American Letters & Commentary #15
Eleanor Wilner Jeanne Mackin William Hogarth Eric Darton David Rees Roz Chast Bruce Benderson Peter Blegvad Ben Greenman Ian Ganassi Susan Wheeler
Comedy, Self and Otter The Comedy Divine Weighing House Light as a Hummer: Associations on Comedy, Contra-Gravity, and the World Turned Upside Down Why Did Garfield Jump? Drawing I’m not Laughing Funny Peculiar: An Interview The Mechanics of Humor in the Garages of Humor: How A Belabored Metaphor in a Title Can Peter Out Before the Piece Even Begins Some Thoughts on a Poem by James Tate Trids
special feature: Quintessences: Five Prose Works in Progress
Patricia Candaux
Elena Alexander
Rachel Pollack
Mark Scarbrough
Gioia Timpanelli
from A Feast of Fat Things, a novel
from Blood Prayers, Sanguinary Blessings, an ideonarrative
from The Voice of Painted Wings, a novel
from Till Sex Do Us Part, a memoir
from Migrations, a novel
poetry and fiction:
Becka Mara Mckay John Schertzer Claudia Keelan Rosmarie Waldrop Sarah Davis Jeff Baker Peter Henry John Olson Sarah Riggs Christina Mengert Michael Dumanis James Magorian John Poch Susan Goslee Shane McCrae Raymond McDaniel Cole Swensen John Greenman Linh Dinh Oni Buchanan Susan Tepper Andrew Osborn Arielle Greenberg Patrick Donnelly Anne Waldron Neumann Amy Holman Catherine Wagner Timothy Liu Linda Button James Tate Pattie McCarthy Laurel Snyder Daniel Johnson Robert Gregory G.C. Waldrep Julie Carr Sharon Dolin Jim Elledge Catherine Imbriglio Adam Novy Lesle Lewis Ben Miller Joshua Corey Shane Book Julianne Buchsbaum Susan Maxwell Janet Kaplan Shira Dentz Geoff Bouvier
Tabloids September Variations Sun Going Down Disaster Monday Louis vs. Louis Conversion Piece Hands Up Touch, A Brief Botany Essential Features Kwashiorkor Eating With a Souvenir Spoon Not Reading Plato Lorenz, K.Z. (1988) Here Am I—Where are You?: The Behavior of The Greylag Goose. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich House Sparrows fireworks Two Poems The Cowboy Poet Eating Fried Chicken What Animal Deer Search Engine (Cicada) Two Poems Your Own Stone The Wise Old Woman Who Lived in a Wood and What Happened to Her Afterwards Visiting Exercise 19 (9/1/01 A.M.) Last Call Holler Song Acute Homesickness Two Poems What the Dock Saw The Forecast Calls for Falling Sheet Metal The Sky is Down Close Two Poems 44. How He Stands, Close Enough Two Poems Heart Sceleratus Exegesis The Israelites Baudelaire’s Mouth #541 from Severance Songs The Ivorian “because because” The Power Plant Plural for Tree at the Forested Edge A Singular Green Cup Celerity A Bee’s Advice
Art
Jean Painlevé
Nina Katchadourian
Jan Baracz
Adam Dant
Rachel Goodwin
Sasha Wizansky