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FALL 2007 ISSUE (#11)
The Fall 2007 Issue of Hunger Mountain, #11, features work selected by Guest Editors Phyllis Barber, Richard Jackson, Ellen Lesser and Natasha Sajé, plus the winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, Andrew McCuiag’s “A Soldier’s Story” selected by Wally Lamb.
The issue also features a 5th anniversary color artwork retrospective including artists Todd Bartel, KK Kozik, Liza Myers, Gail Salzman, Craig Stockwell, Laura Von Rosk and John Willis.
New fiction, including short stories and novel excerpts, from writers Katherine Lien Chariott, Randa Jarrar, John J. McLaughlin, Rae Paris, Jacob Paul, and Gladys Swan.
New creative nonfiction from writers Robin Hemley, Heather Kirn, and Lance Larsen.
Poems by Agi Mishol translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz.
New poems by Marvin Bell, Lisa Bickmore, Kamau Brathwaite, Deborah Brown, Sandra M. Castillo, Keith Driver, Gary Fincke, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Bob Hicok, Mark Jarman, Lisa Katz, Shirley Kaufman, Sarah Maclay, Sebastian Matthews, Jett McAlister, Ashley McWaters, Rachel Morgan, Erín Moure, Bradley Paul, Chad Prevost, Arthur Smith, George Szirtes, Kim Cope Tait, John Thomas, Susan Thomas, Jennifer Tonge, and Pamela Uschuk.
200 pages with color artwork. Order a copy of Hunger Mountain here.
SPRING 2007 ISSUE, #10
The Spring 2007 Issue of Hunger Mountain features poetry and prose selected by guest editors Phyllis Barber, Mark Cox, Ellen Lesser and Clare Rossini, the winning poem from the 2007 Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry, "What Does Lorca Own?" by Katie Kingston, and poems by honorable mentions Amanda Auchter and Robert C. Jones. The issue also includes an interview by Matthew Baker with Robert Boswell, a poetry translation section, and illustrations by Amane Kaneko.
The poetry translation section includes: Andrzej Bursa (1932-1957), translated from the Polish by Kevin Christianson and Halina Ablamowicz; Cvetka Lipus, translated from the Slovenian by Tom Priestly; Barbara Pogacnik, translated from the Slovenian by Barbara Siegel Carlson; Rafa Rueda, translated from the Basque by Elizabeth Macklin; and Branca Vilela, translated from the Spanish by Heidi Czerwiec and Claudia Routon.
Short stories by François Camoin, Victoria I. Fish, Stephanie Payne McBride, Darrell Spencer and Ellen Visson; creative nonfiction by Jeanne Larsen; and three short-shorts by Randall Brown.
Seven poems by New Mexican poet Connie Voisine, also poetry by Patrick Carrington, Blas Falconer, Tony Hoagland, Elizabeth Macklin, Judith McCombs, Andrew Miller, Doug Ramspeck, Maxine Scates, Abraham Smith, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Brent Terry, Sandy Tseng, Peter Vanderberg, and Barbara Yien.
FALL 2006 ISSUE, #9
The Fall 2006 Issue of Hunger Mountain features work selected by Guest Editors Betsy Sholl, Sue William Silverman, Nance VanWinckel and Xu Xi, plus a section of Portuguese translations edited by Philip Graham. The issue also includes an interview by Richard Jackson with James Tate and Dara Wier (with new poems), Anne de Marcken's 2006 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize-winning story, and artwork from Vermont College alums Tim Gaewsky and Maria Prainito, representing their ongoing collaboration called Reject Effect (www.rejecteffect.com).
New short stories by Jeanie Chung, Valerie Fioravanti, Amy Hassinger, Beate Rygiert (her first American publication), and Courtney Walsh; creative nonfiction by Ira Sukrungruang on becoming a Thai monk and Eva Paulino Bueno on becoming a Brazilian author; and translations of two short-shorts by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov.
New poems by Deborah DeNicola, Theodore Deppe, Geoffrey Gaddis, Bob Hicok, David Kirby, Rauan Klassnik, Alexis Lathem, Sydney Lea, s. lee, Michelle Margolis, Lynn Martin, D. Nurske, Lucia Perillo, Eleanor Stanford, Hannah Stein, Bert Stern and Jean Valentine.
Philip Graham's translation section, titled "A Book, Open Wide, in Our Hands: Contemporary Portuguese Writing," includes prose from authors Rui Zink, Hélia Correia, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Luísa Costa Gomes, Jacinto Lucas Pires and José Riço Direitinho. The issue's cover artwork, by Mary E. MacKay, is a photograph of Portuguese artist Paula Rego's azulejos at the Palacio Frontiera in Lisbon. To order a copy, subscribe by clicking here!
SPRING 2006 ISSUE, #8
The Spring 2006 Issue of Hunger Mountain, on sale April first, features a special section titled Reincarnated Forms: eighty pages of imaginative variations, or hybrids, of traditional poetic forms, as well as some invented forms, selected by Guest Editor Roger Weingarten and introduced by Bruce Weigl. The section includes poets Marvin Bell, Jim Daniels, Barry Goldensohn, Andrey Gritsman, Mark Halliday, Lynn Levin, Paul Muldoon, J. Allyn Rosser, Richard Tillinghast, Charles Harper Webb, Stefi Weisburd, Carolyne Wright and many more.
Prose selections from Guest Editor Victoria Redel include a novel excerpt from Paul Lisicky, creative nonfiction from Richard Katrovas and Stephen Tuttle, and short fiction from Peter Christopher, Sheila Kohler, Dawn Raffel, Terese Svoboda and Diane Williams.
The spring issue also features an interview with former Poet Laureate of Texas Jack Myers, conducted by William Walsh, and including six new poems. Plus eight portraits by Vermont artist Kira Curtis and cover art by Liza Myers. Also including a special tribute to Howard Frank Mosher by renowned author Chris Bohjalian.
FALL 2005 ISSUE, #7
Hunger Mountain ’s Fall 2005 Issue (#7) features a selection of black-and-white photographs by eight central Vermont artists: Pam Boyd, Melissa Fisher, Ethan Hubbard, Andrew Kline, Ed Pierce, John Puleio, Emily Sloan and Jim Wallace. Also featured is a wide variety of international writing, including an excerpt from New Zealand novelist Fiona Kidman, a short story from Australian Dewi Anggraeni and a section titled Poeísas Españolas, with translations of poems by Luis Miguel Aguilar (Mexico), Alberto Blanco (Mexico), Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Peru), María Rosa Lojo (Buenos Aires) and Valerie Mejer (Mexico). The issue’s cover art is an oil on wood painting by Laura Von Rosk.
The issue also includes the second annual Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize winner Susan Williams, alongside prose by Mary Bailey, Gerry Canavan, Eric Darton, Stephanie Dickinson, Alex Kuo, Ladette Randolph and Robert Vivian and poetry from Dennis Hinrichsen, Andrew Miller, Malena Mörling, Katie Peterson, Tom Sleigh and Kristen Tracy.
Poetry Guest Editors for this issue are William Olsen, author of Trouble Lights, and Leslie Ullman, author of Slow Work Through Sand. Prose Guest Editors are Sue William Silverman, author of Lovesick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction, and Xu Xi, author of Overleaf Hong Kong; they will also be guest editing the Fall 2006 Issue together.
The Spring 2005 Issue of HungerMountain, The VermontCollege Journal of Arts & Letters, features work inspired by the bicentennial celebration of The Scarlet Letter, including ink renderings of Vengeance and Hunger by Lucinda Bliss, paintings by Craig Stockwell, and essays by Reverend Bill Bliss and Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Also featuring Sara Rath’s creative nonfiction account of Achsa Sprauge, a 19th century medium from Plymouth, Vermont, an Arctic Circle pioneering adventure in Pinckney Benedict’s The Bear Man, a frightening take on the human mind in Bruce Beasley’s poem Brain Slices, a West Virginian buck hunt gone wrong in Ann Pancake’s Mogey and eight prose poems by Beckian Fritz Goldberg. Lost Bird, by John Hodgen, is winner of the second annual Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry; three honorable mentions are from Rebecca Bednarz, Helen Klein Ross and Christine Whittemore. HungerMountain’s sixth issue also includes new poems by Karen Carcia, Robert Gibb, Mark Halliday, James Harms, Frannie Lindsay, Roger Mitchell, David Rivard, J. Allyn Rosser and Dean Young, and new short stories by Leslee Becker, Rae Brown, Pam Durban, Alexandra Enders and Marie Ostarello.
The Spring 2005 Issue Guest Editors are Abby Frucht, David Jauss, William Olsen and David Wojahn.
FALL 2004 ISSUE, #5
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The Fall 2004 Issue of Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, guest edited by Robin Behn, Abby Frucht, David Jauss and Clare Rossini, features the winner of the first annual Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, Josh Wilker of Chicago, Illinois. Prose selections also include an essay from Sascha Feinstein and short fiction from Jennifer Grow, Geeta Sharma Jensen, Susan McCarty, Ahn Chi Pham, R. M. Ryan, Sheila M. Schwartz and Mark Turcotte. Spanish poet Ángel Crespo is translated by Steven J. Stewart, and new poems come from Cal Bedient, Richard Chess, Mark Doty, James Doyle, Ray Gonzalez, William Greenway, Susan Grimm, Paul Guest, Terrance Hayes, Suzanne Heyd, Norbert Hirschhorn, Mark Irwin, Mark Jarman, Sigi Leonhard, Robert Nazarene, Brad Richard, Myra Shapiro, Adrienne Su, Chad Sweeney, K. K. Todorovich and Eliot Khalil Wilson. The cover art is by Brooklyn artist KK Kozik. The issue also includes eight color pages from renowned collage artist Todd Bartel, including an artist’s statement discussing the influence of Ovid’s Metamorphosis on his Garden Studies series. The Fall 2004 Issue of Hunger Mountain gives the reader glimpses into Vermont, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam and Peru, ponders landscape’s effects on humanity, asks questions of Godzilla and takes a few turns into language poetry.
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SPECIAL EDITION ALL-VERMONT ISSUE
The Spring 2004 Issue of Hunger Mountain is a special edition featuring work for the finest emerging writers residing in Vermont , alongside a few treasured Vermont favorites, such as National Book Award winner Ruth Stone and Pulitzer Prize winner Hayden Carruth. The issue was put together by Guest Editors Sydney Lea and Jim Schley, both former editors of The New England Review. Together, they selected over 200 pages of new poetry, fiction and nonfiction, including work by Thomas Absher, Bob Arnold, Ann Aspell, Philip Baruth, T. Alan Broughton, Louella Bryant, David Budbill, Sue D. Burton, Gary Clark, Joan Connor, Jean L. Connor, Wyn Cooper, Danielle Dahline, Greg Delanty, Ellen Dudley, John Engels, Kate Fetherston, Wendy Dorsel Fisher, Nadell Fishman, Edith Forbes, Jody Gladding, Chandler Gilman, Karin Gottshall, Mary Hays, Geof Hewitt, Bess Huddle, David Huddle, Greg Joly, Garret Keizer, Jenny Land, Alexis Lathem, Creston Lea, Gary Lenhart, Ann McGarrell, Gary Miller, Nora Mitchell, Peter Money, Kate O'Neill, Angela Patten, Didi Pershouse, Elizabeth Powell, Philip Russell, Stephen Sandy, Shelagh Shapiro, Neil Shepard, Julia Shipley, Emily Skoler, Victoria Taylor Smith, Seth Steinzor, Diane Swan, Catherine Tudish, Roger Weingarten, Carol Westberg, Mame Willey, Robert Carl Williams, T. Hunter Wilson, Linda Hyatt Young and Martha Zweig.
The cover art for this issue, “Meander,” is a painting by artist Gail Salzman. Eight color photographs of granite scultures accompany an interview with two Barre , Vermont artists, Giuliano Cecchinelli and Jerry Williams. Also included is a woodcut print by local artist Mary Azzarian.
The Spring 2004 Issue also features the award winners of the first annual Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry, judged by Mary Ruefle. First place was awarded to Mary Donnelly of New York City . Honorable Mentions were awarded to Chad Davidson, Elton Glaser and Kate Umans. For more details about The Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry, click here.
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The Fall 2003 Issue of Hunger Mountain features an interview with Slovene poets Ales Debeljak, Barbara Korun, Boris A. Novak, Iztok Osojnik, Tomaz Salamun, and Lucija Stupica, hosted by Richard Jackson and Bridgette Bates, and including selected work.
Also short stories from Philip Graham, Sheridan Hay, Alice Hoffman and Edward Maitino; "Reading Gandhi in Cairo" by Russell Working; and creative non-fiction from Marilyn McCabe and Molly McQuade. Featured poetry includes poems from VC alums Linda Tomol Pennisi and Bill Rasmovicz; translations of two of Ioan Flora 's poems, including the original Romanian versions; and poems from Dorothy Barresi, Marvin Bell, Geraldine Connolly, Jane Miller, Carol Muske-Dukes, David Rivard, Bruce Smith, Connie Voisine, and Dean Young, PLUS even more!
Artwork in this issue: eight photographs from Vermonter John Willis, (selections from two series: A Tribute to Grandfather Eugene and Recycled Realities), and a cover by Slovene photographer Matej Stalcer.
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Fall 2003 Guest Editors
ROBIN BEHN
DOUGLAS GLOVER
MARY GRIMM
CLARE ROSSINI
Featuring cover art from treasured Vermont artisan Sabra Field and 160 pages of new poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, plus 8 color glossy pages of Burlington, VT artist Lynn Imperatore's captivating artwork.
Catch a sneak-peek chapter from Vermonter Howard Frank Mosher's forthcoming novel celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, W.D. Wetherell's exploration of the tempestuous lives of famous writers, and an adventure story from acclaimed Nepalese fiction writer Samrat Upadhyay.
Also including short stories by Deborah Schupack, Bruce Stone, Neela Vaswani, and Jacob White ; creative nonfiction by Michael Martone; new poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Simic and James Tate and also new poetry from Noah Blaustein, Peter Cooley, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Carrie Iverson, Toni Mirosevich, Aleda Shirley, Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons, Virgil Suárez, Susan Terris, Linda Wojtowick, Karen Wolf, and Gail Wronsky.
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Spring 2003 Guest Editors
RALPH ANGEL
MARY GRIMM
CHRISTOPHER NOËL
DAVID ST. JOHN
Color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz with essay by Maggie Barrett; Victoria Redel interviews Grace Paley; Creative non-fiction by Wally Lamb and Naomi Shihab Nye; short stories by Bret Lott, Naama Goldstein, and Jerilyn Baker; novel excerpts from Sydney Lea and Jewell Parker Rhodes; poems by Pulitzer Prize winners Carl Dennis, Maxine Kumin, and Charles Wright; Adria Bernardi translates Raffaello Baldini; poems by Jeff Freidman, Sarah Kennedy, and Louise Mathias!
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Premiere Issue Editors
RALPH ANGEL
CHRISTOPHER NOËL
DAVID ST. JOHN