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Check here for news from our contributors (listed by the issue in which their work appeared). Issue 12 Laurie Lamon has 2 poems in the summer issue of Feminist Studies and two poems forthcoming in Pleiades (the coming issue). Her collection of poems is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in fall/winter 2004-5. Issue 11 Issue 10 Recent publications. John Gilgun. Both are in anthologies. 1. "How to be a Shaman 2," p. 149, The Pagan's Muse: Words of Ritual, Invocation, and Inspiration edited by Jane Raeburn (Citadel Press, 2003.) 2. "Orpheus Meets John Wieners on the Subway in Boston," p. 35, Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway, edited by Peggy Garrison and David Quintavalle, (P & Q Press, New York, 2003.) Kathleen Hart will be reading her work and talking about their connection to visual art at the annual poetry festival to be held at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas on 1/9/04. Hart would appreciate hearing from any other poets who also work with sources in a (coherent) collage-type fashion at katylied57@hotmail.com. Denise Low has a recent publication:  Thailand Journal (Topeka:  Woodley Mem. Press-Washburn Univ., 2003).  Dinty W. Moore recently edited Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction (MAMMOTH, 2003) featuring work by GCSU MFA graduate Wayne Thomas. Moore also taught a five-week graduate workshop in Writing Creative Nonfiction this past July and August in Madrid, Spain.  The course was part of the University of New Orleans' Madrid Summer Seminars. G.C. Waldrep's first book of poems, GOLDBEATER'S SKIN, won the 2003 Colorado Prize (judged by Donald Revell), as well as an Academy of American Poets prize.  It will be out in December.  In the meantime he has work forthcoming in GETTYSBURG REVIEW, AMERICAN LETTERS & COMMENTARY, QUARTERLY WEST, SALT HILL, and other journals. Issue 9 Edward Cifelli written a new introduction to the Signet Classic edition of John Milton.  The book is Paradise Lost and Other Poems and is due out in December. Robert Gibb has a new book, The Burning World, which will be out in January (2004) from the University of Arkansas Press. French Quarter Fiction, an anthology that contains one of Bruce Henrickson’s stories, has been widely reviewed and was recently discussed on National Public Radio. Henrickson will also soon publish Ticket to a Lonely Town through Atomic Quill Media. Peter Levine is currently in the M.A. writing program at Johns-Hopkins.  He has been writing a good deal (including a second part to the piece that appeared in Arts & Letters issue #9) and teaching an undergraduate writing course. Liana Scalettar’s recent and forthcoming publications (all stories) appear in: Washington Square (Summer 2003) Since participating in the Arts and Letters Festival last March, Chuck Spoler won the Promising Playwright Award from the Colonial Players In Annapolis, MD for his play "Gloriana", which will be produced next year. His play "The Hunger Artists" will be produced off-off Broadway on October 21, 22 and 23, 2003. He has also been teaching Playwriting at Goucher College this fall. Issue 8 Joan Connor is now teaching at Ohio University and University of Southern Maine.  Her third collection History Lessons won the AWP award, and she also recently received a Pushcart Prize and the John Gilgun award. Since his appearance in Arts & Letters, Richard Lyons has published an essay in Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life (Sarabande Books, 2002). He has also published poems in Brilliant Corners, The Indiana Review, and The Louisville Review. He has work forthcoming in Triquarterly, Cimarron Review, Brilliant Corners, The Gettysburg Review, and The Paris Review Allan Peterson was the first runner up for the Roanoke Review Poetry Prize & the Ruth Benedict Prize from Passages North. He has recently appeared in Gettysburg Review, Eleven Bulls, James River Review, and 2River View. He has a chapbook online titled “Any Given Moment” which can be viewed at http://www.righthandpointing.com/allan_peterson. His forthcoming works will appear in Marlboro Review, Stickman Review, Blackbird, Drexel Online Journal, and Eclipse. Josh Rolnick has a new short story, "The Carousel," in the April 2005 issue of Gulf Coast. (He won the 2002 Arts & Letters prize in fiction, and writes: “That prize continues to be a springboard for me in my writing career. Can't thank you enough for the launch!”). His short story “Innkeeping” won the Florida Review fiction prize which is featured in the current issue. Presently, he is an MFA student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and also serving as a fiction editor at The Iowa Review. Julia Ridley Smith had a story called "Mrs. West" in the American Literary Review, Spring 2003.  She also has a story coming out now in an anthology called A VERY SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS from Algonquin Press, and a story forthcoming next summer in Chelsea 76. R. T. Smith has two new books out: The Hollow Log Lounge (Illinois) and Brightwood (LSU). He has also edited an anthology, Common Wealth: Contemporary Virginia Poets (UVA). He has work forthcoming in Southern Review, Poetry, Georgia Review, and Gettysburg Review. Xue Di Books Forgive, Winner of the 2003 Blue Light Poetry Prize, Blue Light Press, April 2004. Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror, Winner of the 2003 West Town Press Chapbook Competition, West Town Press, Spring 2004. Health & Human Rights (A View Along the Running Edge), Yefief World Editions, Forthcoming, 2004. An Ordinary Day, Winner of the 2001 Jane Kenyon Award, Alice James Books, 2002. Issue 7 Gary Finke won the 2003 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Prize for his collection Writing Letter for the Blind, and he won the 2003 Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize for his collection Sorry I Worried You.  Another short story collection, The Stone Child, was published by the University of Missouri Press in September, and a nonfiction book, Kicking Ass, about his son's rock and roll life in two signed bands will be published by Michigan State University Press in May, 2004. Samuel Hazo’s last book Just Once: Autumn House Press, 2002, is the recipient of the Maurine English Poetry Prize for 2003. Jane Hirshfield’s 2001 book GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Issue 6 Fleda Brown's fifth collection of poems, The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in December. She is professor of English at the University of Delaware, where she directs the Graduate Student Poets in the Schools Program. She is poet laureate of Delaware. Kathryn Stripling Byer’s fourth book, Catching Light, was published by LSU Press in 2002, nominated for the L.A. Times Book of the Year in Poetry, and last spring was chosen the 2002 Book of the Year in Poetry by the Southeastern Booksellers Association.  A chapbook of her poems, Wake, was published by Spring Street Editions in the spring of 2003.  She received the 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature a while back, and was the 20th annual honoree for the Emory and Henry (Va.) Appalachian Literary Festival, with papers given on her work, an interview conducted by Lee Smith, and a special issue of Iron Mountain Review devoted to the proceedings.  New publications in Shenandoah (winter, 2002/03), Elixir, Cortland Review, Blue Moon, etc.   A short story of hers, “Hook,” was selected by Charles Frazier as one of the four winners in Now and Then magazine's fiction contest this past summer. Her fifth book, Coming to Rest, due from LSU in 2005.  Margaret Gibson was published in 2003 of Autumn Grasses, a new book of poems from LSU, and she was the recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant for 2003. New stories, poems and essays of Ben Miller will appear this fall and winter in Carolina Quarterly, Rattapallax, Gargoyle, Berkeley Fiction Review, Sentence, Good Foot, Quick Fiction and American Letters & Commentary. In August of 2003 he joined the mast head of The Common Review (a quarterly publication of the Great Books Foundation), as East Coast Correspondent. Rachel Pastan’s first novel, This Side of Married, will be published by Viking in May, 2004. Luke Whisnant has new stories appearing in Beloit Fiction Journal and Revista NEO (Portugal). Issue 5 In June 03, Norton published Maxine Kumin’s BRINGING TOGETHER; UNCOLLECTED EARLY POEMS 1958-1988. In October 03, the Yale Collegium performed an evening of some of her work set to music by students, faculty, and others, ranging from a 50-member chorus to a string quartet to all-percussion pieces. Last June she started teaching in the new low-residency MFA in Poetry program at New England College in Henniker ("the only Henniker on earth") NH. She has new poems in APR, Hunger Mt., Hotel Amerika, Margie, Water-Stone, etc. as well as in POETS AGAINST THE WAR. Issue 4 Daniel Corrie’s essay ("What Is Human Time?") appeared in The Hudson Review.  A poem of his appears in the current issue of The American Scholar.  Other of his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Hudson Review, New Criterion and Southern Review.  He continue to live in Atlanta.  Ryan G. Van Cleave is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University.  His fourth poetry collection, THE MAGICAL BREASTS OF BRITNEY SPEARS, is forthcoming from Pavement Saw Press in 2004.  His work has appeared recently in THE IOWA REVIEW,  THE WRITER'S CHRONICLE, and INDIANA REVIEW. Miller Williams’ fiction collection--The Lives of Kelvin Fletcher: Stories Mostly Short was published by the University of Georgia Press last year.  Issue 3 Christine Boyka Kluge’s first book of poetry, Teaching Bones to Fly, will be published in November by Bitter Oleander Press, http://www.bitteroleander.com/.  In 2003, her work appeared in three anthologies: No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets from Tupelo Press (Ray Gonzalez, Editor); Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction from Mammoth Books (Dinty W. Moore, Editor); and (Some from) DIAGRAM: a Print Anthology from Del Sol Press (Ander Monson, Editor).  New poems and prose poems are out or forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, Hotel Amerika, LUNA, Natural Bridge and Sentence, and online at Blackbird and The Blue Moon Review. (2^nd email) I just had word that I won the 2003 Creative Nonquiction Contest, sponsored by Quick Fiction, Brevity, and Del Sol Review.  A full-length version of Arthur Meryash’s “Augustina,” titled SLEEP BEAUTY, was a finalist (or “gold-medalist”) for the first annual Pinter Review Prize for Drama (2003). His poems “The Mailbox” and “Premonition” were finalists in 2002 and 2001 for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and published in The Formalist, which has published several of his poems the last few years. He also have poems forthcoming in The Ledge, Edge City Review, and Blue Unicorn. Eric Nelson's collection Rockets has been chosen by final judge Maxine Kumin as the winner of the 2003 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.  The book will be published in 2004 by Texs Review Press. The winner of Tupelo Press’s chapbook competition, “In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words,” Barbara Tran’s first poetry collection was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award. Barbara is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation writing fellowship for Fall 2003. More information on Barbara's recent and upcoming activities can be found at: http://www.betasquared.net/barbaratran/ Carolyne Wright: Since spring 1999, when I was Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Miami, I have taught Creative Writing as a visiting professor at Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, and the University of Oklahoma. I am currently Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Wooster in Ohio. In 1999, a manuscript of poetry, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, won the Blue Lynx Prize and was published in 2000 by Lynx House Press.  This collection also received the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry for 2001, and an American Book Award for 2001 from the Before Columbus Foundation. A chapbook of poems, Carolyne Wright:  Greatest Hits 1975-2001, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2002, as part of this invitational series.   Issue 2 Brad Barkley’s second novel, Alison's Automotive Repair Manual, was published in the spring of 2003 by St. Martins Press and was a Booksense 76 selection.  It has been optioned for film by Fancywilder Entertainment.  His first novel, Money, Love, also a Booksense 76 pick,  has recently been translated into German and Japanese, and his fourth book, a collection of stories titled Another Perfect Catastrophe, will be published in the spring of 2004, also by St. Martins.  Since 1999, Norman Goodwin has had a poem chosen by the King County Arts Commision for its Poetry on Busses contest, received a Literary Merit Prize for a poem by the Atlanta Review, had a poem chosen and published as a finalist in the INKWELL Magazine Poetry Contest, had a book length manuscript chosen as a finalist for the Levis Poetry Prize by Four Way Books. Other journal publications include American Literary Review, The Ledge, Sow’s Ear, Pontoon. His book length manuscript, King of Knots, is still seeking a publisher. He continues to practice dentistry in the Seattle area. Oni Buchanan won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series competition, and her first book of poetry, *What Animal*, was published in October 2003.  She has poetry appearing in current issues of American Letters & Commentary, Verse Magazine, Fence, and Gulf Coast, and has a poem forthcoming in the Best American Poetry 2004, selected from Conduit by Lyn Hejinian.  Her poem "The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia," first published in Arts & Letters, has been selected for inclusion in a Verse Press anthology to be published in the fall of 2004, *Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets*.  She is currently an MM candidate in piano performance at the New England Conservatory of Music. Thea Kuticka received the 2001 Arizona Commission on Arts  Fellowship in Poetry and is a winner of the 2002 Oneiros Press Poetry Broadside Competition. Poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in ACM, Gulf Coast, Runes, and the anthology Working Hard for the Money (Bottom Dog Press, 2002). She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and works for Dark Horse Comics. Barbara F. Lefcowitz’s major literary news is the forthcoming publication of her 8th poetry collection, PHOTO, BOMB, RED CHAIR (Fithian Press, 2004), and the launching of a new non-fiction project  tentatively entitled "The Eye: Changing Visions" in which she plans to discuss the human eye in a variety of contexts, including  the mythological, scientific, and artistic.  She has also published a number of poems and essays,  notably an essay called "To Know or not to Know," published  in  the Southwest Review.  Issue 1 Jim Barnes is currently the Distinguished Professor of English at Brigham Young University. His short story “Luck” was recently published by South Dakota Review (Summer 2003), and his short story “What They Lost” was published by Iowa Review (Fall 2003). His poems, “The First Feria of the Third Millenium, Arles, 2001” and “Visiting Picasso,” are forthcoming in Sewanee Review. E. Ethelbert Miller has a forthcoming book from Curbstone Press in 2004. The title is HOW WE SLEEP ON THE NIGHTS WE DON'T MAKE LOVE. For information or review copies contact Sandy Alexander at: sandy@curbstone.org. He was honored by First Lady Laura Bush and the White House at the 3rd National Book Festival held in Washington on October 4th. He participated in the 1st National Book Festival held in September 2001. His memoir FATHERING WORDS was selected for the DC WE READ program in 2003. See website: www.eethelbertmiller.com Katherine Soniat’s The Fire Setters (2002) is available through the Web del Sol/The Literary Review Online Chapbook Series (theliteraryreview.org or webdelsol.com). Her fourth collection, Alluvial, (2001) was published by Bucknell University Press and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize given by the University of Iowa Press. Poems recently have been published in The North American Review, Witness, Southern Review, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner, and The Women’s Review of Books. She is on the faculty at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, VA. Michael Waters’ recent books include Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2001) and with the late A. Poulin, Jr., Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). He edited A. Poulin, Jr.: Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2001) and co-edited Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). He is co-translator of Death Searches for You a Second Time by Romanian poet Camelia Leonte (Red Dragonfly, 2003). Click icon to return to top of page

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