Issue 18

2008 — Vol. 15, No. 1. This issue contains new poetry by 40 poets including John Allman, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Hayden Carruth, Rene Char, Jean Esteve, Richard Jackson, Ana Minga, Simon Perchik, Carl Phillips, Umberto Piersanti, Patricia Smith, A. E. Stallings, John Wood, and others. There is also a Special Tribute to Jonathan Williams, including a selection of his poetry, essays and letters, an interview with Carl Phillips, a condensation of thirty years worth of interviews with William Matthews, a new essay on The Imagination as a Redemptive Force by Keith Flynn, and reviews of new books by Coral Bracho, Lynnell Edwards, Linda Parsons Marion, Philip Lamantia, Gary Copeland Lilley, Catherine Carter, Christine Rhein, Sam Taylor, and many more.

• At His Last Gig
• The Imagination As A Redemptive Force
• The Life Abroad
• Comparisons
• Edward Hopper’s “Room in NewYork”
• Black Depths
• Someone Calls You
• Searcher
• With Feeling
• Frequency
• The Oriole
• Courbet:The Stone Breakers
• Mario Marconi
• Flea
• The Truffle-Hound of American Poetry:
• Selected Poems
• Excerpts From Letters:
• Excerpted from: The Camera Non-Obscura
• Excerpt from A Jargon Society Fund-Raising Letter
• My Quaker-Atheist Friend,Who Has Come To This Meetinghouse Since 1913, Smokes & Looks Out Over The Rawthey To Holme Fell
• Angels
• Yellow Hat
• Fortunes
• Locomotion
• The Missing Orchid:
• Jade Plectrum
• Year
• From: Some Fragments
• Why I Digress So
• Archeology: Letter To Stern From Mantua
• Desperate Beginnings
• The Climbers of Mount Everest
• For The SchoolgirlsWho Died In The Chinese Earthquake
• Training Camp
• The Gospel As Acid Reflux
• Dogs of Tobacco—V
• Lethe
• Varied Philosophies:
• Tractor-Jacking
• Crystal Lake
• The First Rabbit
• Lighting the Lamps
• Riding Westward:
• Red Thistle
• Water Lily
• Apocrita
• Poetry And Healing:
• Late Night
• Dear Buck Fever
• Flashcards
• Voices From Two Generations:
• The Reemergence Of The Noose
• The Blood Sonnets
• Word Weary
• The Thing about Second Books…
• Rosary of Bones:
• Garden Findings
• Noh Theater
• Making It Stick:
• Existence
• For Camilla Wren McDaniel
• Never Too Late
• Of Flesh and Heaven
• Caleb
• Morning Of The Duel
• Double Elegy: for a Child, for an Old Man
• The Fiction of History
• The Angels of Our Expectations

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• 19   Vol. 16, No. 1
• 18   Vol. 15, No. 1
• 17   Vol. 14, No. 1
• 16   Vol. 13, No. 1
• 15   Vol. 12, No. 1
• 14   Vol. 11, No. 1
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• 12   Vol. 9, No. 1
• 11   Vol. 8, No. 1
• 10   Vol. 7, No. 1
• 09   Vol. 6, No. 1
• 08   Vol. 5, No. 1
• 07   Vol. 4, No. 1
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• 05   Vol. 3, No. 1
• 04   Vol. 2, No. 2
• 03   Vol. 2, No. 1
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