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David McLendon, Editor
Daniel Richardson, Designer
A Note Regarding the Cover: from Attempt at Center, 1997, By Daniel Richardson Oil, acrylic and assemblage on wood 36” x 24”
Contributors & Stories
(1897-1993) is considered one of the most brilliant theorists of rhetoric. His works include The Philosophy of Literary Form, Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, A Grammar of Motives, and Language as Symbolic Action. His only novel, Towards a Better Life, which received critical acclaim as a Modernist text, has been out of print for over twenty years. The excerpt included in these pages is the first chapter of that book. Here & Elsewhere, forthcoming from David R. Godine Publishers, collects for the first time all of Burke’s fiction.
is the author of six books of fiction, including Altman’s Tongue, Father of Lies, and Dark Property. His translations include poetry, criticism, and fiction by Jean Fremon, Jacques Dupin, Edouard Maunick, and Rafael Cadenas.
Read: from Dark Property
has published work in Chelsea, 3rd Bed, and jubilat. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and lives in New York City.
Read: Dedication, Roam, Memorandum, Via Fondazza: A Still Life
is the author of L.I.E. He lives in Brooklyn and is working on his second novel.
Read: About the Author
is a musician and writer newly transplanted to the Hudson Valley where he will begin teaching at Bard College this coming autumn. His work with the performance trio, F’loom, was featured on NPR, the CBC, and in the international sound poetry anthology, Homo Sonorus. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals, both here and abroad.
Read: Pleroma, It was a holiday and the sun shone unblemished, The Ego and Its Defenses (novus ordo seclorum), The McMartin Preschool Case, The King's Peace
wrote The Way the Family Got Away, which has been or will be translated into Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew. He is the fiction editor for taint (www.taintmagazine.com).
lives in Maine.
Read: [Untitled]
is at work on a novel, Trivium. He was awarded an O. C. Tanner Humanities Fellowship, and is working on a dissertation for the University of Washington.
Read: On the Mountain
lives in New York.
Read: I Am Not Weather, I Deliver
is a recipient of the Aga Kahn Prize from The Paris Review. His fiction appears in leading American and European reviews. His stage plays have been produced in the U.S., Germany, and at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival; his radio plays, broadcast in Germany. He has also written for film. “The Scourge of Darkness” is from A History of the Imagination, scheduled for 2004 publication by Fiction Collective 2. A new chapbook—Marco Knauff’s Universe—is available fromRavenna Press (www.ravennapress.com).
Read: The Scourge of Darkness
is the author of Stories in the Worst Way (available in paperback at www.3rdbed.com) and a new collection, I Looked Alive.
Read: I Crawl Back to People
‘s writing has appeared recently in Harper’s, The Paris Review, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies.
Read: Prayer Against The Tyranny Of Another's Things (Logical Refutation), Prayer To The Hand Holding The Steel-Bristle Brush
is the author of Good, Brother and a chapbook, The Moon is a Lighthouse (www.newmichiganpress.com).
Read: Tell Us Where You Keep the Bread Crumbs, Brother's Breath
‘s poems are recent or forthcoming in such journals as Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Poetry, Verse, and Ploughshares, and in the anthology Rising Phoenix (Word Press, November 2003). The Optimist, his first full-length collection of poems, was selected by poet James Cummins as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and will be published in December 2004 by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. He recently spoke at UCLA’s Edgard Bowers conference and exhibition, How Shall A Generation Know Its Story, as part of a panel on the late poet’s life and work.
Read: Four Poems Coming soon! Until then, these are only available in the print version of our first issue.
lives and works in New York City. She received her B.A. from Colgate University and is finishing an M.F.A. in creative writing at Queens College.
Read: The Naming of Things
has published work in Fence and Noon.
Read: What Never Came Across
‘s work has appeared in or will appear in Plazmmagazine, Speakmagazine, Paragraph, Verse, Washington Review, Cross-Cultural Poetics, Phoebeand others. His hypermedia can be seen and heard at www.heliozoa.com/concuss.html and at www.3rdbed.com, where “Eleven (16) occurrences of the number four” first appeared.
Read: Eleven (16) occurrences of the number four, One version of where things go (or how to make a living writing poetry)
is the author of four novels and two story collections.He has won the Prix de Rome, a Whiting Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, and The Paris Review John Train Humor Prize. He lives in Gainesville, where he was born, and teaches at the University of Florida.
has been widely published in journals including Conjunctions, The Quarterly, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She lives in New Jersey.
Read: In the Sitting Room
is the author of Zimble, Zamble, Zumble.
Read: Three Poems
is the author of a collection Nightwork, and a novel, Florida. She lives in New York City.
is the author of A German Picturesque.
Read: Vestiary
has published work in Columbia, The Quarterly, Fence and at failbetter.com. He was also awarded the Columbia Fiction Prize. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
is the author of The House. She lives and teaches in Boston.
Read: Looking Sideways
is the author of several collections, including No Mercy, Approximate Darling, and Civilian Histories.
Read: A Poem