Focus: Prizewinning Poetry — March / April 2006
nina2022-07-18T18:36:40+00:00Poetry contests have come under flack in literary circles for their reliance on connections and affiliations; this issue focuses on the prizewinning books themselves.
Focus: 100 Best First Lines from Novels — January / February 2006
nina2022-07-18T18:55:03+00:00Editor Charlie Harris contacted reviewers, critics, literature professors, writers, and readers to submit first lines for consideration and then vote to rank the “top 100” opening lines from novels.
Focus: Europeana, &c.— November / December 2005
nina2022-07-20T17:36:52+00:00Editor Andrew Ervin tracked down seven young fiction writers to share their thoughts on translated Eastern European literature.
Focus: Innovative Poetry — September / October 2005
nina2022-07-20T18:45:50+00:00Reviews of books of poetry investigating opacity and juxtaposition, with language itself as a topic.
Focus: Modern Lives — July / August 2005
nina2022-07-20T18:55:18+00:00Reviews of books on Theodore Dreiser, Ezra Pound, Peggy Guggenheim, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Focus: Short Story Collections — May-June 2005
nina2022-07-20T19:00:47+00:00Reviews of books by Jonathan Baumbach, Toni Graham, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Vestal McInytre, and Kevin McIlvoy.
Focus: Chapbooks — March-April 2005
nina2022-07-20T19:07:59+00:00Reviews of chapbooks from Adastra Press, Finishing Line Press, and Belladonna.
Focus: Prose Poetry / Flash Fiction — January-February 2005
nina2022-07-20T19:34:04+00:00Reviews of prose poetry / flash fiction journals and books by new poets from the United States and Great Britain.
Focus: Ronald Sukenick — November-December 2004
nina2022-07-20T19:33:12+00:00Tributes to ABR editor Ronald Sukenick from Joe Amato, Mark Amerika, Raymond Federman, Charles B. Harris, Cris Mazza, Richard Konstelanetz, and more.
Focus: Political Books — September-October 2004
nina2022-07-24T18:36:14+00:00America needs an alternative to the corporate-run political system, just as it needs alternatives to the corporate-controlled book industry.
Focus: New Southern Writers — July-August 2004
nina2022-07-24T18:34:27+00:00"Writing of the South" offers an astonishing variety of voices and modes of writing: from formal to experimental, from revealingly personal to searchingly political.
Focus: Iowa Fiction — May-June 2004
nina2022-07-24T18:54:22+00:00The threat to creative writing programs is not realism or modernism or postmodernism, but of a place where one tradition is the tradition.
