Cover art: Robert Frost & Donald Hall at Press Conference on Campus, March 1962. University of Michigan News & Information Services Photographs, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Table of Contents
Introduction
Keith Taylor: What is Found There: Poetry at Michigan
Nonfiction
- Paul R. Dimond: Frost and Burton at Michigan, 1921-26, Then and Now
- Laurence Goldstein: Poets at the University of Michigan, 1925 to 1980
- Bob Hicok: The Promise of American Poetry
- Ken Lauter: My Debt to Donald Hall and the Gaiety of Without
- Richard Tillinghast: Poetry in Ann Arbor: The Early Days of the M.F.A.
- H.R. Webster: Birds are Just Birds: The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Celebrates Ten Years
Poetry
- Scott Beal: Zoe to Alex; Ann Arbor Restaurant Says Ice Agents Ate Breakfast, Then Detained 3 Workers
- Demetrius Buckley: Letters from Daddy
- Lorna Goodison: Constant Spring
- Rae Gouirand: Long Exposure; Solution
- Donald Hall (with an accompanying photo essay by Sarah Innes): Eating the Pig
- Thomas Robert Higginson & Thylias Moss: The Moseying Out Bible
- Zilka Joseph: For the Birds
- Laura Kasischke: His Secret; The Nose; Beautiful Classmate from the Past; True Crime
- Dell Konieczko: As a Captive She Swims Uncorrupted, but Alone
- Dave Lucas: Evening in Nod; El Dorado; The Ship of Theseus; The Musicians of Bremen
- Thylias Moss: Pond, The Morning After Storm
- Paisley Rekdal: Gokstadt/Ganymede
- Diane Raptosh: A Selection of Poems from “Dear Z: The Zygote Epistyles”
- Elizabeth Schmuhl: #90 (from Premonitions); #103 (from Premonitions)
- Benjamin Paloff: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti; Metadata
- Cody Walker: The Emperor of Lying; Why?; A Mad Gardener’s Bouquet; Lullaby
- Cozine A. Welch Jr.: Bird Shit
Interviews & Reviews
- Francey Oscherwitz: Politics and Poetry: My Hour with Seamus Heaney
- Philip Metres: “The Way I Feel the World: An Interview with Lawrence Joseph
- Vassilis Lambropoulos: Neoliberal Austerity and Left Melancholy (review of Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (NYRB Poets, 2017), edited by Karen Van Dyck: Neoliberal Austerity and Left Melancholy)
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