"What the Gravedigger Needs"
by Rachel Loden
New American Writing
Number 24, 2006
by Rachel Loden
New American Writing
Number 24, 2006
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Rachel Loden:
Rachel Loden is the author of Hotel Imperium (University of Georgia Press) and several chapbooks, including The Richard Nixon Snow Globe (Wild Honey Press). She has work (recent and forthcoming) in Denver Quarterly, Jacket, The Hat, Best American Poetry 2005 and elsewhere. Awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council, and a 2006 grant from the Fund for Poetry.
About New American Writing:
Founded in 1986, New American Writing is a literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry. Edited by Paul Hoover, poet and editor of Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1994), and Maxine Chernoff, poet and author of the works of fiction Bop and American Heaven, it appears once a year in early June. The magazine is distinctive for publishing a range of innovative contemporary writing.
Each issue includes cover art by leading artists, including Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield Porter. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Simic, Jorie Graham, Denise Levertov, Hilda Morley, August Kleinzahler, Ann Lauterbach, Ned Rorem, Wanda Coleman, Nathaniel Mackey, Barbara Guest, Marjorie Perloff, Lyn Hejinian, and Charles Bernstein, among others.
Editors:
Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover
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Selected books available by Rachel Loden:The Richard Nixon Snow Globe is available from Wild Honey Press
Hotel Imperium — Paperback
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