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150 THE MINNESOTA REVIEW NOTES With the Spring issue (NS 14) we are making a departure from the regular format. That issue will be a book of poetry, May Day, by James Scully. Also, the Spring 1981 issue (NS 16) will be a special issue devoted to fiction, for which we are giving prizes. See the announcement on the inside of the front cover. The Marxist Educational Press is pleased to announce that the Fifth Midwest Marxist Scholars Conference will be held May 1-4, 1980 at the University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota. The theme will be: "The Scholar as an Ally of Labor: The Role of Education, Culture, and Technology in the Class Struggle." Proposals for papers, panels, and workshops are welcome until Dec. 1, 1979. The deadline for completed papers is Feb. 1 , 1980. Papers that focus on the issues of racism and sexism as they relate to the conference theme are especially welcomed. CONTRIBUTORS CHARLES BAXTER has two books of poetry out from New Rivers Press. DAVID FINE is the author of TAe City, The Immigrant and American Fiction (1977). IVY GOODMAN lives in Palo Alto, California. DAVID HERRESHOFF teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit. RON IKAN lives in Solon, Iowa. ROSEMARY JACKSON teaches at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. REAMY JANSEN is an editor oíRadical Teacher. STEVEN LEWIS is an ambulance driver from New Paltz, New York. THOMAS E. LEWIS teaches at the University of Iowa and has had articles in recent issues oíPMLA and Modern Language Notes. JOEL LIPMAN has recent work in North Country Anvil, Quixote and Paunch. TOM McKEOWN had a cycle of poems performed recently at Carnegie Hall. Harold Blumenfeld was the composer. MARY E. PAPKE lives in Montreal, Quebec. EMILY REINHARDT teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh. JAMES SCULLY's May Day, his new collection of poetry, will be (i.e., constitute the whole of) the Spring issue of TAe Minnesota Review (NS 14). PATRICK STORY teaches at George Mason University in Virginia. PEG STROBEL is in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. TOM WAYMAN has obviously been teaching in Detroit recently. He has returned to Vancouver, though. SUSAN WELLS teaches at the University of Louisville. ...