Poetry
Blue Ridge Bestiary 1. Vulture Business never slows for the air’s ubiquitous morticians, their spiraling so effortless we might admit its beauty, if we didn’t know how eagerly, in those ridiculous black boas, they wait to begin the endless dissipation we …
… del Carmen to find work. Those who work in Sierra rarely come home more than once a week. Others must travel another … its former self—and soon, if something isn’t done, it may become another desert ghost town. Despite the obvious impact … in works by Alberto Ríos and Luis Alberto Urrea , but also covertly in poems by Tom Sleigh , Gregory Orr , and …
… was writing his play called “Julius Caesar,” there died, twenty-four miles from Strat-ford-on-Avon, a rich … his three sons gobbled up what he left be hind him like jackals over a lion’s supper-bones. It slipped through their … a crystal looking-glass; and when the farmers and peasants complained, they were greeted with drunken jeers …
… That dream took many forms, as anyone knows who has studied the intellectual history of the seventeenth and eight … Europe who dies with courage because he has lived for his community, the paradoxical fellow who worships Nature but … seen freedom crumpled beneath a Fascist tank, and have seen also the miracle of its rising again to destroy …
Editor's Desk
… VQR. Yet they read our work objectively and found that we compare favorably with much larger and more commercial … and fulfill the magazine’s unique editorial mission. Also named as finalists in the Under 100,000 Circulation … in New York. More information can be found at the ASME’s website . By The Editors …
Memoir
… when she played excerpts of Gregorian chant and the madrigals and motets of Michael Praetorius, John Dowland, Giovanni … many other late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century composers. These works all took root in my growing awareness … best show of my life Tuesday night and all thanks to the audience, a thousand Mennonites and their neighbors in a small …