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NightsunNightsun - Issue 25

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Issue number 25 of Nightsun was released in December 2006 and guest edited by Alicia Ostriker.

Kim Addonizio
Bus stop in Front of a Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Migrations

Anita Barrows
Notes in the Aftermath
Black sow

Robin Becker
To a Poet (excerpt)

Dan Bellm
Books of Numbers

Kurt Brown
At the Summer Lake Club

Chris Bursk
Civil War in the Seventh Period (excerpt)

Hayden Carruth
In Memoriam

Jan Clausen
Pigs Advance as Organ-Transplant Factories for People

Chard DeNiord
Enkidu's Lament

Denise Duhamel
Win Chinese Buffet

Stephen Dunn
Returning to the Ravens (excerpt)

Ann Fisher-Wirth
Army Men

Jeff Friedman
Crows
Video Game

Ross Gay
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew

Reginald Gibbons
Samaritan

Albert Goldbarth
Drongo

Jim Haba
The Window

Marilyn Hacker
Ghazal: Across the Street

Donald Hall
Gospel

Eloise Klein Healy
Flower Shop

Lorraine Healy
Where They Were
AP Photo: Two Rwandan Women Reunited in a Church in Kabiza, 1997

Jane Hirshfield
Shadow: An Assay

Ilya Kaminsky
We Lived Happily During the War
Brother

Marilyn Krysl
Not in Our Names
Bulldozer Sestina: Rafa 2004

Martin Desht
Warnock Street, Philadelphia. 1998
Mechanic and Hill Streets, Southside Bethlehem, Pa. 1998
North Board, near Parrish Street, Philadelphia. 1997
York and Clarion Streets, Philadelphia, 1998
"Honest Lou's Pest Control." North Board Street, Philadelphia. 1997
Rolling Mills and Coke Works. Bethlehem Steel Corp. Bethelehem, Pa. 1990

Joan Larkin
Inaugural
Rouen, 1431

Dorianne Laux
The Long Goodbye

David Lehman
Poem in the Manner of Gullaume Apollinaire

Anne Marie Macari
Migration South
Ants

Pablo Medina
Not All Of Me

D.H. Melhem
Rant Inspired by Frank Rich, "We Do Not Torture" and Other Funny Stories

Ed Ochester
March of the Penguins

Robert Pinsky
Two Arias from "Death and the Powers"

Hilda Raz
Pantoum
September 11

Jason Schneiderman
College Application Essay
Theodor Adorno

Yerra Sugarman
From Journal: Rai'ut Coma Ward, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, July 2003

Richard Tayson
On the Way to See James Dean

Ronald Wallace
Inner City

Irene Willis
The Wilders

Eleanor Wilner
In a Time of War
Afterwards

Dahlia Ravikovitch
The Story of the Arab Who Died in the Fire

Rivka Miriam
These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam

Boris Vian
The Deserter

Emily Mann
Mrs. Packard (1st Scene)

  

 

This issue's guest editor Alicia Ostriker:

Alicia Suskin Ostriker has been twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of numerous volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven as well as The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. Ostriker's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, MS, Tikkun, and many other journals, and have been widely anthologized.

As a critic Ostriker is the author of two pathbreaking volumes on women's poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. She has also published two books on the Bible, Feminist Revision and the Bible and the controversial The Nakedness of the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of prose and poetry that re-imagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish woman. Her most recent book is Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic.

Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco State Poetry Center, the Judah Magnes Museum, the New Jersey Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

 

 
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