blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1
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IN PREVIOUS ISSUES

Blackbird publishes new issues twice a year. The notion of "issue" is both a nod to the print journal and a way for us to call attention to the new work of a limited number of writers. However, publishing online allows us keep all issues available for reading, listening, and viewing. On this page, we wish to point you toward some of the content you may have missed but which still lives in our Archives.

In our premiere issue, April, 2002, we published "Clockwork Prayer: A Sixteenth-Century Mechanical Monk," by sculptor Elizabeth King. The essay included 23 illustrations, a video of the mechanical monk in motion, and, added later as a feature, "What Happened," a stop-action animation video of King's sculpture "Pupil."
   Elizabeth King, April 2002

In our May, 2003, issue, we published seven poems, with audio, by Joshua Poteat. Poteat recently was award the Anhinga Press Poetry Prize for a first or second book for his first collection, Ornithology. He also recently received the National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America (judged by Mary Oliver).
   Joshua Poteat, May 2003

In our November, 2002, issue, we began serial publication of Norman Dubie's Buddhist-inspired, futurist epic poem, The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake. We published the third and final installment in the November, 2003, issue.
   The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake | Norman Dubie


Volume 3, Number 1 | May 1, 2004

Poetry: Rick Barot | Rita Chin | Beth Ann Fennelly | Cathryn Hankla | Norbert Hirschhorn | Art Homer | Joy Katz | April Lindner | Peggy Shumaker | Knute Skinner | Mathias Svalina | Chase Twichell | Marlys West | Charles Wright | C. Dale Young

Fiction: Kate Hill Cantrill | George Garrett | William Luvaas | Jon Pineda | R. T. Smith

Nonfiction: Pam Durban | Christian Horlick | Randy Marshall | Clara Silverstein | Susan S. Williams

Gallery: Patrick Cribben | Mark Harris | John Newman | Peter Schjeldahl

Audio Interviews/Readings: Rick Barot | Erica Dawson | Wesley Gibson | Juliana Gray | Jon Pineda | Peter Schjeldahl | Mathias Svalina | Chase Twichell | Kevin Wilson | Charles Wright


Volume 2, Number 2 | November 1, 2003

Poetry: Susan Aizenberg | Erica Dawson | Norman Dubie | Juliana Gray | T. R. Hummer | Christian Kiefer | Melissa Koosmann | Larry Levis | Louise Mathias | Kate Northrop | Kathleen Peirce | Allan Peterson | Reginald Shepherd | Lisa Russ Spaar | Gerald Stern | Amy Tudor | G. C. Waldrep | Tony Whedon

Fiction: Colleen Curran | Terese Svoboda | Patricia Wagner | Kevin Wilson | Isabel Zuber

Nonfiction: Craig Beaven | T. R. Hummer | Dave Smith | Troy Teegarden | Susan S. Williams

Gallery: David Freed | Dan O'Brien | Richard Roth

Audio Interviews/Readings: Susan Aizenberg | Rick Barot | Colleen Curran | Samuel R. Delany | Andrew Hudgins | T. R. Hummer | Larry Levis | Patricia Wagner | Isabel Zuber


Volume 2, Number 1 | May 1, 2003

Poetry: John Allman | Sheila Black | Geoffrey Brock | Norman Dubie | Denise Duhamel | Cornelius Eady | Claudia Emerson | Jason Golos | Laura Johnson | Christine Boyka Kluge | Erin Lambert | Gary Leising | Miguel Murphy | Natalie Peeterse | Joshua Poteat | Paisley Rekdal | A. E. Stallings | Tim Suermondt | Terri Witek

Fiction: Becky Hagenston | Julia Johnson | Melissa Pritchard | Sandi D. Terry

Nonfiction: R. H. W. Dillard | Craig Beaven | Dennis Danvers | Edward Falco | Susan Garrett

Gallery: Chris Burnside | Donald Kuspit | Sheila Pepe

Audio Interviews/Readings: Chris Burnside | R. H. W. Dillard | Cornelius Eady | Virginia Holman | Julia Johnson | Erin Lambert | Joshua Poteat


Volume 1, Number 2 | November 1, 2002

Poetry: B. H. Boston | Kevin Boyle | Leigh Ann Couch | Norman Dubie | Lynn Emanuel | Corrinne Clegg Hales | Henry Hart | Rodney Jack | Gerry LaFemina | Larry Levis | Richard McCann | Elizabeth Seydel Morgan | Elisabeth Murawski | Eric Pankey | Stanley Plumly | Victoria Redel | John Rybicki | Jane Satterfield | Steve Scafidi | Margot Schilpp | Clara Silverstein | D. James Smith | Ron Smith | Terese Svoboda | Ross Taylor

Fiction: Rick DeMarinis | Leon Rooke | Christine Schutt | J. David Stevens

Nonfiction: Mark Jarman | Larry Levis | Randy Marshall | Leonard Rogoff | Susan Settlemyre Williams

Gallery: Myron Helfgott | Douglas Jones | Song-yi Kim

Audio Interviews/Readings: Leigh Anne Couch | Lynn Emanuel | Claudia Emerson | Myron Helfgott | Mark Jarman | Douglas Jones | Larry Levis | Elizabeth Seydel Morgan | Steve Scafidi | Clara Silverstein | Ron Smith


Volume 1, Number 1 | April 15, 2002

Poetry: Michael Chitwood | Margaret Gibson | Beckian Fritz Goldberg | Rachel Hadas | John Hoppenthaler | Mark Jarman | Philip Levine | E. Ethelbert Miller | Marilyn Nelson translating Inge Pederson | Peggy Shumaker | R.T. Smith | David St. John | Eleanor Ross Taylor | Henry Taylor

Fiction: Carrie Brown | John Dufresne | George Garrett | Manuel Martinez | Lily Tuck

Nonfiction: Hal Crowther | Elizabeth King

Gallery: Romulus Linney | Richard Carlyon

Audio Interviews/Readings: Carrie Brown | Richard Carlyon | Hal Crowther | George Garrett | Margaret Gibson | Mark Jarman | Romulus Linney | Marilyn Nelson | Wyatt Prunty | Peggy Shumaker | Eleanor Ross Taylor | Henry Taylor