In this Issue

Table of Contents

A Row of Dots

Timothy Schaffert
pp. 7-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977327
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Dedicated To

Bill Sweeney
pp. 11-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977328
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Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

Judith Ortiz Cofer
pp. 13-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977329
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Telling Time

Nancy Willard
pp. 18-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977330
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Stephen Crane in Havana: A Newly Discovered Biographical Sketch

Otto Carmichael
pp. 37-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977331
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Naked as the Day I Was Born

Molly Gaudry
pp. 42-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977332
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A Brief History of Writing

K. Srilata
p. 51
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A Note on Process

Meghan O’Rourke
pp. 52-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977334
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Writing in Multiple Genres

Maxine Kumin
pp. 67-70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977507
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How to Make an Editor Sorry

Edward Senior
pp. 71-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977335
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A Williams Memoir

Charles Angoff
pp. 74-78
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Torpor: A meditation on literary hibernation

LB Thompson
pp. 79-86
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A Poems Reading in Connecticut

Vivian Shipley
pp. 87-89
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Frogs and Frozen Zen

Margaret E. Ashida
pp. 90-98
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Speed, a pastoral

John Forbes
p. 99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977340
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I Go For Free

Barney Oldfield
pp. 100-102
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To the reader: On publishing a poem about the abuse in my childhood

Toi Derricotte
p. 103
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An Afternoon With O. Henry’s Widow

Walter Carroll
pp. 104-110
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Lying for the Sake of Making Poems

Ted Kooser
pp. 111-114
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The Truth According to Your Characters: An Interview with Julia Alvarez

María García Teutsch, Silvio Sirias, Julia Alvarez
pp. 115-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977345
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When Life Interferes with Art

Judith Strasser
pp. 121-122
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The Envied Ones

Bertram A. Lewis
pp. 123-126
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Psycho-Pathological Fiction

Ada Jean Mecham
pp. 127-129
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On War Writing: A Roundtable Discussion

Donald Anderson, Doug Anderson, Matt Gallagher, Sam Hamill, Peter Molin, Marilyn Nelson, Stacey Peebles
pp. 130-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2025.a977349
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The Lady of Kanekodo

Katsumi Sugawara, Arthur Binard
p. 143
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Take It, Eat

Kwame Dawes
pp. 144-146
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Washing My Hands of the Ink

Linda Pastan
pp. 147-157
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Wiping the Tears

Erin Bad Hand
p. 158
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Crafting Narrative Tension

Uche Okonkwo
pp. 161-168
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Before You Start to Write For Real

Ladette Randolph, Heather Lundine, Sherrie Flick
pp. 169-179
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The Complexities of Personhood: An Essay on Craft, and the Soul

Chaun Ballard
pp. 180-188
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Contributor Notes

pp. 189-195
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