An online literary journal:  we publish essays, reviews, short stories, poetry.

Editor:  Ricardo Nirenberg (r.nirenberg@albany.edu)
Associate editors:  Robert W. Greene, William Katz.

Please contact us at offcourse@albany.edu;    click here for contributor's guidelines.

Of(f)course gratefully acknowledges the support provided by the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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.
  

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 dialog 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

• "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

• 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.

• 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

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.

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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