Volume 29, Issue 2
Table of Contents
Early September, Poetry by Roger Mitchell
Letter; Letter to Karma, Poetry by Nell Altizer
Revelations: Rosa Bonheur, Poetry by Geraldine C. Little
Blackbottom: 1945; The Struggle; At an Artist’s Colony, Non-Fiction by Toi Derricotte
Literary Wetback, Non-Fiction by Alicia Gaspar De Alba
The Life and Poetry of Abbie Huston Evans, Non-Fiction by Carl Little
Bus Ride; War Photograph, Poetry by Kate Daniels
Press Conference, Poetry by Judith E. Johnson
Two Brothers Renovate the Farmhouse; Stone Wall About to Fall, Poetry by Tony Lintermans
Depth of Field, Fiction by Randeane Tetu
Winter Ballet, Poetry by Robin Mary Boswell
Bringing It All Down: The 1986 World Cup in Brazil, Non-Fiction by Terry Caesar
Paris and Palo Alto, Poetry by Donna Trussell
Caliban in the ‘Third World’: Shakespeare’s Savage as Sociopolitical Symbol, Non-Fiction by Alden T. Vaughan
The Great Escape (From the Sink); Marriage Bed, Poetry by Athina Papadaki, Translated by Thalia Pandiri
Desertion; Factions; Civil War, Poetry by D. Nurkse
Fioretta, Fiction by Arturo Vivante
Amnestic; Paranerdicks, Poetry by Emmon Bach
Poets in Their Youth, Poetry by Ron Overton
Witness: Catching Up, a Time in Jail, Non-Fiction by William J. Hughes
After a Year, Some Words for You; At My Daughter’s School, Poetry by Robert McNamara
Michael, Fiction by Steve Barthelme
An Object Falling From Outer Space; All Six of Us Suspended Above Blue Seats, Poetry by Carol Potter
Henry Adams’ Jamesian Education, Non-Fiction by George Monteiro
Contributors
NELL ALTIZER, who teaches at the University of Hawaii, has published poems in various magazines as well as a collection, The Widown Suite.
EMMON BACH publishes essays on linguistics as well as poetry.
While teaching at N.E. Louisiana University, STEVE BARTHELME is preparing a story collection.
ROBIN MARY BOSWELL has published poetry in several magazines and is working on a collection, The Rotting of the Playhouse.
TERRY CAESAR is a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Federal University, Rio de Janeiro.
KATE DANIELS, co-editor of Poetry East, will publish a literary biography of Muriel Rukeyser this year with Random House.
Beggar on the Cordoba Bridge, ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA‘s first collection of poems, will be published in the autumn by Bilingual Press.
A recipient of an NEA Creative Writing fellowship, TOI DERRICOTTE has published poems in a number of magazines and anthologies.
WILLIAM J. HUGHES has published poems and fiction in both sports and poetry journals, and is working on his third novel.
JUDITH E. JOHNSON, who has published five collections of poetry and one of fiction, has received a number of awards including an NEA Poetry fellowship.
TONY LINTERMANS is an Australian poet.
CARL LITTLE, associate editor of Art in America, has published essays, reviews and poems in Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Hudson Review and other literary magazines.
Currently Vice President of The Poetry Society of America, GERALDINE C. LITTLE will publish a book-length poem, From Brown Cedar Water, this year.
ROBERT MCNAMARA, whose poems have appeared in various journals, has held an NEA Creative Writing fellowship this past year.
ROGER MITCHELL has published one collection of poems and expects a second one, Adirondack, to appear later this year.
A professor of English at Brown University, GEORGE MONTEIRO has published a book on Henry James and John Hay and co-edited the letters of John Hay and William Dean Howells.
Recently returned from a Quaker-sponsored trip to El Salvador and Nicaragua, D. NURKSE has published two collections of poetry and received a fellowship in poetry from the NEA.
RON OVERTON‘s most recent poetry collection, Love on the Alexander Hamilton, appeared in 1985.
A collection of ATHINA PAPADAKI‘s poems, Holy Ewe Lamb, Madonna of the Pressure Cooker, has been translated by THALIA PANDIRI. Ms. Pandiri, who teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at Smith College, has published critical articles on modern Greek poetry and ancient Greek romances.
CAROL POTTER‘s poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Sojourner and a number of other journals and anthologies.
RANDEANE TETU has just completed her second collection of short stories, Sixteen Miles Either Way.
DONNA TRUSSELL, editor of a music magazine in Kansas City, has published both fiction and poetry in various collections and anthologies.
A professor of history at Columbia University, ALDEN T. VAUGHAN has written or edited a number of books on early American history.
ARTURO VIVANTE, who teaches at Bennington College, publishes fiction regularly in The New Yorker.