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ln October 1996, the Center became publisher of the state's oldest continuously published literary journal, Great River Review, which began publication in 1978. Recipient of a Minnesota Book Award and several Pushcart Prizes, Great River Review is edited by Robert Hedin and Michael Waters.  The journal has published some of the finest writers in the country and abroad, such as Olga Broumas, Odysseas Elytis, Ted Kooser, Judith Kitchen, Jay Meek, Philip Levine, Linda Pastan, and Paul Zimmer. 
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Featured in the current issue of

Great River Review:

Special Feature: A Tribute to Bly, Duffy, Wright and The Fifties

Jonathan Blunk • Robert Bly • Willam Duffy

Mark Gustafson • Lewis Hyde • James Lenfestey

Thomas R. Smith • Anne Wright

Fiction

Wayne Johnson

Translations

Rolf Dieter Brinkman • Ibn Hazm

Augusto Rodriquez

Poetry

Marianne Boruch • Prescott Evarts

Robert Gibb • Jeff Hardin • Ted Kooser

Sydney Lea • Ken McCullough • Tim Nolan

Dennis Schmitz • Joyce Sutphen

Awakening

TED KOOSER

How heavy it is, this bucket

drawn out of the lake of sleep

with a dream spilling over,

so heavy that on some mornings

you can't quite pull it free

and let it slip back under,

back into the darkness where

the water is warn, even warmer,

but the dream, like a minnow,

has swum away and is merely

a flash in the murky distance,

and the weight of waking up

seems even heavier. But somehow

you lift it again, its handle

biting into your fingers,

and haul it out and set it down

still rippling, a weighty thing

like life itself, in which you dip

the leaky cup of your hands

and drink.

Still available:

Great River Review Issue 51

Fall/Winter 2009

Special Feature: A Tribute to Yannis Ritsos

Peter Bien • Rick Bursky • Peter Constantine • Lyle Daggett

Fereydoun Faryad • Rachel Hadas • Sam Hamill • David Harsent

Dale Jacobson • George Kalamaras • Edmund Keeley

Scott King • Angéliki Kotti • Thomas McGrath • Martin McKinsey

Paul Merchant • Amy Mims • Chrisa Prokopaki

Interview

John Haines

Fiction

Stuart Friebert

Poetry

Robert Bly • Dan Butterfass • John Chávez

Bill Christopherson • Stephen Dobyns • Stephen Dunn

Colette Inez • John Krumberger • Lance Larsen

Leslie Adrienne Miller • Dave Smith • Thomas R. Smith

Gabriel Spera • Joyce Sutphen • Susan Terris • Jean Valentine

Back Issues still available:

1. #50, Spring/Summer 2009: Robert Bly, John Haines, Mark Jarman, Gerald Stern, and Linda Pastan

2. #49, Fall/Winter 2008: William Heyen, Maxine Kumin, Greg Pape, and Mahmoud Darwish

3. #47, Fall/Winter 2007: Yannis Ritsos, Gary Nabhan, Alicia Ostriker, Franz Wright, Carol Frost, and Bruce Weigl

4. #45, Fall/Winter 2006: Jane Hirshfield, Martha Berglund, Paul Zimmer, and David Mason.

Other past issues available on request.