New Ohio Review

Issue 32, March 2023

Features/Interviews/Reviews

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)

On Ongoingness: a Conversation with Ada Limón and Jaswinder Bolina

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)

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.

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