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Winter 1981

John Updike: A Literary Spider

By Jane Barnes
Summer 1994

How We Are

By Ellen Cooney
Spring 1981

A Major Biography of A Major (?) Poet

By Townsend Ludington
Spring 1994

His Name Was Lennie

By Greg Johnson
Winter 1979

Politics As Metaphor

By Garrett Epps
Winter 1994

The Handwriting on the Wall

By Robert Olen Butler
CRITICISM / Spring 1979

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

By Jorie Graham

I understand it is grafting,
this partnership of lost wills, common flowers.

Autumn 1993

Witness for the Condemned

By Ron Squire Steffey
Summer 1979

Song of Basic Necessities

By Stephen Dobyns
Summer 1993

The New Candide Or What I Learned In the Theory Wars

By David Kirby