Front Cover by Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo
Caballo de Madera, 1929
SILVER GELATIN PRINT
courtesy of Asociación Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo, Mexico City
Order a copy nowVolume 50, Issue 3
OUR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY celebration was an astounding success. The exhibitions were wildly well attended, every reading was superb, Eric Lorberer gave an inspirational talk that we include here, and the small press fair was buzzing all day and all night long. Many of us began planning for this big birthday five years ago! And now that it's over MR is in for a period of renewal and change
And so I write this introduction, the last of my eight and a half years as editor. My successor, Jim Hicks, who teaches in Comparative Literature at UMass and also at Smith College, where he is the director of the American Studies Diploma Program, will outline his plans in this space in a future issue.
In the introduction to the anniversary issue I thanked everything and everyone I could think of, so I won't do that again here. I should say, however, that from its very first issue MR always took great pride in its appearance, and by taking that pride a step farther my wife Pam Glaven, art editor and director, made all of us look even better than we really are.
Much of my eight years was spent dealing with money trouble of one kind or another, and my mantra eventually became "I am not going to be the last editor of this thing!" That much is accomplished. I'm glad.
David Lenson
for the editors
Entries
nonfiction
The New American Renaissance
By Eric Lorberer
poetry
Love Poem: hurt
By Joanne Dominique Dwyer
poetry
Enemy Infant
By Donald Morrill
poetry
The Sky Is Overcast as My Head
By Lesle Lewis
fiction
The Devil and the Rose
By Semezdin Mehmedinovic
fiction
The Book Thief
By Wendy Brandmark
fiction
Little Miss Might-Have-Been
By Stacia Saint Owens
poetry
Heart Hunted, Was Caught
By Frances Justine Post
poetry
Visiting the Temple Again
By George Singer
poetry
The day I got the news
By Cynthia Snow
fiction
The Rift
By Johnny Townsed
fiction
The Future of Delmar Guner
By Tess Wheelwright
nonfiction
President Barack Obama, The Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, and the African American Jeremiadic Tradition
By Bernard W. Bell
poetry
of Their Hideous Change
By Colin Cheny
poetry
From marco Polo's Footnotes on the Middle East
By Jenny Browne
fiction
Collision
By Timothy Maher
fiction
Hunger
By Paola Masino
fiction
Hammond Castle
By Elizabeth Searle
poetry
Raptus
By Joanna Klink
fiction
Merchants of Spice
By Adam Stumacher
fiction
Fortunes
By Sandip Mukherji
poetry
Douglass in London 1854 (ten minutes before addressing Female Anti-Slavery Society)
By Reginald Flood
poetry
Wild Desire
By Chris Forhan
nonfiction
Traffic of Our Stage: Beckett's Endgame
By Normand Berlin
poetry
Ten Ways to Put Together an Airplane
By Noah Eli Gordon
poetry
Noon
By Teddy Macker
poetry
Woman Looking Up into a Plum Tree
By Melanie McCabe
fiction
Strauss the Butcher
By Dennis McFadden
fiction
Office Supplies
By Laura Prah
poetry
Crossing
By Joseph Capista
poetry
Like a Bavarian Café in a Mall in Jakarta
By Erik Campbell
fiction
Glitter Gulch
By David Philip Mullins
art
Photographs
By Manuel Alvarez Bravo
fiction
The Devil and the Rose
By Semezdin Mehmedinovic
translation
The Devil and the Rose
Jim Hicks
Table of Contents
The New American Renaissance,
an essay by Eric Lorberer
Love Poem: hurt,
a poem by Joanne Dominique Dwyer
Enemy Infant, a poem by Donald Morrill
The Sky Is Overcast as My Head,
a poem by Lesle Lewis
The Devil and the Rose,
a story by Semezdin Mehmedinović,
translated by Jim Hicks
The Book Thief, a story by Wendy Brandmark
Little Miss Might-Have-Been,
a story by Stacia Saint Owens
Heart Hunted, Was Caught,
a poem by Frances Justine Post
Visiting the Temple Again,
a poem by George Singer
The day I got the news, a poem by Cynthia Snow
The Rift, a story by Johnny Townsend
The Future of Delmar Güner,
a story by Tess Wheelwright
President Barack Obama, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah
Wright, and the African American Jeremiadic Tradition,
an essay by Bernard W. Bell
Of Their Hideous Change, a poem by Colin Cheney
From Marco Polo's Footnotes on the Middle East,
a poem by Jenny Browne
Collision, a story by Timothy Maher
Hunger, a story by Paola Masino, translated by Louise Rozier
Photographs, by Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo
Hammond Castle, a story by Elizabeth Searle
Raptus, a poem by Joanna Klink
Merchants of Spice, a story by Adam Stumacher
Fortunes, a story by Sandip Mukherji
Douglass in London 1854 (ten minutes before addressing
Female Anti-Slavery Society), a poem by Reginald Flood
Wild Desire, a poem by Chris Forhan
Traffic of Our Stage: Beckett's Endgame,
an essay by Normand Berlin
Ten Ways to Put Together an Airplane,
a poem by Noah Eli Gordon
Noon, a poem by Teddy Macker
Woman Looking Up into a Plum Tree,
a poem by Melanie McCabe
Strauss the Butcher, a story by Dennis McFadden
Office Supplies, a story by Laura Prah
Crossing, a poem by Joseph Capista
Like a Bavarian Café in a Mall in Jakarta,
a poem by Erik Campbell
Glitter Gulch, a story by David Philip Mullins
