I’m very pleased to announce the launch of Chicago Review 53:4 & 54:1/2, a 368-page triple issue with a spe­cial sec­tion ded­i­cated to the life and work of Bar­bara Guest. The issue costs $18 and may be pur­chased here, or you can sub­scribe to CR for a year–good for three issues–for just $25 here.

The Bar­bara Guest fea­ture includes three pre­vi­ously unpub­lished plays by Guest and a port­fo­lio (edited by Cather­ine Wagner) of five uncol­lected poems. The fea­ture also includes crit­i­cal and per­sonal responses to Guest’s work by Charles Altieri, Eileen Myles, Donald Revell, John Wilkin­son, Mei-​mei Berssen­brugge, Martha Ronk, Andrea Brady, Brenda Hill­man, Nancy Robbin, Patri­cia Dien­st­frey and Rena Rosen­wasser, and Gar­rett Caples.

The issue also includes:

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Photos from the April 6 launch party for the new Chicago Review British Poetry Issue. Keston Suther­land, Peter Manson, and Andrea Brady (all fea­tured, with Chris Goode, in the new issue) read at Elas­tic Arts Space.

A 232-page issue fea­tur­ing the poetry of Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Suther­land. Also: crit­i­cal work on these poets by Jeremy Noel-​Tod, Simon Jarvis, John Wilkin­son, and Matt Ffytche; and an inter­view with Chris Goode by Sam Ladkin. The issue also includes fif­teen reviews of new British poetry (includ­ing my review of Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field [PDF]), a note by Keith Tuma on younger British poets, let­ters by Cather­ine Wagner and Peter Riley, and a poster by Andrew Duncan (”Styles of British Poetry 1945-2000″).

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This 272-page double issue includes:

LISA ROBERT­SON SPE­CIAL FEATURE

With two long poems, two essays, an inter­view by Kai Fierle-​Hedrick, a check­list, and crit­i­cal essays by Ben­jamin Fried­lan­der, Chris­tine Stew­art, Jen­nifer Scap­pet­tone, and Joshua Clover.

POEMS

Stephen Collis, Ros­marie Wal­drop, Rusty Mor­ri­son, Genya Tur­ovskaya, Karen Weiser, Jacque­line Waters, Cesar Vallejo, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gnoetry & Eric P. Elsh­tain, Peter Gizzi, Michael Kindel­lan, and John Matthias

FIC­TION

Pamela Lu

ESSAYS

Stephen Rode­fer, Calvin Bedi­ent, and Eliot Weinberger

REVIEWS
Tim­o­thy Yu on the Future of Asian Amer­i­can Poetry, Norman Finkel­stein on Donald Revell, Dustin Simp­son on For­rest Gander, Leila Wilson on Eleni Sike­lianos, Ihor Junyk on Hannah Krall, Martin Riker on Patrick Oured­nik, Paul Mer­chant on Alan Halsey, and V. Joshua Adams on Bin Ramke.

A NOTE on Gnoetry and the period style.

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