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Summer 2003 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Summer 2003

Articles

JAN BARRY — War and Literature
Jesse Bier — Vive L'IndiffÉRence!
George Core — Quarterlies and the Future of Reading
MURRAY DUNLAP — A Wolf In Virginia
Robert Erwin — The Enron Factor In American Life
Patricia Foster — The Rock Pile In the Swamp
George Garrett — A Summoning of Place
Robert Hildt — Working Without A Net
Daniel J. Meador — Hugo Black and Thomas Jefferson
Michael Nelson — Stephen L. Carter: the Christian As Contrarian
Richard O'Mara — H. L. Mencken: Prose Marvel
Sanford Pinsker — Lyric Poetry's Saving Grace
Deborah M. Prum — Searching for Arthur's Stone
DAVID RUBIN — A Bee Out of the Hive
Hans A. Schmitt — Memories of A Tranquil Revolution
Kenneth W. Thompson — Tapes, Scholars, and the Value of Community: One Perspective on the Future of Presidential History
M. Sajjad Yusuf — Pakistan: A Political Enigma

Poetry

John Balaban — Highway 61 Revisited and Sotol
Hank Lazer — Prayer
Sharon Leiter — Why Call It Dust?
Peter Pereira — The Cruciverbalist and Turning Straw Into Gold
Floyd Skloot — The Dance and Relocation
Deborah Slicer — O Merciful God (And Some Angels), Sunflowers, Wyoming, and Loco
Charles Harper Webb — The Open-Air Concert Survived A Shaky Start and A Meal Not Eaten

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Summer 2003