Anne Carson
Saskia Hamilton
Tomaž Šalamun
Peter Streckfus
Jee Young Lee
Rusty Morrison
Elizabeth Willis

Michael Martone
Madeline ffitch
Juan Filloy

Susan Howe
John Matthias

Fiona Green
Joshua Kotin
John Beer
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Spencer Dew

BARBARA GUEST
SPECIAL ISSUE (53:4 & 54:1/2)

A triple issue celebrating the life and work of Barbara Guest. Three of Guest's plays and a portfolio of five previously uncollected poems (edited by Catherine Wagner) are accompanied by 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.

This triple issue of Chicago Review also features:

POEMS by Fredrik Nyberg (translated by Jennifer Hayashida), Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Roberson, Dan Beachy-Quick, Robyn Schiff, María Baranda, John Wilkinson, P.K. Page, and Kent Johnson.

STORIES by Bret Sparling and Craig Foltz.

An ESSAY on Geoffrey Hill by Brett Bourbon.

REVIEWS:

Peter Manson on Hannah Weiner
Dustin Simpson on Keith Waldrop's translation of Baudelaire
Joshua Baldwin on Andrezj Stasiuk
V. Joshua Adams on Amanda Nadelberg
Rusty Morrison on Dan Machlin
Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles
Charles Altieri on Jennifer Moxley
Kristin Prevellet on Ron Silliman
Courtney MacNeil on Kamau Braithwaite
Kent Johnson on Tim Atkins

A COMMENTARY by C.D. Wright on her long poem “Rising, Falling, Hovering” whose first half appeared in CR 51:3 and whose second half appeared in CR 53:2/3.

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The next issue of Chicago Review (55:1) will appear in September and include a portfolio of poets from Berlin, edited by Christian Hawkey.