Edited by Martine Bellen, Lee Smith and Bradford Morrow

Editors' Note

John Sayles on Nelson Algren
Kevin Young on Langston Hughes
Donald Revell on Henry David Thoreau
Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss
Joanna Scott on Edgar Allan Poe
Steve Erickson on Henry Miller
Paul Metcalf on Ezra Pound
Rick Moody on John Cheever
Dale Peck on Shirley Jackson
Carole Maso on Gertrude Stein
Peter Straub on Raymond Chandler
Anne Waldman on Jack Kerouac
Norma Cole on Lorine Niedecker
Robert Creeley on Edwin Arlington Robinson
Paul West on William Faulkner
Elaine Equi on Frank O'Hara
C.D. Wright on Frank Stanford
Ntozake Shange on Sterling Brown
Quincy Troupe on Ralph Ellison
Mac Wellman on Ambrose Bierce
Bradford Morrow on Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phillip Lopate on Loren Eiseley
Ana Castillo on Anais Nin
Will Alexander on Bob Kaufman
Mona Simpson on Henry James
Amiri Baraka on W.E.B. Du Bois
Eli Gottlieb on Nathanael West
David Means on James Agee
Cole Swenson on Marianne Moore
Catherine Bowman on Sylvia Plath
Robert Kelly on Robert Duncan
Jim Lewis on Herman Melville
Victor Hernandez Cruz on William Carlos
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Maureen Howard on Willa Cather
Joyce Carol Oates on Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Mackey on Walt Whitman
Sven Birkerts on Elizabeth Bishop
Siri Hustvedt on F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ellen McLaughlin on Lillian Hellman
Diane Williams on Emily Dickinson
Jonathan Williams on Kenneth Patchen
Lisa Shea on Gertrude Stein
Lynne Tillman on Edith Wharton
Lawrence Osborne on Frederick Prokosch
Lydia Davis on Edward Dahlberg