Ohio Stories II
- “Enduring Mystery” and the Ferryman Farmer in Mary Oliver’s “The River Styx, Ohio” by Rachel Rinehart
- “Above the River”: James Wright’s Ohio “Bloodroots” by Therese Gleason
- Elegies for Home: An Interview with Amit Majmudar by Betsy K. Brown
- Ohio Geometry: Hanif Abdurraqib and the Shape of Home by Vrinda Jagota
- A Writer in America by Molly Rideout
- Ohio Hip: In-betweenness in Michael Cunningham’s “White Angel” by Caitlin Horrocks
- “An Other for Ohio’s Self”: David Foster Wallace’s Great Ohio Desert by Michael O’Connell
Reproductive Rights in Literature (issue 32)
- Breaking the Silence: Abortion and Knowledge in Summer and Weeds by Jana Tigchelaar
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Birth Without the Gendered Body by Rebecca Richardson
- Monstrous Body Horror in Transition: Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt and Jeannette Winterson’s Frankisstein by Emrys Donaldson
- Getting It Behind Them by Wendy Rawlings
- Unwinding Unwind by Hilary Brewster
- Finding The Boundary Line: A Look at Ayelet Waldman’s “Rocketship” by Jennifer Furner
- Tove Ditlevsen, Abortion, Dependency as Birthright by Anna Rollins
- Hall of Mirrors by Lee Ann Roripaugh
- Something Has Tried To Kill Me: Race, Poetry, and Reproductive Rights by Sarah Green
- Abortion is like Art: Red Clocks and the Facts of the Body by Madeline ffitch
The Poetic Environment (issue 31)
- Before Poetry Can Save the Planet, It Needs to Shift, by Marcia LeBeau
- At Home in the Cosmos: On the Poetry of Don Domanski, by Tarn MacArthur
- Indivisible, by Martha Serpas
- How Blank an Eye? Seeing and Overlooking Nature in Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode,” by Matthew VanWinkle
- Reflections in Lake District Mist, by Alycia Pirmohamed
- Poetry as a Lakeside Trailer Park, by Tina Mozelle Braziel
Interview (issue 30)
- When We Talk About Mountains, We Talk About Memories, by Kari Gunter-Seymour
Poets on Children’s Literature (issue 29)
- The Lady Whispering Hush, by Pichchenda Bao
- When the World’s Worst Readers Met The World’s Worst Children, by Marcia LeBeau
- Worth the Wait, by Jared Harél
- Love for the World: The Poetry of Frog and Toad, by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
- “Because they grow up /and forget what they know”: On the Strange Wisdom of Children’s Poetry, by Erin Redfern
- You Are What You Read, by Adrienne Su
- Over and Over, by Sarah Green
- The Fabric, by Jeff Tigchelaar
Interview (issue 28)
The Technology of Poetry (issue 27)
- Machines, Mortality, and the Lyric Poem, by Bethany Schultz Hurst
- The Transitional Voice: Exploring Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s “Ode to Texting,” by Claire Bateman
- The Technology of the American Sonnet, by Brian Brodeur
- On Language, Bombs, and Other Things That Exist, by Kimberly Grey
- Of Seeing, the Unseen, and the Useeable: Technology, Poetry, and “When It Rains in Gaza,” by Philip Metres
Poets and Poems On Screen (issue 26)
- Kept in the Dark: Poetry, Collaboration, and Collapse in Pandaemonium and Tom and Viv, by Matthew VanWinkle
- Jean Cocteau and Orpheus: The Poet as Filmmaker, by Steve Vineberg
- Keep Me In By Keeping Me Out: Poetry On Screen, by Carrie Oeding
- A Personal Affair: The Making of a Poetry Film, by Michele Poulos
- Against Literary Biopics Generally, Unless, Maybe–But Definitely and Especially Against The End of the Tour, by Kathryn Nuernberger
- Beautiful, Brilliant, and Dead: Portraits of the Female Poet in Film, by Danusha Laméris
Ohio Stories (issue 25)
- Shadow and Shine: Ohio in the Literary Imagination, by Jana Tigchelaar
- “On the Lip of Lake Erie”: Toni Morrison’s Ohio Aesthetic, by Dustin Faulstick
- The Importance and Depth of “Ohio” in Two Poems by Rita Dove and Ai, by Marcus Jackson
- Buckeye Sci-Fi: “Does Anything Exciting ever Happen Around Here”, by Christopher A. Sims
- Sometimes a Vague Notion, by David Armstrong
Tony Hoagland on: The Wild, The Cold, the Unknown (issue 24)
- The Pursuit of Ignorance: The Challenging Figuration of Not Knowing
- The Power of Coldness
- The Wild Life of Metaphor: Prehensile, Triangulating, Insubordinate
Gems of the 21st (issue 23)
- Art Is Long, Planets Short: The Lasting Power of Carol Ann Duffy’s “The Woman in the Moon,” by Adrienne Su
- “Gender’s Tidy Little Story”: On Stacey Waite’s “The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV,” by Emily Mohn-Slate
- What Essy Stone Done to Us, by Anders Carlson-Wee
- Speculative Solutions to the Political Poem: Ann Killough “Statue of Liberty,” by Tony Hoagland
- “Your Body Everywhere”: Time and Forgiveness in Carl Phillips’s “Since You Ask”, by Chiyuma Elliott
- “Arch-Talk” and the Postmodern Gall of Josh Bell and Mark Bibbins, by Keith Kopka
- Stumbling into the Sublime: Claire Bateman’s “Another Poem on Blue,” by Veronica Schuder
- The Present Deeply: The 21st Century Love Poem, by Mario Chard
Of Essays and Exes (issue 22)
- Writing What You Know and Whom You’ve Known, by Joey Franklin
- What Binds Them Together, by Rachael Peckham
- More than a Vanished Husband: Jo Ann Beard’s “The Fourth State of Matter,” by Holly Baker
- Breakup, Break Down, Break Open: Intimate Partner Violence and Life Inside a Daily Ending, by Sonya Huber
- On Breaking Up with the Dream of Your Former Self: Megan Daum’s “My Misspent Youth,” by Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
- In Search of the First Person Singular, by Ned Stuckey-French
- On Natalia Ginzburg’s “Human Relations,” by Dinah Lenney
The Villains of Poetry (issue 21)
- On Being Asked to Contribute to the Villains Feature, by Richard Cecil
- Villainous Villanelle, by Denise Duhamel
- Milton’s Satan and the Grammar of Evil, by Kimberly Johnson
- The Pleasures of Browning’s Villains, by Robert Cording
- The Villain Who Shut Down an Epic, by Jeanne Murray Walker
- “Guilt Is Magical”: Adultery as Poetic Villainy, by Catherine Pierce
- Maker and Prophet: Frank Bidart and the Mask of “Herbert White,” by Mario Chard
- The Unredeemed Villain?: Ai’s “Child Beater,” by Denise Duhamel
- Villains of Confessionalism, by Kathryn Nuernberger
Fictional Politicos (issue 20)
- Buzz Can Happen Here: Sinclair Lewis and the New American Fascism, by Michael Mark Cohen
- “This Time I’m Going to Fool Somebody”: Willie Stark and the Politics of Humiliation, by Dustin Faulstick
- Take Me to Your Lady Leader, by Kristen Lillvis
- Of the People, for the People, by the Robots, by Christopher A. Sims
Manipulating the Reader (issue 19)
- I Second that Emotion, by Rebecca McClanahan
- Tell It Cool: On Writing with Restraint, by Debra Marquart
- Staying with Argos: Odysseus and His Dog, by A-J Aronstein
- Yeats and Heaney: The Poetry Without the Pity, by C.L. Dallat
- Designs Less Palpable: Emotional Manipulation and Even-Handedness in Keats, by Matthew VanWinkle
Interviews (issue 18)
Uses & Abuses of Dialogue (issue 17)
- A Trompe L’Oeil for the Mind’s Ear, by J. Robert Lennon
- Staying on the Elevator, by Peter Mountford
- Inside the Cave-Speak of Saunders, by Leslie Daniels
- I Deserve Two Firing Squads: Dialogue and Conflict in Fiction, by Robert Anthony Siegel
- A Brief Personal History of Dialogue, by Kelly Luce
- The Dialogue of Gesture and Silence, by Alyce Miller
- Dialogue: The Footfall of Its Wandering, by Darrell Spencer
- That Dialogue Assignment, by Rebecca Makkai
Poems and Literal Truth (issue 16)
- Should Poems Tell the Truth?, by Lawrence Raab
- Truthiness Demands, by Daisy Fried
- Where Are You Really Writing From? Reading and Writing Place and Experience, by Adrienne Su
- A Brief Response, by Louise Glück
- Telling the Truth in Poetry, by Carl Dennis
- Pants on Fire, by Kim Addonizio
- “Father,” by Michael Ryan
Beguiling Beginnings in Fiction (issue 15)
- On Lauren Groff’s “L. DeBard and Aliette,” by Caitlin Horrocks
- On Edward P. Jones’s “The First Day,” by Marjorie Celona
- On William Maxwell’s “So Long, See You Tomorrow,” by Maura Stanton
- On the Opening of Graham Greene’s “Under the Garden,” by David Lehman
- On Barbara Comyns’s “The Vet’s Daughter,” by Maud Casey
- On Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” by Alyson Hagy
- On Stanley Elkins’s “A Poetics for Bullies,” by Tom Noyes
- On Arthur Golden’s “Memoirs of a Geisha,” by Julia Glass
Translation Cruxes II (issue 14)
- Like a Struck Tuning Fork: On Translating Sound in Tranströmer’s “The Station,” by Patty Crane
- On Translating Choctaw Poems, by Marcia Haag
- Sense and Serendipity: The Masochistic Art of Translating Surrealism, by Mark Polizzotti
- Finding the Just Name: On Translating Ismailov, by Robert Chandler
- Translating Thai Artist Wiser Ponnimit from Japanese to English, by Matthew Chozick
- The Stones and the Earth: On Translating Wieslaw Myśliwski’s “Stone Upon Stone,” by Bill Johnston
- On Translating Cavity’s “Come, O King of the Lacedaemonians,” by George Economou
- The Homophobic Imagination: On Translating Modern Greek Poetry, by Karen Van Dyck
Translation Cruxes (issue 13)
- On Translating Virgil, by David Ferry
- From an Alphabet of Proust Translation Problems: Z, by Lydia Davis
- On Translating Strand and Ashberry, by Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan
- On Translating Tolstoy, by Rosamund Bartlett
- On Translating Cavafy, by George Kalogeris
- On Translating Szymborska, by Joanna Trzeciak
- On Translating Eco, by Geoffrey Brock
Choice Cuts: Favorite Fiction Passages (issue 12)
- On a passage from Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women,” by Ann Harlemann
- On a passage from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” by Ralph Lombreglia
- On a passage from Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” by Cornelia Nixon
- On a passage from Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” by Elizabeth Searle
- On two passages by Lewis Nordan, by John Dufresne
- On a passage from Pam Houston’s “Dall,” by Melinda Moustakis
- On a passage from Raymond Carver’s “Chef’s House,” by Bret Lott
Collaboration (issue 11)
- Preface to “Making it Up,” by Ron Padgett
- Woody Woodpecker Goes to Paris, by Allen Ginsburg and Kenneth Koch
- Some Remarks of Collaboration, by Tom Whalen
- Love as Rehearsal for Writing, by Lee Carroll
- Collaboration Queens (Or How The Chapbook, ABBA: The Poems, Came to Be), by Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon
- Changing the Record: A Poetry Collaboration in the ’70s and ’80s, by Ron Horning and David Lehman
- The Story Behind Penguins, by Patty Mitchell
- Where the Path Leads: Collaboration, Revision, and Friendship, by Lawrence Raab
Six Poets on Six Movies (issue 10)
- On 35 Shots of Rum, by Claudia Rankine
- Antonioni at Nineteen, by Jeffrey Harrison
- Death, Cashews, and No Country for Old Men, by George Bilgere
- On Lubitsch’s Angel, by Lloyd Schwartz
- On Tomorrow is Forever, by Laurence Goldstein
- Acting the Truth, by Linda Bamber
Symposium: Poems Disliked and Poems Loved (issue 9)
- On Susan Wood’s “In America” and Dana Levin’s “The Nurse,” by Wayne Miller
- On Carol Ann Duffy’s “Rapture” and Michael Laskey’s “Offering,” by Helena Nelson
- On Mark Strand’s “The Idea” and Dennis Schmitz’s “Kindergarten,” by David Rivard
Altered Views: Fiction Reconsidered (issue 8)
- On “In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All” by Grace Paley, by Michael Griffith
- On “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys, by Sylvia Watanabe
- On Rereading Gabriel García Márquez, by Julianna Baggott
- On Rereading Donald Barthelme, by Peter Ho Davies
- On “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote, by Peter Turchi
- On “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf, by Karen Brennan
- On “The Window’s Children” by Paula Fox, by Charles Baxter
Altered Views (issue 7)
- From a Broken Ant-hill, by Peter Campion
- On James Merill, by Rachel Hadas
- Resisting The Rape of the Lock, by Laurence Goldstein
- Cellular Change, by Marianne Boruch
- Tight Spots, by Brad Leithauser
- A Fish and a Pity, by Steven Cramer
- Self Beyond Recall, by Eleanor Wilner
- Just a Goll-durn Minute…, by Stephen Corey
- Safe in their Alabaster Chambers, by Nancy Eimers
- Disinhibited, by Stephanie Burt
- On the Author of “The Paddiad,” by Christopher Ricks
Stories You May Have Missed: Fifteen Fiction Writers Reflect on Underappreciated Contemporary Stories (issue 6)
- On Lucia Berlin’s “Maggie May,” by Lydia Davis
- On Gerald Shapiro’s “Bad Jews,” by Stuart Dybek
- On Stephanie Vaughn’s “Dog Heaven,” by Carol Anshaw
- On Donal Barthelme’s “The School,” by Max Apple
- On Bernard Malamud’s “In Kew Gardens,” by Alan Cheuse
- On John L’Heureux’s “The Comedian,” by Erin McGraw
- On Gilbert Sorrentino’s “The Moon In Its Flight,” by Robert Cohen
- On John Fowles’s “The Ebony Tower,” by Nicholas Delbanco
- On Anita Desai’s “The Accompanist,” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- On Alice McDermott’s “Enough,” by Tracy Daugherty
- On James Kaplan’s “In Miami, Last Winter,” by Steven Schwartz
- On Mavis Gallant’s “The Remission,” by Andrea Barrett
- On Mavis Gallant’s “Mlle Dias de Corta,” by Francine Prose
- On Robert Stone’s “Helping,” by Jim Shepard
- On Charles Baxter’s “Fenstad’s Mother,” by Rosellen Brown
Considering Wislawa Szymborksa (issue 5)
- Thinking Out Loud, by Lawrence Raab
- On Szymborska, by Carl Dennis
- That Threshold (If It Is A Threshold), by Sally Ball
- Vaster: Wislawa Szymborska and Elizabeth Bishop, by Kathy Fagan
- “Non Omnis Moriar”: Reading Szymborska in Translation by Jennifer Clarvoe
- On Szymborka’s “Travel Elegy,” by William Olsen
- To Keep On Not Knowing, by Michelle Boisseau
- All the World’s a Stage: Some Thoughts on Szymborksa, by Rachel Wetzsteon
- Everything, All At Once, by Marianne Oruch
- Heaven by Subtraction – Szymborska’s Skeptical Wonder, by Tony Hoagland
Frederick Barthelme Feature (issue 4)
- Sun Deluxe, by Frederick Barthelme
- Interview with Frederick Barthelme, by Gary Percesepe
- Rereading Frederick Barthelme’s “Shopgirls” (Minimalism and Prosaics), by B.W. Jorgensen
NOTE: Issues 1-3 did not feature a feature.
Interviews
- Make Sure There Is Breathing Room: A Conversation with Tania de Rozario, author of And The Walls Come Crumbling Down and winner of the 2020 NOR nonfiction contest
- Interview with Jeanne-Marie Osterman
- Looking for Moments Where the Transcendent Becomes Possible: An Interview with Anthony Marra
- On Ongoingness: a Conversation with Ada Limón and Jaswinder Bolina
- Perpetual Reckoning: An Interview With Kiese Laymon
- Obsession, Desperation, and Curiosity: A Conversation on the Poetics of Blues with Tyehimba Jess and Derrick Harriell
- Conversation with Marie Howe
- Conversation with Amy Bloom
- Interview with Frederick Barthelme
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