Focus: New Lyric Poetry — May / June 2007
nina2022-07-03T14:48:08+00:00The New Lyric is the Old Lyric refashioned, reconstructed, revitalized, rehabilitated, reimagined, reaffirmed, reincarnated, redeployed, renewed.
Focus: Cosmopolitanism — March / April 2007
nina2022-07-02T23:22:27+00:00The cosmopolitan both presupposes and displaces its supranational framework in order to reframe it.
Focus: Anthologies on the Edge — January / February 2007
nina2022-07-03T01:13:50+00:00Anthologies provide a momentary vision of a continuously changing literary landscape.
Focus: Japanese Literature and Culture — November / December 2006
nina2022-07-03T14:46:47+00:00Cultural isolationism is an untenable position in a world of ever-growing cultural homogenization and assimilation.
Focus: Wit in Poetry — September / October 2006
nina2022-07-18T17:00:03+00:00Wit has just as much to do with the "serious sublime" as it does with perfect punch lines—those language acts that fit their set-ups even while leaping beyond them.
Focus: Poetics — July / August 2006
nina2022-07-18T17:24:35+00:00Our abstractions are only as good as we are--as we can make ourselves, as we aspire to make ourselves.
Focus: “Best of” Anthologies — May / June 2006
nina2022-07-18T17:43:50+00:00While a claim of "best" is objectively indefensible and absurd, the editors of "best of" series have attempted impossible tasks, and have done a pretty fair job.
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.
