2024 — Vol. 31, No. 1. Our 30th Anniversary Issue! WITH NEW AND ARCHIVED POETRY BY Ai, Sherman Alexie, A. R. Ammons, Sam Barbee, Marvin Bell, Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Bruce Bond, Gaylord Brewer, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Hayden Carruth, Catherine Carter, Kelly Cherry, Lucille Clifton, Horace Coleman, Billy Collins, Alfred Corn, Jim Daniels, Cornelius Eady, Menna Elfyn, Claudia Emerson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Peter Finch, Vievee Francis, Rachel Hadas, Joy Harjo, Michael Harper, Stephen Haven, Ernest Hilbert, David Brendan Hopes, Colette Inez, Richard Jackson, Marilyn Kallet, Bob Kaufman, David Kirby, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Daniel Lawless, Antonio Machado, Al Maginnes, Amit Majmudar, Sebastian Matthews, Philip Memmer, Gabriela Mistral, Mary B. Moore, Robert Morgan, Lisa Morphew, Pablo Neruda, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Frank Paino, Kenneth Patchen, Tim Peeler, Benjamin Peret, Carl Phillips, Ron Rash, Donald Revell, Adrian Rice, Matthew Rice, William Pitt Root, George Scarbrough, Patricia Smith, R.T. Smith, Katherine Soniat, Jack Spicer, A. E. Stallings, Frank Stanford, Gerald Stern, R. S. Thomas, Quincy Troupe, Susan O’Dell Underwood, Pamela Uschuk, Jeanne Wagner, David Wagoner, Brit Washburn, Robert West, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and many others. SPECIAL FEATURES BY Patrick Bizzaro and Alana Dagenhart on “Fred Chappell, Writer-Teacher and Aesthete: A Way Post-Confessional Poetry Happened in Greensboro”. Robert West reviews “New Books By Fred Chappell and Ted Kooser”. Bruce Spang’s essay on “W. H. Auden’s Change of Mind: Poets Speak Out, Your Voice is Important”. Keith Flynn’s overview of “Gwendolyn Brooks: Blues Deluxe”. Suzanne Cleary’s essay on “The Great Tenderness: A Review of David Kirby’s The Winter Dance Party: Poems 1983-2023. J. W. Bonner reviews The Love Poems of Catullus, and Lana K. W. Austin interviews R. T. Smith. THE 2024 WILLIAM MATTHEWS POETRY PRIZE WINNERS, Judged by David Kirby: First Place: Mary Makofske, “Sex, That Peacock”, Second Place: Paul Alexander, “Only In Darkness Can You See The Stars”, Third Place: Craig Van Rooyen, “Daylight Savings Time,” and REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Carol Moldaw, Michael Hettich, Terry Kirby Erickson, Jessica Jacobs, Aakriti Kuntal, and Scott Starbuck.