A triple issue celebrating the life and work of Barbara Guest. Three of Guest’s plays and a portfolio of five previously uncollected poems (edited by Catherine Wagner) are accompanied by critical and personal responses to Guest’s work by Charles Altieri, Eileen Myles, Donald Revell, John Wilkinson, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Martha Ronk, Andrea Brady, Brenda Hillman, Nancy Robbin, Patricia Dienstfrey and Rena Rosenwasser, and Garrett Caples.
Genres
Poems—
Fredrik Nyberg (translated by Jennifer Hayashida), Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Roberson, Dan Beachy-Quick, Robyn Schiff, María Baranda, John Wilkinson, P.K. Page, and Kent Johnson
Stories—
Bret Sparling and Craig Foltz
An Essay—
Geoffrey Hill by Brett Bourbon
Interview—
A conversation with Rosemarie Waldrop by Christine Hume
Reviews—
Peter Manson on Hannah Weiner, Dustin Simpson on Charles Baudelaire, Joshua Baldwin on Andrzej Stasiuk, V. Joshua Adams on Amanda Nadelberg, Rusty Morrison on Dan Machlin, Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles, Charles Altieri on Jennifer Moxley, Kristen Prevallet on Ron Silliman, Courtney MacNeil on Kamau Brathwaite, Kent Johnson on Tim Atkins