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The advice note, dropped on my father’s desk in the first week of September 1955, lay unread for a week. My father was away from home, resolving a dispute over burial sites in Manchester. He was a synagogue troubleshooter, the Red Adair of Anglo-Jewish internecine struggles, and it was his job to travel up and…
My new wife took very few possessions with her when she left Peru, mostly blouses and books and clumps of the hot pepper aji wrapped in cellophane, but she did remember to pack her photograph of her father. It was a cloudy black-and-white shot taken in 1960 on his fifty-fourth birthday, two years before his…
MASTHEAD Guest Editors Marie Howe & Christopher Tilghman Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor & Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editors David Daniel & Joyce Peseroff Editorial Assistant Barbara Tran Circulation Manager Maureen Armstrong Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff Assistant: Barbara Lewis. Staff Intern: Maryn Wergland. Assistant Proofreader: Holly LeCraw Howe. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia…
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Tobias Wolff Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor & Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor Joyce Peseroff Office Manager Renee Rooks Assistant Fiction Editor Debra Spark Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff Assistant: Phillip Carson. Assistant Proofreader: Holly LeCraw Howe. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Karen Wise, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Phillip Carson, Holly…
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Alberto Alvaro Rios Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor Don Lee Associate Poetry Editor Joyce Peseroff Assistant Fiction Editors Don Lee and Debra Spark Office Manager Renee Rooks Production Assistant Mariette Lippo Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff Assistant: Julie Trevelyan. Typesetting: Gian Lombardo and InText Publishing Services. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter,…
translated by Olga Broumas and T. Begley Whether you have written poems or not isn’t as important as whether you have suffered, been impassioned, longed for what leads, by hook or by crook, to Poetry. The wind of life hits you before its material body, as the aroma of a woman before her actual presence….
She comes out in a white suit of stovepipe pants and short tight jacket and, under the jacket, dark lingerie. She has the habit of throwing her head back and laughing, revealing the split at her two front teeth. Her lips are cherry red and her hair white (for now) and she makes, together with…
MASTHEAD Coordinating Editor for This Issue Carolyn Forché Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor Don Lee Associate Poetry Editor Joyce Peseroff Assistant Fiction Editors Don Lee and Debra Spark Office Manager Renee Rooks Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff Assistant: Jacqueline Fulmer. Editorial Intern: Stephen Burt. Typesetting: Gian Lombardo and InText Publishing…
MASTHEAD Coordinating Editor for This Issue M. L. Rosenthal Executive Director DeWitt Henry Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor Don Lee Poetry Editor for This Issue Jennifer Rose Associate Poetry Editor Joyce Peseroff Assistant Editor David Daniel Editorial Assistant Jessica Dineen Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Staff: Kevin Supples and Michael Rainho. Editorial Interns: Margaret Bezucha,…
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