Published Spring 2006
 
Contributor's Notes
Poetry & Fiction | Interviews
& Essays | Provocations | Surveying
the Field
Poetry & Fiction
Anne Babson
has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and has won awards from
Columbia, Atlanta Review, Grasslands Review among others. Her libretto
for Su Lian Opera, Upbringing, is being produced by Meridian Arts
Ensemble in 2006.
Anita Bernstein
is a law professor on the faculties of Emory University and New
York Law School. She has published poems in Atlanta Review, Orbis,
Oxford Poetry, and Swansea Review.
Stan Beyer
has been a lifelong activist in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently
a medical transportation driver in Northwest Portland where he lives
with his longtime partner Karen Hensley, a social worker and his
primary editor.
Partridge Boswell,
singer/lyricist of the musical group The Cows, produces live music,
theater, dance and spoken word performances as director of Lebanon
Opera House in Lebanon, New Hampshire. His poems have recently appeared
in Rattle, The MacGuffin, Main Street Rag and New Delta Review.
Lucia Bryant
is a member of the English Graduate Program at the University of
Connecticut, where she studies twentieth-century American literature
with a focus on the Harlem Renaissance. Her work has appeared in
artisan – a journal of craft, Sulphur River Review, Emrys Journal,
and Columbia Journal of Literature and Art.
Michael Casey's
first book, Obscenities, was in the Yale Younger Poet Series in
1972. It was recently reprinted by the Carnegie Mellon University
Press. His later books are Millrat, The Million Dollar Hole, Raiding
a Whorehouse, and Permanent Party.
Kevin A. Gonz·lez
is a fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems and stories
appear in Playboy, McSweeney's, Poetry, The Progressive, and Virginia
Quarterly Review.
David Keplinger
directs the creative writing programs at Colorado State University,
Pueblo. His first book of poems The Rose Inside won the 1999 T.S.
Eliot Prize and he was awarded the NEA for his poetry. His second
book of poems, The Clearing (New Issues P, 2005) will be followed
by The Prayers of Others (New Issues P, 2006).
Jan English
Leary's fiction has appeared in journals such as The Literary
Review, Carve Magazine, Karamu, River Oak Review, and her stories
have won three Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. Despite the
pickpockets, Paris is her favorite city.
James Magorian
has been published in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review,
and Puerto del Sol. His recent book of poems is Littorals (Black
Oak Press, 2004). He is also a novelist and writes children's books.
Judy Meiksin,
a Pittsburgh poet and playwright, has published in various journals,
including 5 AM, Oakland Review, Poetry Motel, and slipstream. Her
plays have been produced by Queer Theatre and Pittsburgh Playwrights
Theatre Company.
Chelle Miko
has published in 32 Poems Magazine, The North American Review, Poet
Lore, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Nimrod, Eclectica, North Dakota
Quarterly, The Paumanok Review, Rhino, the anthology Red, White,
&Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America, The Mid-America
Poetry Review, The Comstock Review, Snow Monkey, 13th Moon, Swink,
and others. She resides in Finger Lakes region of NY.
Dan Pinkerton
is enrolled in the MFA program at Penn State University. His recent
fiction has appeared in Quarterly West. His poetry has appeared
or is forthcoming in Terminus, Redivider, and Indiana Review.
Anis Shivani's
poem in this issue is from the collection, Treasonous Times, which
is available to interested publishers. Other poems from it appear
in The Times Literary Supplement, The Iowa Review, Meanjin, Wasafiri,
The Hollins Critic, Denver Quarterly, Confrontation, and elsewhere.
A novel, The Informant, and a new collection, Anatolia and Other
Stories, are in progress.
Scott Solomon
serves as a tutor in Project READ, a program fostering adult literacy
in central Illinois. He also participates in the Red Herring Fiction
Workshop, a community-based critique group open to all comers in
Champaign. His fiction has appeared in Other Voices and is forthcoming
in the North American Review.
John Sullivan,
a former milkman and native of Maine, works as an advertising copywriter
in New York. His fiction can be found in recent issues of Fiction,
Happy, and The Journal, which nominated his work for the Pushcart
Prize. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in psychology.
Peter Upham
lives in North Carolina with his three children. He is an administrator
at Asheville School. His poems have recently appeared in Notre Dame
Review, Atlanta Review, Borderlands, and the Anglican Theological
Review.
Nathan Viste-Ross
lives in Minneapolis. Working as a shipping clerk is how he lives.
Writing poems is why he lives.
Tom Wayman
was a long-time contributor to the minnesota review in an earlier
incarnation of the magazine. His most recent collection of poems
in the U.S. is I'll Be Right Back (Ontario Review P, 1997), and
in Canada it's My Father's Cup (Harbour, 2002).
Mike White
is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of
Utah and serves as the poetry editor for Quarterly West. His recent
work has appeared in journals including Poetry, Margie, Fulcrum,
The Antioch Review, and The Iowa Review.
Laura
Madeline Wiseman is an adjunct professor at the University
of Arizona. Her works have appeared in 13th Moon, The Comstock Review,
Paper Street, and other publications. She is the cultural editor
for IntheFray and a contributor to Empowerment4Women.
Interviews & Essays
Samuel Delany
teaches in the English and Creative Writing programs at Temple University.
He is the author of The Motion of Light in Water, Times Square Red,
Times Square Blue, and most recently the short novel Phallos (2004).
John Eperjesi
is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University
and author of The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the
Pacific in American Culture (Dartmouth, 2004).
Josh Lukin
is a Lecturer in English at Temple University. He is the co-editor
of Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 18: "Fifties Fictions."
His recent scholarship addresses gender and emotion in post-World
War II genre fiction.
Donald Pease
is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of
English at Dartmouth College. His publications include Visionary
Compacts: American Renaissance Writing in Cultural Context (1987)
and, with Robyn Wiegman, Futures of American Studies (2002).
Janice Radway
is Professor of Literature and chair of the Literature Program at
Duke University. She is the author of Reading the Romance: Women,
Patriarchy, and Popular Literature and A Feeling for Books: The
Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire.
Adolph Reed, Jr.
is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
His publications include Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other
Thoughts on the American Scene (2000). He has also worked as an
organizer for the Labor Party and their campaign for Free Higher
Ed.
Provocations
Carl Levine,
a partner in the law firm Levy Ratner in New York City, is a labor
and employment lawyer who specializes in the representation of academic
workers. He is the attorney for the GA union at NYU.
S. Asad Raza
is a doctoral candidate in English at New York University and a
member of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee.
Surveying the Field
Meryl Altman
teaches English and Women's Studies at DePauw University. She has
published articles on modernist American poetry, theories of metaphor,
the history of sexuality, Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, and Simone
de Beauvoir (current project). She also writes periodically for
the Women's Review of Books.
Eyal Amiran
(amiran@uci.edu) has published an essay in mr before, on the imaginary
of publishing; he has also published diverse works on narrative
and textual theory, twentieth-century literature, and digital media.
He edits the journal Postmodern Culture and is Associate Professor
of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine.
R. Benjamin
Bateman is a doctoral candidate in English at the University
of Virginia. His dissertation, currently underway, explores gay
autobiographies from 1880 to the present. His research interests
include modernism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory.
Clifford T.
Manlove teaches twentieth-century literature, postcolonial
studies, and film theory at Penn State McKeesport. His research
and publishing interests include the American South, reggae music
and politics, science fiction and dystopia, and colonial/postcolonial
narratives.
Karin Roffman
is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College. She
is writing a book on museums, libraries, and modernism.
Carsten Strathausen
is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri.
He is the author of is Associate Professor of German at the University
of Missouri. He is the author of The Look of the Things: Poetry
and Vision around 1900 (U of North Carolina P, 2003).
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