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Issue #48, March 2012.

• "Future Plans" and Other Poems by Anne Babson.
• "All of these People with the Name Christopher Barnes Actually Exist", nine poems by Christopher Barnes.
• "Cat Piss & Crucifixions" and Other Poems by Phil Brunetti.
• "Broken Pipes", "Mourning Bells" and "A Love Poem to my Father" , poems by Janet Buck.
• Ten Poems by Nicholas Klacsanzky.
• "Cemetery Visit" and Other Poems by Miriam Kotzin.
• Poems by Nicholas Messenger.
• Ethical Triptych, stories by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "30 Dollars Poorer and Once Bitten..." and Other Poems by David Wanczyk.
• "Victoria de los Angeles", a poem by Sarah White.

Issue #47, November 2011.

• Five Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Pictures by Eleanor Bennett.
• Poems from "Chants for the Fellaheen" and "Trekking to Texas", by Geordie de Boer.
• Four Poems by Billy Cancel.
• "Jonathan's Catch" and "The Acceptance of Ridinghood", two stories by Joachim Frank.
• Five Poems in English translation and in the original Hebrew by Galit Hasan-Rokem.
• Five Poems by Mary Mills.
• "When Astrology Works (a true story)", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Yves Bonnefoy Interprets Borges", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Three Poems by Oliver Rice.

Issue #46, Summer 2011.

• Six Poems by Joyce Brown.
• "The Drug Drama," a new poem by Janet I. Buck.
• "Bye Bye Bertie," a story by Don Fredd.
• "The Gnome of Venice," a story by Josepha Gutelius.
• Three Poems by Rachael Jennings.
• New Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "In the Beginning was the Pun," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Seven Peeks into Infinity," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Egon Gleicher," a story by Robert Wexelblatt.
• "Nabokov Writes His Wife From Coker College" by Sarah White.

Issue #45, March 2011.

• Poems by Christopher Barnes
• Three Poems by Stephen Bett
• Poems by Robert Klein Engler
• Four Poems by Thomas Fink
• From Eucalyptus, by Charles Freeland
• New Poems from Letters to the Bat by Rebecca Lu Kiernan
• Three Poems by Miriam Kotzin
• Four Poems by Francis Raven
• Three Poems by Oliver Rice
• Four Poems by Joel Solonche
• "Our Rabbi" by Robert Wexelblatt
• "The Devastation of the Indies" by Sarah White.

Congratulations to our contributor Tess Almendarez Lojacono! Her new novel, MILAGROS, has just appeared from Laughing Cactus Press, ISBN 978-0-9826243-4-0.
See the book at http://silverboomerbooks.com/draft/9780982624340-Perfect_Milagros.pdf

Issue #44, December 2010.

• Three Poems by Geordie de Boer.
• Four Poems by Joyce S. Brown.
• Four Poems by Ricky Garni.
• "The Shed," a story by Jeremy Griffin.
• "Chips," a story by Connley Landers.
• "Tecnologia de la Barbarie", a story by Jorge Majfoud, translated into English by Bruce Campbell.
• Three Poems by Nicholas Messenger.
• "The Trees Remember," a story by Michael Sauve.
• "You Mean You're Allowed To Do That?," an essay by Sarah White.
• "Alice Ages and Ages" by Sarah White, BlazeVox Books, Buffalo, NY 2010. Review by R. Nirenberg.
• "O Amazonas Escuro" by Eugene K. Garber, Swank Books, 2010. Review by R. Nirenberg.

Issue #43, Fall 2010.

• Five Poems by David Kowalczyk.
• "Illegals", a story in English and in Spanish by Jorge Majfud.
• Two Poems by Wythe Marschall.
• Two Stories by Penelope Mermall.
• "Dmitri Shostakovich en Parque Patricios," a poem by Rodolfo Mattarollo with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Regina's Sunday," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Two Poems by Oliver Rice.
• Two Poems by Sarah White.
• "A Pure River", by John S. Williams, The Last Automat Press (www.thelastautomat.com), 2010. Review by R. Nirenberg.
• Letters: from Robert Wexelblat and Ellaraine Lockie.

Issue #42, Summer 2010.

• Three Poems by Tess Almendarez Lojacono.
• Three Poems by Christoper Barnes.
• Poems by Alex Cigale.
• "A Pre-Season Game," flash fiction by Daniel Gallik.
• "Folks You Meet at the Rubbish Dump," a short story by Gavin McCall.
• "The 2010 World Cup", a topical outburst by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Poems in Spanish and in English by Sergio Ortiz.
• Poems by Oliver Rice.
• "Why I'll Never Sail Again: Portrait of a Mutinous Landlubber," a short story by Marc Serpa Francoeur.
• Poems by J.R. Solonche.
• "The Valla Problemata," a poem by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.
• "Different," a short story by Nick Sweet.

Issue #41, Spring 2010.

• Anthology of Russian Minimalist and Miniature Poems; Part I, The Silver Age: translations and an introduction by Alex Cigale (multiple web pages.)
• Five Short Pieces, by Charles Freeland.
• "The Silence of the Falls: Niagara, The End of Language, and Francis Abbott’s Final Plunge," by R. Michael Gosselin.
• "The Twilight of the Humanities," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "The Story," a story by Robert Wexelblatt.
• Four Poems by John Williams.
  
  
• "THE YELLOW ROOM," by S.K. Johannesen, (Blaurock Press 2009), reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• A New Book by Carlos Barbarito "Un fuego bajo un cielo que huye" is available at  http://www.bailedelsol.org.  It just won the french Prix du Chasseur Abstrait 2010, and will soon be issued in a bilingual (French-Spanish) edition.

Issue #40, December 2009.

• "The Chill", flash fiction by Tess Almendarez Lojacono.
• Three Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Two Poems by Chris Crittenden.
• "When the Hat Fits Well", a story by Roger R. Drouin.
• Five Poems by David Kowalczyk.
• "After the Mayhem at Fort Worth", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Two Top Scientists Discuss Life After Death", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
  Two Poems by Oliver Rice.
• Two Poems by Farida Samerkhanova.
• Logicomix, an Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou.  Art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna.  Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Issue #39, Fall 2009.

• Three Poems by Tess Almendarez-Lojacono.
• Three Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• "Strictly Academic", a story by William Doreski.
• "Frankenstein", a story by Sara Erdmann.
• "The Element of Surprise", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Two Poems by Oliver Rice.
• "The Christmas Party", a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• Letters to Offcourse from Eugene Garber and Thomas Travisano.

Issue #38, Summer 2009.

Five Poems by Dion Farquhar.

• Flash Fiction by Daniel Gallik.
• "My Name Is Travis Jackson" by Nels Hanson.
• "Horse" and "Gone Missing", flash fiction by Bram Shay.
• "How to Find Honey in the Desert" by S.K.Johannesen.
• "The Truth Shall Make You Laugh" by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Train Spotter" and "Sam's Special Suit", short stories by Terry Voyle.
• "Inter Scoti et Scuti" by Robert Wexelblatt.
• "Poetry Magazine" by Gennaro Grossomodo.
• "At The Threshold of Alchemy" by John Amen, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Issue #37, Spring 2009.

• Four Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Five Poems by Geordie de Boer.
• Two Poems by Janet I. Buck.
• Poems by T.A. Fink and Maya Diablo Mason.
  
• Five New Stories, by Charles Freeland.
• Two Stories by Don Fredd.
• "Those Jars of Blood", a story by Kevin Fuschich.
• "Jitter", a story by Dianne Rees.
• Three New Poems by Oliver Rice.
• Three Poems by Davide Trame.
• Poems by ChangMing Yuan.
  
  
• Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.  Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton.  Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2008., reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.
  
  
• MOM’S CANOE, by Rebecca Foust, Texas Review Press, Huntsville, Texas, 2008, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Issue #36, January 2009.

• Six Poems by Travis Andersen.
• Five Not Unrelated Stories, by Charles Freeland.
• Four Poems by Robert Klein Engler.
• "Everything is Possible", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Of Frank Lloyd Wright", a poem by Oliver Rice.
• "My Aunt, the Essay ", a story — or is it an essay? —by Harvey Sutlive.
• Three Prose Poems by Joseph R. Trombatore.
  
  
• "Indignation", a novel by Philip Roth, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Issue #35, Fall 2008

The 2008 Elections.

• "Love Junkie", a story by Tess Almendarez Lojacono.
• Three Poems by Alan Botsford Saitoh.
• Three Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Four Adventures by Charles Freeland.
• Six Poems by David Kowalczyk.
• Six Poems by Frederick Pollack.
• Two Poems by Nanette Rayman Rivera.
• Four Poems by Doug Sutton-Ramspeck.
• "Ostbrück", a story by Robert Wexelblatt.

Issue #34, Summer 2008. Tenth Anniversary Issue.

• Two Poems by Louis Armand.
• Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Two Poems in Spanish by Carlos Barbarito with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Three Poems by Chris Crittenden.
• Four Poems by Ken Denberg.
• Poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason.
• Three Poems by Rebecca Foust.
• "More Glances": Poems by Eric Freedman.
• "The Enlightment of Schilda", a story by Joachim Frank.
• "Lube", a story by Jeannie Galeazzi.
• "Shimiba’s Leave-taking", a story by Eugene Garber.
• Three Prose Poems by Susan Isaak Lolis.
• A poem in Spanish by Rodolfo Mattarollo with a translation by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Four Poems by Oliver Rice.
• "Construction Zone", a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• "The Dreams of Count Wenzel von Geiz and the Jew Eisik", a story by Robert Wexelblatt.
  
  
• "Dark Card", a new book of poems by Rebecca Foust, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Issue #33, Spring 2008.

• "Walls", by Tess Almendarez-Lojacono.
  
• "The Dirty Rabbit's Foot" and other poems by Janet Buck.
  
• "Cyril's Cant", a story by Adam Burchard.
  
• "Focus Group" and other poems by Richard Fein.
  
• Three Short Pieces by Charles Freeland.
  
• "Birding" and other Poems by David McCoy.
  
• Three Pieces by Miranda Merklein.
  
• "The Southwest and the YMCA", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
  
• Poems by Kristine Ong Muslim.
  
• "The Latvian Way " and other Poems by Matt Woolven.

Issue #32, December 2007.

Happy holidays to all with new fiction from Offcourse authors:

• Luggas Wood, by S.K. Johannesen (Offcourse #22, Brückenkopfstrasse and Offcourse #7, Old Photos)

• Wave Mechanics: A love story, by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Both from Blaurock Press, Kitchener, Ontario (Canada)

• Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Poems by William Doreski.
• "I Always Mean Well", a short story by Don Fredd.
• "Wanting More", a short story by Mark Mika.
• "The Ideal, in Retroact", a short story by Wythe Marschall.
• "Poetry and Reality", Yes-but to a Lecture by Adam Zagajewski, by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Poems and a Story by Suzanne Ryan.
• Poems by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.
• Poems by R.L. Swihart.

Issue #31, September 2007.

• Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Poems by Janet E. Buck
• Poems by Chris Crittenden.
• "The Dreams of the Blind", a story by Benjamin H. DeVries.
• Poems by Ellaraine Lockie.
• "Professionalism Revisited" , an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Porcelain", a story by Iftekhar Sayeed.
• Poems by Elizabeth K. Switaj.
• Poems by Changming Yuan.

Issue #30, Spring 2007.

• Three Poems by Christoper Barnes.
• Poems by Carlos Barbarito, translated by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "If You See Nikki, Give Her My Best", short story by Kyle Hemmings.
• "As If Death Was Contagious", a short story by Rachel Maizes.
• "The Dissolution of Esthetics", essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• New Poems by Elisha Porat, translated by Cindy Eisner.
• Four Poems by Julie Marie Wade.

Issue #29, Winter 2007.

• Five Poems by John Amen
• Three Poems by Christoper Barnes.
• Three Poems by Janet Buck.
• Three Poems by Chris Crittenden.
• Three Poems by Claudia Grinnell.
• "Take Me To Your Leader", satire by Nelson Eshleman.
• "Silver Queen", a short story by Miriam Kotzin.
• "Those So Blue Ivories", a short story by Ed Lynskey.

Issue #28, Fall 2006

• Four New Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• Four New Poems by Tim Keane.
• Two New Poems by Michael Kinnaird.
• "The Revolt against the Wall", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Two Poems and a story, "The Jerusalem Syndrome" by Elisha Porat.
• "James Bone", a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• "Are You My Mother", a poem by Weihua Zhang.

Issue #27, July 2006

• "On a Photo by Patrick Nicholas", a new poem by Carlos Barbarito, translated from the Spanish by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• New Poems from the U.K. by Christopher Barnes.
• "Sitting on a Leaning Fence " and "The Hamster Wheel", poems by Janet Buck.
• Five Poems by Linda King.
• "Story without Pages" and "Fletcher's Hill", poems by Michael Kinnaird.
• "Velvet" and "Family Meeting", flash fiction by E.F. Kramer.
• Poems and Paintings by Nicholas Messenger.
• "Jorge Luis Borges and the European Visitors", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Poems by Davide Trame.
  

Issue #26, March 2006

• Six Poems by Louis Armand.
• New Poems from the U.K. by Christopher Barnes.
• "Defiant Eye" and "Touching the Burn", poems by Janet Buck.
• "Postcards from Kittle", short fiction by Rick Henry.
• Three Prose Poems by Ken Jones.
• More "Rummy Park" Poems, by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• Two Poems & a Short Story by Michael Kinnaird.
• "This is the Dying Language of the Ös" and other poems by Amy Small McKinney.
• "Burn the Happy Rabbi", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Two Poems by Wyatt Moss-Wellington.
• "The Knobkerrie" and "Thaumaturgic Lego Set", poems by Jason Alan Wilkinson.
  
  
• Vienna 00, a new collection by Eugene Garber, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.
  
  
• LETTERS: Eugene Garber and Miriam Melzar on Bonnefoy's Poetics.

Issue #25, December 2005

• "More of Me Disappears", a new book of poems by John Amen, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Four Poems, by Christopher Barnes.
• "Movie Night", a story by Murray Dunlap.
• "The Raid", a story by Eugene Garber.
• Poems from "Berlin Zyklus", by Galit Hasan-Rokem, in Hebrew and in English.
• "Azalea Day", a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• LETTERS: "Yves Bonnefoy's Poetics of Obfuscation", by Miriam Melzar. A reply to "Arthur Rimbaud and Yves Bonnefoy. Two Poetics of the Imagination", by Ricardo Nirenberg, Offcourse 24, Fall 2005.
• Presenting "Matches", a new novel by Alan Kaufman.

Issue #24, Fall 2005

• Poems in French and English by Eric Freedman, translated by the author.
• Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "Beauty Cannot Keep", a story by Miriam N. Kotzin.
• "Arthur Rimbaud and Yves Bonnefoy: Two Poetics of the Imagination", by Ricardo Nirenberg, with translations from the French by the author.
• Poems by Elisha Porat, translated from the Hebrew by Cindy Eisner.
• Poems by Bruce Stater.
• Poems by R.L. Swihart.

Issue #23,  Spring 2005

• Poems by Louis Armand.
• Poems from "Cenizas del Mediodía" by Carlos Barbarito, translated by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Hugo and Thanatos, a story by Eugene Garber.
• Three Poems by Louisa Howerow.
• Three Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• The Blue Bubble by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• Three Short Stories by Diane Payn

Issue #22,  Winter 2005

• Poems by Louis Armand.
• Poems by Hava Pinhas-Cohen, translated from the Hebrew by Riva Rubin.
• "Three by Seven," poems by Robert Klein Engler.
• "Brükenkopfstrasse," a story by S.K. Johannesen
• "A Virtually True Account of How Wallace Stevens Wrote ...," by Miriam Kotzin.
• "The Same, 1952,"  historical fiction by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Decent Treatment," a story by Harvey Sutlive.

Issue #21.  Fall 2004.

 

William Katz 1924-2004

Associate Editor William Katz died last September. Bill was a well-known specialist in reference librarianship, a compiler of poetry anthologies and a historian of the book. As a professor at the University at Albany he had a widespread influence: if you ask at the reference desk of any library in this country, chances are you'll find, right there, a student and an admirer of Bill. Some of his students have sent their fond and often awed memories of Bill to the following URL: http://www.albany.edu/sisp/people/faculty/katz_memories.htm. Bill Katz was the ideal reference librarian, interested in everything. He was the most likely person from Albany to run into, by a happy chance, at a museum or at a concert hall in New York. After his retirement from the university, he spent with his wife Linda five months each year in London; there he would attend as many conferences and concerts as possible and see every play. Much of the remaining time he spent at the British Library reading room, and for those occasions when he had to wait at a dentist office or take public transportation, he would tear off twenty or thirty pages from the Penguin translation of Don Quixote, or from some cheap edition of Stendhal, and keep them in his pocket. That was his idea of the good life, and I remember him saying how happy and grateful he felt for having been able to have it. For he didn't come from wealth: he had to work hard to get there. He had fought as a G.I. in Europe in WWII, an experience about which he talked very rarely, had gone to school on the G.I. Bill, and then worked as a journalist in the West Coast. I will resist my inclination to say something even a touch sentimental about Bill, for he would have sneered at it.

 

• Two Poems by John Amen.
• Three Poems by Arlene Ang.
• "The Leg Shop", a poem by Janet Buck.
• "Solstice", a poem by Ken Denberg.
• Two Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "Five Reflections on German Anti-Traditionalism between the Two Wars", by Till R. Kuhnle.
• "Conjuring Anthony", a chapter from "Blue Winnetka Skies" by Ron MacLean.
• "Loose Leaves from a German Journey", by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Founding Associate Editor Robert W. Greene has left the journal. All of us at Offcourse wish him great success in his future endeavors and thank him for his many vital contributions during the past six years.

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Issue #20.  Summer 2004.

• From the Editor: Inescapable Torture?
• Three Poems by Janet Buck.
• Concise Poems, by Davis Wayne Davis.
• Two Poems, by Michael Kinnaird.
• "Baroque Dreams", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "In Netanya", a poem by Elisha Porat.
• "Chicago Wages", a poem by Mark Prudowsky.
• "Spring Street", a story by Harvey Sutlive.

 
• 

"Painting Tacoma", a novel by Michael J. Vaughn, reviewed by Melissa Byles.

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Issue #19. Winter 2004.

• Four Poems by Janet I. Buck.
• Three Poems by Michelle Cameron.
• Two Poems by Ward Kelley.
• Three Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "American Fiction", a story by Andrew Madigan.
• Three Poems by Karen Mandell.
• "The Moralist in the Locker Room", an essay by Ricardo L. Nirenberg.
• "Nottiteln", poems by R.L. Swihart.
• Three Poems by Michael Vaughn.
• "In the Shadow of the Globe: Where History Comes to Life" by Michelle Cameron. Review by Janet I. Buck.
• "Beasts in their Wisdom" by Eugene K. Garber. Review by Ricardo L. Nirenberg.

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Issue #18.  Fall 2003.

• Three Poems by Jeffrey C. Alfier.
• Two Poems by Stuart Airlie.
• Two Poems by Janet Buck.
• Two Prose Poems by Martin Burke.
• Seven Poems by Rebecca Lou Kiernan.
• Two Poems by Michael Kinnaird.
• Two Poems by Andrew Madigan.
• The Coin Box, a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• Three Poems by Mariko Sumikura. Translated from the Japanese by Michael Finkenthal in collaboration with the poet.
• "Christening the Dancer" by John Amen.  Reviewed by Robert W. Greene.

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Issue #17.  Summer 2003.

• Two Poems by Carlos Barbarito.
• Three Poems by Ken Denberg.
• Two Poems by Richard Fein.
• "The Stalker," a story by Eugene Garber.
• "Interim," a story by Michael Kinnaird.
• Two Poems  by Michael Kinnaird.
• Two Poems  by Kelly Malone.
• "One Brushed Past,"  a poem by Sheila Murphy.
• "My Turn to Dream," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "In the Shadows," a story by Debi Orton.
• Two Poems by Elisha Porat.
• "Pick-up-Charlie to Astronaut,"  a story by Tom Sheehan.
• "Back Formation," a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• " Tickets to a Closing Play. " by Janet Buck.  Reviewed by Robert W. Greene.

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Issue #16.  March 2003.

• Three Poems, by Janet Buck.
• Two Poems, by Catherine Daly.
• Two Poems, by Thomas Fink.
• Two Poems, by Apryl Fox.
• Three Poems, by John Horvath Jr.
• "Elsewhere", a poem by Ward Kelley.
• Two Poems and Artwork, by Stephen Mead.
• Three Poems, by Martin Mitchell.
• Two Poems, by Sheila Murphy.
• "Strides We Make Sometimes,"  a story by Harvey Sutlive.


• "To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting," reviewed by Judy Kramer.

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Issue #15.  November 2002.

• Three Poems, by Janet Buck.
• Three Poems, by Joachim Frank.
• "Failing Words," a poem by Philip Hyams.
• Three Poems, by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• Three Poems, by J. B. Mulligan.
• "Big Stick," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Ghost Town," a story by S. Scott Simpson.
• "Watching from the Warehouse,"  a story by Harvey Sutlive.
• Two Poems, by Michael J. Vaughn.
• "Dancing through Russia's Cultural History," a review article by Margaret Black.

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Issue #14.  Summer 2002.

• "The Battle of the Falkland Islands," a poem by Stuart Airlie.
  
• "Yolki Blues," a poem by Janet Buck.
  
• Four Prose Poems, by Joel Chace.
  
• Two Poems, by Alison Daniel.
  
• "Manny the Cleaner," a short story by Timothy Kaiser.
  
• "Whispering along the Dead Sea," a short story by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan.
  
• "On the Eighteenth Anniversary of your Imminent Destruction," a poem by Michael Kinnaird.
  
• Two Poems, by Walter McDonald.
  
• "Dada in Albany, NY," by Ricardo Nirenberg.
  
• Book Reviews:

  "Discovering Diane Schoemperlen," by Margaret Black.
  

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Issue #13.  Spring 2002.

• Three Poems by Jack Cannon.
• Two Poems by Ken Denberg.
• "Loki and Death," by Eugene Garber.
• "Bush, bin Ladin and Taja," by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan.
• Three Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "The Cartoon Vandals," a poem by Martin Rutley.
• Three Poems by Ellen Reed.
• Two Poems by R.L. Swihart.
• "These Dreaming Houses," a poem by John Sweet.
• "Arsonist," a poem by Jacqueline Vanzyl.

 
• Book Reviews:

  "All in One Breath: Selected Poems", by Harry C. Staley, reviewed by Robert W. Greene.
  Find this book at The BookHouse at Stuyvesant Plaza

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Issue #12.  Winter 2002.

"Love and Violence in a Gray Place," a poem by Stuart Airlie.

Three Poems, by Jeffrey C. Alfier.

"Love Should Play Fortissimo," a poem by Janet Buck.

Six Poems, by Richard Fein.

"Infused by Mortal Eyes," a poem by Ward Kelley.

"Dying Man," a short story by Nasrullah Khan.

Three Poems, by Alec Kowalczyk.

"November 19th Starting Out," a poem by Sheila Murphy.

"The High Glass Wall," a short story by Elisha Porat.

 

Book Reviews:

"The Eyre Affair: A Novel," by Jasper Fforde and "Polar," by T. R.Pearson, reviewed by Margaret Black.
"Roscoe," by William Kennedy, reviewed by I. L.Nirenberg.
Find these books at The Bookhouse at Stuyvesant Plaza.

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Issue #11.  Fall 2001.

• Coffee, a poem by Anthony DiPietro.
• Two Poems by John Horvath.
• Four Poems by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• Three Poems by Michael Kinnaird.
• Three Poems by Duane Locke.
• A Day for Singing, a Vietnam vignette by James MacNeil.
• From my Private Journal:  September 11, 2001 , by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• The Lost Son, a story by Elisha Porat, translated from the Hebrew by Alan Sacks.
• The Yellow Boat , a story by David Ritchie.
• Cantos, three poems by Serafín Roldán.
• The Meat Market , a story by Julia Simpson-Akin.

 
• Open letter to Susan Sontag by Melissa Byles.
  
  Letter exchange about Melissa Byles' article.

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Issue #10.  Summer 2001.

Three Poems by Barbara Berman

Two Poems by Janet Buck

Two Poems by Kimberly Copeland

Two Poems by Barbara Foster

"Venice", a short story by Eugene Garber

"Lifeless Life", a short story by Nasrullah Khan

Four Poems by Walt McDonald

Academic Caplets, by Ricardo Nirenberg

Four Poems by Dorin Popa

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Issue #9.  April 2001.

Four Poems by Cindy Colon

Three Poems by Anne Comerford

Four Poems by Ken Denberg

"Short with Quotes", by Amadio Galante

"Still More Dedicated Lines": poems by Robert W. Greene

Three Poems by Ward Kelley

"Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, I, XXIV and XXV", by Ricardo Lida Nirenberg

Two Poems by Ellen Reed

Five Poems by Harry Staley

"The Inductor", a short story by Rowan Wolf

 
Contributors to this issue.

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Issue #8.  December 2000.
New Publications by Offcourse contributors

Poems in French and in English by Louis Armand

"A soft west breeze" and "Mirka", short stories by John Blackwood

"More Dedicated Lines":   poems by Robert W. Greene

Poems by David Barnes, Philip Hyams, Durlabh Singh

Poems by David Matthews Mitchell

"Caplets", by Ricardo Lida Nirenberg

"A Spit in the Face":  a short story by Elisha Porat, translated from the Hebrew by Alan Sacks.

Contributors to this issue.

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Issue #7.  Summer 2000.
 

"At the Deathbed of the Millennium":  a poem by Alexis Brodesky

"Flan" and "Obsession's Deep Obsidian":  two poems by Janet I. Buck

"Dedicated Lines":  prose poems by Robert W. Greene

"Old Photos":  a story by S.K. Johannesen

"A Stanza of Carnality":  a poem by Ward Kelley

"Collecting skulls" and "The Secret Life of Carousel Horses":  two poems by Michael Kinnaird

"Stories of Creation":  an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg

"A Bullet Fired":  a short story by Elisha Porat

 
Contributors to this issue

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Issue #6.  Winter/Spring 2000.
 

This issue, guest-edited by Jenny Dowling, whose work you have seen in previous issues, showcases The Writers Studio, a remarkably successful school of creative writing located in Manhattan.  As a part of their apprenticeship, students at The Writers Studio do the following exercise:  given a text, either poetry or prose, by an established writer; they must then produce their own text, imitating certain (formal) features of the model.  We present a number of those exercises, and hope you will find, as we did, that they afford a glimpse into the original act of writing, as well as a pleasurable read.
You will also find a description of the Studio's activities and methods, a presentation of The Writers Studio by Jenny and a recent dialogue between the poet Philip Schultz, its founder and director, and Ricardo Nirenberg.

• Jenny Dowling's presentation
• The writers speak about their work: examples and exercises
• The elements of craft
• The reading list
• Interview with Philip Schultz

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Issue #5.  Fall 1999.
 

• "From Nabuchadnezzar to Negroponte:  Three Millennia of Millennialism",
  by David Nirenberg.
• "Some Trees, not Birches" and "Four Poems", by Robert W. Greene.
• "Four Festering Sores":  short stories by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Mongrel" and "Jerusalem Python":  poems by Phylip Hyams.
• "After the Sandwich":  a poem by Michael Kinnaird.
• "Fear and Hesitation #9 and #10":  poems by Duane Locke.
• "Family Language" and "Long Haul":  short stories by Elisha Porat, translated from the hebrew by Alan Sacks.
• "Closer Sun",  a short story by Rowan Wolf.

 
• "Cry Uncle:  a novel by R. Nirenberg", reviewed by Margaret Black.
• Contributors to this issue




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Issue #4.  Summer 1999
 
• December, by Holly Lalena Day
• Lost, by Roger Gathman
• A Sonnet and Two Sagas, by Robert W. Greene
• SKIN MAN by Mary Kennan Herbert
• Something's coming to meet you, by Alan Kaufman
• A South American Quartet, by Ward Kelley
• H, by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
• Contributors to this issue

 

The editors recommend Eugene Mirabelli's most recent novel, "The Language Nobody Speaks" (Spring Harbor Press).
Elegant, melancholy and salacious, it's the delicious fruit of a lifelong research into prose and sex.
Find it at The BookHouse in Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY.

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Issue # 3.  Spring 1999
 
• From the Editor
• The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Jenny Dowling
• Selling the Holocaust Museum, by Amadio Galante
• Parts and Wholes of Memory, by Robert W. Greene
• Two Poems by Mary Kennan Herbert
• Pieter de Hooch, by Laura von Roijj
• Three Poems by David Hunter Sutherland

 
•      "Life is Beautiful" and "Tango":  two fables of the ineffable, by Solano Meier

 
• Contributors to this Issue

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Issue # 2.  Fall/Winter 1998

• More Poems, by Robert W. Greene.
• Witold Gombrowicz, or the Sadness of Form, by Ricardo Nirenberg

(in English) ((in Spanish)
• Gombrowicz está en nosotros, by Juan Carlos Gómez
• No More Father, by David Siff

 
• Richard Ford on Raymond Carver, by Melissa Byles.

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Issue # 1.  Summer 1998

• Introduction

 
• Three Poems, by Robert Greene.
• PABLO PALAZUELO, A Biography, by Richard H. Knight
• Geologic form  un-earthed:  "Seeing through" the art of Pablo Palazuelo, by Richard H. Knight.
• River, Sea, Mother and Prostitute:  the poetry of Fredi Guthmann, by Ricardo Nirenberg.

(in English )  (in Spanish)
 
• Links on Fredi Guthmann
• From the quagmire of Academe:   by Melissa Byles.

 

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