Volume 38, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Richard Yarde
PRAYER, 1996
OPAQUE WATERCOLOR
80 X 29 INCHES
Table of Contents
An Education in the Eighties; In the Arboretum; Bottled Water, Poetry by Ruth Stone
The Ring, Fiction by Aimee Bender
To the Moon, Alice, Poetry by Bob Hicok
Ideograph; This Is Our World, Poetry by Pauline Uchmanowicz
Jakub’s World, Non-Fiction by Alicia Nitecki and Jack Terry
The Precipice, Poetry by Adrian Blevins
Witnessing Tragedy, Looking at Risk: Rolf Zimmerman Revisited, Non-Fiction by Peter Chametzky
November 21, 1995, Poetry by Gerard Malanga
Seven Telegrams to Miss Olive M. Richards, Poetry by Sandra McPherson
First Wives, Fiction by Franklin Fisher
Bread and Wine; Recess; Lucky’s Corvette, Poetry by D. Nurkse
Inheritance, Poetry by Lisa Sewell
American’s Pastime: How Ty Cobb Taught Me to Live with the Dead, Non-Fiction by Jeff Hammond
Garage Sale, Poetry by Brian Henry
When We Are Low We Go to the Pyramids, Poetry by Susan Conley
Angels in the Water, Fiction by Jan Meissner
Hurricane, Poetry by John Balaban
Wuthering Heights; Wuthering Heights 2, Poetry by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
Voices in the Dark, Non-Fiction by Alfred Goodale
Rising Up Together, Poetry by Robert King
My Mother in Her Retirement, Fiction by Amy Bordiuk
A Reading List, Non-Fiction by Adrienne Rich
Contributors
Director of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami, John Balaban has published ten books of poetry and prose, and has won several awards. His most recent collection, Locusts at the Edge of Summer, was nominated for a National Book Award.
Aimee Bender, currently working towards an M.F.A. at the Univ. of California in Irvine, has published work in Threepenny Review and Colorado Review.
Adrian Blevins‘ poems, stories, and essays have appeared in many journals including The New Delta Review, The Southern Poetry Review, and Utne Reader.
A software engineer, Amy Bordiuk supervises the copy-editing department of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Peter Chametzky is currently working with Susan Felleman on The Mind’s Eye: The Visual Culture of Surrealism for the “Perspectives” series (Calmann & King 8c Harry Abrams).
Susan Conley, Associate Editor at Ploughshares, teaches at Emerson College, and has published work in various quarterlies including Poetry East and Indiana Review.
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton have been writing collaboratively for the past eight years; their book, Exquisite Politics, was published in 1997 by Tia Chucha Press.
Franklin Fisher, Prof, of English at the Univ. of Utah, has published fiction in numerous journals as well as a novel, Bones, in 1991.
Alfred Goodale lives in Maine; previous work has appeared in The New Yorker.
Jeff Hammond, who has published books on Edward Taylor and other Puritan figures, is currently working on a survey of Puritan funeral elegies.
Brian Henry, who edits Verse, has had work published in numerous journals including Michigan Quarterly, Boston Review, and New American Writing.
Bob Hicok‘s newest collection, Plus Shipping, will appear in the Fall of 1998; other work is due out in Kenyon Review, Paris Review and Poetry.
Currently visiting professor at the Univ. of Nebraska, Robert King has published two collections and has had work in Nebraska Review and The Midwest Quarterly.
Poet and photographer Gerard Malanga is the author of several books of poetry; his books of photographs have recently appeared in Japan, and a third book, Gerard Malanga: Photographs 1964-98, will be published by Steidl Publishers.
Sandra McPherson, professor of English at Univ. of California, Davis, has published eight collections of poems; she was featured in The Language of Life with Bill Moyers.
Jan Meissner, whose fiction has appeared in Fiction, Story, Columbia, and The Quarterly, is working on a novel, Placedo Junction, from which the story in this issue is an excerpt.
Alicia Nitecki is working on a book with Dr. Jack Terry about his experiences in Flossenburg concentration camp; Ms. Nitecki is also translating with Haliva Nellen her Polish-language book, Diary of the Krakow Ghetto.
Work by D. Nurkse is forthcoming in The New Yorker and Poetry.
Lisa Sewell‘s first collection of poems, The Way Out, will be published this spring by Alice James Books.
Ruth Stone teaches at SUNY, Binghamton, NY; a new collection, Ordinary Words, will be published by Paris Press.
Pauline Uchmanowicz, who teaches English at SUNY, New Paltz, has published both poetry and criticism in various journals including Crazyhorse, Poetry Motel, and Literature & Psychology.
“Mojo Hand,” recent watercolors by Richard Yarde, one of which is reproduced on our cover, was given a show this past Fall at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives and works in Northampton.