1. Editor's Introduction

Poetry/Fiction

2. What I Learned Before I Went to College–Edward J. Endicott

3. The Eudora Case–Brandon Kershner

4. Letter to the Editor–Blaine R. Hammond

5. What (Verbatim) Poetry Editors Don't Want–Clifford E. Landers

6. Rapper KRS1 Upon Being Called a Poet–Jessica Jordan Nudel

7. Tongue Ties–Elena Alexander

8. Bad Spaces–Z. Bart Thornton

9. Sleeping Too Close to the Border–Jaqueline Wilcoxen

10. 99, part III–Blas Manuel De Luna

11. Bitter Earth, part II–BLAS MANUEL DE LUNA

12. Levitt–James Haug

13. Shipping and Receiving–Michael Huff

14. Pages 49 and 50–Pamela Hughes

15. Garlic–Pamela Hughes

16. Sanitation–J.P. Flanagan

17. What School Teaches–Hunt Hawkins

18. What We Learn–Janine Debaise

19. Rondo in C Minor–Tamara Friedman

20. Needs–Pamela Crow

21. Bewitched–Pamela Crow

22. First Date–Elizabeth S. Ames

23. Romance Language–Laura Cini

24. Negation–Cydney Chadwick

25. Lines on Princess Di's Funeral–Amitava Kumar

26. Sonnet–Elizabeth Alexander

27. Judge Gets Grandma to Whip Offender–Elizabeth Alexander

28. Commercial Literary Culture–Jim Neilson

29. The Publishing Imaginary and Electronic Media–Eyal Amiran

30. Editorial Instinct: An Interview with William P. Germano–Williams P. Germano

31. Editor as Catalyst: An Interview with Niko Pfund–Niko Pfund and Jeffrey Williams

32. Editing Not Academic: An Interview with Cecelia Cancellaro–Cecelia Cancellaro and Jeffrey Williams

33. Editorial Experience: An Interview with Beverly Jarret–Beverly Jarret and Clifford Manlove and Jeffrey Williams

34. Editing the Anthology: An Interview with Paul Lauter–Paul Lauter and Mike Hill

Surveying the Field

35. The Rise of American Cultural Studies: A View from East Texas (on Kaplan and Pease's Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, and Gordon Hutner's The American Literary History Reader)–John Trombold

36. Invisible Bodies and the Corporeality of Difference (on Norden's The Cinema of Isolation, Davis' Enforcing Normalcy, and Thompson's Extraordinary Bodies)–David Mitchell

37. The Marxist Bedroom: Sex and Class Struggle (on Sprinkler's History and Ideology in Proust)–Jarrod Hayes

38. Avoiding Criticism (on Veeser's Confessions of the Critics)–David Gorman

39. Ethnic Occupations (on Lentricchia's Edge of Night, and Torgovnick's Crossing Ocean Parkway)–Andrijka Kwasny

40. Whose Fanon? (on Read's Fact of Blackness, Gordon's Fanon: A Critical Reader, Sekyi-Otu's Fanon's Dialectic, and "Finding Fanon")–Anthony C. Alessandrini

41. Canon Wars and Marxist Cultural Studies (on Robinson's In the Canon's Mouth, and Robinson and Bishop's Night Market)–Rachel Riedner

Provocations

42. Between Meltdown and Community–Cary Nelson

43. On Downsizing and Elitism–Stephen Watt

44. "Activist Politics" and/or Job Crisis in the Humanities–Richard Levin

45. Mr. Levin's World–Jim Neilson and Gregory Meyerson

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