Why Teach Creative Writing?
Volume 30, Number 4
May-June 2009
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“Introduction to Focus: Why Teach Creative Writing?”
Lee K. Abbott’s “Delightful Jibber-Jabber”
Angela Ball’s “Benevolent Workshop Power”
Leslee Becker’s “Steal This Book”
Bret Anthony Johnston’s “The Crab Grass Question”
Anna Leahy’s “Melding Form and Content”
Lance Olsen’s “Re-learning Writing”
Steve Tomasula’s “War of the Words”
Feature: Assaying the Essay
Oliver Conant reviews ed. Benj DeMott’s First of the Year: 2008
Jack Smith reviews DeWitt Henry’s Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations
Feature: Politics of Poetry
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor reviews Maxine Kumin’s Still to Mow
Joseph D. Haske reviews Ernesto Cardenal’s Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems
Vanessa Place reviews bpNichol’s The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader
John Domini reviews Raza Ali Hasan’s 67 Mogul Miniatures
Book Reviews
W. Lawrence Hogue reviews Jeffery Renard Allen’s Holding Pattern
Joyelle McSweeney reviews Forrest Gander’s As a Friend
Stephen Burn reviews Evan Dara’s The Easy Chain
Megan Milks reviews Jasper Pierce’s Steal Stuff From Work
Corey Mesler reviews Peter Markus’s Bob, or Man on Boat
Dave Kress reviews Davis Schneiderman and Don Meyer’s Memorials to Future Catastrophes
Uppinder Mehan reviews Karline McLain’s India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
Robert Glick reviews Brian Evenson’s Last Days
Terry Dalrymple reviews James Nolan’s Perpetual Care
Darlin’ Neal reviews Cary Holladay’s A Fight in the Doctor’s Office
Scott Elliott reviews Greg Sanders’s Motel Girl
Departments
Page 2–Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Academic Book Culture in Transition”
Backlist–Harry Goldstein reviews Marc Kaminsky’s Shadow Traffic
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