![]() No. 61 (2007) Featuring poetry and prose by Ray Amorosi, Blake Butler, John Hodgen, Kathleen Flenniken, Diana Joseph, Adrianne Harun, and Jim Daniels, among others. Interview subjects include Marvin Bell and Stuart Dybek, who discusses the tyranny of chronology, and his interest in "all categories of the fantastical." |
![]() No. 60 (2007) Featuring poetry and prose by Thomas Lux, Mark Halliday, Marvin Bell, Aurelie Sheehan, Kim Chinquee, and Cara Blue Adams, among others. Interview subjects include Robert Wrigley and Aimee Bender, who speaks on her affinity for magical realism, as well as the conventional realism she uses in her recently released first novel. |
![]() No. 59 (2006) Featuring poetry and prose by Robert Bly, Dean Young, Alberto Rios, Russell Edson, D. Nurkse, and David Shields, among others. Interview subjects include Charles D'Ambrosio and Yusef Komunyakaa, who speaks on the intersection of music and poetry. |
![]() No. 58 (2006) Featuring poetry and prose by Sherman Alexie, Lucia Perillo, Robert Wrigley, Robert Lopez, Jess Walter, and Joseph Millar, among others. Interview subjects include Beckian Fritz Goldberg and Marilynne Robinson, who speaks on economics, politics, contemporary culture, and human ethics. |
![]() No. 57 (2005) Featuring poetry and prose by Mitch Roberson, Paul Guest, Drew Perry, Robyn Anspach, Ronald F. Currie Jr. and Katherine Soniat, among others. Interview subjects include Louis B. Jones and Robert Bly, who speaks on foreign writers, contemporary culture, and human morality. |
![]() No. 56 (2005) Featuring poetry and prose by David Lee, Jim Daniels, Stacy Richter, Michael Van Walleghen, Beth Cooley, and Kirsten Sundberg Lundstrum, among others. Interview subjects include Lawrence Sutin and Gerald Stern, who holds forth on ignored international poetry, Ezra Pound, Confucious, and formal education for writers. |
![]() No. 55 (2004) Featuring poetry and prose by Laurie Lamon, Louis Jenkins, Michael Heffernan, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Imad Rahman, and Robert Lopez. Also inside, an interview with Lan Samantha Chang who not only talks about her writing process, but also about novel construction. |
![]() No. 54 (2004) Featuring poetry and prose by Robert Wrigley, William Olsen, Melissa Kawsny, James Grabill, and Jesse Murphy, among others. Also included is an interview with Melanie Rae Thon. |
![]() No. 53 (2003) Featuring the Robert Gregory Chapbook, When It's Your Turn to Be The Sky, along with poems by Jesse Lee Kerchevaland new translations of Paul Valery and Georges Godeau. Fiction by Alex Mindt and Thomas Gough is also included alongside the winners of the AWP Intro Award. In this issue's interview, Rick Bass reflects on partisan politics, author inention, and emotional truth in fiction. |
![]() No. 52 (2003) Featuring poetry by Thomas Lux and a piece from A. J. Rathbun, alongside a story by Robert Olmstead. In an interview, Phillip Lopate, whose collections of nonfiction include Bachelorhood and Against Joi de Vivre, discusses the current state of literary nonfiction and the personal narrative. |
![]() No. 51 (2002) Featuring poems from DC Berry, James Grabill and Leslie Adrienne Miller, as well as stories by Wendel Mayo and Michael Hollister. Darren Defrain's nonfiction essay, “Evangelical Rubric,” is also included. This issue also contains work by AWP Intro Award winners Erikka Mueller, Karen Hausdoerfer, Mathias Vcalina, and Rachel Stockert. |
![]() No. 50 (2002) Featuring poems from Beckian Fritz Goldberg, David Lee, and Michael Heffernan. Greg Pape, winner of the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award is also featured. Stories by Kim Silveira Wolterbeek and Tom Crawford are included alongside George Garret Fiction Award winner Jody Azzouni, and a new translation by Carlos Reyes from Byron Rodriguez' Bestiary of Ashes. |
![]() No. 49 (2001) Featuring poetry and prose by Gerard Malanga, Kevin Prufer, Elisabeth Murawski, and William Ryan, among others. In addition, this issue includes translations of poetry by Osip Mandelstam, fiction by Doris Dorrie, and work from AWP Intro Award-Winners. |
![]() No. 48 (2001) Featuring poetry and prose by Mark Halliday, Lex Runciman, Tom Crawford, Paisley Rekdal, and Page Hodgen, among others. In addition, this issue features work by the winners of the George Garrett Fiction Award and Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award. |
![]() No. 47 (2000) Featuring poetry and prose by David Dodd Lee, Robert Gregory, Lee Upton, Paisley Rekdal, and Lou Bendrick, among others. Also included in this issue are translations of poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, and nonfiction from Naton Leslie and Tod Marshall. |
![]() No. 46 (2000) Featuring poetry and prose by David Dodd Lee, Robert Gregory, Lee Upton, Paisley Rekdal, and Lou Bendrick, among others. Also included in this issue are translations of poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, and nonfiction from Naton Leslie and Tod Marshall. |
![]() No. 45 (1999) Featuring poetry and prose by Rick Bursky, Michael Heffernan, Ann Joslin Williams, and Athena O. Kildegaard, among others, as well as a translation by Carlos Reyes and a review by Lex Runciman. Also includes AWP Intro Award Winners. |
![]() No. 44 (1999) Featuring poetry and prose by Patricia Goedicke, Paisley Rekdal, Joseph Millar, and E.W. Beals, among others, as well as a translation by Sonja Kravanja and a review by Matthew Spaur. |
![]() No. 43 (1998) Featuring poetry and prose by Vern Rutsala, Wendy Counsil, Peter Pereira, Louis Jenkins, and Molly Tenenbaum, among others, as well as a review by Carol Sklenicka, and AWP Intro Award Winners. |





















