Issue 26
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief: Mike McGregor
Executive Editor: Lori Soderlind
Managing Editor: Jennifer Lucas
Fiction Editors: Ken Foster & Justin Peacock
Nonfiction Editors: Peter Graham & Tom Payne
Poetry Editors: Jennifer Franklin & Elizabeth Stein
Circulation Manager: Kevin Roth
Advertising Manager: Chris Langworthy
Assistant Managing Editor: Gregory Cowles
Production Coordinators: Scott Smith & Myronn Hardy
Graphic Design: John Emerson
Editorial Board: Michael Albin, Catherine Coy, Carolyn Ebbit, Ruth Ellenson, Brian Farnham, Martha Guild, Vincent Hamilton, Bryant Palmer, Elizabeth Hickey, David Semanki, Amy Silna, Tracy Smith, Rae Vukovitch, Allison Woods-Richardson
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
Chuck Palahniuk/ Invisible Monsters
Michael Drinkard/ Rat
Diane Lefer/ A Good German
Terese Svoboda/ Electricity
Stewart O’Nan/ Dear Stephen King
Nonfiction
New York City Students/ Autobiography of Me
Charles Bowden/ Love in the Badlands
Janet Reitman/ A Season in Exile
Bill Roorbach/ Honeymoon
Interview
With poet and novelist Sherman Alexie
Photography
By Diana Michener with an introduction by Luc Sante
Poetry (From Great Britain and Ireland
Scottland:
John Burnside/ Coming Home & Muddy Road to Adam Johnson’s House
Robin Robertson/ Aberdeen
Kathleen Jamie/ The Bogie-Wife & The Tay Moses & Arraheids
Don Paterson/ Addenda
England
Katherine Pierpoint/ Fenland Station in Winter & Answers on a Postcard & The Lie of the Land
Mairi MacInnes/ The Given & The Committee Road on North Uist
James Lasdun/ Lime Pickle
Christopher Middleton/ The Lime Tree
Ruth Fainlight/ The Bench
Vicki Feaver/ Ice and Coal
Michael Hofmann/ Avenue A & ‘No Company But Fear’
Lavinia Greenlaw/ The Earliest Known Representation of a storm in Western Art
Carol Rumens/ The Lightest Dancer & Rainmaker’s Gossip & Fairy Tale, Apart from Three Words
Ireland
Eavan Boland/ Irish Women Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Eamon Grennan/ Belief & Dancer
Sara Berkeley/ The Beach & Grandfather in the Backyard & Extremes & Dancing with Anthony
Dennis O’ Driscoll/ Selling Out
Michael Longley/ Pale Butterwort & The Mill
Paul Muldoon/ White Shoulders
Sinead Morrissey/ Europa Hotel & September Light & A Performance
Medbh McGuckian/ Pass Christian & The Marital We & A Waiting Plate
Special Section
A Tribute to Jane Kenyon:
Jean Valentine/ Elegy for Jane Kenyon
Donald Hall/ Jane Kenyon & excerpt for The One Day & “A Beard for a Blue Pantry” & Old Roses
Jane Kenyon/ Alone for a Week & The Suitor & Winter Lambs & Chrysanthemums & Pharoah & Prognosis & Let Evening Come
Maxine Kumin/ After the Poetry Reading
Charles Simic/ Jane Kenyon
Sharon Olds/ To Jane in the Church & Love
Galway Kinnell/ How Could You Not?
