Hacker‘s Selected Poems was awarded the Poets’ Prize in 1996; her new book, Squares and Courtyards, was published by Norton in January.
Jeffrey Heiman teaches English within the CUNY system; “Vin Laforge” is excerpted from a non-fiction book called East Hill.
Allison Eir Jenks‘s collection of poems, The Palace of Bones, is forth coming in Ireland from Salmon Press. She teaches at Lamar University in Texas.
J. Kates is a poet and translator. He recently edited an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry, In the Grip of Strange Thoughts.
Winner of the All-India Poetry Competition in 1997, Tabish Khair has two books forthcoming: Babu Fictions, a book of criticism, and Where Parallel Lines Meet, a collection of poems.
Robert L. King is a contributing editor in drama criticism at The North American Review and Professor of English at Elms College.
Karen Kovacik‘s first full-length book, Beyond the Velvet Curtain, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize in 1999.
Kathy Larson lives in Plantation, Florida. “Arraignment” is excerpted from her memoir Battery of the Soul, which has yet to find a publisher.
Charles Lock is Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen.
Claire Malroux is the author of six books of poems, most recently Soleil de Jadis. She is also a translator of English poetry, and was awarded the Grand Prix de la Traduction in 1995.
Roberto Márquez is the William R. Kenan Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College; he is currently completing a bilingual anthology of Puerto Rican poetry and its history.
Luis Palés Matos (1898-1959) was a major Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and essayist. “Prelude in Puerto Rican” was taken from his most well-known book, Tuntún de pasa y Grifería (1937).
Rose Moss was the winner of the MR Quill Prize for fiction in 1971. She is the author of two novels, The Family Reunion and The Schoolmaster.
Currently working on a doctorate in creative writing from the University of Utah, Dana Roeser‘s poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Mudfish.
Charles Rafferty‘s poems are forthcoming in the anthology American Poetry: The Next Generation.
Kenneth Rosen is the author of Shock Horse and No Snake, No Paradise. He teaches at the University of Southern Maine.
Stephen A. Sadow is a translator and Professor of Modern Languages at Northeastern University.
Virgil Suárez is the author of four books of poems: Spared Angola, You Come Singing, Garabato Poems, and In the Republic of Longing.
Bob Swacker teaches History at Pace University, and Education at NYU.
Harry H. Taylor lives in Chicago, where he is working on a novel about George Washington during the war years.
Juan Tovar‘s fiction includes Criatura de un Día, Memoria de Apariencias and Lo Que Tengas de Mí. His most recent play, The Crossroads, was written with U.S. writer Joe Martin, and staged in Washington, D.C., in both Spanish and English. He teaches dramatic theory and composition in Mexico City.
Editor of the Northwest Review, John Witte‘s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and APR.