to Louis Zukofsky
with Yvor Winters
to Weldon Keys
to D.S. Savage
to George Woodcock
to Herbert Read
to Jonathan Williams
Sam Hamill
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jack Spicer
Robert Bly
George Woodcock
Kent Johnson
Kristin Prevallet
Keiko Matsui Gibson
Morgan Gibson
Ken Knabb
Jessica Hagedorn
Lisa Jarnot
Stacy Szymaszek
Franklin Rosemont
Bradford Morrow

Jesse Seldess
Emily Wilson
Tom Pickard
Fanny Howe
Heidi Lynn Staples
Peter Rily
Władysław Szlengel
Tomaž Šalamun
Christian Hawkey
John Ashbery

Wu Ming

Eirik Steinhoff
Joshua Weiner
Jordan Davis
Michael Robbins
Amy Langstaff
Jeremy Biles
John Wilkinson

KENNETH REXROTH
SPECIAL ISSUE (52:2/3/4)

A triple issue celebrating the centenary of Kenneth Rexroth’s birth and Chicago Review’s sixtieth anniversary. The Rexroth feature (co-edited by John Beer & Max Blechman) includes Rexroth’s letters to Louis Zukofsky, Yvor Winters (both sides of the correspondence), Weldon Kees, D.S. Savage, George Woodcock, Herbert Read, and Jonathan Williams.  The feature also includes reminiscences and celebrations by Rexroth’s friends and admirers. The feature concludes with a 1980 interview with Rexroth by Bradford Morrow.

To celebrate our 60th anniversary, we've launched a special site loaded with archival material, all available as free downloads.

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This triple issue of Chicago Review also features:

POEMS by Jesse Seldess, Emily Wilson, Tom Pickard, Fanny Howe, Heidi Lynn Staples, Peter Riley, Władysław Szlengel, Tomaž Šalamun, Christian Hawkey, and John Ashbery. Plus a correspondence between Hawkey and Šalamun.

TWO STORIES ("In Like Flynn" and "The Emperor's Three Hundred Woodcutters") by and an INTERVIEW with Wu Ming, the Italian writing collective.

An ESSAY on CR’s early history by Editor Emeritus Eirik Steinhoff.

REVIEWS:
Joshua Weiner on Kenneth Koch
Jordan Davis on Ted Berrigan
Michael Robbins on Ange Mlinko
Amy Langstaff on Howard Akler
Jeremy Biles on John Taggart
John Wilkinson on Simon Jarvis

A COMMENTARY by John Matthias on his long poem “Thirty-nine Among the Sands, His Steps…” which appeared in CR 51:4/52:1.