Artists' Recent and
Upcoming Works

STEPHEN AJAY, poetry, "Black Magic at the Guesthouse", New Orleans Review, Vol. 33 No. 1, Winter, 2007/2008.

MEENA ALEXANDER, a poetry collection, Quickly Changing River: Poems, Northwestern University Press, February, 2008. This collection includes several poems written at Yaddo, and the landscape of Yaddo in winter is featured in the poem cycle "Three for Winter".

JONATHAN AMES, short fiction, "I Was in Flowers", Open City, No. 25, Summer, 2008; an autobiographical graphic novel (illustrated by Dean Haspiel), The Alcoholic, DC/Vertigo, September, 2008.

SARAH ARVIO, poetry, "Neck", The New Yorker, May 26, 2008.

JOHN ASHBERY, poetry, "Some Silly Thing", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008; translator for a Pierre Martory poetry collection, The Landscapist, The Sheep Meadow Press, January, 2008.

KATHERINE ASHENBURG, a history of attitudes toward hygiene through time, The Dirt on Clean, North Point Press, November, 2008.

PAUL AUSTER, a novel, Man in the Dark, Holt, August, 2008.

PETER BALAKIAN, commentary, "Poetry in Hell - Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 1, February, 2008.

DOROTHY BARRESI, poetry, "Something in the House Was Beeping" and "Stereotype", West Branch, No. 62, Spring, 2008.

JONATHAN BAUMBACH, a novel, You, or The Invention of Memory, Rager Media, February, 2008; short fiction, "Travels with Wizard", Open City, No. 24, Winter, 2007/2008.

ROBIN BEHN, poetry, "My Hair", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008.

DAN BELLM, a poetry collection, Practice, Sixteen Rivers Press, March, 2008.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN, subject of a new book by his brother, Burton Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein: American Original, Collins Reference, August, 2008. The composer's life is examined through rare photographs, letters, and memorabilia.

MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE, poetry, "Animal Communication", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

SALLIE BINGHAM, a short story collection, Red Car, Sarabande, April, 2008.

ELIZABETH BISHOP, a ew collection of the poet's work in many forms, Poems, Prose, and Letters, Library of America, February, 2008; a paperback reissue of a 1977 poetry collection, Geography III, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April, 2008.

CHURAUMANIE BISSUNDYAL, a novel, The Fire of Fear, Publish America, May, 2008.

RALPH BLACK, poetry, "In the Leftover Dark", West Branch, No. 61, Winter, 2007/2008.

CHARLES BOCK, a novel, Beautiful Children, Random House, January, 2008.

BRUCE BOND, poetry, "Elegy for Tim Buckley", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring, 2008; poetry, "Choir" and "The Last Days of Jaco Pastorius", Agni Magazine, No. 67, Summer, 2008; a poetry collection, Blind Rain, Louisiana State University Press, March, 2008.

RYAN BOUDINOT, a novel, Sperm and Egg, Counterpoint, April, 2008.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS, subject of a career overview, Louise Bourgeois, Rizzoli, March, 2008. Edited by Frances Morris and Marie Laure Bernadac, the book coincides with a traveling retrospective of the sculptor's work. It includes an essay by Yaddo artist Robert Storr.

PHILIP BRADY, an essay, "My Dinner with Joe", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer, 2008.

JOHN BREHM, poetry, "Getting Where We're Going", Poetry, Vol. CXCI, No. 4, January, 2008.

JOSEPH BRUCHAC, a nonfiction children's book about a Salish Indian, Buffalo Song, Lee & Low Books, Inc., March, 2008; a Native American perspective on the Civil War for ages 12+, March Toward the Thunder, Penguin Group, Inc., May, 2008.

CHRIS BURSK, selected poetry, "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down", "My True Vocation", and "The Pros And Cons Of The Pathetic Fallacy", The Sun, Issue 386, February, 2008; poetry, "In With the New, Out With The Old", The Sun, Issue 391, July, 2008.

AIFRIC CAMPBELL, a novel inspired by an unsolved 1971 Los Angeles murder, The Semantics of Murder, Serpent's Tail UK, April 24, 2008.

TRUMAN CAPOTE, subject of a new biography by Robert Emmet Long, Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible, Continuum, July, 2008.

ANNE CARSON, poetry, "Necks", The New York Review of Books, Vol. LV, No. 11, June 26, 2008.

TOM CHANDLER, a poetry collection, Toy Firing Squad, Wind Publications, February, 2008.

JENNIFER CHANG, a poetry collection, The History of Anonymity, University of Georgia Press, April, 2008.

RACHEL CLINE, a novel, My Liar, Random, February, 2008.

MARK CONWAY, poetry, "Not Night", Agni Magazine, No. 67, Summer, 2008.

NICOLE COOLEY, poetry, "Save Beach Elementary", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008; poetry, "Dear City", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008.

ROBERT DANA, poetry, "Indigo" and "Elegy for a Hometown", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008; a poetry collection, Some Versions of Silence, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., June, 2008.

NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF, a memoir, The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball, Pantheon, May, 2008.

NICHOLAS DELBANCO, a novel based on the real-life polymath Benjamin Thompson, The Count of Concord, Dalkey Archive, May, 2008.

CARL DENNIS, poetry, "Intervention", Salmagundi, No. 157, Winter, 2007/2008; poetry, "Silent Prophet", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008.

SHARON DOLIN, a poetry collection, Burn and Dodge, University of Pittsburgh Press, Spring, 2008. This book is the winner of the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.

MARK DOTY, a poetry collection, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, HarperCollins, March, 2008.

ELIZABETH DREW, a paperback reissue of a 2002 book about Senator John McCain, Citizen McCain, Simon & Schuster, May, 2008; an essay, "Molehill Politics", The New York Review of Books, Vol. LV, No. 6, April 17, 2008.

MERRIDAWN DUCKLER, prose, "A Freudian Fable", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer, 2008.

K.E. DUFFIN, poetry, "The Past Is Not A Hotel", The Sun, Issue 386, February, 2008.

DENISE DUHAMEL, poetry, "A Different Story", The American Poetry Review, August, 2008.

STEPHEN DUNN, poetry, "History", The New Yorker, March 10, 2008; poetry, "Plaisir", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008.

LYNN EMANUEL, poetry, "An Old Woman's Painting", Poetry, Vol. CXCI, No. 5, February, 2008.

LOUISE ERDRICH, short fiction, "The Reptile Garden", The New Yorker, January 28, 2008; a novel, The Plague of Doves, HarperCollins, May, 2008.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES, short fiction, "Great Experiment", The New Yorker, March 31, 2008; editor of an anthology, My Mistress's Daughter is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, HarperCollins, January, 2008.

BRIAN EVENSON, fiction, "Angel of Death", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

LESLIE FIELDER, a compilation of previously uncollected essays and reviews, The Devil Gets His Due, Counterpoint, March, 2008.

NICK FLYNN, poetry, "Air", Fence, Vol. 10 No. 1 & 2, Winter, 2007/2008; a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins, Faber and Faber, Inc., July, 2008.

JANET FRAME, short fiction, "A Night at the Opera", The New Yorker, June 2, 2008.

ALICE FRIMAN, poetry, "Getting Serious", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008.

CAROL FROST, poetry, "Man of War" and "Argonaut's Vow", Poetry, Vol. CXCI, No. 4, January, 2008.

LESLIE FRY, a book documenting the artist's public sculpture project, Wild Life, April, 2008. This book documents the artist's creation of six installations of sculptures made of plaster and plant materials at Boca Ciega Millennium Park in Seminole, Florida.

ALICE FULTON, a collection of linked short stories set in Troy, New York, The Nightingales of Troy, W.W. Norton & Company, July, 2008.

LAURA FURMAN, editor of a story collection, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008, Anchor, May, 2008.

FORREST GANDER, translator, Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, New Directions, April, 2008; poetry, from "As a Friend" and "Evaporation", The Journal, Vol. 31.2, Winter, 2007/2008.

SUZANNE GARDINIER, a poetry collection, Today, The Sheep Meadow Press, March, 2008.

WILLIAM H. GASS, acceptance speech for the 2007 Truman Capote Award, "The Literary Miracle", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008; fiction, "The Man Who Spoke with His Hands", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

MARGARET GIBSON, poetry, "In the Poet's House" and "Christos and the Tomato", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008.

SANDRA M. GILBERT, poetry, "Colonoscopy Sonnet", Poetry, May, 2008.

REGAN GOOD, poetry, "The Atlantic House", Fence, Vol. 10 No. 1 & 2, Winter, 2007/2008.

SARAH GORHAM, nonfiction, "Darling Amanita", Agni Magazine, No. 67, Summer, 2008.

VIVIAN GORNICK, an essay collection, The Men in My Life, MIT Press, September, 2008; commentary, "The Soul Grown Refined", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008.

ELI GOTTLIEB, a novel, Now You See Him, Morrow, February, 2008.

PHILIP GOUREVITCH, a nonfiction work about Abu Ghraib, cowritten with Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Penguin Press, May, 2008; commentary, co-written with Errol Morris, "Exposure: Behind the Camera at Abu Ghraib", The New Yorker, March 24, 2008.

ANDREW SEAN GREER, a novel, The Story of a Marriage, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May, 2008.

LAUREN GROFF, a novel, Monsters of Templeton, Hyperion, February, 2008.

BARBARA GUEST, a poetry collection, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest, Wesleyan University Press, May, 2008.

LEE GUTKIND, co-editor (with Andrew Blauner) of an essay collection, Anatomy of Baseball, Southern Methodist University Press, May, 2008.

MARILYN HACKER, translator for a bilingual edition of poetry by Marie Etienne, King of a Hundred Horsemen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November, 2008; translator for new work by Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata, Nettles, Graywolf Press, January, 2008.

RACHEL HADAS, poetry, "New Year", The New Yorker, April 21, 2008.

EVAN HANDLER, a memoir, It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive, Penguin, May, 2008.

JAMES HANNAHAM, short fiction, "Loss Prevention", Open City, No. 24, Winter, 2007/2008.

DONALD HARINGTON, a novel, Farther Along, The Toby Press LLC, May, 2008.

JAMES HARMS, a poetry collection, After West, Carnegia Mellon University Press, March, 2008.

LINDA LEE HARPER, a poetry collection, Kiss Kiss, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, February, 2008. The manscript for this book won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Open Competition for 2007.

ROBERT HEDIN, poetry, "Houses at the Arctic Circle", West Branch, No. 62, Spring, 2008.

JANE HIRSHFIELD, poetry, "All the Difficult Hours and Minutes" and three other poems, Poetry, May, 2008.

LINDA HOGAN, a novel, People of the Whale, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., August, 2008.

JOHN HOLLANDER, a poetry collection, A Draft of Light: Poems, Knopf, May, 2008; poetry, "Fidget", The New Yorker, January 28, 2008; poetry, "By Nature", The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008.

GARRETT HONGO, poetry, "55" and "Coral Road", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 3, June, 2008.

ANN HOOD, a novel for children ages 12 and up, How I Saved My Father's Life (and Ruined Everything Else), Scholastic, Inc., March, 2008; a memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., May, 2008.

MARIE HOWE, a poetry collection, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, Norton, March, 2008.

ANDREW HUDGINS, poetry, "The Imagined Copperhead" and "Blowfly", Poetry, May, 2008; five poems, "Lorraine's Song", "Jesus Loved His Body", "The Moon", "My Bed is Not a Boat", and "Playing Houth", Salmagundi, Nos. 158-159, Summer, 2008.

TED HUGHES, a collection of correspondence, Letters of Ted Hughes, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September, 2008. Editor Christopher Reid selected nearly 300 letters from the several thousand available for this volume; a collection of the poet's translations, Selected Translations, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September, 2008.

BARBARA HURD, an essay collection, Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains, University of Georgia Press, June, 2008.

KATE JENNINGS, a memoir, Stanley & Sophie, Scribner, August, 2008.

DIANE JOHNSON, a novel, Lulu in Marrakech, Dutton, October, 2008.

LAURA KASISCHKE, young adult fiction, Feathered, HarperCollins, April, 2008; a novel for young adults ages 14 and up, Feathered, HarperCollins, April, 2008.

ALFRED KAZIN, subject of a new book by Richard M. Cook, Alfred Kazin: A Biography, Yale University Press, January, 2008.

DONALD KEENE, a memoir, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, Columbia University Press, May, 2008.

MARSHALL N. KLIMASEWISKI, a collection of stories, Tyrants: Stories, Norton, February, 2008.

MARILYN KRYSL, a story collection, Dinner with Osama, University of Notre Dame Press, March, 2008.

ANN LAUTERBACH, fiction, "Elegy: Or to Begin Again", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

ZACHARY LAZAR, a novel, Sway, Little, Brown, January, 2008.

NAM LE, the title story from a new story collection, "The Boat", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008; a story collection, The Boat, Knopf, May, 2008.

PHILLIS LEVIN, a poetry collection, May Day, Penguin Group, April, 2008.

MIRIAM LEVINE, a collection of poems celebrating people, nature, and inner life, The Dark Opens, Autumn House, January, 2008. This collection is the winner of the 2007 Autumn House Poetry Prize, judged by Mark Doty.

DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON, a short story, "Blue Is Just A Color", The Brooklyn Review, Brooklyn College, Winter, 2007/2008; a short story, "The Sweet Spot", Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Summer, 2008; a novel, Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence, Harcourt, Fall, 2008.

LAURENCE LIBERMAN, poetry, "Staff of Double Life", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring, 2008.

LYN LIFSHIN, a collection of poetry about a champion race horse, Lost in the Fog, Finishing Line Press, October, 2008.

ROBIN LIPPINCOTT, a short story, "A Hard Rain", American Short Fiction, Spring, 2008.

MARGOT LIVESEY, a novel, The House on Fortune Street, HarperCollins, May, 2008.

WILLIAM LOGAN, a poetry collection, Strange Flesh, Penguin, October, 2008; poetry, "Along the Autumn River", Salmagundi, Nos. 158-159, Summer, 2008.

ELIZABETH BISHOP AND ROBERT LOWELL, a collection of correspondence between two friends, Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October, 2008. Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton.

FIONA MAAZEL, a novel, Last Last Chance, Farrar Straus & Giroux, March, 2008.

FREYA MANFRED, a poetry collection, Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle, Red Dragonfly Press, January, 2008.

SARAH MANGUSO, a memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June, 2008.

BEN MARCUS, an essay, "On Not Growing Up", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

IAN MARTIN, short fiction, "The Devanes", Open City, No. 24, Winter, 2007/2008.

CAROLE MASO, the title story from a forthcoming story collection, "Mother and Child", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

CLEOPATRA MATHIS, poetry, "His Answer" and "When She Spoke, He Closed His Eyes", The Laurel Review, Winter, 2007/2008.

J.D. MCCLATCHY, poetry, "Chinese Poem", The New Yorker, February 25, 2008; poetry, "A Frame", The New Yorker, June 23, 2008.

JOSEPH MCELROY, commentary, "Life Science: More (to and from) Plus", The Journal, Vol. 31.2, Winter, 2007/2008.

ERIN MCGRAW, a novel, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, Houghton Mifflin, August, 2008.

HEATHER MCHUGH, poetry, "Philosopher Orders Crispy Pork" and "Dark View", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008; poetry, "Myrrha to the Source," "From the Towers," and "Space Bar", Poetry, March, 2008.

PAULA MCLAIN, a novel, A Ticket to Ride, Ecco, January, 2008.

MAUREEN N. MCLANE, a poetry collection, Same Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September, 2008; poetry, "Terrible Things Are Happening", The New Yorker, March 17, 2008.

DANIEL MELTZER, a short story, "Basic", The Atlantic Review, Summer, 2008. This story is from the forthcoming memoir Nothing Happened Here, Volume I .

SAMUEL MENASHE, poetry, "Biographer", Poetry, Vol. CXCI, No. 4, January, 2008.

ROBERT MEZEY, poetry, "Fishing Around", The New Yorker, January 21, 2008.

SUE MILLER, a novel, The Senator's Wife, Knopf, January, 2008.

ROGER MITCHELL, poetry, "Poem with a Boy on a Bus" and "Strange Terrain", West Branch, No. 62, Spring, 2008; a poetry collection, Lemon Peeled the Moment Before: New & Selected Poems, Ausable Press, September, 2008.

RICK MOODY, an essay, "The Problem of Impairment", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

HONOR MOORE, a memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., May, 2008; an excerpt from her new memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, The New Yorker, March 3, 2008.

WALTER MOSLEY, a mystery, Diablerie, Bloomsbury, January, 2008.

ROXIE MUNRO, illustrator for a children's book written by Mike Spradlin, Texas Rangers: Legendary Lawmen, Walker & Company, February, 2008.

JOAN MURRAY, poetry, "The Gardener's Wife" and "Family Dollar", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008.

FAE MYENNE NG, a novel, Steer Toward Rock, Hyperion, May, 2008.

JUDITH NIES, a memoir and social commentary, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the 1960s, HarperCollins, June, 2008.

D. NURKSE, a poetry collection, Border Kingdom, Knopf Publishing Group, August, 2008; poetry, "A Night in Brooklyn," "The Dead Remember Brooklyn," and two other poems, Poetry, Vol. CXCI, No. 4, January, 2008; poetry, "The Marriage At Zarza" and "Ruth in Exhile", The Laurel Review, Winter, 2007/2008; poetry, "The Play of Light and Shadow", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008.

STEPHEN O'CONNOR, poetry, "Biology", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008; fiction, "Man in the Moon", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

GRACE PALEY, a poetry collection, Fidelity: Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March, 2008.

ANN PATCHETT, a collection of inspirational essays, What Now?, HarperCollins, April, 2008.

MOLLY PEACOCK, a poetry collection, The Second Blush, Norton, June, 2008.

PATRICK PHILLIPS, poetry, "Untitled", "Revelation", and "Heaven", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 3, June, 2008. These poems appear in the author's new book, Boy, published in April by the University of Georgia Press.

TOM PIAZZA, a novel, City of Refuge, Harper, September, 2008.

RICHARD PRICE, a novel, Lush Life, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, March, 2008.

DAVID RAY, a book of poems, After Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore, Nirala Publications, New Delhi, India, April, 2008.

JEWELL PARKER RHODES, a novel, Yellow Moon, Atria, August, 2008.

JAY ROGOFF, poetry, "Jane Austen, Inventor of Baseball", Salmagundi, Nos. 158-159, Summer, 2008; a poetry collection, The Long Fault, Louisiana State University Press, March, 2008.

CLARE ROSSINI, poetry, "Ars Poetica", "Man Crossing Street with Eyes Closed', and "Vesalius at the Gibbet of Montfaucon", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer, 2008.

PHILIP ROTH, a novel, Indignation, Houghton Mifflin, September, 2008.

MARK RUDMAN, poetry commentary, "William Carlos Williams in America, Part II", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 3, June, 2008.

MARY RUEFLE, a story collection, The Most of It, Wave, June, 2008; prose, "Woman with a Yellow Scarf", "All My Roe", and "My Search Among the Birds", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008.

MICHAEL RYAN, a poem and commentary on the work, "Half Mile Down", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 1, February, 2008.

TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN, a poetry collection, Woods and Chalices, Harcourt, April, 2008; poetry, "Olive Trees", Fence, Vol. 10 No. 1 & 2, Winter, 2007/2008.

DAVID SAMUELS, nonfiction, The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Adventures and Fantastical Lies of the Ivy League Imposter James Hogue, New Press, March, 2008; a collection of previously published stories and essays, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, New Press, March, 2008.

STEPHEN SANDY, poetry, "Thrift at Christmas" and "Jumble", Salmagundi, No. 157, Winter, 2007/2008.

JONATHAN SANTLOFER, a novel, The Murder Notebook, HarperCollins, June, 2008.

BART SCHNEIDER, a novel, The Man in the Blizzard, Three Rivers, August, 2008.

JASON SCHNEIDERMAN, poetry, "Filmic Abecedarian with Stutter" and "More Praise for The Calypso", The American Poetry Review, August, 2008.

PHILIP SCHULTZ, poetry, "The God of Loneliness", The New Yorker, May 5, 2008.

SALVATORE SCIBONA, a novel, The End, Graywolf Press, May, 2008.

JOANNA SCOTT, fiction, "Sally Werner", Conjunctions 50: Fifty Contemporary Writers, Summer, 2008.

DAVID SEDARIS, an essay collection, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Little, Brown & Company, June, 2008; an essay, "Letting Go: Smoking and Non-Smoking", The New Yorker, May 5, 2008; a humorous essay, "April & Paris: Caught in the Web of Nature", The New Yorker, March 24, 2008.

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY, a poetry collection, Human Dark With Sugar, Copper Canyon Press, June, 2008. This book won the 2007 James Laughlin Award.

DAVID SHIELDS, a memoir, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Knopf, February, 2008.

JASON SHINDER, poetry, "October," "The Alder Tree," and "Finally, It Comes", The Laurel Review, Winter, 2007/2008; a collection of favorite poetry, The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them, Sourcebooks, Incorporated, April, 2008. The collection comes with a CD featuring select actors reading their favorite poetry; poetry, "When I Think to Call His Name", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008.

RACHEL SHTEIR, commentary on Ethel Merman, "Call Her Madam", Bookforum, Vol. 14, Issue 4, Winter, 2007/2008.

JOAN SILBER, a collection of loosely connected stories, The Size of the World, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., June, 2008.

TOM SLEIGH, poetry, "Beirut Tank", "Stranding", and "For the Executive Director of the Fallen", Poetry, June, 2008; poetry, "The Chosen One", "Round", and "Pig from Ohio", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008; poetry, "Song That Can Only Be Sung Once", Poetry, Vol. CXC, No. 4, August, 2008.

WARREN SLESINGER, poetry, "Margin" and "Lifeboat", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008.

SUSANNA SONNENBERG, a memoir, Her Last Death: A Memoir, Scribner, January, 2008.

GREGORY SPATZ, prose, "Oh What Fun It Is", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer, 2008.

ELIZABETH SPIRES, a poetry collection, The Wave-Maker, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., July, 2008.

WILLIAM STAFFORD, a collection of mostly never before published poetry, Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947, Graywolf Press, April, 2008. Edited by Yaddo poet Fred Marchant; 8 poems, with an introduction by fellow Yaddodian Fred Marchant, "Los Prietos [I]" and others, The American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 3, June, 2008.

WALLACE STEGNER, subject of a biography by Philip L. Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West, Knopf, February, 2008.

GERALD STERN, a poetry collection, Save the Last Dance, W.W. Norton, May, 2008.

ROBERT STONE, short fiction, "High Wire", Open City, No. 25, Summer, 2008.

ROBERT STORR, text for an artist book, Gary Panter, Picture Box, April, 2008. This two-volume, slipcased set gathers more than 1,000 images of Gary Panter's paintings, drawings, sculptures, and more.

MARK STRAND, poetry, "Those Last Moments", The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008.

STEPHANIE STRICKLAND, a poetry excerpt, "Huracan's Harp", Jubilat, No. 14, Winter, 2007/2008.

ELIZABETH STROUT, a novel in stories, Olive Kitteridge, Random House, April, 2008.

ADRIENNE SU, poetry, "Middle of Nowhere", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer, 2008.

MANIL SURI, a novel, The Age of Shiva, Norton, February, 2008; a novel, The Age of Shiva, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., January, 2008.

TERESE SVOBODA, a poem, "Painting Day", Subtropics, No. 7, February, 2008; poems, "Dog in the Wall" and "The Little I", Ploughshares, February, 2008; poetry, "The Dog in the Wall" and "The Little I", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008; an account of GIs' secrets, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan, Graywolf Press, February, 2008. This book is the winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize.

BRIAN SWANN, poetry, "Essay in Water", Salmagundi, Nos. 158-159, Summer, 2008; poetry, "Loneliness", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008.

WILL THOMAS, a novel, The Black Hand: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Touchstone, July, 2008.

LIONEL TRILLING, a novel, edited by Geraldine Murphy, The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel, Columbia University Press, April, 2008.

GEORGE TSONTAKIS, a CD of his music, performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, "Tsontakis", Koch International Classics, Winter, 2007/2008. Douglas Boyd conducts in this performance of the composer's Violin Concerto No. 2, largely written at Yaddo and winner of the 2005 Grawemeyer Award, plus two other works - Clair de lune and The Past, The Passion.

JEAN VALENTINE, poetry, "Coyote", The New Yorker, February 4, 2008.

LARA VAPNYAR, a story collection, Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, Pantheon, June, 2008.

KAREN VOLKMAN, a collection of sonnets, Nomina, BOA Editions Ltd., April, 2008; a poetry collection, Nomina, BOA Editions, April, 2008.

G. C. WALDREP, poetry, "The Garden", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008; poetry excerpt, "One Way No Exit", The Laurel Review, Winter, 2007/2008. Numbers VIII, XVII, XVIII, and XIX from a chapbook-length manuscript of work inspired by German photographer Peter Rathmann's 1989 exhibition One Way: Fotografien; poetry, "Nietzsche in Galilee", "Mare Imbrium", and "The Second Umbrella", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Summer, 2008; poetry, "Titus at Lystra," "Circle Park," and "Bishopville", New Orleans Review, Vol. 33 No. 1, Winter, 2007/2008.

ALICE WALKER, a novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The New Press, May, 2008.

WENDY WALKER, a novel, Four Wives, St. Martin's, February, 2008.

ROSANNA WARREN, poetry, "Water Damage", Salmagundi, Nos. 158-159, Summer, 2008.

MAC WELLMAN, a collection of short stories, A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds, Trip Street Press, March, 2008.

EDMUND WHITE, a biography, Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel, Atlas & Company, October, 2008.

NANCY WILLARD, nonfiction, The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life, University of Michigan Press, February, 2008.

ROBLEY WILSON, poetry, "On the Water", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 2008; poetry, "Outsiders" and "The Soldier Plant", Ploughshares, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter, 2007/2008.

TOM WILSON, a novel, Mister Jacks, Hale, August, 2008.

SAM WITT, poetry, "Before the Flood" and "Recipe for the Fire", New Orleans Review, Vol. 33 No. 1, Winter, 2007/2008.

MEG WOLITZER, a novel, The Ten-Year Nap, Riverhead, March, 2008.

C. DALE YOUNG, poetry, "En Fuego", The Laurel Review, Winter, 2007/2008.

HARRIET ZINNES, poetry, "They Are There", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring, 2008.