Winter 2006
New Series · Volume XXVIII Number 1

contents

WRITInG IN CODE: LITERATURE AND THE GENOME

• Myles Axton • Midwife to the Wiring Diagram
• Beth Bachmann • Roots; Gene Mapping; Working at the Genetic Testing Center
• Ellen Bass • When the Young Geneticist Was Asked...
• Bruce Beasley • Genomic Vanitas & Memento Vivi
• Nicky Beer • Ouroboros
• Clare Dunsford • Base Pairs
• Robin Ekiss • Genealogy
• Albert Goldbarth • Whale and Bee; Voyage
• Margot Greenlee • It All Happens in Water
• Anna George Meek • Father Gregor Mendel Reflects on Authorial Intent
• Leslie Adrienne Miller • Aim; Wandering Uterus
• Erling Norrby • From Loneliness to Ubiquitousness
• D Nurkse • Adamah
• Chad Parmenter • A Tech's Ode to the Genome Computer
• Linda Pastan • Alphabet Song
• C. R. Resetarits • The Genomic Tropes of Dickinson's The Veins of Other Flowers
• Eve Stockton • Genomic Images
• Judith Strasser • Memories Are Made of This

the patricia grodd poetry prize for young writers

• David Baker • (Commentary) On the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
• Emma Hansen • Good Morning America
• Sarah Winsberg • Evolution
• Amrita Khalid • Apology for the Death of Your Father

FICTION

• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • Come Day, Go Day
• Sheri Joseph • Radiant Health

Nonfiction

• Ruth Maxey • An Interview with Meena Alexander
• Ian McEwan • Ian McEwan & Antony Gormley: A Conversation about Art and Nature
• John Rodden • Fellow Contrarians? Christopher Hitchens and George Orwell
  

Poetry

• Meena Alexander • Torn Grass
• Sarah Arvio • Park of the Doria Pamphilj; Starlings
• John Koethe • The Unlasting