Summer/Fall 1997
New Series · Volume XIX Number 3/4

Contents · Contributors · Editor's Notes & Cover Art

contributors
  DAVID BAKER's recent books are Meter in English: A Critical Engage¬ment (1996) and The Mimosa (poems, forthcoming in 1998). Other work is forthcoming in Gettysburg Review and Poetry.
  ANDRE BETEILLE teaches sociology at the University of Delhi. His publications include Caste, Class and Power, Inequality among Men, and Essays in Comparative Sociology.
  ELIZABETH BELL is a San Francisco writer, and translator of French and Spanish. Her translations have appeared in Fiction and Two Lines, among other periodicals, and in Light from a Nearby Window: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (City Lights, 1994). She has also translated numerous French bandes dessinees, including Max Cabanes's award-winning Colin-Maillard (Heartthrobs, Catalan, 1991).
  CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY's eighth book of poems, Camino Cielo, was published this year by Orchises Press. Recent poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, APR, Crazyhorse, and Cimarron Review. He is the editor of On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing (University of Michigan Press, 1991) and, with Christopher Merrill, What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry (Peregrine, 1995).
  JOAN CONNOR teaches fiction writing at Ohio University and is Chelsea Magazine assistant editor for fiction. She has received fellowships from VCCA, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony and recently won first prize in The Ohio Writer competition in fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Athens, Ohio, and Belmont, Vermont, with her son, Kerry.
PETER COOLEY lives in New Orleans and teaches at Tulane University. His five books of poetry include The Company of Strangers, The Room Where Summer Ends, and, most recently, The Astonished Hours. Carnegie Mellon will release his new book, Sacred Conversations, in 1998.
ROBERT DANA was distinguished visiting writer at Stockholm University last spring and was awarded a Pushcart XXI prize for poetry for work in the Winter 1996 issue of The Kenyon Review. His most recent book is Hello, Stranger (Anhinga, 1996), a collection of beach poems.
  GREG DELANTY's most recent book of poems is American Wake (Dufour, 1995). He also edited Jumping Off Shadows: Selected Contemporary Irish Poets (Cork University Press, 1995). In 1996 he received a Wolfer O'Neill literature grant and the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry Award. His forthcoming book is The Hellbox. He teaches at St. Michael's College in Vermont.
  LINH DINH's translations have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Manoa, and xconnect and are forthcoming in The American Poetry and Viet Nam Forum. He is editor and cotranslator of the anthology Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Story). His original English and Vietnamese poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, and he has received a Pew Fellowship in poetry.
  KATHY FAGAN, author of the National Poetry Series selection The Raft, is coeditor of The Journal. Other new work is soon to appear in the New Republic and Denver Quarterly.
CAROL FROST is author of Venus and Don Juan (1996) and Pure (1994) from TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press. She has received two NEA grants and has won two Pushcart prizes. She teaches at Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York.
ALBERT GOLDBARTH lives in Wichita, Kansas. His new collection, Adventures in Ancient Egypt, is available from Ohio State University Press. He is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Heaven and Earth.
  JORIE GRAHAM is the author of five volumes of poetry as well as a selected poem, "The Dream of the Unified Field," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Her new collection, The Errancy, is due from Ecco.
RACHEL HADAS teaches English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. Her twelfth book, forthcoming from Wesleyan, is Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems.
KIMIKO HAHN's latest poetry collection, The Unbearable Heart (Kaya), has received an American Book Award, and her work appears in The Best American Poetry of 1996.
  JOSEPH HARRISON's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Paris Review; and elsewhere. He teaches at Goucher College and in the Johns Hopkins part-time graduate writing program in Washington.
LAURA KASISCHKE is the author of two books of poetry, Wild Brides (NYU, 1992) and Housekeeping in a Dream (Carnegie Mellon, 1995), and a novel, Suspicious River (Houghton, 1996). Her second novel, White Bird in a Blizzard, will be published in 1998.
  BOB KAVEN lives with Elaine, his wife, in Melrose, Massachusetts. He is looking for a publisher for Untitled Enterprise, his first collection of poems, and has three poems forthcoming in Ambit (United Kingdom), his first foreign publication.
  ARLENE KEIZER is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her scholarly work investigates contemporary African-American and Caribbean literature. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly and other journals.
  TONY KUSHNER's plays have earned a Pulitzer Prize, Obie, two Tonys, New York and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards and other honors. They have been produced on Broadway, London and elsewhere. His 1995 Obie-winning Slavs! is being published this fall in the collection Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. Kushner was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and lives in New York City.
  LAURIE KUTCHINS has published poetry in the Georgia Review, New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, Southern Review, and other places. Her second book, The Night Path, is forthcoming from BOA Editions this fall and is the recipient of the inaugural Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.
  LANCE LARSEN is poetry editor of Literature and Belief. His poems
have appeared in Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Boulevard, and elsewhere and are forthcoming in Paris Review and Salmagundi. His book-length poetry manuscript, Erosible Walls, is a 1997 finalist for the Walt Whitman Prize and the National Poetry Series.
  DORIANNE LAUX's What We Carry (BOA Editions) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon.
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN's latest book of poems, Compass of the Dying, is forthcoming next spring from University of Arkansas Press. His two most recently published books are Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue (Arkansas, 1996) and Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets (Missouri, 1995).
  TIMOTHY LIU's new book of poems, Say Goodnight, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 1998. He lives in Iowa.
  JAMES McCORKLE's poems and essays have recently appeared in Boulevard, The Journal, Manoa, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, and Verse as well as The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (Alabama, 1995).
LYNNE McMAHON's books include Faith (Wesleyan) and Devolution of the Nude (Godine). She recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her third book of poems.
  DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ, born in Cuba, is the author of Bad Alchemy (Norton, 1995) and History as a Second Language (Ohio State, 1993). He has received a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship.
  JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author most recently of the novel We Were the Mulvaneys. A past recipient of the National Book Award, she is professor of humanities at Princeton. Her essay in this issue will be included, in a slightly different form, in Into the Mirror; An Anthology of Women on Fairy Tales, forthcoming in 1998 from Anchor Books.
STEVE ORLEN teaches at the University of Arizona and in the low-residency M. F. A. program at Warren Wilson College. His book Kisses will be published by Miami (Ohio) University Press this fall.
  M. E. CABALLERO-ROBB is working on a Ph.D. in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work appears in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino-American Poetry.
LIZ ROSENBERG's most recent publications are Children of Paradise (University of Pittsburgh Poetry Series, 1994), Heart & Soul, a novel (Harcourt, 1996), and The Invisible Ladder, an anthology of contemporary American poets and poems for young readers (Holt, 1996). She teaches at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
MARK RUDMAN's recent books, all published by Wesleyan, include Rider, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994, Realm of Unknowing (essays, 1995), and The Millennium Hotel (1996), which was chosen by the Village Voice Literary Supplement as one of the twenty-five best books of the year. Currently on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is completing Provoked in Venice.
DAVID ST. JOHN's most recent collection of poems, Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins) was nominated for the 1994 National Book Award in Poetry. His Where the Angels Come toward Us: Selected Essays, Reviews, & Interviews appeared from White Pine Press in 1995.
  HERBERT SCOTT teaches at Western Michigan University where he edits the New Issues Press Poetry Series. Recent poems of his have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry East.
  LAURIE SHECK's most recent book of poems is The Willow Grove (Knopf, 1996). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and currently teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University.
  WILLARD SPIEGELMAN teaches English at Southern Methodist University and is editor of Southern Review. His latest book is Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art (Oxford). He is finishing a book of essays on contemporary American poetry.
  ELIZABETH SPIRES, a Whiting Fellow, teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore. Her most recent book of poems is Worldling (Norton, 1995). The Mouse of Amherst, a book for children, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. She is editor of The Instant of Knowing, a book of Josephine Jacobsen's occasional prose, forthcoming from Michigan.
  RICHARD TILLINGHAST's sixth book of poetry, new and selected, Today in the Cafe Trieste, has recently been published in Ireland by Salmon. He has recently published in the United States The Stonecutter's Hand (Godine) and Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur (Michigan).
  CHASE TWITCHELL's most recent book is The Ghost of Eden (Ontario
Review Press, 1995). Her new manuscript, The Snow Watcher, won the 1997 Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. She teaches at Princeton.
  ELMO VALENCIA, born in Cali, Colombia, in 1930, was a founding member, along with "other dangerous madmen," of the literary/philosophical movement Nadaismo. His latest novel is Islanada (Bogota, 1996).
  BRUCE WEIGL's most recent books, from Northwestern University Press, are Sweet Lorian (poems) and Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry. Forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic are Wrestling Sharon: A Memoir and New and Selected Poems. His works in this issue are from After the Others, a book of poems in progress.
ROBERT WRIGLEY's most recent book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. A 1996-97 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives with his wife and children in Idaho.

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