ISSUES | spring 1999
22.1 (Spring 1999): "Altered States"
Featuring Editors’ Prize winner Emily Pease, along with ficiton from Michael Byers, Roger Sheffer, Stephanie Rosenfeld, Steve Adams, and William Richardson. With additional poetry from Jeffrey Levine, Mori Creech, Susan Terris, and Adrie Kusserow and an interview with Ernest J. Gaines.
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Fiction
Oct 20 2011
The Spring House
Both Abraham and Sarah had grown very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself and said, “I am past bearing children now that… read more
Interviews
Dec 01 1999
An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines
Interviewer: You’ve been writer-in-residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana since 1984. What do you feel are your responsibilities as a teacher of creative writing? Gaines: I approach the teaching… read more
Nonfiction
Dec 01 1999
Race Thoughts
It’s bad enough I’m a nigger, but I’ve got to be ugly, too!” Words overheard a few months ago on a Canarsie-bound L train in the New York City subway:… read more
Nonfiction
Dec 01 1999
A Yankees Fan in the Floating World
WHILE I WAS AWAY at college, my parents bought and sold a couple of houses and changed their address three times, covering a distance of several hundred miles. By the… read more
Nonfiction
Dec 01 1999
Hep-Lock
A year after I have been back on my feet, sleep deprived with a baby, I am watching television. I am laughing hard. Frasier and his father, Martin, are bickering as they reluctantly enter a hospital room. They tiptoe gingerly, comedic, bumbling, bumping into each other, not wanting to enter. I hope we’re not disturbing you, they say to the patient. This takes me back.
Poetry
Dec 01 1999
Poetry Feature: Adrie Kusserow
“Crossing Borders”
“Hunting Down the Monk”
“Orphanage, Missionaries of Charity, Kathmandu, Nepal”
“Bulimia Religiosa”
“Confession”
Poetry
Dec 01 1999
Poetry Feature: Susan Terris
“Reunion”
“Twelve: Rough and Unsugared”
“Thirteen: The Iron Handle of Innisfree”
“Fourteen: Bedtime Story”
“Fifteen: Running Goose-Eye”
“Sixteen: Tolling the Bell”
Poetry
Dec 01 1999
Poetry Feature: Mori Creech
“On the Nature of Starlings”
“The Heaven of Memory”
“Vernacular”
“Landscape of Heaven”
“Honey and John the Baptist”
“Dogwood”
“Provision”
Poetry
Dec 01 1999
Poetry Feature: Jeffrey Levine
“Dawn, With Cardinals”
“One Month Before His 50th Birthday”
“Penelope Draws from Life”
“It Turns Out Circe Has Something of a Past”
“Telemachos in San Miguel”
Fiction
Dec 01 1999
The Chosen
This full sotry is not curretnly avaible online.
Fiction
Dec 01 1999
Grasp Special Comb
This entire story is not currently available online.
Fiction
Dec 01 1999
Music of the Inner Lakes
This entire story is not currently available online.
Fiction
Dec 01 1999
The Largest Room
This entire story is not currtently available online.
Fiction
Dec 01 1999
Tad Lincoln’s Ladder of Dreams
Winner of 1999 Editors’ Prize in Fiction Emily Pease. This entire sotry is not currently available online.