«…return home
 

Recent Works Functions
Recent Works
Upcoming Works
Search Works
Artist Login

Artists' Recent and
Upcoming Works

KIM ADDONIZIO, poetry, "The First Line is the Deepest", Poetry, January, 2009; a poem, "Weaponry", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 5, February, 2009; an instruction manual for writing poety, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., February, 2009; a poetry collection, Lucifer at the Starlite, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., October, 2009.

MEENA ALEXANDER, poetry, "Birthplace (with Buried Stones)", Ploughshares, Vo. 35, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

KEITH ALTHAUS, poetry, "When Young: Unpainted Masks", "New Year's Underground", "To One Who Owed Me Money", and "Window on the Cape", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

JONATHAN AMES, a collection of fiction and essays, The Double Life Is Twice as Good, Scribner, July, 2009.

STEPHEN AMIDON, a novel, Security, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, February, 2009.

NATHALIE ANDERSON, poetry, "Eh?", The New Yorker, January 19, 2009.

JOHN ASHBERY, poetry, "Structures in Sand", The New York Review of Books, Vol. LVI, No. 3, February 26, 2009; poetry, "Uptick," "El Dorado," "Leave the Hand In," and "Boundary Issues", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 6, March, 2009.


PETER BALAKIAN, translator, Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March, 2009. This book, first published in 1922, was written by Mr. Balakian's great-uncle, Grigoris Balakian, an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide; poetry, "Three Decades", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter, 2008/2009.

MARY JO BANG, a poetry collection, The Bride of E: Poems, Graywolf Press, September, 2009; poetry, "So, So It Begins Means It Begins", The New Yorker, March 30, 2009.

FERENC BARNAS, a novel, translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchvary, The Ninth, Northwestern University Press, May, 2009.

JUDITH BAUMEL, poetry, "His Knowledge of Having Done So", AGNI, No. 68, Winter, 2008/2009.

THOMAS BELLER, editor of a story collection, Lost and Found: Stories from New York, Mister Beller's Neighborhood (distributed by W.W. Norton), May, 2009. This collection includes work by Beller and fellow Yaddo writer Jonathan Ames, among others.


HELEN BENEDICT, nonfiction, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, Beacon Press, April, 2009; a novel, The Edge of Eden, Soho Press, November, 2009.

BILL BERKSON, a poetry collection, Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems, Coffee House Press, April, 2009.

APRIL BERNARD, poetry, "To the Knife" and "Flute", Salmagundi, Nos. 162-163, Summer, 2009; a poetry collection, Romanticism, Norton, June, 2009.

CHANA BLOCH, co-translator for poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch, "The Love of an Orange" and "The Second Trying", Poetry, Vol. CXCIV, Number 1, April, 2009.

BRUCE BOND, poetry, "Blink" and "Day Moon", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, Winter, 2008/2009.

PATRICIA BOSWORTH, nonfiction, "Loophole Woman", Open City, No. 27, Summer, 2009.

NORMAN O. BROWN, an essay, "Metamorphoses II: Actaeon", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009. This essay appeared in the first issue of The American Poetry Review in 1972. Mr. Brown, an American classicist and author, passed away in 2002.

CATHLEEN CALBERT, poetry, "Ocean State", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

JOSEPH CALDWELL, the second installment in the author's "Pig Trilogy", The Pig Comes to Dinner, Delphinium, May, 2009.

SQUEAK CARNWATH, a survey of the artist's work, Squeak Carnwath: Painting is No Ordinary Object, Pomegranate, March, 2009. This book includes over 80 full-color reproductions that trace the development of the artist's work, and essays by curator Karen Tsujimoto and art critic and poet John Yau. It is published in conjunction with an exhibition at Oakland Museum of California.

ANNE CARSON, translation and introduction, An Oresteia, Faber and Faber, Inc., March, 2009.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, subject of a photography book edited by Agnes Sire, Photographing America: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Walker Evans, Thames & Hudson, April, 2009.

NAOMI FEIGELSON CHASE, poetry, "Tuna", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

JOHN CHEEVER, subject of a new biography by Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March, 2009; a collection of the author's five novels, edited by Blake Bailey, John Cheever: Complete Novels, Library of America, March, 2009; a collection of the author's writing, edited by Blake Bailey, John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings, Library of America, March, 2009.

GERALD COHEN, publication of a choral piece, "The ocean of peace lies ahead of me", Schirmer Music, Spring, 2009. This piece is set to a text by Rabindranath Tagore and is part of a larger choral work, An Undaunted Heart: Songs of Elders, which was commissioned by Harold Rosenbaum and the New York Virtuoso Singers.

HELEN DEGEN COHEN, a poetry collection, Habry, The Puddin'head Press, May, 2009.

MARTHA COOLEY, co-translator (with Antonio Romani) of a Giampiero Neri poem, "Pseudohorse", AGNI, No. 69, Summer, 2009.

PETER COOLEY, a poetry collection, Divine Margins, Carnegie Mellon University Press, June, 2009; poetry, "Washing My Face", Salmagundi, Nos. 160-161, Winter, 2008/2009.

EDUARDO CORRAL, poetry, "Caballero", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

CYNTHIA CRUZ, poetry, "Cinderella & Toby", "New York State", "The Great Destroyer", and two other poems, The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009.

JOHN D'AGATA, editor of an anthology exploring the roots of the essay, The Lost Origins of the Essay, Graywolf Press, August, 2009; translation of Mestrius Plutarch and Theophrastus of Erresos, "Some Information about the Spartans" and "These Are Them", Fence, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter, 2008/2009.

KATE DANIELS, poetry, "Peep Show", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

NICHOLAS DELBANCO, an essay, "Each Day I Am Reborn", Salmagundi, Nos. 160-161, Winter, 2008/2009.

CARL DENNIS, poetry, "Normal" and "The Best World", Salmagundi, Nos. 160-161, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "Composing Scripture" and "Disgust", Ploughshares, Vo. 35, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

SHARON DOLIN, poetry, "Morse and Fractals (Dawn Blessings)", Jubilat 15, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "Thorny Bridge", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009.

ELIZABETH DREW, commentary, "The Thirty Days of Barack Obama", The New York Review of Books, Vol. LVI, No. 5, March 26, 2009.

DENISE DUHAMEL, a poetry collection, Ka-Ching!, University of Pittsburgh Press, February, 2009; poetry, "Los Sofocos", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

CAMILLE DUNGY, poetry, "Directed by Desire" and "Where Bushes Periodically Burn, Children Fear Other Children: Girls", Jubilat 15, Winter, 2008/2009; three poems, "Soldier's Girl," "It Is," and "That's a State I'll Never go Back To", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2009; co-editor of an anthology, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, Persea, April, 2009.

STEPHEN DUNN, a poem, "Connubial", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 5, February, 2009; poetry, "Why", AGNI, No. 69, Summer, 2009; a poetry collection, What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, W.W. Norton & Company, January, 2009.

THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS, a manifesto, "The New Perform-A-Form", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 5, February, 2009.

MAGGIE ESTEP, a novel, Alice Fantastic, Akashic Books, May, 2009.

BRIAN EVENSON, a story collection, Fugue State, Coffee House (Consortium), July, 2009.

KATHY FAGAN, a poetry collection, Lip, Eastern Washington University Press, February, 2009; poetry, "Bad Patch", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009; poetry, "Lunacy" and "Ontology and the Platyypus", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter, 2008/2009.

JOHN FANDEL, four poems, 'Picture Postcard", "Spanish Lesson", "Snowing and Knowing", and "Mused", Open City, No. 26, Winter, 2008/2009.

DAVID FERRY, two poems, "to where" and "Scrim", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 5, February, 2009.

EDWARD FIELD, a memoir, Kabuli Days, Travels in Old Afghanistan, World Parade Books, January, 2009.

PETER FILKINS, poetry, "Rocky" and "Owen's Shark", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

RICHARD FOERSTER, poetry, "Despite", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009.


LYNN FREED, a novel, The Servents' Quarters, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April, 2009.

JEFF FRIEDMAN, poetry, "The War on Fat" and "Bridge Street Cafe", 5 A.M., Issue No. 28, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "Yom Kippur" and "I Did It", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009.

CAROL FROST, poetry, "Apirary 40", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 6, March, 2009.

AMANDA C. GABLE, a novel, The Confederate General Rides North, Scribner, August, 2009.

MARY GAITSKILL, a story collection, Don't Cry, Knopf Doubleday, March, 2009.

FORREST GANDER, translator for a poem by Pura Lopez-Colome, "Echo", Poetry, Vol. CXCIV, Number 1, April, 2009.

NOLA GARRETT, a story collection, Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories, Hyperion, January, 2009.

MARGARET GIBSON, poetry, "Museum Pieces" and "Speckled Lilies", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

MOLLY GILES, prose, "Gold Diggers", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXI, No. 2, Winter, 2008/2009.

RAY GONZALEZ, poetry, "Distrust Creation" and "Beginning with Two Lines from Rexroth", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter, 2008/2009.


BRAD GOOCH, an excerpt from a new biography, "Flannery at Iowa", Open City, No. 26, Winter, 2008/2009; a biography of a fellow Yaddo writer, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, Little, Brown & Company, February, 2009.

EMILY FOX GORDON, a comic novel, It Will Come to Me, Random House Publishing, March, 2009.

SARAH GORHAM, an essay, "Moving Horizontal", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

LAUREN GROFF, a story collection, Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories, Hyperion, January, 2009.

MARILYN HACKER, poetry, "Names (I)" and "Names (II)", Ploughshares, Vo. 35, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

DONALD HALL, two poems, " Eating the Pig" and "To Waterfowl", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2009; a guest column, "The Last Knock Knock", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2009.

MARY STEWART HAMMOND, work included in a new papeback release of an anthology, Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, Seren, January, 2009. This anthology, edited by Eva Salzman and Amy Wack, was originally published in hardcover in September, 2007.It also includes the work of other Yaddo poets, among them Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath; poetry, "Love and Marriage", Southwest Review, Fall, 2009.

JAMES HARMS, an essay, "'Goodtime Jesus' and Other Sort-of Prose Poems", West Branch, No. 63, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, 'It's OK If He's a Girl", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009.


MICHAEL S. HARPER, a collection of new poetry, Use Trouble, University of Illinois Press, April, 2009; poetry, "Walk Spirit," "Talk Spirit," "McCoy Tyner" and "Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009; poetry, "Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday", Fence, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter, 2008/2009.

JOHN HASKELL, a novel, Out of My Skin, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, February, 2009.

MOLLY HASKELL, commentary on the allure of a classic book and film, Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited, Yale University Press, February, 2009.

ZOE HELLER, a novel, The Believers, HarperCollins Publishers, March, 2009.

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, subject of a biography by Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, St. Martin's Press, November, 2009.

KATHLEEN HILL, fiction, "Who Occupies this House", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

OWEN HILL, a novel, The Incredible Double, PM Press, May, 2009.

JANE HIRSHFIELD, commentary, "In the Studio: Early Rooms", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2009; poetry, "French Horn", The New Yorker, February 9, 2009.

TONY HOAGLAND, an essay, "The Unarrrestable Development of Sharon Olds", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2009.

EVA HOFFMAN, a novel, Appassionata, Morrow, May, 2009.

A.M. HOMES, fiction, "Do You Hear What I Hear?", Open City, No. 27, Summer, 2009; short fiction, "Brother on Sunday", The New Yorker, March 2, 2009.

ANNA MARIA HONG, poetry, "The Bronze Age", New Orleans Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring, 2009.

AILISH HOPPER, poetry, "The Stowaway", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

LANGSTON HUGHES, a classic poem, paired with photos by Charles R. Smith Jr., My People, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, January, 2009; poetry, "Remember", "I look at the world", and "You and your whole race.", Poetry, January, 2009.

T.R. HUMMER, poetry, "Registry of the Corpses, the Arrangement of Which Is a Reverese Chronology According to Death Date" and 1 other poem, Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

MARK JARMAN, poetry, "The Wee Spider" and "Last Walk at Home", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

CHERI JOHNSON, a chapbook of poems, Fun & Games, Finishing Line Press, July, 2009.

ERICA JONG, a poetry collection, Love Comes First, Penguin Group (USA), January, 2009.

ANNA JOURNEY, a poetry collection (2008 National Poetry Series winner), If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, University of Georgia Press, March, 2009.

LAURA KASISCHKE, poetry, "Miles" and "Animal, vegetable, mineral, mist", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "The Cerebral Hemispheres" and "Four Men", New Letters, Vol. 75, No. 1, Winter, 2008/2009.


PETER KAYAFAS, a collection of photographs of America, O Public Road!, Purple Martin Press, May, 2009. The book includes an essay written by fellow Yaddodian Allan Gurganus and a song by Eef Barzelay.

JONATHON KEATS, a collection of stories about the Talmudic idea of the LamedhVov, The Book of the Unknown, Random House, February, 2009.

SUJI KWOCK KIM, poetry, "Self-Portrait", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

SHEILA KOHLER, a guest column, "Grief", Salmagundi, Nos. 162-163, Summer, 2009; a novel, Becoming Jane Eyre, Viking Penguin, December, 2009.

MARILYN KRYSL, a poetry collection, Swear the Burning Vow, Ghost Road Press, January, 2009.

ANN LAUTERBACH, a poetry collection, Or to Begin Again, Penguin Group, April, 2009.


ZACHARY LAZAR, a nonfiction novel, Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder, Little, Brown and Company, November, 2009; fiction, "Meherangarh", Open City, No. 27, Summer, 2009.


JANICE Y. K. LEE, a novel, The Piano Teacher, Viking, January, 2009.

SIGRUN LEONHARD, a novel, Stimmen (Voices), Ars Vivendi Verlog, Germany, February, 2009.

RIKA LESSER, translator for a poem by Goran Sonnevi, from "Mozart's Third Brain", Poetry, Vol. CXCIV, Number 1, April, 2009.


JONATHAN LETHEM, fiction, "Ava's Apartment", The New Yorker, May 25, 2009; a novel, Chronic City, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, October, 2009.

YANG LIAN, poetry, "Island (#2)", Poetry, Vol. CXCIV, Number 1, April, 2009. This poem is from a sequence of five poems.

WILLIAM LOGAN, a collection of essays and reviews, Our Savage Art: Poetry of the Civil Tongue, Columbia University Press, April, 2009.

JON LOOMIS, a mystery novel, Mating Season, Minotaur, May, 2009.

ALESSANDRA LYNCH, poetry, "XXIII", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

BRIAN LYNCH, a fiction imagining of the life of poet William Cowper, The Winner of Sorrow, Dalkey Archive Press, February, 2009.

NEIL MACFARQUHAR, nonfiction, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, PublicAffairs, May, 2009.

FRED MARCHANT, a poetry collection, The Looking House, Graywolf Press, June, 2009; poetry and commentary on the third poem listed, "The Drum Room," "Balpeen Hammer," and "Conscientious Objector Discharge", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009; poetry, "Small Land Animals" and "For the Matinee", The Journal, Vol. 33. No. 1, Summer, 2009.

BEN MARCUS, fiction, "Secret Breathing Techniques", Conjunctions: 52 - Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realism, Summer, 2009.


PAULE MARSHALL, a memoir, Triangular Road: A Memoir, Basic, March, 2009.

GRETCHEN MATTOX, poetry, "mount Washington, butterflies" and "my whole purpose was digging for wasps", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009.

J.D. MCCLATCHY, a poetry collection, Mercury Dressing, Knopf, February, 2009.


GARDNER MCFALL, a poetry collection, Russian Tortoise, Time Being Books, May, 2009; poetry, "Plates from Audubon", The Sewanee Review, Vol. LXVI, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

VESTAL MCINTYRE, fiction, "Late in Life", Open City, No. 27, Summer, 2009; a novel, Lake Overturn, Harper, April, 2009.

PHILIPP MEYER, a novel, American Rust, Spiegel & Grau, February, 2009.

ROGER MITCHELL, poetry, "The Sound" and "Little Life", 5 A.M., Issue No. 28, Winter, 2008/2009.

RICK MOODY, a guest column, "Connecticut: A Memoir", Salmagundi, Nos. 160-161, Winter, 2008/2009.

HONOR MOORE, editor of a poetry collection, Poems from the Women's Movement, Penguin Group, April, 2009.

WALTER MOSLEY, a novel, The Long Fall, Riverhead, March, 2009.

PAUL MULDOON, a poetry collection linked with photographs by Norman McBeath, Plan B, Enitharmon Press, April, 2009.

NAMI MUN, a novel, Miles from Nowhere, Riverhead, January, 2009.

CORNELIA NIXON, a novel, Jarrettsville, Counterpoint Press, October, 2009; fiction, "Beach Bunnies", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

D. NURKSE, poetry, "A Marriage in the Dolomites" and "The Simulacra", Poetry, June, 2009; poetry, "Newfane", The New Yorker, April 20, 2009.

DEBRA NYSTROM, a poetry collection, Bad River Road, Sarabande Books, April, 2009; poetry, "Cousins" and "The Door", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

ACHY OBEJAS, a novel, Ruins, Akashic, March, 2009.

STEPHEN O'CONNOR, fiction, "Disappearance and", Conjunctions: 52 - Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realism, Summer, 2009; poetry, "Sweet Nothing" and "What Next", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

LAWRENCE OSBORNE, a memoir, Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure, North Point Press, June, 2009.

EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY, a poetry collection, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, Ugly Duckling, January, 2009.


JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS, a novel, Lark and Termite, Knopf, January, 2009.

NORMAN PODHORETZ, nonfiction, Why Are Jews Liberal?, Doubleday, September, 2009.

LAWRENCE RAAB, a poetry collection, The History of Forgetting, Penguin Group, June, 2009; poetry, "The Poem That Can't Be Written", The New Yorker, April 6, 2009.

JONATHAN RABAN, an essay, "The Golden Trumpet", Guardian, January 24, 2009.

DAVID RAKOWSKI, a CD, Winged Contraption, BMOP/sound, February, 2009. The title piece on this CD was a 60th birthday gift for fellow Yaddo composer Martin Boykan. It was composed at Yaddo and named by the other resident artists. Another piece on the CD, Persistent Memory, was partially written at Yaddo.

JULIA RANDALL, poetry, "To a Goldfinch", Ploughshares, Vo. 35, No. 1, Summer, 2009.


KATHERINE RUSSELL RICH, a memoir, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July, 2009.

LEN ROBERTS, an essay, "Rooms Within Rooms", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009. Mr. Roberts died at the age of 60 on May 25, 2007.


MARY ROBISON, a novel, One D.O.A., One on the Way, Counterpoint, March, 2009.

DANA ROESER, poetry, "Red Rubber Ball", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009.

JAY ROGOFF, poetry, "Wear", The Journal, Vol. 33. No. 1, Summer, 2009; poetry, "The Buried Future" and "First Photograph", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

J. ALLYN ROSSER, poetry, "Mothers", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009; poetry, "The Book of Blots", Ploughshares, Vo. 35, No. 1, Summer, 2009.

CLARE ROSSINI, poetry, "Hill of Doon", The Iowa Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, Winter, 2008/2009.

KAREN RUSSELL, fiction, "Dowsing for Shadows", Conjunctions: 52 - Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realism, Summer, 2009.

MICHAEL RYAN, a poem, "I Had a Tapeworm", Poetry, Vol. CXCIII, No. 5, February, 2009.

TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN, poetry, "Anatomy Lesson" and "It Exists", Colorado Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring, 2009; a poetry collection, There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair, Counterpath Press, April, 2009; poetry, "Porcini" and "Spring Street", Open City, No. 27, Summer, 2009.

STEPHEN SANDY, poetry, "Circular Drives" and "Huang's Tao Te Ching", AGNI, No. 68, Winter, 2008/2009.


MEYER SCHAPIRO, a collection of the late writer's correspondence, Meyer Schapiro Abroad: Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks, Getty Research Institute, January, 2009. The volume's editor, Daniel Esterman, is Mr. Schapiro's nephew.

MARGOT SCHILPP, poetry, "Coming of Age", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009.

PHILIP SCHULTZ, poetry, "Bleecker Street", The New Yorker, May 18, 2009.

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ, a memoir, Not Now, Voyager, Counterpoint, April, 2009; an essay excerpted from her new memoir, "Harmony", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009; an essay excerpted from her new memoir, "Traveling with Uncle Bert", New Orleans Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring, 2009; short fiction, "Coda", AGNI, No. 68, Winter, 2008/2009.

JOANNA SCOTT, a novel, Follow Me, Little, Brown, April, 2009.

DAVID SEDARIS, an essay, "Author, Author?", The New Yorker, March 30, 2009; an essay, "Guy Walks Into a Bar Car", The New Yorker, April 20, 2009.

HUGH SEIDMAN, poetry, "For Jayne" and "A Great Wind Is Bearing Me Across the Sky", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009.

LISA SEWELL, poetry, "Ursus arctos horriblis (Grizzzly)", New Letters, Vol. 75, No. 1, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "A Personal Matter (1987)", Colorado Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "The Interpretation of Dreams (2002)", The Journal, Vol. 33. No. 1, Summer, 2009.

DAVID SHIELDS, an essay, "Autobiography as Criticism, Criticism as Autobiography", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009; nonfiction, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, Knopf, February, 2009.

JASON SHINDER, a poetry collection, Stupid Hope, Graywolf Press, August, 2009.

RACHEL SHTEIR, a biography, Gypsy: The Art of the Tease, Yale University Press, March, 2009.

JOAN SILBER, a commentary on key ways in which time unfolds in fiction, The Art of Time in Fiction, Graywolf Press, July, 2009; fiction, "Fools", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

JEFFREY SKINNER, poetry, "Frame" and six other poems, The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February, 2009; poetry, "The Fly", Ploughshares, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 2008/2009.

TOM SLEIGH, poetry, "Kafka Variations", "A Promise", and "Claw", AGNI, No. 68, Winter, 2008/2009; commentary, "Thom Gunn's New Jerusalem", Poetry, June, 2009.

DAVE SMITH, poetry, "Fig Tree" and "Dissection", Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, May, 2009.

W.D. SNODGRASS, poetry, "Unconfessional," "Axis of Evil," and "Hard Paper", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009. Mr. Snodgrass died in January, 2009, at the age of 83.

ELIZABETH SPIRES, a portrait of an artist through free-verse poems and photographs, I Heard God Talking: William Edmonson and His Stone Carvings, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, February, 2009. The photographs in this book are all black and white and by Edward Weston and Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

STEPHANIE STRICKLAND, poetry, "Huracan's Harp (115, 132, 142)", Fence, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter, 2008/2009.

TERESE SVOBODA, a poetry collection, Weapons Grade, University of Arkansas Press, Fall, 2009; poetry, "Mom as Fly", The New Yorker, March 23, 2009; poetry, "Secret Executions of Black GIs in Occupied Japan", Ploughshares, Vo. 35, No. 1, Summer, 2009; poetry, "Vets", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

RON TANNER, fiction, "Cats as Tuna", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

PETER TAYLOR, a reissue of a story collection, The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July, 2009.

COLM TÓIBÍN, a novel, Brooklyn, Simon & Schuster, May, 2009.

WELLS TOWER, a story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March, 2009.

LEWIS TURCO, historical nonfiction, Satan's Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, Star Cloud Press, May, 2009.

JEAN VALENTINE, guest editor for an edition of poems and stories, Ploughshares, Winter, 2008/2009. The issue (Vol. 34, No. 4) also includes a profile of Ms. Valentine written by Amy Newman; a chapbook, Lucy: A Poem, Sarabande Books, January, 2009; poetry, "Hawkins Stable", The New Yorker, March 9, 2009.

JUDITH VOLLMER, poetry, "Kinzua", AGNI, No. 68, Winter, 2008/2009.

DAVID WAGONER, poetry, "Striking the Set", AGNI, No. 69, Summer, 2009; poetry, "Under Fire", "Writing for Money", and "What Billy Graham Said To Me At The Fair", Salmagundi, Nos. 162-163, Summer, 2009.

KATE WALBERT, a novel, A Short History of Women, Scribner, June, 2009.

PETER WALDOR, poetry, "On No" and "A Slender Thread", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009.

G. C. WALDREP, a poetry collection, Archicembalo, Tupelo, April, 2009; poetry, "At the Davy Crockett Museum" and "Winning the Lottery", The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Winter, 2008/2009; poetry, "Like a Fire from Which Sparks Emitted Do Fly Upwards", Colorado Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring, 2009; poetry, "Invisible Handshake" and "Dove Shadow, Nitrate Star", The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2009; poetry, "Small Song", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, June, 2009; a poetry collection, Archicembalo, Tupelo Press, April, 2009.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, short fiction, "Wiggle Room", The New Yorker, March 9, 2009; nonfiction, This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life, Little, Brown & Company, April, 2009. The book is an expanded version of an essay originally delivered as a commencement address in 2005.

MICHAEL WATERS, poetry, "Garden Slug (on Persian Carpet)", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009.


BARRY WERTH, nonfiction, Banquet at Delmonicos, Random House, February, 2009.

SUSAN WHEELER, a poetry collection, Assorted Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April, 2009.


EDMUND WHITE, an excerpt from a memoir, "Harold Brodkey: The Great Pretender", Open City, No. 27, Summer, 2009; a memoir, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s, Bloomsbury USA, September, 2009.

JILL WIDNER, an excerpt from The Smell of Sulphur, a novel in progress, "Mina and Fina and Lotte Wattimena", Asia Literary Review, September, 2009; fiction, "Sand Island", Bamboo Ridge: The Hawai'i Writers Quarterly, No. 94, September, 2009; fiction included in an anthology, Willesden Herald New Short Stories 3, pretend genius press (UK), March, 2009. The story selected was "Mina and Fina and Lotte Wattimena", one of two equal runners up in the Willesden Herald International Short Fiction Competition. It is from a novel in progress, The Smell of Sulphur; an excerpt from The Smell of Sulphur, a novel in progress, "Fina's Dream", Kartika Review, Issue Five, June, 2009; excerpts from The Smell of Sulphur, a novel in progress, "Ferry Landing" and "Pasanggrahan", Kyoto Journal, No. 72, June, 2009.

DYLAN WILLOUGHBY, poetry, "UFO in Machynlleth" and "At Gaping Ghyll, Throwing Ashes", Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Summer, 2009; a chapbook, Dusk at St. Mark's And Other Poems, Chester Creek Press, March, 2009. Thirtyfive copies were printed letterpress on a variety of handmade papers with Kennerley Old Style types. The illustrations were printed with polymer plates made from original drawings by Anthony Mastromatteo.


BRICE BROWN AND TREVOR WINKFIELD, editors of an annual, The Sienese Shredder Issue 3, Sienese Shredder Editions, February, 2009. This issue of the popular annual that brings together art, literature, music, and critical writing includes work by Yaddo painter Melissa Meyer and a CD by Yaddo composer Eric Moe.

RICHARD YATES, a fiction collection, Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Knopf Publishing Group, January, 2009. Fellow Yaddo writer Richard Price wrote the introduction for this compilation of previously published works. A movie adaptation of Revolutionary Road recently was released by director Sam Mendes.