This issue focuses on Poem Paintings, with portfolios of collaborative work from Frank O'Hara/Norman Bluhm, Raphael Rubinstein/Edouard Prulhière, and Denis Johnson/Sam Messer. Garrett Caples reviews the controversial poetry of Will Alexander and Piri Halasz writes on Randy Bloom. Includes a Margaret Morton photo essay on the construction and violent deconstruction of one homeless man's home; Roberta Lord's insightful appreciation of the life and work of the late sculptor Dale Eldred; and an excerpt from Bobst Award-nominated fiction by Jane Ransom.

Jane Ransom: from Bye-Bye
Robert Wexelblatt: The Withdrawal of Wananu

Roberta Lord: The Sky Above Dale Eldred
Robert Bartle: Dale Eldred: A Personal Appreciation
Piri Halasz: Ella Blooms at the Gershwin
Elaine Equi: Voice Lessons
Garrett Caples: "Is the Analysis Impure":
    Two Books by Will Alexander

Margaret Morton: Mr. Lee's House

Taruho Inagaki
Tricia Vita, tr.: Six Prose Poems
Jacqueline Risset
Jennifer Moxley, tr.: Four poems

Wes Mills: Untitled
Katha Seidman: Untitled
William Corbett: Editor's Introduction
Molly Torra: Untitled
Michael Franco: Commentary
Michael Mazur: Canto XIII
Sven Birkets: Commentary
Askold Melnyczuk: Commentary
Steven Trefonides: Embrace
Jonathan Aaron: The Eleventh Muse
Pamela Alexander: Nots
Stanislaw Baranczak: Or the Current Resident
Ed Barrett: Jigs and Reels
Jim Behrle: Taking the Shortcut
Erin Belieu: Timing Is Everything
Frank Bidart: In Memory of Joe Brainard
Martha Collins: And Bright Stars
Sam Cornish: His Was a Song for the Tired Hands
Joseph Lease: Worship and Darkening Music
Frederick Marchant: Trestle at Mystic
Gail Mazur: Then
Ange Mlinko: The Traveller
Robert Pinsky: Four Alphabets
David Rivard: Questions for Oppen
Joseph Torra: Untitled
Ben Watkins: Group Photograph
Ben Watkins: Untitled

Norma Cole and Ben Watkins: Artificial Memory

Merrill Gilfillan: Three Poems
Diane Stevenson: Four Poems
George Kalamaras: Fractures of September
Lisa Jarnot: The Specific Incendiaries of Springtime
Maralyn Lois Polak: Three Poems
Tim Griffin: Five Poems
Jordan Davis: A Little Gold Book
Tom Dowe: Moby Poem
Carolyn Koo: Two Poems
Geoffrey Young: Three Poems
David Meltzer: from No Eyes
Michael Gizzi: from No Both
David Shapiro: Two Poems

Norman Bluhm: Untitled, 1997
30" x 22", ink and watercolor on paper

Editor/Publisher:  

Jonathan Gams

Co-Editor:  

Peter Occhiogrosso

Arts Editor:  

John Yau

Contributing Editors:  

Michael Gizzi*
Susan Levin
Raphael Rubinstein
David Shapiro

Assistant Editor:  

Chad Odefey

Art Director:  

Barbieo Barros-Gizzi

Business Manager:  

Anne Bei

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Ned Depew

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Kathleen Seidel

*Michael Gizzi is now editor of Hard Press's Profile Series of Literature
Special thanks to Michael Munshaw and Jeffrey Spear at John C. Otto, Inc., also Tom Powers.