Issue 10 2006

Iraqi Poetry Today including the works of Mahdi Muhammad Ali, Fadhil Assultani, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Karim Fawzi, Gzar Hantoosh, Lamiah Abbas Imara, Jamal Juma'h, Abd al-Karim al-Kassid, Nazik al-Mala'ika, Sami Mahdi, Dunya Mikhail, Murad Mikha'il, Muzaffar al-Nawwab, Awad Nasir, Abd al-Rahim Salih al Rahim, Yousif al-Sa'igh, Hashim Shafiq, Ronny Someck, and S'adi Yusuf.

New poems from Alexios Antypas, Katherine Lucas Anderson, Nin Andrews, Robert Arroyo, Jr., Richard Bentley, Margo Berdeshevsky, Devika Brandt, Mark Brazaitis, Gaylord Brewer, Beverly Burch, Rick Bursky, Reid Bush, Warren Carrier, Billy Collins, Christine DeSimone, James Doyle, Lisa Furmanski, Eugene Gloria, Jaimy Gordon, Jason Gordon, Loren Graham, Marcia Hurlow, William Jolliff, Dale Kushner, Cynthia Hogue, John Mann, Holaday Mason, Sarah Maclay, Charlotte McCaffrey, David Moolten, James Norcliffe, John Pursley, III, Margaret von Steinen, Jeri Rozensweig, Peter J.Shippy, Sam Taylor, Charles Harper Webb, Ellen Wehle, Holly Welker, Jonathan Wells, Fred Yannantuono, and Matt Zambito.

Edited by Saadi Simawe

Translations of François Coppee, Georges Godeau, William Marr, Xue Di, Eugenio Montejo, Andrzej Bursa, Ewa Lipska, and Julian Kornhauser.

Translators include Hil Anderson, Forrest Gander, Kevin Christianson, Halina Ablamowicz, Kathleen McGookey, Diane Furtney, Kirk Nesset, Margret Grebowicz, and Piotr Florczyk.

Book reviews of
New volumes of poetry by Mark Salerno, Cecilia Woloch, Claire Malroux, Agha Shahid Ali, Ilya Kaminsky, Robert Thomas, Holly Prado, and more.

New volumes in translation featuring the poetry of Claire Malroux and Lam Thi My Da.

New anthologies by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks, by Nickole Brown and Judith Taylor, and by Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas.

New collections of poetry by John Berryman, William Carlos Williams, and Eugenio Montale.

Art by Mohammed Al Shammarey.