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Editor's Note, Robert Stewart |
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F
I C T I O N |
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7 / You Will Miss Me When I Burn,
Jacob White |
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37 /
The Living, Peter Christopher |
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57 / Creepy Things, John Bensko |
| 181
/ Wrench, Wayne Harrison |
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O E T R Y |
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Two Poems, Colleen J. McElroy |
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28 /
Three Poems, Madeline DeFrees |
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32 / Brand New Chidii-Mobile, Laura Tohe |
| 126 /
Two Poems, Victoria Chang |
| 129
/ Fragrance, Michael Atkinson |
| 130 /
Indelible, Shirley Stephenson |
| 132 /
Bareback Pantoum, Cecilia Woloch |
| 134 /
Three Poems, Leslie Norman Hubble |
| 138
/ Coupling, Millicent C. Borges |
| 139 /
Heaven, They Say; Claudia Burbank |
| 140
/ Two Poems, Heather Ross Miller |
| 163 /
Vermeer, Mark Irwin |
| 164
/ Two Poems, Alicia Ostriker |
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Two Poems, Sunshine Glenstone |
| 168
/ Two Poems, Ruth Hershberger |
| 170
/ Two Poems, Gerard Malanga |
| 172
/ Two Poems, Jo McDougall |
| 174
/ Head-to-Toe, John Balaban |
176
/ Poem of Chemical Residue,
David Citino |
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S S A Y |
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69 / William Metts, American Poet;
Paul Zimmer |
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N T E R V I E W |
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143 /
The End of Boredom, Billy Collins
conducted by Robert Stewart |
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H E L I T E R A R Y A W A R D S |
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/ Surrogates, Rachel Hall
first place, The Alexander Patterson Cappon Award for Fiction |
101
/ Lost in Translation, Peter Ruppert
first place, The Dorothy Churchill Cappon Award for
the Essay |
119
/ Five Poems, Donald Junkins
first place, the New Letters poetry award |
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E V I E W S |
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199 / H. L. Hix, "Here in the Midwest": A review of In
the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the
Heartland, ed. Becky Bradway |
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204 / Catherine Browder, "Women's Work": A review of short
fiction by Sallie Bingham and Krista McGruder |
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207 /
Jonathan Holden, "Both
Good and Beautiful": A review of poetry by Scott Cairns |
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210 /
Conger Beasley, Jr.,
"The Poet's Father as Steer Artist": A review of a memoir by Ron
Padgett |
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A
R T W O R K |
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Selected photographs by: |
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Richard E. Loftis (front cover, page 6) |
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Gloria Baker Feinstein (pages 20, 177-180) |
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Jesse DeMartino (pages 34-36) |
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Tom Tarnowski (page 56) |
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Keith F. Davis (pages 124-125) |
| Kathy Tracy
(pages 160-162) |
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214 / Literary Awards Honor Roll |
| 216 /
Visitors' Log: The New Letters Guestbook |
| 217 /
New Programs: New Letters on the Air |
| 173 /
Celebrations: News From Our Authors |
| 174 / NOTES
ON CONTRIBUTORS |
