What Comes Next...And How To Like It: New Poetry From America

(Volume 88, No 1, Spring 1998)

Editor
Peter Forbes

Poems
James Tate, Mark Levine, Jorie Graham, Kenneth Koch, Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Michael Donaghy, Alice Friman, Billy Collins, Dick Allen, Marilyn Hacker, Anthony Hecht, Mark Halliday, Fred Voss, Stephen Dobyns, Rita Dove, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Burt, Florence Elon, Sandra McPherson, Julie O'Callaghan, Gerald Stern, Karen Volkman, Emily Grosholz, A.R. Ammons, James Applewhite, Killarney Cleary, C.D. Wright, Mary Jo Bang, John Hollander, Marilyn Nelson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Stanley Moss.

Articles and Reviews
Stephen Burt on the Elliptical Poets
Carole Rumens on Elizabeth Bishop's paintings
John Greening on neglected American poets
Dennis O'Driscoll on The Best American Poetry 1997
John Whitworth on Whitman and Dickinson
Sean O'Brien on John Ashbery
E.A. Markham on The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
Ian Gregson on Kenneth Koch
James Keery on C.K. Williams
Stephen Burt on Louise Glück
David Wheatley on Stephen Dobyns
Adam Thorpe on Charles Simic
Andrew Zawacki on James Tate
Michael Hulse on Elizabeth Spires
Justin Quinn on Edgar Bowers
Michael Hulse on Robert Pinsky
Karen Volkman on A.R. Ammons
Emily Grosholz on James Applewhite
Brian Henry on Jorie Graham
Charles Wright and James Tate
Justin Quinn on Alice Friman
Linda Gregerson
Sandy Solomon and Martin Espada
Marilyn Hacker on Marilyn Nelson
Anne Stevenson on Marianne Moore's Letters
Ian McMillan on Talvikki Ansel and Karen Volkman
Anthony Julius on Birthday Letters
William Scammell on Plath
Gillian Allnutt on Fleur Adcock
Paul Groves on John Heath-Stubbs
Moniza Alvi on Imtiaz Dharker
Elaine Feinstein on Denise Levertov
Rodney Pybus on Jon Silkin

Interview
Al Alvarez interviewed by Gregory LeStage

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