FICTION AND POETRY from The Literary Review

I have been writing poems for almost forty-five years, but every time I sit down in front of a blank page to begin a new poem, I am baffled and anxious. I only vaguely recall writing the last poem and how I began it. If I have just been reading the work of a poet I admire, I am embarrassed to think that I would have the nerve even to try to make a poem. I can glance at the five books of my own poems on the shelf nearby, but that does no good. I only wonder how I got away with it.

- T. Alan Broughton

For this issue of The Literary Review, guest-editor Thomas E. Kennedy invited 31 poets to conbribute a poem, a new essay on the poem's origins, and in some cases one or more drafts of the poem that revealed the stages of its composition. The work of five of those poets appears on this Web site.

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The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing has been published quarterly by Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. Its many special issues have introduced new fiction, poetry, and essays from many nations, regions, or languages to English readers. Issues focus on such topics as contemporary fiction in Portugese, Iranian exiles, new Irish writing, North African authors, and Philippine fiction and poetry. Works from issues devoted to writing in English have won awards and been reprinted in many collections.