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Issue 43 new
The Cortland Review presents new poems by Fleda Brown, B. J. Buckley, Graham Burchell, Robert Danberg, Pat Daneman, Martin Jude Farawell, Elisabeth Frost, Regan Good, Robert Grunst, Luke Hankins, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Dan Lewis, Terri McCord, Jim Moore, Steve Myers, Soham Patel, Emmy Roulette, Niko Sonnberger and Naqueyalti Warren; new fiction by David Burke and Grant Arthur Flint, and David Rigsbee's review of Gibbons Ruark's "Staying Blue."

Spring Feature, April 2009 
The Cortland Review is pleased to welcome guest-editor Dorianne Laux with a stellar feature, including her essay "Dog Poets" and five of her own new poems, as well as new poetry by Carl Adamshick, William Archila, Wes Benson, Roy Bentley, Michelle Bitting, Kim Bridgford, Stacey Lynn Brown, Grant Clauser, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, Geri Digiorno, Cheryl Dumesnil, Molly Fisk, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Kate Lynn Hibbard, Major Jackson, Greg Kosnicki, Keetje Kuipers, Michael McGriff, Philip Memmer, Jude Nutter, John Repp, R. T. Smith, Brian Turner and book reviews by John Hoppenthaler and David Rigsbee.

Issue 42 
The Cortland Review offers new poems by Deborah DeNicola, Trish Harris, Judith Harway, Thomas Hyland, Jamie Iredell, David M. Katz, Rathanak Michael Keo, Stephen Knauth, Lyn Lifshin, Seth Michelson, Chloé Yelena Miller, Daniele Pantano, Jack Powers, Mira Rosenthal, Phillip Sterling and Laurance Wieder; new fiction by Gilbert Allen and James Robert Campbell, and David Rigsbee's book review of "Twigs and Knucklebones," by Sarah Lindsay.

Winter Feature, December 2008 
Five new poems by Gerald Stern. Poems from his invited guests: Christopher Buckley, Michael Burkard, Jeff Friedman, Ross Gay, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, Joan Larkin, Dorianne Laux, Jan Heller Levi, Anne Marie Macari, Ed Ochester, Alicia Ostriker, Katheen Peirce, Peter Richards, Ira Sadoff, Jean Valentine, Arthur Vogelsang, Judith Vollmer, Anne Waldman, Peter Waldor, and Michael Waters. "The Final Vocabulary of Gerald Stern," an essay by David Rigsbee, and David Rigsbee's book review of Gerald Stern's "Save the Last Dance."

Issue 41 
The Cortland Review offers new poems by C. Wade Bentley, Bonnie Bolling, Gabriel DeCrease, Pamela Hart, Roger Jones, Robert Lesman, James B. Nicola, Chad Thomas Prevost, Mark Prudowsky, Cassandra Robison, Michael David Shorb, Avery Slater, Josh Stewart, Elisabeth von Uhl, and Muriel Harris Weinstein; new fiction by Paul Blaney and Neil Martin Grimmett; an interview with Ross Gay, by Joanna Penn Cooper, and David Rigsbee's book reviews of "All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems," by Linda Gregg and "Heat Lightning: New & Selected Poems 1986–2006," by Judith Skillman.

Issue 40
The Cortland Review offers new poems by Alexios Antypas, J.T. Barbarese, Steven Ford Brown, Kathleen Hellen, James Kirk, Lisa Lewis, Justin Lowe, Jill McDonough, Victoria Bosch Murray, Paul Nelson, Gretchen Primack, Alison Stine, Jane Varley, John Emil Vincent, Judith Westley, and Michael Wynn; new fiction by Tess Almendarez-Lojacono and Kaite Ewing, and David Rigsbee's book review of Thomas Lux's 11th and latest collection of poems, God Particles.

Issue 39
Still celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Cortland Review offers new poems by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Phebe Davidson, Sharon Dolin, Jeff Friedman, Ron Houchin, Algeria Albano Imperial, Stephen Matanle, Heather McNaugher, Sara Quinn Rivara, Barbara Schweitzer, B.T. Shaw, Catherine Staples, Peter Swanson, Steven Tarlow, and Hilde Weisert; new fiction by Lydia Copeland and Jaclyn Dwyer, and David Rigsbee's review of four new books from the VQR Poetry Series: books by Kevin McFadden, Patrick Phillips, Cecily Parks, and Jennifer Chang.

Spring Feature, April 2008
"'The Third Image': Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic," an essay on ekphrastic poetry by Debra Allbery with three ekphrastic poems: "Courbet," "No Tutor but the North," and "How to Explain a Dead Hare;" more poems—all inspired by the arts—by Betty Adcock, Charles Coté, Martyn Crucefix, Burt Kimmelman, Eric Pankey, Michael Salcman, Nicholas Samaras, Jim Tilley, Gloria Vando, and Eleanor Wilner; "A Note on Fictional Truth, a Conversation with Ed Pavlić," an interview conducted by Andrew John McFadyen-Ketchum; and "'A Change of Maps' by Carolyne Wright — Book Review," by David Rigsbee

Issue 38
In the second issue of its tenth anniversary year, The Cortland Review celebrates with new poetry by Stanley Paul Anderson, Anna Catone, Brian Fogarty, Robert Gibbons, Niki Koulouris, Kei Miller, Michael Montlack, Jeff Newberry, Matthew Olzmann, Papa Osmubal, John Powers, Martin A. Ramos, Eric Reymond, Charles Savage, Terry Savoie, Vivek Sharma, David R. Slavitt, and Gary Sloboda; new fiction by Gerald L. Dodge and Cassandra Garbus, and a review of Michael Waters' Darling Vulgarity by David Rigsbee.

Winter Feature, December 2007
"The Synchronicity of Scenes," an essay on the craft of poetry by A. Van Jordan, two new A. Van Jordan poems, David Rigsbee's review of Van Jordan's Quantum Lyrics, just released, and Matthew Campbell Roberts's interview with poet James Bertolino.

Issue 37
TCR proudly welcomes guest editor R.T. Smith and his offerings of new poetry by Fleda Brown, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Ailbhe Darcy, Claudia Emerson, Farrah Field, Brendan Galvin, Sarah Kennedy, Janice Townley Moore, Andrés Rodríguez, Steve Scafidi, Gary Short, Lisa Russ Spaar, Cody Walker, and Jeanne Murray Walker, new fiction by Matthew Null, and Donald Secreast, an Essay by Thomas Burton, and book reviews by Lesley Wheeler.

Issue 36
TCR offers new poetry by Maureen Alsop, Gregory Byrd, Charles Coté, Phebe Davidson, Chard deNiord, Robert Dorsett, Claire Fanger, David Garrison, Luke Hankins, M.L. Hartman, Karen Head, R.W. Jagodnik, Kevin King, Terri McCord, Jace Miller, Susan Bucci Mockler, John Thomas Murphy, Muriel Nelson, Marge Piercy, Shelley Renee-Ruiz, Tad Richards, and Debra Shirley, as well as new fiction by John Michael Cummings and Claudia Smith and David Rigsbee's review of A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar.

Issue 35
TCR offers new poetry by A.V. Christi, David M. DeLeon, Timothy Duffy, Eamon Grennan, Karen Harryman, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Viola Lee, Carol Levin, Catherine MacDonald, JK Mason, Virginia Mix, Merk Muir, Glen Nicholls, James B. Nicola, Gretchen Primack, Randy Rich, Michael Snediker, and David Trame; new fiction by Lynn Steger and David Winner, an Essay by Willis Barnstone and book reviews by Turner Cassity and David Rigsbee.

Spring 2007 Feature
"Dark Matter: You Ain't Seen Nothing, Chet," an essay by Maurice Manning; four new poems by Maurice Manning; David Rigsbee's book review of John Balaban's "Path, Crooked Path," and new poems by Paula Bohince, Kris T Kahn, and Jesse Waters.

Issue 34
TCR offers new and familiar voices in poetry by Richard Armstrong, III, Erin Bealmear, Vic Camillo, Tess Christi, Phillip Dacey, Liz Dolan, Aidan Andrew Dun, Andrew Elliott, Roger Jones, ML Liebler, David Rigsbee, and David Rowe, new fiction by Gilbert Allen and Michael Paul Groves, an essay by David Grayson, and R.T. Smith's "Uke Rivers Delivers," reviewed by TCR's fiction editor, Elizabeth Cornell.

Sonnet Feature
"A Manifesto on the Contemporary Sonnet: A Personal Aesthetics," an essay by Tony Barnstone with new poems-all sonnets-by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, Lorna Knowles Blake, Kim Bridgford, Billy Collins, Leisha Douglas, Barry Ergang, Ross A. Gay, Soheila Ghaussy, Miranda Girard, Myrna Goodman, Susan Gubernat, Heidi Hart, Jay Leeming, Anne Marie Macari, Patricia O'Hara, John Poch, Michael Salcman, Patricia Smith, A. E. Stallings, Gerald Stern, Joyce Sutphen, Jeet Thayil, and Meredith Trede.

Issue 33
TCR proudly offers Tony Hoagland’s “Fragment, Juxtaposition, And Completeness: Some Notes And Preferences,” just one of the studies on poetic craft from this celebrated poet/teacher’s “vigorous and provocative” collection of essays, “Real Sofistikashun,” upcoming from Graywolf Press. Along with Hoagland’s essay, we offer new poetry by Alexios Rigas Antypas, Curtis Bauer, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Chip Cassin, Scott Challener, Marcus Chinn, Kirk Glaser, Scott Glassman, Julia Andreevna Istomina, George Kalamaras, David Lauer Panzarino, Leslie Shinn, Christine Anne Stewart, and Michael Wingfield.

Issue 32
New poetry by Sarah Arvio, Alfred Corn, Garrick Davis, Jack Foley, Adam Kirsch, Daniel Nester, D. Nurkse, A. E. Stallings, Afaa M. Weaver, Rachel Wetzsteon, Christian Wiman, Franz Wright, and David Yezzi, as well as an excerpt from a play in verse by David Yezzi, translations by Joshua Mehigan and D. Nurkse, short fiction by Irish novelist Martin Malone, and David Yezzi interviewed by Ernest Hilbert.

Spring 2006 Feature 
The Pleasure of Their Company: Voice and Poetry, an essay by Charles Harper Webb and five of his new poems; an hour-long audio interview with Poet/Professor William W. Palmer, conducted by Grace Cavalieri for MiPORadio; Desire Path, a new concept in publishing, reviewed by Miles Coon, and To Tell the Truth: Tony Hoagland Through Three Collections of Poems, by Ginger Murchison.

Issue 31: Spring 2006
New poetry by Gil Allen, Michael Antonucci, Michael Christopher Berecz, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Mary Laurel Burt, James E. Cook, David DeVries, George E. Fortier, Karen George, Rebecca Givens, Anne Haines, Danielle Hanson, Noah Kucij, Julie Larios, Anna Mantzaris, Gabrielle McIntire, Sonia Montgomery, Radames Ortiz, Rita Mae Reese, Eve Rosenbaum, Christine Salvatore, Gary Charles Wilkens, and Cyril Wong, as well as short fiction from Walter Bennett and Steve Oberlechner.

Winter 2006 Feature 
"Language-Driven Poetry: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLE OF GENERATING POEMS," an essay by Richard Jackson; five new poems by Richard Jackson; an audio interview with Robert Bly, conducted by Paula Gordon and Bill Russell of The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with People on the Leading Edge(sm), and "A Darker Shade of Grey: Christian Wiman’s HARD NIGHT," a book review by Chelsea Rathburn.



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