30TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Parnassus: Poetry in Review will mark its 30th Anniversary in March 2008 with a 700-page Issue. We will feature the following essays:

Eric Ormsby on La Fontaine
Mark Polizzotti on Surrealism
Eric Murphy Selinger on Latino and Latina Poetry
Cathy Park Hong on Asian-American Poetry
Mark Scroggins on Ronald Johnson
Daniel Albright on Shakespeare's Songs
Gordon Rogoff on Verdi's "Falstaff"
Wes Davis on Karl Kirchwey
Tom Sleigh Moosehunting with Robert Duncan
Shusha Guppy on the Persian epic poem the Shahnameh
William Logan on Robert Frost
Leonard Barkan on Ekphrastic Poems
Paul West The Shadow Factory (Memoir)
Matthew Gurewitsch on Das Nibelungenlied, Wagner's Theatre, and The Ring Cycle
Adam L. Dressler on The Homeric Hymns
Willard Spiegelman on Robert Fagles's translation of The Aenied
Stuart Klawans on Argentine Film Director Fabian Bielinsky
Richard Wilbur's translation of Act I of Pierre Corneille's "The Liar" (Le Menteur)
Jeremy Axelrod's The Kings Are Boring: Courtney Queeney
Mark Halliday on Kenneth Koch
Composers David Del Tredici, Eleonor Sandresky and Sebastian Currier set poems by Antler!, Rimbaud, and T.S. Eliot to music

In addition, we will publish poems by Seamus Heaney, Richard Howard, David Woo, Carl Phillips, J.D. McClatchy, Kay Ryan, Gerda Stevenson, Joshua Mehigan, Kei Miller, Melissa Monroe, Avot Yeshurun, Paul Verlaine, John Foy, Guy Goffette, Claire Rossini, Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Rodney Jones, Ann Lauinger, David Yezzi, Michael Schmidt, Cody Walker, and many more. And, as always a portfolio of wonderful art from around the world, including work from William Meyer, Edward Hopper, Jacqueline Morreau, Benjamin Lenzner, Anna Palakunnathu Matthew, Jacob Collins, Zvi Lachman and Nina Yankowitz

This issue will sell for $15. A two-year subscription covering Vol. 30, 1 & 2 and Vol. 31, 1 & 2 will cost just $27. Make checks payable to Poetry in Review Foundation and mail to 205 West 89th Street, Apt. 8F, New York, NY 10024-1835