Continuing the traditions of myth and storytelling from her native Haiti, Edwidge Danticat, the twenty-seven-year-old author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, mesmerizes readers with her lyrical prose.
January/February 1997
Features
Alternative to Litigation for Arts Disputes
Arts Resolution Services (ARS) offers services to individual artists, organization and agencies
A Valley of Paradise in Spain
Fundacion Valparaiso offers writers backdrop for serious artistic production.
Fast Starts in Fiction
How well-known writers faced the blank page and got to work.
Seal Press: Fishing the Waters
Seattle feminist press celebrates 20 years of publishing.
Po-Biz: A Report From the Road
Poet William Trowbridge recalls his reading tour throughout the country.
Traveling Worlds With Edwidge Danticat
On the Haitian fiction writer Edwidge Danticat.
Southern California Fiction: Who's Writing the Hot Stuff and Who's Publishing It
Six literary magazines and the Los Angeless writers they helped discover.
News and Trends
San Francisco Opens Doors of New Main Library
One of the country's most technologically advanced libraries opens in San Francisco.
Poets & Writers Online Service Debuts in January
Poets and Writers new Web site.
Southern Illinois University Establishes a New Literary Journal
Southern Illinois University launches Crab Orchard Review featuring poetry, fiction and essays.