FALL 2000
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES
Harry Bloom, Fiction
Shapes
Ann Pelletier, Poetry
Nothing
One Hundred Steps
Fear Keeps Hold
POETRY
Daniel Corrie
Superman
Laurie Lamon
Pain Thinks of the Beautiful Table
Partiality
Mary Elizabeth Parker
We Might Become Starved
Jane R. Shippen
Put the Whole Cue Ball in Her Mouth at The Cavern Tavern
Antarctica
Charles Simic
People Eating Lunch
Along with the Name Came His Shadow
Ryan Van Cleave
Ever Write a Poem About Me, Don’t Mention My Name
My Nuclear Age Fear
Ken Waldman
The New Villanelle
W.C. Fields Meets Abbott and Costello
The Good Guys
Liz Waldner
Die
Prime Mover
An Alternate Yellow (By Everything Green)
Anthony Russell White
Burglar
How Unexpected It Must Have Been
Miller Williams
Something That Meant to Be a Sonnet for an Anniversary Evening
After All These Years of Prayer and Pi R Square
Margaret Young
Light Bulb
FICTION
Andraya Dolbee
My Rules for Living
Austin Ratner
The Sea of Concatenate Memory or, Ode to the Conventional Short Story
ESSAYS
Denise Low
Bardo, or Death Journey, of William Seward Burroughs
Dinty W. Moore
Dickey and Nelson Algren’s Shorts: Writers and the Imagined Life
INTERVIEWS
Keith Hendrix
Loosening the Ropes: A Talk with Charles Simic
Edward Bok Lee
Releasing: Light and Darkness: An Interview with Poet Xue Di
TRANSLATIONS
Hil Anderson and Keith Waldrop translate Xue Di
Hotel Viking
Local Winter
Repetition
Sweet Jazz
Don Mee Choi translates Kim Hye-sun
A Song
Regarding Love
Words (1)
Words (2)
Don Mee Choi
Translation and the Korean Mudang
BOOK REVIEW
Edward M. Cifelli
The Poems of Miller Williams
Poetry from Illinois
FEATURED ARTISTS
Karen Kunc
Three Prints
David Johnson
Two Prints
Phyllis McGibbon
Three Prints
STAFF
Drama Editor: David Muschell
Art Editor: Marc Snyder
Fiction Editor: Gail Galloway Adams
Jeff Drye
Shel Evans
Keith Hendrix
John Sirmans
Danielle Wyckoff