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Pleiades Fall 2023: Featuring the special folio “Kahani: Writers from Pakistan and Its Diaspora,” guest edited by Hananah Zaheer.

Also featuring the winner of the Prufer Poetry Prize and the winner of the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction. Includes translations of Jan Wagner by David Keplinger. New work by Michael Bazzett, Jessica Cuello, Rochelle Hurt, Matthew Minicucci, H. Thao Nguyen, Doug Ramspeck, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Janice Lobo Sapigao, Kelly Weber, and more!


Pleiades 42.2 & 43.1 is the double issue for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. Featuring a special folio, “Silences of War: Erasure within Conflict,” guest edited by Hadara Bar-Nadav and Jameelah Lang. Also featuring Vickie Fang, Winner of the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction; Wisława Szymborska, translated by Joanna Huss; Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Barbara Goldberg; Juan Andrés García Román, translated by Nicholas Rattner.

With new contributions from Tammy Armstrong, Bipin Aurora, David Caplan, Patricia Clark, Claudia Cortese, Shira Dentz, Jehanne Dubrow, Michael Dumanis, Teresa Dzieglewicz, Gary Fincke, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Amanda Marie Gaines, Sarah Giragoasian, Carrie Hall, Janice Harrington, Le Hinton, Justin Jannise, Elizabeth Knapp, Geeta Kothari, Jennie Malbeouf, Anne McGrath, Teresa Milbrodt, E.C. Osondu, Jennifer Perrine, Kevin Powell, Anna Sandy-Elrod, Randy William Santiago, Heidi Seaborn, Jimin Seo, Charif Shanahan, Adam Szetela, D.J. Thielke, Felicia Zamora, & many more!


Pleiades 42.1 is the Spring 2022 issue. Featuring a special folio of Latinx LGBTQIA+ Poets, edited by Ruben Quesada, which includes new work from Alondra Adame, Nico Amador, Aldo Amparán, Rodolfo Avelar, Raymond Camacho, Tania Chen, Steven Cordova, Julio Cesar Diaz, Isabella Piedad Escamilla, Blas Falconer, Daniel Garcia, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rachal Marquez Jones, Mateo Perez Lara, Stella Lee, Catalina Ocampo Londoño, Luis Lopez-Maldonado, Natalie Marino, Helena Mesa, Ruben Quesada, Gabriela Ramos, José A. Rodríguez, C.T. Salazar, Antonia Silva, Veronica Silva, Miguel Soto, Vickie Vértiz, and Spencer Williams.

Also featuring Fei Sun, winner of the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction and Mee Ok Icaro, winner of the Prufer Poetry Prize. New work by Kirsten Aguilar, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Amy Beeder, Stephanie Douglass Carpenter, Jax Connelly, Judith Cooper, Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, Kenneth A. Fleming, Gloria L. Huang, Mark Irwin, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Melissa Kwasny, Rebecca Lehmann, Matthew Lippman, Marisa L. Manuel, Jared McCormack, Caroline Plasket, Doug Ramspeck, T. De Los Reyes, Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers, Matthew Tuckner, Adam Vines, Jieyan Wang, Corrie Williamson, Isaac Yuen, and many more!


Pleiades 41.2

Pleiades 41.2 is the Fall 2021 Issue of Pleiades. Featuring a special folio: Essays from the Southwestern United States, curated by Toni Jensen, which includes new work from Alfredo Aguilar, Nick Almeida, Kathleen Blackburn, KJ Cerankowski, Joy Clark, Brian Clifton, Beth Lee, Manny Loley, Kailyn McCord, Ruby Hansen Murray, and Sharon Oard Warner. Also featuring a translation folio: Zuzanna Ginczanka, translated from the Polish by Joanna Huss. New work from Austin Araujo, Rebecca Aronson, Taylor Byas, Gina Chung, Robin Gow, Camile Guthrie, Keetje Kuipers, Ananda Lima, Noor Ibn Najam, Andrew Porter, Elizabeth AI Powell, Jake Skeets, Cedric Tillman, Sasha West, Connie Voisine, G.C. Waldrep, and many more!


Pleiades Issue 41.1

Pleiades 41.1 is the Winter 2021 issue. Cover art by Erika Harrsch. This issue contains “Reanimating Ancestors,” a special folio, guest edited by Claire Meuschke, featuring new work by Kimberly Alidio, Laynie Browne, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Gabriel Dozal, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan, Safia Elhillo, Tatiana Johnson-Boria, Stella Li, Farid Matuk, Hoa Nguyen, Brandon Shimoda, and Vanessa Angelica Villarreal. The issue also features a translation folio of poet Alain Mabanckou, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson. The issue also contains new poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by Derrick Austin, David Caplan, Blas Falconer, Paige Quinones, Zach Linge, Ploi Pirapokin, Courtney Faye Taylor, Virginia Lee Wood, and more!


Pleiades 40.2 is the Summer 2020 issue. Cover art by Holly Wong. This issue features a special folio on Korean American Women Poets, edited by E.J. Koh, including work by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Franny Choi, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Monica Youn, and more. Featuring the winner of the G.B. Crump Prize for Experimental Fiction, Becky Hagenston. Also featuring new poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Jan Beatty, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Charlie Clark, Jehanne Dubrow, Kathy Fagan, Rebecca Morgan Frank, John Gallaher, James Allen Hall, Joseph Han, Leslie Harrison, Janine Joseph, Mary Kuryla, Kristi Maxwell, Rosalie Moffett, Sara Mumolo, Catherine Pierce, Eric Tran, and more. The issue includes a new Pleiades Book Review, edited by Taneum Bambrick.


Pleiades 40.1 is the Winter 2020 issue. Cover art by Holly Wong. Featuring work by: Aleyna Rentz, winner of the R.M. Kinder Award for Realistic Fiction, Dorothy Chan, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Luiza Flynn-Goodlet, Parul Kapur Hinzen, Ruth Joffre, Simone Muench & Jackie K. White, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Marilyn Nelson, Tracy O’Neill, Shivani Radhakrishnan, Cintia Santana, Matthew Siegel, Sam Taylor, Alexander Weinstein, and more. Special Folio guest-edited by Rosebud Ben-Oni: Poetry of Elements, Celebrating the 150thAnniversary of the Period Table, featuring work by: Karen Leona Anderson, Christian Gullette, Faisal Mohyuddin, Danielle Pafunda, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leslie Contreras Schwartz.


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Volume 39, Number 2, Summer 2019

Folio: Afro-Caribbean and its Diaspora fiction, edited by Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Ivelisse Rodriguez

Winner of the GB Crump Award for Experimental Fiction


Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2019

A special tribute to Dolores Kendrick, edited by Abdul Ali.

Contains Pleiades Book Review 16.1.

Winner of the G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction

Winner of the R.M. Kinder Prize in Realistic Fiction


Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2018

Folio: African American Women Writers: Adesuwa Agbonile, Christine Lincoln, LaTanya McQueen, Dantiel Moniz

Folio: “The Second Story:” Drew McCutchen, Michael Hopkins, Emma Binder, Tess Allard

Bilingual folio: Xanath Caraza’s poetry


Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2018

Retroview: Louis Zukofsky’s “A”-14 by David Caplan.

Amy Strauss Freidman on Carter’s No Relation.

Tyler Robert Sheldon on Brewer’s I Know Your Kind.

Abigail Eskew on Casey’s Little Boxes: 12 Writers on Television.

Emma Bolden on Militello’s A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, and more!


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Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2018

Folio: Contemporary French Fiction: Jeanne Benameur, Francois Bon, Yanick Lahens, Delphine Coulin

Folio: Contemporary Eastern European Poetry: Inga Gaile, Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Claudiu Komartin, Sergey Gandlevsky

Winner of the G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction: Jenny Drai


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Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2018

Millennials Killed This Book Review: Kate Burgess on Anna Gavalda’s Life, Only Better

A Philosophical Fairy Tale: Amanda May on Muriel Barberry’s The Life of Elves

Of (Jorie) Grahamatology: Jerry Harp on Jorie Graham’s Fast

“Yu Haffi Meet Yuself at Last:” Brandi George on Shara McCallum’s Madwoman

Retroview: Trouble Kept at Bay: Mark Halliday on Richard Wilbur’s Walking to Sleep


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Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2017

Folio: on Myth & Fairytale Retellings: Carrie Messenger, Teresa Milbrodt, Zachary Mason, Lucas Church, Maggie Nye.

Introducing New Literary Discoveries: Kate Velguth, Eli Barrett, Kaia Preus, Jie Liu.

Tribute to the late Franz Wright, edited by Kaveh Akbar.

Winner of the R.M. Kinder Award for Realistic Fiction: Dusty Cooper.


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Volume 14, Number 2, Summer 2017

Christine Butterworth-McDermott’s Dolls, Freaks, Art: American Poets Creating a New Mythology

Maggie Anderson’s Level of Difficulty

Caitlin Pryor’s Eating Poetry: Reading & Tasting


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Volume 37, Number 1, Winter 2017

Winner of the Gail B. Crump Award for Experimental Fiction: J. M. Ferguson

Family Memoir by Judith G. Levy

Folio of “Human Future Fiction” including writers Alexander Weinstein, Pascha Sotolongo, George Saunders, Megan Giddings, Brenda Peynado, Michael Nye, and Anna Short.

New Translations of poet Vintila Ivanceanu

Fiction by Michael Kardos, Samantha Edmonds, Nickalus Rupert, Erica X Eisen, and B.J. Best

Essays by Emma Carlisle, Tonya Bomsta, and Tina V. Cabrera


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Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2017

BJ Hollars on A Fond Farewell to Time Well Spent

Jason Tucker’s All the White People, Anyway: Race, Gender, and Leaving Home

Jaclyn Bergamino and Kori Hensell’s Dirt Under Our Fingernails

Jerry Harp’s Uncanny Eileen Myles

Mark Halliday’s Lerner and His Firefly

Eric Smith on Bakken’s Eternity & Oranges


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Volume 26, Number 2, Summer 2016

Folio of Contemporary Fiction by American Veterans: Brent Glays, Jesse Goolsby, Benjamin Hertwig, Matt Gallagher, Lauren Kay Halloran, Jerri Bell, Hugh Martin, David Abrams

Folio of New Galician Poets: Luz Pichel, Chus PAto, Yolanda Castano, Maria do Cebreiro

Introducing poet Anzhelina Polonskaya

Fiction by Zachary Mason, Alexander Weinstein, Janice Hubschman, Lizzi Wolf, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Jameelah Lang

Essays by Lucy Biederman and Mark Halliday


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Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2016

From Ruins to Redemption: On Building Back Beyond Disaster

Anne Valente on Matt Bell’s Scrapper, Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus, and Jill Talbot’s The Way We Weren’t.

“History Has Its Eyes on You”: Contemporary Nonfiction and Its Engagement with the Past

Colin Rafferty on Janice Nimura’s Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, Sallie Bingham’s The Blue Box: Three Lives in LEtters, Sarah Wildman’s Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind, and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk.

Reading Ashbery Reading Us

Jerry Harp on John Ashbery’s Breezeway


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Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2016

Folio of Contemporary Japanese Fiction: Keita Jin (translated by Alison Watts), Toh EnJoe (translated by David Boyd), Aoko Matsuda (translated by Ryan Shaldjian Morrison), Kotaro Isaka (translated by Angus Turvill), and Mieko Kawakami (translated by Hitomi Yoshio)

Symposium on “Honest Violence” in Fiction: Morris Collins, Aaron Apps, Ihab Hassan, Suzanne Heagy, J. Duncan Wiley, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Joseph Daniel Haske, Teresa Milbrodt, Sharon Harrigan

Translations of Samira Negrouche by Marilyn Hacker

Translations of Angel Erro by Lawrence Schimel

Introducing poet Christine Larusso, by Rachel Zucker

Fiction: by Hunter Choate, Jaclyn Dwyer, Glenn Shaheen, Tara L. Masih, Kurt Becket Pitzer, and Teresa Milbrodt

Essays: by Geoffrey Babbitt, Caroline Crew, Susanna Space, and Dustin Parsons

Poetry: by Amy Meng, Audrey Hackett, Stephen Gibson, Delia Rainey, Hannah Gamble, Elizabeth Langemak, Jay Yencich, Kien Lam, Ashley Keyser, Jessica Morey-Collins, Matthew Wimberley, Randy Blythe, M. Lysen, Adam Hayden, Amaranth Borsuk, Ocean Vuong, Miranda Atzbach, Julia Clare Tillinghast, Emily Skillings, Michelle Askin, Miguel Angel Ramirez, Nick Narbutas, Hannah Kucharzak, Alexandra Teague, David Bartone, John Harn, Lucille Lang Day, Brian Clifton, Safia Elhillo, Abigail Chabitnoy, Ruth Williams, Lauren Moseley, Alicia Mountain, and Susan Elizabeth Howe.


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Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2016

Introduction: BJ Hollars “A Place to Live: a Call for Literary Citizenship”

Feature Reviews: Beth Marzoni, “Violent Mercices: Five New Poetry Collections of Rage & Reckoning; Robert Glick, “In a World Without Dragons: Violence and its Safety Valves”; Alan Michael Parker, “Damn Franzen: on Franzen’s Purity.”

Shorter Reviews: Kristina Marie Darling on Devota’s And the Girls Worried Terribly; Colin Rafferty on Slomski’s The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons; John Vanderslice on Blumenthal’s The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History; Katherine Hoerth on Quintanilla’s If I Go Missing; Jennifer Schomburg Kanke on Dawson’s The Small Blades Hurt; Erica Trabold on Gorham’s Study in Perfect; Bruce Whiteman on Char’s Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance; Jennifer Schomburg Kanke on Hahn’s Brain Fever; Colin Rafferty on Luiselli’s Sidewalks; Brent Newson on Li’s Transoceanic Lights; John Vanderslice on ZoBell’s What Happened Here; Bayard Godsave on Gunnarsson’s The Thaw; Erica Trabold on Cohen’s I Was Not Born; Matthew Hidinger on Hampsey’s Kauffman’s Hill; Bayard Godsave on Smith and Chavez’s Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing; Amanda Williams on Dawes’s Duppy Conqueror; Lynnell Edwards on Bachmann’s Do Not Rise; Chioma Urama on Iromuanya’s Mr. and Mrs. Doctor; Shannon Kammerlohr on Gallaher’s In a Landscape; Nathanael Tagg on McGovern’s Bad Fame; Jeremy Allan Hawkins on Shea’s The Lost Novel; M. J. Chrisman on Adnot-Hayes’s The Year of Perfect Happiness; Carol Quinn on White’s Small Porcelain Head; Sean Morrissey on Kocher’s Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun; Stephen Tapscott on Collins’s Day Unto Day; Carol Niederlander on Pankey’s Dismantling the Angel; Jack Smith on Must’s Hush Now, Don’t Explain; Kylie Shepherd on Bar-Nadav’s Lullaby (with Exit Sign).

 


 

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Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2015

Symposium on Prufrock at 100: Jerry Harp, Michael Theune, Jason Sommer, Corey Van Landingham, Rishona Zimring, Eric Pankey, Kevin Prufer, Jennifer Atkinson, Carl Adamshick.

Introducing Grzegorz Wróblewski: by Piotr Gwiazda.

Fiction: by Rebecca Makkai, Richard Burgin, Dustin M. Hoffman, Allyson Goldin Loomis.

Essays: by Maya Jewell Zeller, Toni Mirosevich, Dustin Parsons, Caleb Powell.

Poems: by Taisia Kitaiskaia, B.J. Best, Catherine Wing, Jane Wong, Zack Strait, Ed Skoog, Danniel Schoonebeek, Kristen Steenbeeke, Abigail Cloud, Maya Jewell Zeller, Corey Van Landingham, Jerry Harp, Nellie Bridge, Sarah Barber, Sarah Galvin, Jessica Garratt, Davis McCombs, Colleen Abel, Rachel B. Glaser, Mark Leidner, Dana Roeser, Katharine Rauk, Bill Carty, Zubair Ahmed, Thomas Grout, Katharine Ogle, Karen Skolfield, Peter Schireson, Drew S. Cook, Debora Kuan, Thomas March, Damian Caudill, Svetlana Beggs, Maureen Seaton, Michelle Peñaloza, Stephen Danos, Bryan Merck, Lizzie Harris, Sierra Nelson, Casey Patrick, Christopher Cheney.


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Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2015

Symposium: Morality and Fiction: Paula M. L. Moya, Seth Brady Tucker, Alexander Weinstein, Bayard Godsave, Kaethe Schwehn, Peder Jothen, Michael Dean Clark, Michael Kardos, & Christine Sneed

Folio: New Egyptian Poetry: Ibrahim El-Sayed, Hermes, Malaka Badr, Tamer Fathi, Amira Hanafi, Ahmed Nada, & Aya Nabih

Fiction: by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Brenda Peynado, Christina Clancy, Rebecca Makkai, James Terry, & Michael Czyzniejewski

Essays: by Joel Brouwer & Shara Lessley

Poems: by Trey Moody, Katie Bickham, Ben Purkert, Shara Lessley, Monica A. Hand, Julie Sheehan, Charlie Clark, Kevin Boyle, Chris Anderson, Gerry LaFemina, Emily Skaja, Deborah Flanagan, Nick Lantz, Fleda Brown, Bianca Lech, John Estes, Jonathan Johnson, Laura Bylenok, Denise Duhamel, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Karina Borowicz, Lee Sharkey, Claire Bateman, Mark Irwin, Sally Wen Mao, Thibault Raoult, Joelle Biele, Marc Brudzinski, Allison Benis White, Janice N. Harrington, Megan Privitello, Matthew Guenette, Carrie Oeding, Mary Ann Samyn, Rebecca Lehmann, Peter Kline, Jim Daniels, Henry Israeli, Nance Van Winckel, Kerry James Evans, Dore Kiesselbach, Sarah Green, Brian Laidlaw, Jacques Rancourt, & Kyle McCord.


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Volume 34, Number 2
Features: Martha Collins introducing Sara Eliza Johnson, Eleanor Goodman introducing Wang Xiaoni, & Jack Pendarvis introducing Maegan Poland; Post-Troubles Belfast Poets: Jean Bleakney, Damian Smyth, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Miriam Gamble, Moyra Donaldson & Sam Riviere

Fiction: by Kate Crosby, Patrick Dacey, Venita Blackburn, S. Brady Tucker & Mary Troy; Essays: by Mark Halliday & Drew Calvert

Poems: by Andrew Grace, Joel Brouwer, Melissa Kwasny, Kuno Raeber, Peter Cooley, Katie Ford, Amy Sparks, Chana Bloch, David Dodd Lee, Sarah Murphy, Jason Olsen, Emily Ho,Carmen Gimenez-Smith, Dan Bellm, Bruce Whiteman, Maya Jewell Zeller, Rich Smith, C. Dylan Basset, Shane Mcrae, Cintia Santana, Laura Van Prooyen, Joshua Marie Wilkinson


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Volume 34, Number 1
Feature: Symposium on Poetic “Risk” with contributions byRobert Archambeau on Peter O’Leary & Michael Robbins, Rae Armantrout on Ben Lerner, Victoria Chang on Shane McCrae, Heather Christle on Mark Leidner, Martha Collins on Tony Hoagland, Carl Dennis on David Wojahn, & more

Fiction by Alexander Weinstein, Courtney Morgan, Michael Martone, Christine Sneed, J. Duncan Wiley, & Joseph Grim Feinberg

Essays by Melanie Rae Thon, Robert Long Foreman, & Drew Calvert

Poems by Hailey Leithauser, Michael Martin Shea, Alicia Ostriker, Abigail Cloud, Ralph Angel, K. A. Hays, Erika Meitner, Rosalie Moffett, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Douglas Kearney, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Jerry Harp, Catherine Pierce, Sean Hill, Sydney Lea & more.


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Volume 33, Number 2
Poems by Jaswinder Bolina, G. C. Waldrep, Leslie Harrison, Tomaž Šalamun, Michael Teig, Rebecca Hazelton, Ed Orr, Traci Brimhall, Michael Bazzett, George David Clark, Stephanie Horvath, Michael Snediker, Corinna Ricard-Farzan, Madeleine Barnes, Michael Chitwood, Mark Irwin, Christopher Howell, Albert Abonado, & more

Fiction by Zachary Mason, Jack Pendarvis, Hilary Plum & more

An Essay by David Comfort
J. Allyn Rosser introducing Steve Coughlin


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Volume 33, Number 1
Poems by Rebecca Hazelton, David Kirby, Nina Puro, Frances Justine Post, David Dodd Lee, Gregory Djanikian, Bruce Snider, Katy Didden, Nicky Beer, Giovanni Pascoli (trans. Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston), Adam Giannelli, B. J. Best, Mary Biddinger, Jeffrey Morgan, Cintia Santana, Noah Blaustein, Sydney Lea, Jill Osier, & more

Fiction by Eric La Fountain, Suzanne Heagy, Jacob M. Appel, & more

An Essay by Brian Jay Stanley

Christopher Howell (re)introducing Adam Hammer
Mark Halliday on Rachel Wetzsteon


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Volume 32, Number 2
Poems by Craig Morgan Teicher, Ari Feld, Laura Eve Engel, Julio de Luna, Rob Schlegel, Carl Auerbach, Kent Shaw, Jake Adam York, Jacqueline Lyons, John Gallaher, Emily Rosko, Michael Bazzett, & more

Fiction by Kaethe Schwehn, Tiphanie Yanique, & Jan English Leary

Essays by Brian Jay Stanley & Rusty Morrison

A Folio: Six Dutch Poets
Katie Ford introduces Harold Schweizer; Sean Cotter introduces Nichita Stănescu


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Volume 32, Number 1
Poems by Heather Kirn Lanier, Chris Bullard, Breyten Breytenbach, Marosa di Giorgio (trans. Adam Giannelli), David Wagoner, D. A. Powell, Bruce Snider, R. T. Smith, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Malachi Black, Taije Silverman, Peter Streckfus, Margaret MK Hess, John Poch, Elaine Terranova, Kevin Phan, Corey Marks, James May, & more.

Fiction by Bayard Godsave, Peter Sapira, & Scott Kaukonen

Essays by Amy Benson & Sarah Gorham

A Symposium on Sentiment

A Folio of New Translations by “Old” Poets
Randall Mann introduces Eric Smith


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Volume 31, Number 2
Poems by Mike White, Eric Torgersen, J Allyn Rosser, Pablo Peschiera, Tori Sharpe, Aliesa Zoecklein, Martha Collins, G. C. Waldrep, Jim Daniels, Rusty Morrison, Piper Abernathy, Sam Witt, Sylva Fischerová (trans. the author & Stuart Friebert), David Dodd Lee, Bruce Bond, Erika L. Sánchez, Dan Rosenberg, Andrew Brogdon, & more.

Fiction by Alex Weinstein, Amina Gautier, Christine Sneed, Richard Burgin, & Gary Fincke

Essays by Amy Benson, Melissa Kwasny, & Sarah Gorham

A Folio of Arabic Poetry in Translation, featuring poems by Adonis, Ashur Etwebi, Ghassan Zaqtan, Amjad Nasser, Asmaa Azaizeh, & Dalia Taha (translations by Fady Joudah, Khaled Mattawa, & Rasheeda Plenty)


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Volume 31, Number 1
Poems by Suzanne Buffam, Chris Forhan, Victoria Chang, Brian Barker, CJ Evans,Edward Falco, Jehanne Dubrow, Mark Irwin, Melissa Kwasny, Cynthia Cruz, Marvin Bell, JL Conrad, Betty Adcock, Adda Djørup (trans. Roger Greenwald), Eleanor Tipton, John Matthias, Steven D. Schroeder, Jerry Harp, Laurel Blossom, & more.

Fiction by Susan Steinberg & Allyson Goldin.

Essays by William Giraldi, Carol Ciavonne, Chuck Carlise, & Joe Miller.

Cynthia Marie Hoffman introduced by Jennifer Atkinson.

Featured reviews by David Caplan, Kristina Marie Darling, Mark Halliday, and Peter Ramos.


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Volume 30, Number 2
Poems by Brian Barker, Alex Lemon, Penelope Cray, David Wagoner, Nancy Eimers, Randall Mann, William Logan, Troy Jollimore, James Richardson, Sydney Lea, Ada Limón, Sherman Alexie, Salgado Maranhão, Xi Du, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, and more.

Fiction by Matt Mullins, Roger Yepsen, and Christine Sneed.

Essays by Lance Olsen and Robert Long Foreman.

Introducing Austin Smith.

Featured reviews by Jay Thompson & Michael Theune, Betty Adcock, Michael Lipkin, Rika Lesser, Matthew Thorburn, Richard Tayson, Jerome Sala, and Raymond McDaniel.


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Volume 30, Number 1
Poems by H. L. Hix, David Wagoner, Sandra Beasley, Gastão Cruz (trans. Alexis Levitin), Thomas More (trans. Jerry Harp), Tomaz Salamun, Sarah Murphy, and more.

Fiction by Mark Wisniewski, Ned Balbo, Meghan Kenny, and Jack Boettcher.

Mark Halliday on “Pushcart Hopes & Dreams.”

Introducing Heather Treseler and Collier Nogues.

Featured reviews by Michael Theune, Dana Levin, and J. B. Werlin.


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Volume 29, Number 2
Poems by Michael Waters, Martha Ronk, Nicky Beer, G. C. Waldrep, Alicia Ostriker, Martha Collins, Hédi Kaddour (trans. Marilyn Hacker), Vincent Guerra, and more.

Fiction by K. Schoenhut, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Michael P. Kardos, and Amina Gautier.

A Letter to John W. Aldridge from Eric Miles Williamson.

Introducing Daniel Simko.

Featured reviews by Joseph Campana, Jay Thompson, Piotr Florczyk, Richard Tayson, Lynnell Edwards, Anis Shivani, Michael Theune, and Jerry Harp.


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Volume 29, Number 1
Poems by Wayne Dodd, Emily Rosko, John Gallaher, Diane Wakoski, Brian Barker, David Bottoms, Christina Davis, Julio Martínez Mesanza (trans. Don Bogen), and more.

Fiction by Martha Ronk, Matt Salesses, and Elizabeth Miller.

A play by Mark Halliday & Martin Stannard.

Essays by Lee Zacharias and Desirae Matherly.

Introducing Celia Dropkin and Yvette Louisell.

Featured reviews by Archambeau, Theune, Metres, K. Hollander, and Hutton.


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Volume 28, Number 2
Poems by Troy Jollimore, Adrian Matejka, David Orr, Luljeta Lleshanaku (trans. Shpresa Qatipi & Henry Israeli), Jonah Winter, Maria Hummel, Arielle Greenberg, and more.

Fiction by Gary Fincke, David Yost, Ihab Hassan, and Effim Yaroshevsky.

An essay by Tom Fleischmann.

A symposium on Laura Jensen, and introducing Lily Brown.

Featured reviews by David Caplan, Mark Halliday, Jerry Harp, Anis Shivani, and James Matthew Wilson.


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Volume 28, Number 1
Poems by Kim Adonizzio, James Richardson, Claire Hero, Ngu Tu Lap (trans. Martha Collins), Jericho Brown, Albert Goldbarth, Roberto Bolaño (trans. Laura Healy), and more.

Fiction by Dan Malakoff, Ellen Visson, and James W. Crilly.

Mark Halliday on Cultural Studies, Rick Barot on Carl Phillips.

Introducing Derek Mong and Linnea Ogden.

Featured reviews by Michael Theune, Robert Archambeau, and Jerry Harp.


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Volume 27, Number 2
Poems by Mary Jo Bang, Randall Mann, Alan Michael Parker, Michael Dumanis, David Kirby, Brian Teare, Joshua Kryah, Mông-Lan, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, and more.

Fiction by Zachary Mason and Anna Maria Baker.

David Wojahn on the “School of Imaginary Conversations.”

Introducing Jon Link and Julie King.

Featured review by Jerry Harp.


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Volume 27, Number 1
Poems by John Gallaher, D. A. Powell, Catie Rosemurgy, Sam Witt, Sylva Fischerová (trans. Stuart Friebert), John Matthias, Grace Schulman, Patty Seyburn, and more.

Fiction by Manjula Menon and Gary Fincke.

Essays by Reginald Shepherd and Anis Shivani.

Introducing Katie Hubbard and Andrew Morgan.

Featured reviews by Robert Archambeau, John Poch & Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Jerry Harp, Michael Theune, Richard Tayson, and Lynnell Edwards.


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Volume 26, Number 2
Poems by Randall Mann, Don Share, G. C. Waldrep, Pattabi Seshadri, Andrea Hollander Budy, Allison Benis, Kathleen Jesme, Sarah Murphy, David Hernandez, and more.

Fiction by Joshua Mohr and Richard Burgin.

Essays by Ken Chen and David Kirby.

Introducing Marie Etienne and John Forbes.

Featured reviews by Mark Halliday, Jerry Harp, and Michael Theune.


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Volume 26, Number 1
Poems by Mike White, Donna Stonecipher, Marc McKee, Laura Kasischke, Michael Snediker, Davis McCombs, Betty Adcock, Göran Sonnevi (trans. Rika Lesser), and more.

Fiction by Tony Viola and Stephanie Reents.

Essays by Lewis Horton, Sean Bernard, and Paul Ruffin.

Introducing Kevin Honold and Jay Hopler.

Featured reviews by Michael Theune, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Jonathan Weinert.


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Volume 25, Number 2
Poetry by Maria Hummel, Colette Inez, Charlie Smith, Victoria Chang, Lara Glenum, David Wagoner, David Dodd Lee, Matthew Cooperman, Hadar Bar-Nadav, and more.

Fiction by Andrew Foster Altschul, Kerry Maiorca, and Larry Foundation.

Essays and “other prose” by Mark Halliday, David Lazar, and Molly McQuade.

Introducing Karen Subach.

Featured reviews by Michael Theune, Jerry Harp, and Mark Halliday.


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Volume 25, Number 1
Poems by Craig Morgan Teicher, Mary Jo Bang, Peter Cooley, Mark Pietrzykowski, Kirsten Kaschock, Kent Shaw, Christopher Buckley, Catherine Barnett, and more.

Fiction by Mary Kuryla, Nathan Hill, and Tod Williams.

An essay by Ronald Sukenick and an interview with Reginald Shepherd.

Introducing Jerzy Kronhold and Alex Lemon.

Featured reviews by Jerry Harp, Mark Halliday, and Michael Theune.


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Volume 24, Number 2
Poetry by Toi Derricotte, C. Dale Young, Barbara J. Orton, Wislawa Szymborska (trans. Justyna Koskowska), Julie Sheehan, Jerry Williams, Sean Hill, and more.

Fiction by Bill Peters, Theresa Rusho, and CB Anderson.

Essays by Fred D. White and Ken Chen.

Introducing Jirí Cêch and Benjamin Scott Grossberg; an interview with Richard Burgin.

The Pleiades Book Review.


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Volume 24, Number 1
Poems by Pablo Peschiera, John Gallaher, Angie Estes, Arielle Greenberg, G. C. Waldrep, Kile Cogis, Nils Michals, Max Winter, Katie Ford, Jennifer Kronovet, and more.

Fiction by Nicholas Montemarano, Ander S. Monson, Katherine Vaz, and Lyzette Wanzer.

Essays by J. D. Smith and Rob Johnson.

A symposium on Christianity and poetry, and and interview with Carl Phillips.

The Pleiades Book Review begins here!


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Volume 23, Number 2
Poems by Christine Sneed, Amy Beeder, Sarah Manguso, Paisley Rekdal, Terrance Hayes, Jennifer Grotz, James Hoch, Rusty Morrison, Ethan Paquin, James Tate, Jean Valentine, Jeffrey McDaniel, Cynthia Cruz, Alissa Valles, Rick Barot, Bob Hicok, and more.

Fiction by Shannon Doyne, Kristi Dalven, and Stephen Graham Jones.

Essays by Chris Offutt, Geoff Bent, and Jeffrey McDaniel.
Hugh Hosch on the “Hemingway/Conrad ‘One-Way Feud.'”

Introducing Danielle Pafunda, Alexander Long, and Helen Wickes.

Numerous book reviews.


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Volume 23, Number 1
Poems by D. A. Powell, Arielle Greenberg, David Dodd Lee, Jeffrey McDaniel, Rachel Zucker, Dara Wier, Christopher Arigo, Ander Monson, Eric Pankey, Simone Muench, Joyce Carol Oates, Talvikki Ansel, Cate Marvin, Maxine Kumin, David St. John, and more.

Fiction by Patrick Ryan, John A. Tisdale, E. Shaskan Bumas, Paul Crenshaw, and Joanna Fried.

Introducing Catherine Imbriglio and George Higgins.

Poets on John Berryman.

Numerous book reviews.