Volume 16.2 -
Personal Narrative Special Issue Winter 1999 
EDITOR'S
NOTE
CONVERSATION
Gerald
Vizenor in Dialogue with A. Robert Lee by A. Robert Lee
ART
The
Angry [Serene] Art of Fletcher Booth by Fletcher Booth
ESSAY
The
Province of Personal Narrative by John Daniel
A
Language to Catch Birds With by Harald Gaski
The
Fatness of It by Patricia Clark Smith
In
the Beginning Was the Word by James D. Houston
Portraits:
Autoethnography and Self-story by John Lloyd Purdy
When
You Stop Counting by Judy Fort Brenneman
Badger's
Business by Linda M. Hasselstrom
Finding
Gene by Louis Owens
Circle
in the Snow by David Mogen
FICTION
The
Stone Babies by Gerald Vizenor
POETRY
Of
Cells and Stars by Barbara F. Lefcowitz
The
Pabulum of Babble by F. J. Schaak
The
Canyon was Serene by Luci Tapahonso
READING
THE WEST
Volume 16.3 -
Spring 1999 
CONVERSATION
The
Value of Values with Ted Wilson, Peter Abbleby, Carolyn Irish,
Elaine Englehardt
ESSAY
Refuge-Refugee
by Joan D. Stamm
Curious
Abrupt Questionings: The Lure of Glitz and Glam by Philip
Heldrich
At
My Father's House in Illinois, February, 1995 by Shale Sloat
Next
Year in Jerusalem by Brenda Miller
The
Soil Inside Us by Tim Gilmer
FICTION
Blood
is Their Secret by Marco Morrone
You
Get What You Pay For by David F. Epstein
The
Butcher, the Gambler, and the Charcoal Burner by Dirk Van
Nouhuys
Poison
in the House by Michael Ranney
POETRY
Cezanne
in Philadelphia, 1996, and other poems Daniel R. Schwarz
First
Person Present Tension and Blessed Structures by Yvette A.
Schnoeker-Shorb
Domes
and Pinnacles, and other poems by Nancy Takacs, Art by Karen
Jobe Templeton
READING THE WEST
Volume
17.0 - Special Poetry Supplement Summer 1999 
POETRY
The
Way Mose YellowHorse Learned How to Throw by Todd Fuller
Four
Poems by Michelle Paulsen
A
Dream of Bear and other poems by Kathryn Winograd
Towards
Convergence and other poems by Anne Wilson
The
Rummager and the Artifact and Work World by Sean Webb
At
a Cemetery in Salt Lake City by Kevin Holdsworth
Seven
Poems from Return by Allan Johnston
two
ghost faces: from kateri tekakwitha to caterina benincasa by
Anne Blonstein
To
Jean Cocteau and other poems by Nils Clausson
Tears
and Missing by Rabindra K. Swain
A
Handmaiden of the Lord and September Poem by Susan Gunter
The
Agnostic and Dog Days by William Meyer, Jr.
My
Mother and Her Egg and Walking One Fall With A Mother by Heather
Sellers
Everything
Sits Right Sometimes, and other poems by William Snyder Jr.
Sonar-Rap,
and other poems by Susan Sonde
Handle
With Care and other poems by Mori Ponsowy
ESSAY
With
Sharon Olds in Idaho by Ron McFarland
FICTION
Five
Ways To Die by S. Rammath
READING THE WEST
Volume 17.1 - Fall
1999 
ESSAYS
We
Who Continue, Shale Sloat
Dividing
Up the World, Judy Elsley
You
have Love or You No Have, Tim Gilmer
Afternoon
of a Fawn, Juanita Smart
A
Black Range Christmas Tree, Tom Lynch
FICTION
Rare
Earth, James Barbour
Ghost
Lover, Susan Sonde
Vows,
Lawrence Dunning
Different
Words for Snow, Ron McFarland
A
Hummingbird, Ralph Hardy
POETRY
The
Change and other poems, Wendy Miller Roberts
Painting
Lessons and other poems, John Grey
And
So it Happens and The Paint Store, Mikel Vause
READING THE WEST
Volume 17.2 Winter
2000 
CONVERSATIONS
The
Reality of the Imagination, Michael Wutz with Carlos Fuentes
You
Can Get There From Here, Paul Thompson with Jon Huntsman
ART
Learning
to See, Bonnie Sucec
ESSAYS
Restoration
Meditations, Patricia Dubrava
Bridges,
John Nizalowski
The
Way Ahead: Building Grounded Communities, Max Oelschlaeger
Reflections
of a Red-ledge Mormon, Edward A. Geary
Death
of a Motorist, Atar Hadari
Mountaintops,
Orman Day
FICTION
Raphael
in Brooklyn, Joseph M. Ditta
Aquatic
Motion, Katherine L. Wright
Beige
Phone, Doug Heckman
No
Monsters Allowed, Tom Hansen
POETRY
Getting
Outdoors at the Conference and other poems, Paul J. Willis
Tetanus
and other poems, Gary Fincke
Low-Speed
Collision and other poems, Paul Karan
At
The Museum, S. Ramnath
READING
THE WEST
Volume 17.3 SPRING
2000 
ART
Ranch
Photographs, Adam Jahiel
ESSAYS
Growing
Up in Snowflake, Levi Peterson
Elk
and Barbed Wire, Eric Bateman
Liberal
and Conservative Blindspots, Manfred Weidhorn
After
the Jets Crashed, Bill McCarron
Nestled
in Chaos, Judy Fort Brenneman
FICTION
Iron,
Eleanor Swanson
Of
Many Colors, M. L. Archer
Spring Among the Politicians, Ed Skoog
POETRY
Bushes
Burning and other poems, William Kloefkorn
Range
of Light, Allan Johnston
Flight
of Rabbits and Mime, Taylor Graham
Faith
Is a Radical Master and other poems, Walt McDonald
The
Sun and the Hunt and other poems, Kael Moffat
How
Long and other poems, Laraine Wilkins
READING
THE WEST
Volume 18.0,
SUMMER 2000 
CONVERSATION
Denver
Mysteries: Rex Burns in Conversation with A. Robert Lee, A. Robert Lee
ESSAY
The
Little Salmon: Confessions at the Edge of the Time Zone, Joy
Passanante
Accident,
Donald Anderson
High
Plateau Blues, Kevin Holdsworth
The
Southern Quandary of Being OK but Southern, David Hutto
FICTION
Hurts,
J. Alicia Shank
Untitled,
Rex Burns
A
Horse of a Different Color, Richard Dokey
POETRY
The
Doyleville Schoolhouse and Early Chores, Mark Todd
Desert
and other poems, Dennis Saleh
The Big Themes and other poems, Melora Wolff
Washing
the Clothes of the Dead and other poems, Miriam Vermilya
The
Primitive Yawn and other poems, David Feela
A
Saturday Drive Toward Home and other poems, Gailmarie Pahmeier
The
Bells of Silence and the Wedding, D. James Smith
READING
THE WEST
Volume 18.1, FALL
2000 
CONVERSATION/ART
Native
American Art at the End of the Millennium, Linda B. Eaton
ESSAY
True
West, Carolyn D. Holbert
"Red
Man" Courted in Texas, Silvester J. Brito
The
Fourth Face of Folly, Robert B. Smith
Where
the Camels Roam, Arthur Winfield Knight
FICTION
It's
Your Heart That Makes All the Difference, Neila C. Seshachari
Counting,
Jacob M. Appel
The
Man Behind Wyatt Earp, John Hendrickson
POETRY
On
Seeing One of Julie's Watercolors and other poems, O. Marvin Lewis
Ludlow
Massacre Photography exhibit and other poems, Katie Kingston
Another
Day in South Dakota and other poems, Robert King
Jupiter
and other poems, Barry Ballard
Psalm
of Sleeping In and other poems, Ryan G. Van Cleave
Waters,
Devolution and Glaciers, Sonnin Dahl Waters
READING
THE WEST
Volume 18.2,
Winter 2001 
CONVERSATION
Writing
As Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
Neila C. Seshachari
ESSAYS
In
a Safe Place, Judy Fort Brenneman
Jasmine,
Judy Fort Brenneman
From
the Ash of Human Feeling—Teaching Poetry Behind the Fence, Shaun T.
Griffin
A
Gift of Stars, John Nizalowski
FICTION
Cold
Tribute, Robin Sterns
Feedings,
Kristine A. Somerville
A
Comparative Seismology, Jacob M. Appel
The
Hat Dancer, Nadine Chapman
POETRY
Still
Life, Crashing, Sharon M. Schaller
Heaven
We Are Denied and Old Soldiers, Jeffrey L. Dye
The
Halls of Sleep and To Know These Cliffs, Denis Sivack
Phenomena
and other poems, Gary Fincke
This
is Another Story and First Snow, Janet McCann
A
Doctor's Litany and June Blues, Jamie Wasserman
Something
Useful from the Future and Barracks Watch, John Randolph Carter
Rella
and other poems, Katherine Davis
READING
THE WEST
Volume 18.3,
Spring 2001 
CONVERSATION
Nature
Writing, American Literature, and the Idea of Community—A Conversation
with Barry Lopez, David Thomas Sumner
ART
Recent
Works, Richard Van Wagoner
ESSAYS
Brevities:
Inland, August, Rob Stothart
Letters
Home, Rebecca McCormick
Labor
Day and Green River, Wyoming Sketches, Shale Sloat
FICTION
Alien
in the Kitchen, J. A. Pollard
Matches,
Steven Lee Beeber
The
Gold of Seville, Francesco Marroni
Rotation,
Gene Washington
The
Mark Twain Overlook, Sohrab Homi Fracis
POETRY
Platter
and Highball, Princeton Station, Kevin Clark
Agent
Stone and A Case of Catfish Abuse, William Meyer Jr.
Taos
Storyteller, Kake Huck
Will
You Leave Utah?, Susan Elizabeth Howe
To
a Cross Country Skier, Kyongjoo Hong Ryou
The
Belgian Housekeeper, Billie Dee
Branches
with Green Leaves and Prairie Winds, Larsen Bowker
READING
THE WEST
Volume 19.1, Fall
2001 
CONVERSATION
Facts,
Shapes, Our Relationship to the Landscape—A Conversation with David
Quammen, David Thomas Sumner,
Western
Sightings—John G. Cawelti in Conversation with A. Robert Lee, A.
Robert Lee,
ESSAYS
Into
the Whitewater's Song, Hal Crimmel
The
Granddaddy of All Trash Days, Julia Corbett
Soul-struck
Soldier: Stepping Westward with Cabeza de Vaca, Robert Schnelle
FICTION
The
Web, Margaret Karmazin
The
Cellar Man, Konnie Ellis
The
Nature of Birds, Lawrence Dunning
POETRY
Gordon
Moose, William Kelley
Unicorn
and other poems, Robert S. Mikkelsen
Fruit
and Flowers and other poems, Felicia Mitchell
The
Way These Days Pass and Although Sometimes a Hand, Rabindra K. Swain
Papageno
in the Shower, Ben Wilensky
READING
THE WEST
TRIBUTE—Sherwin
W. Howard
Volume 19.2,
Winter 2002 
CONVERSATION
Activism,
Fly Fishing, and Fiction—A Conversation with David James Duncan,
David Thomas Sumner
ESSAYS
The
Bones of Elk, Brian Ames
St.
Edward of Hoboken, Kevin Holdsworth
Homage
to Miss Cole, Richard Conway
FICTION
Cold
November, L. L. Lee
The
Architecture of Xaguas, Alicita Rodriguez
Rough-Housing,
Debra L. Stang
More
Room to Pray Golf, Michael Hollister
POETRY
Jewelry
Box and other poems, Nancy Takacs
Sightseeing
and Ice Fisherman, Paulann Petersen
San
Miguel and other poems, Tonya Basinger
Writer's
Block and other poems, Jimmy A. Lerner
My
German Grandfather was Tiny and other poems, John McKernan
Walking
the Dogs in January and other poems, Tom Hansen
READING
THE WEST
Volume
19.3, Spring/Summer 2003 
CONVERSATION
Testimony,
Landscape and the West—A Conversation with Stephen Trimble, David
Thomas Sumner
Testimony,
Refuge, and the Sense of Place—A Conversation with Terry Tempest
Williams, David Thomas Sumner
ART
Bedrock
Pilgrim, Stephen Trimble
ESSAYS
Madras,
Oregon—Auction Yard and Memory, Erik E. Schoen
Urban
Nature: Your Place or Mine?, Penelope Grenoble O'Malley
Living
the Land, Paul Lindholdt
FICTION
Soccorro,
NM, and Plymouth, UT, Todd Robert Petersen
The
Hullaballo, or a Kind of Good Time was Had by Almost Everyone, Ron
McFarland
Manure,
Martin Naparsteck
Lemonade,
Steven Boyd Saum
Aransas
Pass, Wendell Mayo
POETRY
Less
and More and From the House of Blue Lights, Myrna Stone
Afterthought
and other poems, Camille Dungy
Deep
Lake and other poems, Allan Johnston
The
Wheel and Haying, Hamish Guthrie
A
Neighbor and Ganden Monastery, Karen Swenson
Trabalenguas
and other poems, Virgil Suárez
READING
THE WEST
TRIBUTE—Neila
C. Seshachari
Volume 20.1, Fall
2002 
CONVERSATION
One
Nine-Inch Rainbow—A Last Conversation with Gary LaFontaine, Craig
J. Oberg
ART
Heart
and Soul, Martin John Garhart
ESSAYS
Growing
a Home: Gardens as Place, Tamara Fritze
The
Color of Dust, Matthew Cooperman
A
Raft of Blues, Matthew Cooperman
FICTION
Of
Bondage and the Break, Joseph M. Ditta
Country
Western Love Music, Jubal Tiner
The
Fifth Mrs. Hughes, Diana Joseph
POETRY
Sergeant
Patrick Gass, Chief Carpenter: On the Trail Lewis and Clark, William
Kloefkorn
Rhapsody
in Slickrock a Song for the Roadrunner: Homage to Abbey: Beethoven 6:4,
David Lee
In
the Crescent of Long Hours and Death Has No Business, Mercedes
Lawry
Relics
and
other poems, Dennis Held
READING
THE WEST
Volume 20.2,
Winter 2003 
CONVERSATION
Sophisticated
Traveler—A Conversation with Novelist Kate Wheeler, Victoria
Ramirez
ART
Dreaming
in Layers, Susan Makov
ESSAYS
Untethered
in Yosemite: A Report from Paradise in the Last Summer of the Millennium,
David Stevenson
The
Dowsers of Perlite Pond, Maximilian S. Werner
FICTION
Pig
Snout, Kim Bridgford
The
Hunt, Laurie Marr Wasmund
Barefoot
with Rita, Dan T. Cox
Outside
Beach, Richard Lee Zuras
Mink,
Larry T. Menlove
POETRY
Never
Mind and
other poems, Lois Marie Harrod
Dawn
Riders and
Winter Wagon, D. C. Owens
Servicing
the Windmill and
other poems, Taylor Graham
Temptation
of a Cowgirl and
other poems, Lynn DiPier
Pinnacles
and
Running Loose, Jennifer Firestone
Absolute
Music and
other poems, James Gurley
Constellations
Over Colorado and
other poems, Edward Byrne
READING
THE WEST
Volume
20.3, Spring/Summer 2003 
CONVERSATION
Living
and Working on the Border—A Conversation with Raquel Valle-Sentíes,
Tony Spanos
ART & POETRY
Living
Between the Lines: The Poetry and Painting of Raquel Valle-Sentíes,
Raquel Valle-Sentíes
ESSAYS
Lost
at Home in the Bottomlands, Robert King
Outsiders,
Matthew J. Sullivan
Two
Reggies, Kristine Somerville
FICTION
The
Lazarus, James Hinton
Talking
on the Moon, Richard Plant
Playing
Peon, Brandon Cesmat
Hunting
at Night, Joan Fox
POETRY
Snapshots
and other poems, Linda Sillitoe
Iowa
and Marjorie, Stephanie Dickinson
Utah
Shijo and other poems, Kyongjoo H. Ryou
Hampstead
Laundresses and Beethoven Understands, Pat Jourdan
Padanaram
and Associations, Michael Zack
The
Fixing of Dreams and The Question of Marriage, Deanna
Pickard
The
Weight of Three Moths and The Solitude of Men, Robert
Parham
READING
THE WEST
Volume 21.1 Fall 2003

CONVERSATION
A
Conversation with Michael Schumacher, Carl Porter
ART
New
Realism in Contemporary Chinese Painting, Zhang, Chenchu
ESSAY
Fallow,
Kevin Lutz
A
Mother’s Fairy Tale, Jessica Halliday
Children
of the Woods, Ana Maria Spagna
FICTION
Something
Happened, Richard Dokey
Differently,
William N. Richardson
Nighthawk
Falls, Dusk, The Opalescent River, Adirondacks, Dick Bentley
POETRY
The
Ingt and
other poems, Gary Gildner
Map
of Possibilities and
other poems, William Woolfitt
Wishing
the Antelope Herd and
other poems, Shaun T. Griffin
Birth
Ghazal and
Antiphon, C. J. Sage
Next
Summer and
Two Boys in a Field on Goto Island—August, 1945, Ryan
G. Van Cleave
Basho
Reads the News: Sierra Frogs Fall Silent and
Divulgence, C. J. Eliason
Sea
of Rains and
other poems, Barry Ballard
Geography
Lesson and
Midnight, July 5th,
Cathy Calkins
Meniscus
and
other poems, Anita Tanner
READING
THE WEST
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