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.
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Norman Dubie,
v1n2,
v2n1,
v2n2, and
v7n1
Blackbird began publishing Norman Dubie’s book-length futurist poem, The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, with “Book of the Jewel Worm” in v1n2. The other two sections, “Book of the Jaspers” and “The Book of the Crying Kanglings,” appeared in v2n1 and v2n2 respectively. A master menu connects the sections across the three issues. Five new poems by Dubie appeared in v7n1. |
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John Bresland,
v4n1
In v4n1 we published two essays by John Bresland. “Les Cruel Shoes,” a video essay set in the streets of Paris, and “Harley Momma,” an audio essay reflecting on his fifty-seven-year-old mother’s decision to “take a Fat Boy cross country.” In this issue, Bresland cocurates and contributes to a suite of video essays and provides a traditional print essay defining the form. |
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Katie Ford,
v8n2
2009 Levis Reading Prize winner Katie Ford is represented in v8n2 by poems from her winning collection, new poems, audio of the Levis Reading Prize event, and a conversation about her work. “The amazing thing about writing a first book is that you have your whole life pressing on you, so you have all of it to use. You only get to do that kind of once.” |
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George Garrett,
v1n1,
v3n1,
v4n2, and
v7n1
Appearances by George Garrett include three stories, a play commissioned by the Ford Foundation in the 1960s, and an interview. v7n1 includes an essay by Kelly Cherry about his work, “The Achievement of George Garrett.” In this issue of Blackbird, we remember him as teacher and friend through R.H.W. Dillard’s introduction of poet Liana Quill . |
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Margaret Gibson,
v1n1,
v5n1,
v6n1,
v6n2
Poems and a reading by Margaret Gibson appeared in v1n1, and subsequently, Blackbird has published more poems in v5n1 and two autobiographical essays, in v6n1 and v6n2. Five new poems appear here, and “The light I see by, a reading lamp with a green glass shade, / floats on the dark of the winter window” invites her readers to her contemplative pleasures. |
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T.R. Hummer,
v2n2
T.R. Hummer’s “Suite for Jimmy Lunceford, 1902–1947” appears in v2n2 (with audio of Hummer reading poems headed by musical epigraphs). In an interview in that same issue, he talks about jazz, bluegrass, blues, and bebop, especially the culture that forms the background for the Lunceford suite. Two new poems by T.R. Hummer appear in this issue of Blackbird. |
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Gerald Stern,
v2n2,
v7n2,
v8n2
Poems by Gerald Stern appear in v2n2 and v7n2. The poem in v7n2 reflects his deep friendship with Larry Levis. He is represented in v8n2 by “I,” a long poem that finds its genesis in the architecture of lower Second Avenue in New York and in the personae of the prophet Isaiah. A poem by Kathleen Graber dedicated to Stern appears in this issue of Blackbird. |
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Eleanor Ross Taylor,
v1n1,
v7n1,
v8n2
Poems by Eleanor Ross Taylor as well as an audio interview with her appeared in v1n1, and poems also appear in v7n1. In v8n2, Susan Settlemyre Willams reflected on Taylor’s fifty years as a published poet. Taylor’s Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 has been published by Louisiana State University Press, and she received the 2010 Ruth Lily Prize. |
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Sarah Vap,
v5n1,
v6n1,
v7n2,
v8n2
Poems by Sarah Vap appear in v5n1 and v7n2, and a review of Dummy Fire, a book of poems, was published in v6n1. Her essays are as remarkable as the poems and v8n2 presents an essay that explores “a mothering mind and the creative process.” A second essay about deafness and hearing as an “interpretive act” appears in this issue of Blackbird. |
Volume 8, Number 2 | November 2009
Poetry: Sherman Alexie | M.L. Brown | Christopher Burawa | Kevin Cantwell | A. V. Christie | Peter Cooley | Lisa Fay Coutley | Julie Danho | Chard deNiord | Leah Dunham | Katie Ford | Jennifer H. Fortin | Danielle Hanson | Ruth Ellen Kocher | Larry Levis | Sandy Longhorn | Dawn Lonsinger | Darren Morris | Elisabeth Murawski | Rodney Nelson | William Olsen | Alison Pelegrin | Paisley Rekdal | Catie Rosemurgy | Maureen Seaton | Nabaneeta Dev Sen | Peter Shippy | R. T. Smith | Sofia M. Starnes | Shirley Stephenson | Gerald Stern | Laura Van Prooyen | Katrina Vandenberg | Ron Winkler | Carolyne Wright | Jake Adam York
Fiction: Madison Smartt Bell | Michelle Brafman | Adrian Dorris | Marcela Fuentes | David Lynn | Airin Miller
Nonfiction: Shanley Jacobs | Larry Levis | Randy Marshall | Ron Slate | Laura Van Prooyen | Sarah Vap | Grant White | Susan Settlemyre Williams
Gallery: Anne Browder | Alan Bigelow | David Caudle
Audio/Video/Flash: Alan Bigelow | Anne Browder | Katie Ford | Ron Winkler
Poetry: Nick Admussen | Maureen Alsop | Nicky Beer | Kara Candito | Victoria Chang | Ann Fisher-Wirth | Julie Funderburk | Heather June Gibbons | Anna Journey | Philip Levine | Catherine MacDonald | Erika Meitner | Mary Petrosky | Wyatt Prunty | Jessica Ratigan | Rita Mae Reese | Joshua Rivkin | Metta Sáma | Diane Seuss | Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet | Jean Valentine | Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Fiction: Alexis Apfelbaum | Claire Bateman | Thomas Cooper | Marina Antropow Cramer | Michael Croley | Taylur Thu Hien Ngo | Christine Schutt
Nonfiction: Jehanne Dubrow | Mary Lee Allen | Sandra Beasley | Craig Beaven | Catherine MacDonald | Matthew Myers | Patty Paine | Jesse Ulmer | Grant White | Susan Settlemyre Williams
Gallery: Myron Helfgott | Emily Smith | G.K. Wuori
Audio/Video/Flash: Chris Abani | Nicky Beer | Kara Candito | Richard Carlyon | Thomas Cooper | Claudia Emerson | Anna Journey | Taylur Thu Hien Ngo | Megan O’Rourke | Jean Valentine
Volume 7, Number 2 | November 2008
Poetry: Betty Adcock | M.C. Allan | Andrew Allport | Adam Chiles | Ramola D | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | Matt Donovan | Todd Fredson | Henry Hart | Jeanne Larsen | Patrick Lawler | Larry Levis | Louise Mathias | Khaled Mattawa | Irene McKinney | Iman Mersal | Edie Rhoads | Ron Smith | Gerald Stern | Allison Titus | Sarah Vap | Bruce Weigl | Jonathan Weinert | Joe Wilkins | Terri Witek
Fiction: John Allman | Forrest Anderson | David Huddle | K. Kirk | Lee Smith | Jessalyn Wakefield
Nonfiction: Constance Adler | Christopher Buckley | Larry Levis | Chapbook Omnibus Review | Mary Lee Allen | Randy Marshall | Catherine MacDonald | Karla Huston | Matthew Myers | Michele Poulos | David Roderick | Ron Slate | Carol Houck Smith | Susan Settlemyre Williams
Gallery: Ebtisam Abdul Aziz | Manal Al Dowayan | Tarek Al Ghoussein | Levis Found Portraits | Madeline McGehee | John Ravenal | David Roby
Audio/Video/Flash: Ebtisam Abdul Aziz | David Baker | Manal Al Dowayan | Matt Donovan | Tarek Al Ghoussein | Larry Levis | Madeline McGehee | Tomaž Šalamun | Carol Houck Smith | Gerald Stern | Charles Wright | Patrick Vickers
Poetry: Susan Aizenberg | Jeffrey Bahr | Sandra Beasley | Agatha Beins | Bruce Bond | Ash Bowen | Abraham Burickson | Peter Campion | Judith Cofer | Wyn Cooper | Norma Dubie | Jehanne Dubrow | Rishma Dunlop | Claudia Emerson | Jaimee Hill | Lynda Hull | David Keplinger | James Thomas Miller | Joshua Poteat | Tomaž Šalamun | Elizabeth Scanlon | Eleanor Ross Taylor | Fritz Ward | Ryo Yamaguchi
Fiction: Liam Callanan | George Garrett | Molly Giles | Miroslav Penkov | Peter Taylor
Nonfiction: Elizabeth Alexander | Sandra Beasley | Craig Beaven | John Casey | Kelly Cherry | Mark Doty | Mary Flinn | Mary Gordon | David Jauss | David Lynn | Catherine MacDonald | Brenda Shaughnessy | Susan Settlemyre Williams | David Wojahn
Gallery: Sami Ben Larbi | Terry Gibson | John Ravenal
Audio/Video/Flash: Elizabeth Alexander | Mark Doty | Mary Gordon | Lynda Hull | David Jauss | Sami Ben Larbi | Brenda Shaughnessy | David Wojahn | Patrick Vickers
Volume 6, Number 2 | November 1, 2007
Poetry: Chris Abani | Victoria Chang | Michael Chitwood | Keith Ekiss | Gibson Fay-LeBlanc | Beth Ann Fennelly | Raza Ali Hasan | James Hoch | Cyan James | Julia Johnson | Larry Levis | Khaled Mattawa | Timothy O’Keefe | Catherine Pierce | Jon Pineda | John Poch | Austin Segrest | Louie Skipper | Ron Smith | Robert Thomas | Joshua Weiner | Lesley Wheeler | Charles Wright
Fiction: Zane Kotker | Jill McCorkle | Amey Miller | Richard Schmitt | Sruthi
Thekkiam | Laura Madeline Wiseman
Nonfiction: Mary Lee Allen | Rebecca Black | Michael Collier | Margaret Gibson | Catherine MacDonald | William Olsen & David Wojahn | Allison Seay | Ron Slate | Susan Settlemyre Williams
Gallery: Margrét Blöndal | Gerald Donato | Yasmine Rana | John Ravenal
Audio Interviews/Reading: Rebecca Black | Margrét Blöndal | Michael Collier | Gregory Donovan | Beth Ann Fennelly | Larry Levis | Khaled Mattawa | Terry Oggel | Janet Peery | Joshua Weiner | David Wojahn
Volume 6, Number 1 | May 1, 2007
Poetry: Renee Ashley | Paula Bohince | Ronda Broatch | Paula Cisewski | Nicole Cooley | Leigh Anne Couch | Mary Cresswell | Catherine Daly | Kathy Davis | Adam Day | Beth Ann Fennelly | Ann Fisher-Wirth | Twilight Greenaway | Danielle
Hanson | Henry Hart | David Huddle | Kevin McFadden | Maggie Schwed | Diane Seuss | Dana Littlepage Smith | Maggie Smith | Michael Snediker
Fiction: John Allman | Kavita Dorai | Anne Germanacos | Michael Griffith | Richard Jespers | Michael Kardos | William Henry lewis | Court Merrigan | Amey Miller
Nonfiction: Laura Browder | Hal Crowther | Margaret Gibson | Robert D.
Richardson | Ron Slate | Ron Smith | Ellen Bryant Voigt | Anna Journey | Michele Poulos | Amy Unsworth
Gallery: Dan O’Brien | Kevin Hamilton | AJ Liberto | John Ravenal | Camille Zakharia
Audio Interviews/Reading: Laura Browder | Beth Ann Fennelly | Kevin Hamilton | Robert D. Richardson | Ellen Bryant Voigt | Ann Fisher-Wirth | Camille Zakharia
Volume 5, Number 2 | November 1, 2006
Poetry: Jeff Baker | Rebecca Black | Elizabeth Bradfield | Robin Ekiss | Susan Elbe | Leonard Gontarek | Carolyn Guinzio | Anne Haines | Douglas S. Jones | Sally Rosen Kindred | David Dodd Lee | Larry Levis | Sandy Longhorn | Robert Lopez | Tomás Q. Morín | Valerie Nieman | Bryan Penberthy | Sam Pereira | Sylvia Plath | Paisley Rekdal | Rachel Richardson | Alan Shapiro | Ron Slate | Terese Svoboda | Laura Van Prooyen | Mark Yakich | Jake Adam York
Fiction: Liliana V. Blum | Becky Bradway | Caitlin Horrocks | Josip Novakovich | Peter Orner | Genanne Walsh | Ahmad Saidullah
Nonfiction: David Baker | Stephen Dunn | Robert Richardson | Susan Settlemyre Williams | Anna Journey | Jennifer Merrifield | Tina Barr | Craig Beaven | Michaux Demptster | Ann Glenn | Jesse Ulmer
Gallery: Shigeo Kawashima | Laura Lark | Liza Lentini | John Ravenal
Audio Interviews/Reading: Dan Albergotti | Larry Levis | Cecily Parks | Ron Slate | Lee Smith | Mark Yakich
Volume 5, Number 1 | May 1, 2006
Poetry: John Allman | Becca Barniskis | Sandra Beasley | Jennifer Chang | R. H. W. Dillard | Jehanne Dubrow | Margaret Gibson | Lorene Lamothe | Elizabeth Seydel Morgan | Christine Perrin | Catherine Pierce | Ed Skoog | Alison Stine | Sarah Vap | Martin Walls | Terri Witek
Fiction: Lorraine Adams | Kathy Flann | Anne Germanacos | R. T. Smith | Misty Urban | Scott Yarbrough
Nonfiction: Rodney Jones | Ron Smith | Mary Lee Allen | Jennifer Merrifield | Susan Settlemyre Williams
Gallery: Richard Carlyon | Benjamin S. Jones | Karina Peisajovich | Sheri Reynolds | William Jay Smith
Audio Interviews/Reading: Lorraine Adams | Aimee Bender | Liam Callanan | Richard Carlyon | Tony D’Souza | Rodney Jones | Sheri Reynolds | Ron Smith | Natasha Trethewey
Volume 4, Number 2 | November 1, 2005
Poetry: Dilruba Ahmed | Dan Albergotti | Craig Beaven | Elinor Benedict | Linda Bierds | Victoria Chang | Daniel Coudriet | Michelle Detorie | Rebecca Dunham | Nancy Taylor Everett | Richard Garcia | Steve Gehrke | Douglas Goetsch | James Hoch | Lesley Jenike | Larry Levis | Ada Limón | Dave Lucas | Karyna McGlynn | Allan Peterson | Spencer Reece | David Roderick | Peter Jay Shippy | Christine Stewart | Susan Terris | Emily Warn | Emily Watson | Carolyne Wright | Dave Zoby
Fiction: Stephany Brown | Dana Cann | Cary Holladay | Christopher Orlet | Janet Peery | Suzanne Rivecca
Nonfiction: Tom Andrews | Marian Crotty | Ron Smith | Susan Settlemyre Williams | David Wojahn
Gallery: Adaptation Syndrome | Richard Carlyon | George Ferrandi | Daisy Foote | George Garrett | Larry Levis | Yasmine Rana
Audio Interviews/Readings:
Dan Albergotti | Craig Beaven | Richard Carlyon | Daniel Coudriet |
Hal Crowther | Tom De Haven | Allison Joseph | Larry Levis | Ada Limón
| Elizabeth McCracken and Ann Patchett | Karyna McGlynn | Spencer Reece
David Roderick
Volume
4, Number 1 | May 1, 2005
Poetry: Beth Bachmann | Susanna Childress | William E. Dudley | Tess Gallagher | Rodney Jones | Jennifer L. Knox | Robert Krut | Linda Malnack | Sarah Manguso | Jeredith Merrin | Cecily Parks | Alison Pelegrin | John Poch | Jody Rambo | F. Daniel Rzicznek | Jeannine Savard | Ravi Shankar | Adam J. Sorkin | Brian Teare | Matthew Thorburn | Liliana Ursu | Rachel Jamison Webster
Fiction: John Allman | Michael Croley | Jennifer Dickinson | Jeremy Griffin | Neil Grimmett
Nonfiction: Mary Lee Allen | Michaux Dempster | Anna Journey | Mark Strand | David Wojahn
Gallery: Sarah Bednarek | John Bresland | Clay McLeod Chapman
Audio Interviews/Readings: Richard Bausch | John Bresland | Ron Carlson | Victoria Chang | Michael Croley | Allison Joseph | William Matthews with David Wojahn and James Harms | Cecily Parks | Paisley Rekdal | Ravi Shankar | Alan Shapiro | Terese Svoboda | Liliana Ursu by Ileana Popa | Terri Witek | Jake Adam York | Dean Young
Volume 3, Number 2 | November 1, 2004
Poetry: Susan Aizenberg | Talvikki Ansel | Brian Barker | Larry Bradley | Victoria Chang | David Daniel | Mary Dixon | Lisa Gluskin | Danielle Hanson | James Himelsbach | Peter Klein | Jeanne Larsen | Shara Lessley | Larry Levis | Alexander Long | Karen Maceira | Sean Nevin | Hugh Steinberg | Laura-Gray Street | Ellen Bryant Voigt | Jake Adam York
Fiction: Heather Burt | Michael Byers | Bryn Chancellor | Angela Davis-Gardner | Richard McCann | Charles Rose
Nonfiction: Marjorie Agosín | Craig Beaven | Edward Byrne | Philip Levine | William Matthews | Susan S. Williams | David Wojahn
Gallery: Wendy Ewald | June Guralnick | Pivot Points
Audio Interviews/Readings: Marjorie Agosín | Sally Bowring | Michael Byers | David Daniel | Gregory Donovan | Philip Levine | Larry Levis | William Matthews with David Wojahn and James Harms | Richard McCann | Elizabeth Seydel Morgan | Joshua Poteat | Dave Smith | Laura-Gray Street | Ellen Bryant Voigt
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