Issue 22

Issue 22 fall 2018

Many thanks to the s[r] staff who created this issue.

Issue front list

Art

Pomet’s works are in the permanent collections of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Academy, Rome, Italy; Santander Museum of Fine Arts, Spain; IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Spain; and Coleccion Solo, Madrid, Spain.

Events

Charles Simic

Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963-1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues.

Fiction

Leslee Becker

Leslee Becker grew up in the Adirondacks. She’s a former Stegner Fiction Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and has been teaching at Colorado State University for years.

Interviews

Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Hundred-Year House and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. Her novel The Great Believers was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the ALA Carnegie Medal.

Nonfiction

Abigail Thomas

Abigail Thomas is the author of six previous books, including the memoir A Three Dog Life, which was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. She teaches writing and lives in Woodstock.

Poetry

Cameron Barnett

Cameron Barnett holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh, and his first collection, The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water (Autumn House Press) was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Cameron’s work explores the complexity of race and the body for a black man in today’s America.