1997 Issues

Volume 3; No. 1

Special to this issue are translations from the French of the Surrealist poet, Joyce Mansour. Serge Gavronsky masterfully conducts Mansour's French through the erotica of a time not so unlike our own.

Also includes poems by Robert Bly, Colette Inez, Thomas R. Smith, Duane Locke, & Simon Perchik

Volume 3; No. 2

Special to this issue are translations from the Spanish of Marjorie Agosín by Monica Bruno, Diane Pineda & Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. An interview with our editor and an essay on her Chilean life round out the selection.

Also included are translations of Franco Buffoni, Peter Huchel, René; Char, Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz, and more work by Charles Wright, Ray Gonzalez, Silvia Schebli, Gayle Elen Harvey, James Grabill, Carolyn Stoloff and Paul Roth

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 1997 was Thomas R. Smith.

1998 Issues

Volume 4; No. 1

Special to this issue is the poetry of Silvia Scheibli and an interview with the poet residing in California.

Also included in this issue is the work of Robert Bly, Steve Barfield, Jessica Henricksen, Duane Locke, Elizabeth Macklin, and translations from the Hungarian of Ivan Mándy and Attila Jozsef by John Bátki. The contemporary French poet Josée Lapeyrère translated by Susan Dubroff & Sharon Kanach is of unusual interest.

Volume 4; No. 2

An essay by Duane Locke and some selected poetry of the Immanentist master are featured. Also Included in this issue is the poetry of George Kalamaras, Ray Gonzalez, Dennis Saleh, Louis Simpson, Marjorie Agosín, and a never-before seen translation by Michael Hamburger of Paul Celan'sYour Hair Above the Sea.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 1998 was Gayle Elen Harvey.

1999 Issues

Volume 5; No. 1 (Out-of-Print)

Special to this issue is a large selection of work by Ray Gonzalez. His language brings a vitality to the page that has not been seen for a long while. An interview with Gonzalez celebrates both his vision as a poet and his concerns as a human being.

Also included are translations of Olga Orozco by Louis Bourne, Dante Alighieri by W.S. Merwin, Yannis Ritsos by Scott King, Ali Yuce by Gerry LaFemina & Sinan Toprak. Other poets included are Hayden Carruth, Christine Boyka Kluge, Errol Miller, Marilyn Shelton, Carol Dine and David Chorlton.

Volume 5; No. 2

This issue features the poetry of Alan Britt and an interview with the poet in which he helps reveal his process of imaginative writing.

There is also some excellent short fiction by Robert Kulesz, and more poetry by Charles Wright, Duane Locke, Jessica Rosenfeld, Anthony Seidman, Mary Stebbins along with translations from the Argentinian poet MarÌa Negroni and the Peruvian poet & editor Miguel Angel Zapata.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 1999 was Christine Boyka Kluge.

2000 Issues

Volume 6; No. 1

This issue features the poetry of Jessica Henricksen. The New Orleans poet talks candidly in her interview about music, poetry and the process of writing. This issue also contains an essay on Gabriel Mistral by Marjorie Agosín and a selection of her poems reveals the simple beauty of her deceptively strong language. Also, look for translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, Israel Eliraz, Alberto Blanco, & Miguel Angel Zapata. More selections from the poetry of Anthony Seidman, Alan Britt, Steve Barfield, Christine Boyka Kluge, Duane Locke, and Silvia Scheibli.

Volume 6; No. 2

This issue features the outstanding work of George Kalamaras. In his interview, Kalamaras discusses his perception of life, his influences, his language and his philosophy as it adheres to the here and now. Wonderful reading! His current book,The Theory and Function of Mangoes,was published by FOUR WAY BOOKS in 2000.

The issue also includes the poetry of the young Romanian poet, Ruxandra Cesereanu, with further poetry by Duane Locke, Serena Fusek, Steve Barfield, Alan Britt, Thomas R. Smith and Virgil Suarez.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 2000 was Jeanne Wagner.

2001 Issues

Volume 7; No. 1

This issue features the work of the young Romanian poet, Ruxandra Cesereanu plus an in depth interview with the poet about her growing up under the Ceausescu regime, her new interpretations of freedom in life and language since 1989, and her thoughts on perception and the individual methodology that drives her poetry.

Also included in this issue are more new poems by Anthony Seidman, Duane Locke, Fred Boltz, Christine Boyka Kluge, Alan Britt, and new fiction by Isabella Ripota and John Shepley.

Volume 7; No. 2

This issue features the poetry of Christine Boyka Kluge, an interview about her poetry, her art, her perception and her fiction. This is a must read for all poets, men or women, who want to understand what it really means to turn devotion into precise focus and then into a natural language of the earth.

Along with Kluge's work, enjoy the translations by John Oliver Simon of Humberto Ak'abal, Jorge Arturo, and Ambar Past. The great Portuguese poet Casimiro de Brito is presented bilingually in a translation by Louis Bourne. North American poetry by Steve Barfield, Duane Locke, Anne Wilson, George Kalamaras, Carolyn Stoloff, Rafaella Del Bourgo,Anthony Seidman & Anne Coray. Short fiction by Isabella Ripota, Anthony Seidman, Michael Fowler and Peter Roberts.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 2001 was Carol Dine.

2002 Issues

Volume 8; No. 1

An interview with Anthony Seidman along with a dozen of his poems are featured in this Spring 2002 issue. Reading Seidman's work immediately engages the reader through a series of dimensional roller-coasters whereby everything becomes fair-game for both the imagination and the language that's trying to convey it.

Also included are translations from the poetry of Alberto Blanco, Martín Camps, Clara Janés, Miguel Angel Zapata, Hai Zi and the Palestinian poet Anisa Darwish. In addition find new poems by Robert Bly, George Kalamaras, Ye Chun, Duane Locke, Janine DeBaise, Anne Wilson, Alan Britt, Steve Barfield and Magdalena Alagna. Not to mention more fantastic writing by Isabella Ripota and the wonderfully refreshing short fiction by the Vietnamese-American writer James T. Tran.

Volume 8; No. 2

An interview with Alberto Blanco reveals the multi-faceted and talented approach he takes to both his poetry, his art, and his life. Anyone who knows Mexican poetry today, knows that Blanco holds in his two hands the perpetual seed from which great poetry has always come.

Also included are translations of Martín Camps, Héctor Carreto, Justo Jorge Padrón and António Ramos Rosa. New poems from American poets such as Duane Locke, FRed Boltz, Alan Catlin, George Kalamaras, Christine Boyka Kluge, Carol Dine, David Johnson, and James Gabrill along with excellent short fiction by Ruth Ann Dandrea, William Jablonsky and Julia Rubin.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 2002 was Sean Thomas Dougherty.

2003 Issues

Volume 9; No. 1

This issue features the work of Carol Dine. Along with an interview of the poet is a selection of her poetry and excerpts from her memoir. Anyone with a sense of loss in one's life, with a sense of longing for what should have been but definitely wasn't, this is a must read.

Also included are translations by the phenomenal Costa Rican poet Eunice Odío by Keith Ekiss and Sonia P. Ticas. Also included are new poems by Ray Gonzalez, Hannah Fischer, Alan Britt, Silvia Scheibli, Gayle Elen Harvey, Brandon Freels, Sara Leslie, Duane Locke, Chris Volpe, Paul B. Roth, Anthony Seidman as well as short fiction pieces by Stephanie Waxman, Tom Stoner, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Joseph Kiewlak and John Michael Cummings.

Volume 9; No. 2

This issue centers in on the work of Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz both as a poet of great strength and commitment but also as a human being devoted to the preservation of not only an Amazonian landscape but of a vast and prolific culture that will die with it.

Other works presented here include translations from the poetry of Marjorie Agosín, the Swedish poet Aase Berg, German verses by Gerhard Meier, Carlos Zamora and Juan Armando Rojas from Mexico, and Spain's venerable Rafael Soto Vergés. American poets represented by their fine work are such notables as Ray Gonzalez, Robert Bly, Christine Boyka Kluge, Carolyn Stoloff, Anthony Seidman, Alan Britt, Jen Besemer and George Kalamaras. Short fiction by Daniel Green, Kim Horner, Darren E. Morris & Joseph Crow Riley round out a very powerful issue.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 2003 was Lisa Rosenberg.

2004 Issues

Volume 10; No. 1

This issue is devoted in its entirety to the poetry and philosophy of Duane Locke. Included in this issue are 60 selected poems and an interview that spans over 90 pages. It is the most in-depth interview Locke has ever granted and it gives an insight into one of the most incredible poets of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Volume 10; No. 2

Featured in this issue are six contemporary Mexican poets: Mónica Nepote, Gaspar Orozco, Martín Camps, Ofelia Pérez Sepúlveda, César Silva Márquez, and Edgar Rincón Luna. Short fiction in this presentation by Sam Howie, Michael Fowler and Lisa Kavchak is as unusual and poignant as it is imaginative. A long grouping of poems, "Winter Blues," by David Johnson highlights the long list of American poets such as Ray Gonzalez, Sabrina Orah Mark, Alan Britt, Silvia Scheibli, Christine Boyka Kluge, Alice Pettway and George Kalamaras. Rounding out the issue are some lovely translations from the Portuguese of Casimiro de Brito delivered by the gifted translator Louis Bourne.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award recipient for 2004 was Jeffrey Sams.

2005 Issues

Volume 11; No. 1

This issue's emphasis rests on the poetry of Ye Chun. In her interview and in her poems one gets the opportunity to read a very discreet language fraught with a simmering tension. This issue also presents translations of work by contemporay poets such as Ángel Crespo, Martín Camps, Estrella del Valle, Julián Herbert, Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo and Julio Trujillo. Included also are some new short fiction pieces by Tania Casselle, Joan Flocks, Aaron Hellem, and James Michael Robbins. Other poets of note included here are Alan Britt, Rob Cook, Ray Gonzalez, George Kalamaras, Christine Boyka Kluge, Pat Lawler, Silvia Scheibli, Duane Locke, Anthony Seidman and Anne Wilson.

Volume 11; No. 2

Aase Berg is the featured poet in this Fall/2005 issue. The Swedish poet is interviewed and a sampling from her current four books of poetry is offered. An introduction by Johannes Görannson on Swedish contemporary political history helps put everything into perspective. Included also are new poems by Ray Gonzalez, Robert S. Pesich, George Kalamaras, Anne Wilson, Dounia Choukri, and some new short fiction from Joseph Crow Riley, Ron Savage, Angela Jane Fountas and Anna Richenda.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award Recipient for 2005 was Shawn Fawson.

2006 Issues

Volume 12; No. 1

Martin Camps is our featured poet for this issue. The Mexican poet's interview reveals an introspective but lively childhood under the tutelage of the Catholic seminary. His poetry reflects the inner soul's reflection back unto itself and the portrait you receive is often mesmerizing for its authenticity of perception and thought. Along with this feature is also included more work by Duane Locke, Ye Chun, Samantha Stiers, George Kalamaras, Kenneth Frost, Shawn Fawson, Anthony Seidman, Christine Boyka Kluge, and short fiction by Judith Taylor Gold, Alicia S. Holmes, EC Jarvis, Elmo Lum and Andrew Michael Roberts.

Volume 12; No. 2

Shawn Fawson is our featured poet for this issue. Her exquisite poetry draws your attention both to the center and the absence of things simultaneously. Also included in this issue are translations from the Portuguese of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Alexis Levitin, tr.), from the Spanish of the Cuban poet Fayad Jamis (Kathleen Weaver, tr.) and from the Hebrew of Rivka Miriam (Linda Stern Zisquit, tr.) Short fiction by Sybil Baker, Leo Kelbs, Mark Joseph Kiewlak, Michael Magro Jr. and poetry by Rob Cook, Serena Fusek, Joan Kane, Smiljka Kitanovic, Sankar Roy, and Anthony Seidman.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award Recipient for 2006 was Elizabeth McLagan.

2007 Issues

Volume 13; No. 1

Our featured poet for this issue is the Mexican poet, Estrella del Valle. Her dark work explodes on the page and her interview adds fuel to the power of her expression in each of her poems so masterfully translated by Toshiya Kamei and Anthony Seidman. Other work in this issue includes new short fiction by Daniel J. Doehr, Alta Ifland, Allen Kursten, and V. Ulea. There are translations from the Algerian poet Abderrahmane Djelfaoui by Andrea Moorhead and from the Greek poet Titos Patrikios translated by Christopher Bakken and Roul Konsolaki. Other poets represented in this issue are Rob Cook, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Kenneth Frost, George Kalamaras, Christine Boyka Kluge, Aliya Mehdi, Thom Ward and Ye Chun.

Volume 13; No. 2

Rob Cook is our featured poet for this issue. His city poetry brings you to the forefront of having to live in phobic environs, stripped of any positive defenses while seeking the requisite innoculation, that much needed dose of the strange, the unexpected, and the ruined. Also included in this issue are translations from the Polish of Andrzsej Bursa (trans. by Kenin Christianson and Helena Ablamowicz), the Hungarian of Gyorgy Faludy (trans. by Paul Sohar), the Hindi of Gagan Gill (trans. by Arlene Zide), the German of Andrej Glusgold (trans. by Donna Stonecipher), the Spanish of Victor Rodriguez Nuñez (trans. by Katherine Hedeen) and the Chinese of Hai Zi (trans. by Ye Chun). Short fiction by Daniel J. Doehr, Jeannette Anne Encinias, Emily Soto, and V. Ulea. More new poetry from Serena Fusek, Duane Locke, Shawn Fawson, Robert Pesich, Anne Wilson, George Kalamaras and Anthony Seidman.

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award Recipient for 2007 was Maureen Alsop.

2008 Issues

Volume 14; No. 1

This issue features in part the work of the Virginia poet, Serena Fusek. Her immediate and cogent language draws the reader into her universe of dark and light, of highways and undergrounds, of skies and hidden ceilings. This feature also presents new short fiction by Mary Ann Cain, Joel James Davis, Julius James DeAngelus, Tolu Jegede, and Joshua Malbin. Besides work by North American poets such as Rob Cook, Lara Gularte, Patrick Lawler, Inès Pujos, and Anthony Seidman, there are translations from the Spanish of the Peruvian poet Harold Alva, the Mexican poets, Alberto Blanco, David Huerta, Martín Camps and César Silva, and the great Magda Portal from Peru. Rounding out the issue is the Zapotec poet Pancho Nácar and the Portuguese poet Rose Alice Branco.

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