296.2 Spring Issue 2011

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We are, as always, proud to honor National Poetry Month (celebrated in April in the US as well as other countries) by announcing and publishing our James Hearst Poetry Prize winners, honorable mentions, and finalists.

We also celebrate the US’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with work by Sharon Hashimoto, Kawita Kandpal, Devi Sen Laskar, R. Zamora Linmark, Paisley Rekdal, and Barbara Jane Reyes. Bearing this in mind, our Synecdoche column reviews books by Asian American writers mentioned above (Kandpal and Rekdal) and Lynda Barry, David S. Cho, and C. Dale Young. Also reviewed is an anthology of South Asian American poets—first time this group of American poets has been brought together within one cover.

With regards to National Poetry Month, our Crosscuts showcases two films about the intersection of poetry and society. Howl focuses on questions of censorship and the right of the artist to express him- or herself. Me and Orson Welles updates the Bard’s Julius Caesar to the fascist goings-on in Europe. Fascinating.

Enjoy the issue! Write some poems for National Poetry Month.

ART

Cover The Bard [pastel on paper] • Gary Kelley

13 Untitled [digital collage] • Marty Gotera

25 How Love Feels [brush and ink] • Joanna Barnum

31 Untitled [photoshop and ink wash] • Jess Fink

36 Untitled [pencil] • Carole Fishback

FICTION

13 Let’s Play Two • Nathan Leslie

25 How Love Feels • Stephen Coyne

31 Lita Noble, Or, The Saddest Books Are the Stolen Ones • Lewis DeJong

NONFICTION