New Letters, Volume 69 Number 2-3

New Letters, Volume 69 Number 2-3
7 / Editor's Note, Robert Stewart

E S S A Y S

26 / On Rediscovering Vincent O. Carter, an introduction, Chip Fleischer
55 / Robert Stackhouse: Artist As Shapeshifter, an introduction, Elisabeth Kirsch
73 / Real Words, Paul Zimmer
101 / How Many of You Are There In the Quartet?, Brian Doyle
119 / Alice, Judy Ray
157 / Looking Out, Gary Gildner

P O E T R Y

8 / Six Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye
14 / Four Poems, Quincy Troupe
20 / Two Poems, Marilyn Hacker
93 / Tools, Joseph Millar
94 / Luminous Blue Variables, Michelle Boisseau
133 / When I Left, Vanessa Sooy
136 / On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise, Joanna Goodman
138 / We are not Creatures of a Single Day, trans. by David McDuff, Pia Tafdrup
140 / Two Poems, Judith Berke
170 / Looking for the Man in the Moon, Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
210 / The Summer Carnival, Luisa Igloria
212 / Two Poems, Donald Junkins

F I C T I O N

33 / The Song of Evening, Vincent O. Carter
59 / Songs Without Words, Charlotte Holmes
65 / Kismet, Sarah A. Odishoo
79 / Amnesty Barracks, Daniel Woodrell
215 / The Pleasure of Man and Woman Together on Earth, Thomas E. Kennedy

I N T E R V I E W

142 / The Subject is Life, conducted, by Angela Elam, Naomi Shihab Nye

T H E L I T E R A R Y A W A R D S

172 / Awards, an introduction, Aleatha Ezra
173 / Stone or Water, first place, The Alexander Patterson Cappon Award for Fiction, Janet L. Thompson
189 / On the Edge of Ice, first place, The Dorothy Churchill Cappon award for creative nonfiction, Monica Devine
199 / Five Poems, first place, the New Letters poetry award, Ellen Bass

R E V I E W S

241 / H. L. Hix, "Modes of Sacred Speech": A review of poetry books by Grace Schulman, Miranda Field, Natasha Trethewey, Jacqueline Marcus, Linda Gregerson.
253 / Conger Beasley Jr., "Anything Could Occur": A review of Hart Crane: A Life, by Clive Fisher.

A R T W O R K

Robert Stackhouse, drawings, etching, lithographs, front cover & pages, 6, 53, 54, 58, 72, 78, 118, 131, 132, 156, 171, 188, 198, 209, 214. (Introductory essay by Elisabeth Kirsch, page 55.)
258 / Awards Honor Roll
260 / New Programs: New Letters on the Air
260 / Celebrations: News From Our Authors
261 / Visitors' Log: The New Letters Guest Book
262 / NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

S T A F F

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

She is a poet, fiction and essay writer with six published books, including In the Garden of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995), and Blood Sacrifice (U of Philippines P, 1997).
DONALD JUNKINS' 10th book of poems, Late at Night in the Rowboat, will appear this spring from Lynx Press. He resides in Deerfield, Mass.
THOMAS E. KENNEDY's 14 books include five volumes of fiction, four of literary criticism, several anthologies, and the recent Realism &Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction (Wordcraft, 2002). His novel, Kerrigan's Copenhagen, A Love Story, appeared in 2002. A previous story in New Letters was included in the O.Henry Awards Anthology. He lives in Denmark. (A New Letters on the Air author.)
ELISABETH KIRSCH is an art critic living in Kansas City.
DAVID MCDUFF, born in 1945, works as a literary translator and critic. He focuses mainly on Russian and Scandinavian writing. He lives in London, U.K.
JOSEPH MILLAR's poems have appeared in recent issues of Ploughshares, DoubleTake, Shenandoah, Manoa, and New Letters. His first collection, Overtime, was published in November 2001 by Eastern Washington University Press.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE is a Lannon Fellow for 2003. Her recent books include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, a National Book Award finalist, Come with Me: Poems for a Journey, Fuel, and Habibi, a novel for teens. See page 142 for more details. (A New Letters on the Air author.)
SARAH A. ODISHOO, a professor of English at Columbia College in Chicago, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1996. She has been a finalist in the Nelson Algren Short Fiction competition, the Nimrod Poetry contest, and the Saint Agnes Eve Poetry contest. She teaches mythology and literature.
JUDY RAY is a volunteer teacher of English as a second language in her community of Tucson, Ariz., where she resides most of the year. She is a poet, memoir writer, and a former associate editor of New Letters. (A New Letters on the Air author.)
SUZANNE RHODENBAUGH is the author of Lick of Sense, published by Helicon Nine Editions in 2001. She lives in St. Louis, Mo.
VANESSA SOOY, born in Camden, N.J., now lives in Seattle, Wash. where she works as a veterinarian's assistant. She has two chap-books: So Many Birds Publishing: The Lead Swimsuit (2000) and Steady Machete (2001).
ROBERT STACKHOUSE is best known for his large-scale architectural sculpture and paintings. His works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Walker Art Center, and The Art Institute of Chicago, among many others. A large body of his work is owned by the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation. He currently holds the endowed chair at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.
PIA TAFDRUP, one of the most prominent and acclaimed Danish poets, won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for her ninth collection, Queen's Gate, in 1999. In 2001, Bloodaxe Books published David McDuff's English translations of the book in the U.K. Other works include When An Angel Breaks Her Silence (1981), Spring Tide (1989), and Walking Over Water. She resides in Copenhagen, Denmark.
JANET L. THOMPSON holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and is currently a writing tutor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her stories have been finalists in several prominent contests and have appeared in various journals. When not working, writing, or cooking, she practices and teaches yoga.
QUINCY TROUPE is the author of 14 books, including seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House, 2002). He is the recipient of two American Book Awards; in 1991 he received the Peabody Award for co-producing and writing the radio series, The Miles Davis Project Report, broadcast in seven parts in 1990 on National Public Radio. (A New Letters on the Air author.)
DANIEL WOODRELL is the award-winning author of seven novels; two have been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Award for the Novel. A native of Missouri, self-described high school dropout, and ex-Marine, Woodrell eventually graduated from the University of Kansas. He also

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