Spring
2011
Fifth Wednesday Journal is published twice a year. Details of our current
edition are below. For previous editions, use the menu on the left.
- Guest Poetry Editor: Michael Anania
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Guest Fiction Editor: Carolyn Alessio
Michael Anania
Michael Anania is a poet, essayist and fiction writer. His
published work includes twelve collections of poetry, among them Selected
Poems (l994), In Natural Light (1999), Once Again, Flowered (2001)
and Heat Lines (2006). A new collection, Continuous Showings,
is due out in late 2010. His poetry is widely anthologized and has been translated
into Italian, German, French, Spanish and Czech. He has also published a novel, The
Red Menace, and a collection of essays, In Plain Sight.
Anania was poetry editor of Audit, a quarterly, founder and co-editor
of Audit/Poetry, poetry editor of Partisan Review, a contributing
editor to Tri-Quarterly andpoetry and literary editor of The Swallow
Press. He also served as a panelist for the NEA, the NEH and the Illinois Arts
Council.
Anania has taught at SUNY at Buffalo, Northwestern University and the University
of Chicago and is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. He lives in Austin, Texas and on Lake Michigan.
Carolyn Alessio
Carolyn Alessio is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize. A former fellow
in creative writing at Emory University, Alessio has published prose in TriQuarterly,
Boulevard, Ninth Letter, World Literature Today and elsewhere. She is
prose editor for Crab Orchard Review and a regular contributor to
the Chicago Tribune. Her bilingual anthology of Guatemalan children's
poetry, Las Voces de la Esperanza/The Voices of Hope, was published
by Southern Illinois University Press. Alessio lives with her family in
Chicago.
Special Features:
Taking the Fifth with STEPHEN DIXON
Stephen Dixon gives Fifth Wednesday worlds within worlds when Fifth
Wednesday Journal inaugurates its new feature Taking
the Fifth, a series of writers discussing their work, craft,
and thoughts on the current writing scene. Read
the interview online.
Poetry and an Interview with ELISE PASCHEN
www.elisepaschen.com
Elise Paschen is the author of Bestiary; Infidelities, winner
of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize; and Houses: Coasts. She is co-editor
of Poetry Speaks, Poetry Speaks Expanded, Poetry in Motion, and Poetry
in Motion from Coast to Coast and editor of The New York Times best-selling
anthology Poetry Speaks to Children and Poetry Speaks Who I Am.
View Table of Contents (PDF)
View Contributors' Bios (PDF)
Contributors:
Marvin Bell, Charles Dickinson, Stephen Dixon,
Gina Frangello, Alice Fulton, Reginald Gibbons, Lea Graham, Molly McQuade,
Maura Stanton, Luis Alberto Urrea, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, and many
more.
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