Valerie Smith

Canonical and Modern Poetry Valerie Smith

This issue includes a new set of scholarly book reviews from the Editor, Anna Faktorovich, with thoughts on a few newly edited Greco-Roman classics as well as literary, historical and artistic studies. Valerie A. Smith also reviews Walter Mosley's Elements of Fiction. The essays section includes Susie Gharib's take on canonical poetry, and Natalie Perfetti's analysis of poetry in relation to the mercurial American Dream. New poetic compositions are by James Fleming, Lloyd Jacobs, Rob Luke, and Rikki Santer. There are also short fiction stories by Steve Carr, Bobby Cohen, Mark Jacobs, Hareendran Kallinkeel and Hayden Moore.