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Lucille Clifton dies at age 73.
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Philip Levine on Lowell and Berryman.
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TCR mourns the loss of Turner Cassity, contributor and friend.
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TCR's own David Rigsbee wins Black Lawrence Press's 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition
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The Poet's View - C. K. Williams

A Film Documentary on Gerald Stern (part 1)

A Film Documentary on Gerald Stern (part 2)

A Film Documentary on Gerald Stern (part 3)

National Book Award finalsts announced [www.nationalbook.org]

Dark Card is Rebecca Foust's "firecely smart" prizewinning poems about parenting a son with Asperger's Syndrome, the autistic spectrum disorder featured in "Rain Man." [www.rebeccafoust.com]

Stevenson Hits Jackpot [Poetry & Poets In Rags]

Robert Hass wins 2007 National Book Award [Washington Post]

Editor-in-Chief Guy Shahar's film HOLLY in theatres this weekend [Film Trailer]

National Book Award finalists announced [Newsday]

Stephen King on What Ails the Short Story [New York Times]

Rumi's 800'th birthday celebrated with release of Bridge to the Soul, by Coleman Barks [Rumi800.net]

Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies [NY Times]

Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies [NY Times]

Charles Simic Named New U.S. Poet Laureate [WMUR]

Ruth Stone Named Vermont Poet Laureate [Burlington Free Press]

Collection of Poems from Guantanamo Bay Prisoners [NPR]

Natasha Trethewey wins Pulitzer Prize [Pulitzer]

Guggenheim Fellowship Awards [Guggenheim Foundation]

2007 PEN Award Winners [92nd St. Y]

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Issue 47 new
The Cortland Review offers new poems in audio and print by Alan Albert, Antonia Clark, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Rachel Dacus, Liz Dolan, Janlori Goldman, Melissa Guillet, Adam Houle, Jacquelyn Malone, Chloe Martinez, Jamaal May, Lynn Melnick, Harry Owen, James Owens, Hila Ratzabi, James Rioux, A. K. Scipioni, Phillip Sterling, Susan Tepper, Philip Terman, Brian Wallace, Elizabeth Wilcox, James Everett Wright, and Tracy Youngblom; new fiction by Donald Kerr and Kay Neuburg; and David Rigsbee's review of David Baker's Never-Ending Birds.

Spring Feature, April 2010
The Cortland Review proudly presents Eleanor Wilner's Spring 2010 feature on the persona poem. Aside from her own original poems in the voices of Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus, and the Minotaur, she offers an essay, "Entering the Labyrinth," which illuminates her poems, how they came to be and the source of their voices. Alongside her own work, Eleanor presents the persona poems of our invited poet/guests, Michelle Boisseau, Annie Boutelle, Christine Casson, Carolyn Creedon, Claudia Emerson, Daisy Fried, Diane Gilliam, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Kathleen Jesme, Ilya Kaminsky, Marilyn Krysl, David Lee, Gary Copeland Lilley, Maurice Manning, Alicia Ostriker, Alicia Jo Rabins, Tim Seibles and Heidy Steidlmayer. David Rigsbee reviews Wilner's newest collection, Tourist in Hell, due out this October from the University of Chicago Press.

Issue 46
The Cortland Review offers new poems in audio and print by James Bertolino, Christopher Citro, Richard Fein, Rupert Fike, Richard Foerster, Matthew Gavin Frank, Cal Freeman, Danielle Hanson, Marc Jampole, John Joseph Joynt, Joseph McDonough, Michael Luis Medrano, George Moore, Kathi Morrison-Taylor, Gregory Palmerino, Doug Ramspeck, William Stratton, Billy Templeton III, Ryan J. Tressel, and Changming Yuan; new fiction by Vincent Eaton and Sheila Packa; and David Rigsbee's review of Anne Marie Macari's "She Heads Into The Wilderness."

Winter Feature, December 2009
The Cortland Review is pleased and proud to bring you an all-Philip Levine feature with an amazing HD video walk through Phil's Brooklyn to discover what inspires him, together with three new Philip Levine poems. Additionally, we have new poems by Shane Book, Xochiqueztal Candelaria, Kate Daniels, Peter Everwine, Corrinne Clegg Hales, C.G. Hanzlicek, Juan Felipe Herrera, Donna Masini, Tomás Q. Morín, Malena Mörling, Tom Sleigh, and David St. John, twelve poet friends Phil has invited to appear here with him (all on audio). In "Our Questions for Phil: An Interview," each contributor to this Feature has posed a question. As well, there's one we wanted to ask, and we include David Rigsbee's review of Phil's latest collection, "News of the World: Poems."

Issue 45
The Cortland Review offers new poems by Christina Baptista, Bonnie Bolling, Rosalind Brenner, Fleda Brown, Catherine Carter, Timothy Cook, Sharon Dolin, Joanne Dominique Dwyer, Sohelia Ghaussy, Aseem Kaul, John Kinsella, Carol Levin, Jason Myers, Marilyn Paarlberg, Peter Robinson, Alan Saitoh, Vivek Sharma, Jeannie Vanasco, Elizabeth Volpe, and Paul White; new fiction by Martin Brick and Eric Weber; and David Rigsbee's review of Betty Adcock's newest collection of poems, "Slantwise."

Issue 44 
The Cortland Review offers new poems by Julia Alter, Kurt Brown, Alex Dimitrov, Gregory Lawless, Austin MacRae, Kirby Olson, Simon Perchik, Marvyn Petrucci, Dan Veach, Ryan Vine, Rob Walker, Hilde Weisert, Marjory Wentworth, Ross White and Michael Wynn; new fiction by Haley Carrollhach and Mariko Nagai; an interview with Dan Brown by David M. Katz; and David Rigsbee's book review of "Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography, Three New Works" by John Kinsella.

Issue 43
The Cortland Review presents new poems by Fleda Brown, B. J. Buckley, Graham Burchell, Robert Danberg, Pat Daneman, Martin Jude Farawell, Elisabeth Frost, Regan Good, Robert Grunst, Luke Hankins, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Dan Lewis, Terri McCord, Jim Moore, Steve Myers, Soham Patel, Emmy Roulette, Niko Sonnberger and Naqueyalti Warren; new fiction by David Burke and Grant Arthur Flint, and David Rigsbee's review of Gibbons Ruark's "Staying Blue."

Spring Feature, April 2009 
The Cortland Review is pleased to welcome guest-editor Dorianne Laux with a stellar feature, including her essay "Dog Poets" and five of her own new poems, as well as new poetry by Carl Adamshick, William Archila, Wes Benson, Roy Bentley, Michelle Bitting, Kim Bridgford, Stacey Lynn Brown, Grant Clauser, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, Geri Digiorno, Cheryl Dumesnil, Molly Fisk, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Kate Lynn Hibbard, Major Jackson, Greg Kosnicki, Keetje Kuipers, Michael McGriff, Philip Memmer, Jude Nutter, John Repp, R. T. Smith, Brian Turner and book reviews by John Hoppenthaler and David Rigsbee.

Issue 42 
The Cortland Review offers new poems by Deborah DeNicola, Trish Harris, Judith Harway, Thomas Hyland, Jamie Iredell, David M. Katz, Rathanak Michael Keo, Stephen Knauth, Lyn Lifshin, Seth Michelson, Chloé Yelena Miller, Daniele Pantano, Jack Powers, Mira Rosenthal, Phillip Sterling and Laurance Wieder; new fiction by Gilbert Allen and James Robert Campbell, and David Rigsbee's book review of "Twigs and Knucklebones," by Sarah Lindsay.

Winter Feature, December 2008 
Five new poems by Gerald Stern. Poems from his invited guests: Christopher Buckley, Michael Burkard, Jeff Friedman, Ross Gay, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, Joan Larkin, Dorianne Laux, Jan Heller Levi, Anne Marie Macari, Ed Ochester, Alicia Ostriker, Katheen Peirce, Peter Richards, Ira Sadoff, Jean Valentine, Arthur Vogelsang, Judith Vollmer, Anne Waldman, Peter Waldor, and Michael Waters. "The Final Vocabulary of Gerald Stern," an essay by David Rigsbee, and David Rigsbee's book review of Gerald Stern's "Save the Last Dance."

Issue 41 
The Cortland Review offers new poems by C. Wade Bentley, Bonnie Bolling, Gabriel DeCrease, Pamela Hart, Roger Jones, Robert Lesman, James B. Nicola, Chad Thomas Prevost, Mark Prudowsky, Cassandra Robison, Michael David Shorb, Avery Slater, Josh Stewart, Elisabeth von Uhl, and Muriel Harris Weinstein; new fiction by Paul Blaney and Neil Martin Grimmett; an interview with Ross Gay, by Joanna Penn Cooper, and David Rigsbee's book reviews of "All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems," by Linda Gregg and "Heat Lightning: New & Selected Poems 1986–2006," by Judith Skillman.

Issue 40
The Cortland Review offers new poems by Alexios Antypas, J.T. Barbarese, Steven Ford Brown, Kathleen Hellen, James Kirk, Lisa Lewis, Justin Lowe, Jill McDonough, Victoria Bosch Murray, Paul Nelson, Gretchen Primack, Alison Stine, Jane Varley, John Emil Vincent, Judith Westley, and Michael Wynn; new fiction by Tess Almendarez-Lojacono and Kaite Ewing, and David Rigsbee's book review of Thomas Lux's 11th and latest collection of poems, God Particles.

Issue 39
Still celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Cortland Review offers new poems by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Phebe Davidson, Sharon Dolin, Jeff Friedman, Ron Houchin, Algeria Albano Imperial, Stephen Matanle, Heather McNaugher, Sara Quinn Rivara, Barbara Schweitzer, B.T. Shaw, Catherine Staples, Peter Swanson, Steven Tarlow, and Hilde Weisert; new fiction by Lydia Copeland and Jaclyn Dwyer, and David Rigsbee's review of four new books from the VQR Poetry Series: books by Kevin McFadden, Patrick Phillips, Cecily Parks, and Jennifer Chang.

Spring Feature, April 2008
"'The Third Image': Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic," an essay on ekphrastic poetry by Debra Allbery with three ekphrastic poems: "Courbet," "No Tutor but the North," and "How to Explain a Dead Hare;" more poems—all inspired by the arts—by Betty Adcock, Charles Coté, Martyn Crucefix, Burt Kimmelman, Eric Pankey, Michael Salcman, Nicholas Samaras, Jim Tilley, Gloria Vando, and Eleanor Wilner; "A Note on Fictional Truth, a Conversation with Ed Pavlić," an interview conducted by Andrew John McFadyen-Ketchum; and "'A Change of Maps' by Carolyne Wright — Book Review," by David Rigsbee



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