This special issue of Interim collects sui generis work to pose questions and positions relevant to the on going interactions of human beings and what we call the natural world. I am thankful to Chris Arigo, Matthew Cooperman and Jonathan Skinner for the innovative work found here, and I am indebted to the many writers and artists whose continued experiments in artistic expression further the dialogue and expand the possibilities of what is, precariously, our democracy. Here in these pages is a transfigured, yet communal space, countering the transfiguration of an oil rig planted in the ocean floor. You will find here, our legislators.
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Interim is a biannual creative writing publication that features poetry, translation, belles lettres, short fiction, and book reviews. Neither Interim nor its editors have a prevailing aesthetic or political philosophy that they are willing to admit, and past contributors include writers as diverse as Martine Bellen, Anselm Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Norman Dubie, Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Richard Hugo, Alice Notley, Anne Porter, Leslie Scalapino, Susan Schultz, Eleni Sikelianos, Arthur Vogelsang, Catherine Wagner, and William Carlos Williams.
Claudia Keelan is the editor-in-chief of Interim and the author of 6 books of poetry, including Refinery (Cleveland State University 1994); The Secularist (University of Georgia Press, 1997), Utopic, which won the 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books; Of and Among There Was a Locus(t) (Ahshata Press, 2003); The Devotion Field (Alice James Books; and Missing Her from New Issues Press Green Rose Series. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Tailsman, Denver Quarterly, Pequod, Review/Revue, and have been anthologized in The Grand Permission (Wesleyan University Press), Innovative Women (University of Iowa Press) and elsewhere. She teaches at the poetry program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
John Douglas is the Fiction and Managing Editor of Interim. He is a graduate of Florida State University with a degree in creative writing. He’s currently enrolled in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ creative writing program where he teaches fiction writing and rhetoric and composition. He is the recipient of the Florida State University Creative Writing Program’s Senior Poetry Prize. His work appears in the Kudzu Review, Area Daily, Marianas Variety and FSU Zine Co. His translations of Mexican folk and textile stories is forthcoming through the Southern Nevada Arts Council.
Mollie Bergeron is from Rhode Island. She is an assistant editor of Interim and pursuing her MFA in creative writing at UNLV.
Andrew Merecicky is an assistant editor of Interim and currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at UNLV. He’s from Cleveland, Ohio.
Interim was founded by poet Wilber Stevens in 1944. In his tenure as editor of Interim, he published such luminaries as William Carlos William, Richard Hugo, and William Faulkner. Click for more information about Wilber Stevens.
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