Ntozake Shange, Sterling Brown: A Southern Man
John Sayles, Chicago Guy: Nelson Algren
Bradford Morrow, The Emerson Madrigal
Robert Creeley, Old Poets, Old Poems: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Jim Lewis, Melville and the Art of Saying No
Amiri Baraka, Black Reconstruction: Du Bois & the U.S. Struggle for Democracy & Socialism
Eli Gottlieb, Panels for Nathanael
Joanna Scott, How to Tell a Lie, by Edgar Allan Poe
Peter Straub, 45 Calibrations of Raymond Chandler
Paul Metcalf, Ezra Pound: A Seereeyus Precursor
Ellen McLaughlin, On Lillian Hellman
Anne Waldman, Language, Voice, Beat, Energy in the Poetry: Jack Kerouac
Lynne Tillman, Edith Wharton: A Mole in the House of the Modern
Paul West, The Sound of the Fury: Faulkner’s Aerial Surf
Elaine Equi, Frank O’Hara: Nothing Personal
Kevin Young, Langston Hughes: “If You Can’t Read, Run Anyhow!”
Carole Maso, A Novel of Thank You (for Gertrude Stein)
Will Alexander, Bob Kaufman: The Footnotes Exploded
Rick Moody, John Cheever and Indirection
Nathaniel Mackey, Phrenological Whitman
Sven Birkerts, Elizabeth Bishop’s Prose: Atmospheres of Identity
Ana Castillo, Anaïs Nin, All the Rest Is Origami
Siri Hustvedt, Gatsby’s Glasses
Quincy Troupe, The Visible Man: Ralph Ellison
Dale Peck, Shirley Jackson: “My Mother’s Grave Is Yellow”
C. D. Wright, Frank Stanford, Of the Mulberry Family: An Arkansas Epilogue
Phillip Lopate, The Strange Case of Dr. Eiseley
Steve Erickson, Henry Miller: Exhibitionist of the Soul
Lawrence Osborne, Frederick Prokosch
Robert Kelly, Robert Duncan & The Right Time
Victor Hernández Cruz, Encounters with an Americano Poet: William Carlos Williams
Catherine Bowman, Sylvia’s Honey
Lydia Davis, Broaching Difficult Dahlberg
Norma Cole, For Lorine Niedecker
David Means, Now Let Us Praise James Agee
Jonathan Williams, Kenneth Patchen: “Hiya, Ken Babe, What’s the Bad Word for Today?”
Joyce Carol Oates, The Visionary Art of Henry David Thoreau
Donald Revell, Joyful Noise: The Gospel Sound of Henry D. Thoreau