Fiction International 14: Love Stories / Love Poems

by Joe David Bellamy (Editor)

In addition to short fictions and poems, there are major interviews with John Irving and Gail Godwin. Originally published in 1982.

Contents of issue #14:

fiction

James Sunwall / Love in the Forest
Anthony Caputi / The Voyeur
John Solensten / Feathers
Lillian C. Jen / The Small Concerns of Sparrows
Laurie Alberts / Veterans
Walter Sanders / Tattoos
Roger Parham-Brown / Driving the Boss Lady
Lee K. Abbott, Jr. / Living Alone in Iota
Kevin Tudish / August
M.L. Moore / How
William Hathaway / Let's All Go to the Dairy Queen
Marianne Wiggins / Millie and Hesh

interviews

Joyce Renwick / John Irving
Joyce Renwick / Gail Godwin

poetry

Edward Hirsch / Excuses; Two Unhappy Love Poems
Kenneth Rosen / My Tea
Lorrie Goldensohn / Real Estate; Street Log
Elizabeth Spires / Song of Renunciation
Herbert Scott / Fathers of Desire
Gerald Stern / Moscow
Marilyn Hacker / Self
Nadell Fishman / Study; Love is Nothing
Pamela Harrison / Almagest
Jack Myers / The Diamond Explanation; Imbalance; Ghazal
Daniel Mark Epstein / The Glass
James Reiss / Anandi
Nicholas Christopher / Treaty of Love
Cynthia Hogue / Walking the Wasteland in Thule
Pamela Stewart / Local Color
Barry Goldensohn / Garden Sculpture; The Young Wife Begins
Julie Fay / Tornado; Four Years After
David Wojahn / Red Clouds, Ocean Springs
Deborah Ward / Messages; Desire; Rainmakers
David Ignatow / If I Kiss You
Jeannie Thompson / Song for My Body's Dancing
Leslie Ullman / American Deaf Dance Company, Whistle Stop
David St. John / Vain in Vain
Stephen Sandy / Tally
Michael Burkard / Untitled
Albert Goldbarth / Toward Congruency
Valerie Wells / The Magician and His Assistant
Pamela White Hadas / From Betsy Ross in Thirteen States of Mind
Mark Doty / Three Sundays, A Saturday, Roses, Photographs

233 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Joe David Bellamy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Duke University, Antioch College, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Bellamy won the Editors' Book Award for his novel Suzi Sinzinnati, and his collection of short fiction, Atomic Love, was an AWP Award Series Selection. He is also author or editor of fifteen other books, including Kindred Spirits, New World Extra, Literary Luxuries, The New Fiction, Superfiction, American Poetry Observed, Island in the Sky, and two collections of poetry. His new novel, Green Freedom, is forthcoming in 2011 from Narrative Library.

Bellamy was the founding editor and publisher of Fiction International magazine and press. A former president of both the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM), he served as Director of the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts in the early 90s. He has been a member of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) since 1980 and served as a member of the NBCC Board of Directors from 2001 to 2004.

His articles, fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in: The Atlantic, The Nation, Harper's, Paris Review, Narrative, The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, Story, North American Review, The Washington Post Book World, and some seventy others.

He has taught at several colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa, Virginia Wesleyan College, St. Lawrence University, and George Mason University and was Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at East Carolina University. His literary papers are archived at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. "