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Award-winning poet and renowned editor, lesbian activist and literary formalist, native New Yorker and expatriate American in Paris — Marilyn Hacker, who is all these identities and more, gloriously defies all attempts at easy categorization. “It’s not a question of an issue,” she says in describing the relationship between her art and her convictions, “but…
Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, Mark Strand spent much of his childhood in Halifax, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. As a teenager he lived in Columbia, Peru, and Mexico. Upon graduating from Antioch College, he went to Yale to study painting with Joseph Albers. Turning from painting to poetry “wasn’t…
MASTHEAD Guest Editors Tim O'Brien and Mark Strand Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Assistant Editor Jodee Stanley Founding Editor DeWitt Henry Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Editorial Assistant: Maryanne O'Hara. Interns: Heidi Pitlor, Julie Wolf, and Todd Cooper. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Michael Rainho, Robin Troy, Stephanie Booth, Loretta Chen, Barbara Lewis, Will…
The cicadas again like kindling that won’t take. The struck match of some utopia we no longer remember the terms of— the rules. What was it was going to be abolished, what restored? Behind them the foghorn in the harbor, the hoarse announcements of unhurried arrivals, the spidery virgin-shrieks of gulls, a sideways sound, a…
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Gary Soto Executive Director DeWitt Henry Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Associate Editor Jessica Dineen Editorial Assistant<</strong> Jodee Stanley Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Editorial Interns: Michelle Heller and Robin Troy. Poetry Readers: Rebecca Lavine, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Leslie Haynes, Tom Laughlin, Renee Rooks, Lisa Sewell, Karen Voelker, Tanja Brull, Brijit Brown,…
Because I immigrated to the States from Croatia at the age of twenty, people often ask me why I write in English rather than in Croatian. I give a silly answer that it’s owing to my Achilles’ heel that I do. The less silly-but not tragic-answer takes longer, even though it might start just as…
The Inferno of Dante, a new verse translation by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straux & Giroux)
MASTHEAD Guest Editors Russell Banks and Chase Twichell Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor & Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Assistant Editor Jessica Dineen Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff Assistants: Stephanie Booth and Jodee Stanley. Fiction Readers: Karen Wise, Billie Lydia Porter, Holly LeCraw Howe, Barbara Lewis, Maryanne O'Hara, Sara Nielsen Gambrill,…
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Al Young Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor & Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor David Daniel Assistant Editor Barbara Tran Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff Assistant: Barbara Lewis. Assistant Proofreader: Holly LeCraw Howe. Poetry Readers: Barbara Tran, Linda Russo, Tanja Brull, Tom Laughlin, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, and Jason Rogers. Fiction Readers: Billie…
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